skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USPS used to be a clear-cut government agency, but has been quasi-privatized. Congress cut its taxpayer funding, and directed it to run itself like a business, not like a public service. Accordingly, you are incorrect about who are the "people paying their salaries": the USPS has not received any taxpayer money since its funding was cut to zero in the early 1980s. It now funds itself like a business, by charging fees and, like any other business, exploiting intellectual property where the opportunity arises. In that sense it's more like a regulated utility, like Comcast or PG&E, having been privatized in all but name.

Ultimately whether it's a public service that should act in the public interest, or an organization that should be run as a business, is a policy decision that's up to Congress to decide. And Congress decided on the 2nd. Given that, exploiting the zipcode database as proprietary IP seems in line with the letter and the spirit of their (current) mandate.
Where would Palestinian factions get polonium from? I feel this to be an unlikely scenario.
is there a commission? who is used for credit card processing? what are the processing fees like?
I work long hours and I know it adds 0$/hour into my account. My motivation is to build a product that I can proudly add in my portfolio and it may help me tap bigger opportunities in future. I consider it as investment, and I am fully aware that, like other investments, it may turn out to be zero. But then every effort worth-doing in life is a gamble and nothing comes with assurities.
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Assuming by "the people paying their salaries" you mean "taxpayers", then you're incorrectly assuming that USPS is paid for by taxpayers. It isn't - it's got to pay its own way by selling goods and services. In that respect it's a lot more like a business.

So your translation of "proprietary business information" is erroneous. A more accurate one would be, "Shit we ain't giving away for free. This ain't no charity, bub."
Maybe something a bit like ICANN for meatspace? MCANN?
An other way to present things is that helmets have some effectiveness: source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Meta-analyses

So at least use a one instead of none.

Even if it has some merits on some points, http://www.bicycling.com/senseless/index.html is too much misleading and not that really seriously researched, cf. http://www.bhsi.org/bicyclingmag1305.htm

A current certified helmet is already very useful, even a simple one.
lol, mod up.
https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave <3

Best solution for web file uploads in ruby
If you see an area unlocked in central Pennsylvania, that's me!
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I bet there were cheers in the Office 365 team when they heard this - that is an enterprise non-starter.
Similar in New Zealand, although NZ Post is a "state owned enterprise" rather than a government agency.
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I wrote this app and published in google play. I made this app free as only close to 100 people bought it. Try it out if you are interested.
Wasn't loading for me:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.we...
Excellent. Alexis rocks.
This looks like something I could actually use. I've just downloaded it.

My take from the website, there is no price on the main page. I have to click 'Buy Now' with no idea whether I want to actually purchase. Which is a commitment (in my head) that I'm not prepared to make without knowing the price.
Yeah, I am used to small communities or a grid systems in dense population, like 305 E 900 N #42

Your point is completely valid in these other contexts though.
> You need the 'getting ahead' skills to get to top levels in a large organization, right?

The problem isn't attaining these skills; it's using them. Sure, I can use people as a means to an end in all sorts of colorful fashions to climb the ladder, but could I go home and sleep at night? I've made that decision, and it's a firm "No."

Climbing the corporate ladder doesn't seem to be so difficult, as long as you can rationalize the soul selling required to do so. Perhaps my point of view will change later in life, but right now one of the most important ideologies I maintain is that I should only be evaluated based on work I can directly represent, not credit derived from others.
Its sort of a mixed bag:

So if they can help reduce injury, shouldn’t they be mandatory, just like motorbike helmets? Australia tried it in the early 90s and the result was a 15 to 20 per cent drop in the number of hospital admissions for head injuries. That would have been great, but it also reduced the number of cyclists by around 35 per cent.

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A recent study in the British Medical Journal showed that cycling has a positive health impact around 77 times larger than the potential for serious injury; essentially, there’s a small chance that you’ll come a cropper, but a very large chance that you’ll reduce your likelihood of suffering mental illness, heart disease and obesity. That means the laws were hugely counterproductive

[Personally, I wear a helmet, though.]
One of my favorites: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/05/17/understanding-the-f...
Only parts of Android are open source, and in any case it's a fundamentally commercial project conducted by giant corporations.

What about it being partly open source has any bearing on the patent issue?

(I'm not defending Microsoft here - just saying that Android being partly open doesn't seem to be relevant to the battle between Microsoft and Google)
And then there's riding in the winter, when I am quite happy to have a helmet with rain cover on my head, as opposed to nothing, or an airbag scarf...
Twitter Prices IPO Above Estimates at $26 Per Share, Valuation Up to $18B
This is weird, I just read a random article [1] about a guy getting sued for publishing some banking public routing numbers. The article writer then jokingly said: "This argument is like the Post Office suing you for posting a list of zip codes."

[1] http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/05/fine-those-routing-numbers...
Actually it does when you focus on an input. Having borders/backgrounds on every piece of text proved to be a bit messy in my case.

It would've been cooler if I could've capture the interaction, but I don't have access neither to the live webapp, neither do I have a deployed development version at hand :(.
Show HN: Nginx based load balancer for AWS
You seem to have a nice infrastructure setup that could compete with the various alternative solutions (VMware ThinApp, etc.), but you'll never sell enterprise infrastructure without an enterprise sales team.

Instead, offer turn-key application hosting, both public and private. XP is hitting EOL in April, lots of companies have specific, ancient apps that they need to maintain, so fire up WINE or CodeWeavers CrossOver along with BoxedApp/Cameyo/AppArmor for sandboxing, and provide turn-key Win32 streamed application hosting by subscription, on a company's existing EC2 account, or as VM images.

Then, repeat that for niche apps in multiple markets. There was a YC startup that pivoted to provide streaming of mobile app demos. That's a great niche. That could be you. But providing desktop application demos is a completely different market from mobile app demos from Citrix replacement. You should have a different marketing strategy, different copy, different presentation, and different pricing for each of them, all quietly using the same infrastructure behind the scenes.

No audio support?
Last I looked reportlab doesn't even use new-style classes.
Obviously you are not the target market. Impacts are expected in downhill riding, unlike most forms of cycling. You don't see off-road car racers relying on airbags either--they aren't fit for the purpose.
It wasn't the IA's fault. At the time, the IA was already working on an API to submit URLs and to rapidly cache items, so we just needed early access.

The GSoC student didn't follow up with the process of getting it adopted. I didn't either, which I regret. I left the WMF in early 2012 so I guess it was dropped on the floor for a while.

That said I have since found out that others have taken up the charge.
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I believe the claim goes that investment is still greater than money earned on the xbox ecosystem. It sounds plausible, but I don't know if it's true.
Well there are these, Some better, some worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_comp...

I have a cubieboard-2 with a Allwinner A20 (dual cortex-A7 mali 400mp2). Marginally larger, with sata, onboard flash, also LVDS and vga available from the pin headers.
Apple and Microsoft have in place a broad patent cross licensing agreement since 1997[1] in the settlement of the QuickTime lawsuit against Microsoft.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239977/apple-and-microsof...
I cussed. I swore. They wore me down and won :(
Driver updates aren't always compatible. I had a Dell laptop that would blue-screen consistently with the latest NVIDIA drivers, but was fine using the version Dell provided.
The gov't wants the physical address so that they can send official documents and the cops can come and serve papers.
Al Gore: Snowden 'revealed evidence' of crimes against US constitution
This is pretty much as alpha as it gets but the intention is to replace ELB with an nginx based layer. It used Autoscaling groups to find hosts.
A study I just happened to come across today

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/bike-helmets-prevent-injurie...
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I've to disagree about the state of the ansible documentation, I guess. As far as I understand the website was restructured not too long ago and a lot of stuff is .. broken. I fell back to using the Google Site Search thingy to find anything, because ansible's documentation lacks any kind of index/reference (except for the modules page, which is nice). There's a good deal of magic involved, and passages in the documentation even state stuff like 'there are a couple of these magic variables, but not too much' (Note: No list is provided).

In general I hate the state of the documentation. It's barely usable.

I do like the simplicity of the format (.yml) and the architecture (no agent required, only dependency is python and I think even that can be bootstrapped via python).

My playbook (see above) certainly feels like a shell script packaged in .yml format, but .. I stumbled over and over again when I tried using ansible's modules (examples: No way to create postgresql roles without a password, no way to load data into postgresql => Two things I've to do via shell: or command: in my project).

Bottom line: I'm happy with the state I have, but I'm far from happy with ansible as a technology and probably wouldn't use it as it is for the next deployment project.
WooCommerce (http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce) is built on WordPress, open source, and free.

I know there's work being on WordPress to make it easier, like adding front-end editing and likely drag and drop. Websites are so commoditized these days it seems inevitable.
We don't have a connector for flat binary records or plain HDFS, but you can take a look at the Hive connector here: https://github.com/facebook/presto/tree/master/presto-hive/s...

We're also working on a example connector that can read from files/urls. We should have that code up soon.
It would be cool if someone created the inverse of this, where you could input a signal (audio) and have it show the fft decomposition circles moving around in real time :)
OK, did anyone else think that crash test dummy was cool? There are now bicycle crash test dummies!

And they fitted it out with Portlandesque hip bicycle clothing too....
They asked me how I find out exactly how many iPhones left in a Store and I tell them I am using their AJAX call on mobile clients.

Even though I create a proxy, they had to validate how accurate my data is and how I get it. So building a proxy won't help either I suppose. See other comments here regarding a DCMA takedown happened yesterday for a website launched very recently doing the same thing. This is just scary.
Ol' Dirty Bashnerds are looking for some help: https://github.com/odb
These questions are answered in the article. 3% commission to Weebly. Stripe or Authorize.net in addition to the past PayPal/Google Checkout options. Stripe and PayPal start at 2.9% + $0.30/trans.
"So now after years of neglecting anything to do with marketing. I get it. Marketing is hard. So crushingly hard.Also I was incredibly naive in thinking that the product was so good that the marketing would just snowball itself into action"

This right here ... a 1000 times. I've been a developer for years now and I always held onto the same fantasy of launching something so good that marketing would take care of itself. After building a couple of products and being involved in a startup or two I've found that getting software built is not usually as hard as marketing it successfully
This is way less of a competitor to Amazon then it is to Shopify. Shopify just got a new direct competitor.
PyCharm (a Python IDE from JetBrains) is excellent, designers from my team love it.
Airlift is a toolkit for building distributed services and it is the foundation of Presto. For the most part, it's a convenience layer on top of some well-known libraries (Jackson, Jersey, Jetty, Guice, etc.), but it also has support for various things you'd typically need to build a deployable server, such as packaging, configuration, logging, instrumentation (stats), etc.

Unfortunately, we don't have any docs, so you'll just have to peruse the code. There's minimal server in the codebase to demonstrate usage of some of its features: https://github.com/airlift/airlift/tree/master/sample-server
Understanding the Fourier transform (2011)
well, it's mainly geared towards PHP but you might find https://puphpet.com/ useful to get a reasonably sane vagrant/puppet installation which you can then customize for django or whatever. You could just remove the php specific stuff from the generated configurations if you don't want it
...claims analyst, with absolutely nothing backing up their claim. The headline appears as if Microsoft accountants stated this as a fact, when in reality this is someone essentially reading tea leaves.

Further it's worth noting that the division that these Android royalties are attributed to also garners all other patent licensing royalties of any sort (e.g. FAT), as well as licensing charges such as ActiveSync licensing (ergo, every iPhone, among others).
Interesting article, but I had to view source to be able to read it. People who browse with JavaScript turned off see a blank page on your site (at least on Firefox 25).
Even if the default is to automatically update starting at IE 11 it's irrelevant given that IE 11 is the newest version. Although it is a welcome change going forward.
Twitter just priced its IPO
Actually, the 3% commission is only for free users. If you're on the Business plan ($19-29/month depending on term) there is no commission at all to Weebly.
Funny, I've just finished Neal Stephenson's "Snow crash" and that's what the skaters are using instead of helmets in the book.
This is awesome — I, like another commenter, too had not used the Hype Machine before. Plug is a beautiful way to explore music.

I'm an iOS developer, and notice that they have an official iOS app; do they have a public API? If not, what did you use to get the music data?
Not sure the value prop for anyone to use Weebly over Shopify to sell something. Their admin is incredibly intuitive and they don't charge an additional commission if you use their payment system.
Twitter prices IPO at $26/share for $18M valuation
Twitter Prices IPO at $26/share
USPS has maintained a substantial deficit for some time. It is, therefore, subsidized by taxpayers.

The USPS lost US$ 15.9 billion in 2012, and its revenue was US$ 65.2 billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
I like them all, but would pick the second one if you're wanting to stick with the overall iOS7 flat feel.
Show HN: Look Ma, no hands (Or well, no mouse)
Aussie pen test firms Securus Global, Hacklabs to merge
It plagued and still plagues. The Royal Mail is ruthless when it comes to IP of UK's post codes (read US zip code).
Every "little guy" who dare tryed come up with ways around it were and still are crushed with C&D or plain old take downs followed be a gagging order.
Myself included.
First time using Hype but that UI is awesome. Really makes me want to pick up Cocoa again.
actually, it has been shown in the Netherlands that wearing the helmet is yes safer, but laws requiring helmets discourages some people from riding out of a variety of reasons. In aggregate, the GP is stating that looking at the cycling system in light of greater participation is a more effective/better solution than requiring helmets.

http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/Irresistible.pdf
> the USPS has not received any taxpayer money since its funding was cut to zero in the early 1980s.

Not quite true, its received public funding since then, but that's specifically tied to costs associated with, IIRC, overseas absentee ballots.
How does work? Wikipedia says that the silk road started in February of 2011. And if that was months, it would still only give him around a year and a half on the site.
I'm interested in this distinction.

It seems to me fairly self-evident that actions which chill debate or discussion limit political expression and an informed electorate, thereby fundamentally impinging on democracy. Why then distinguish between 'chilling effects' and an attack on democracy?
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> I always thought HTC and Samsung were exempt from these royalties by releasing their own Windows Phones

Samsung definitely pay a per-device royalty to Microsoft for Android devices, the latter even put a press release out about it a few years ago:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2011/sep11/09-28sa...
I don't quite understand the comparison to pricing at Amazon and Etsy.[1] Amazon and Etsy are marketplaces, which justifies their commissions. Weebly's product lets users create their own sites.

The pricing makes sense for Weebly (users can waive the commission by paying a flat monthly rate), I'm just confused by the comparison in the article.

[1] "Weebly takes a 3% cut of sales, while competitor Etsy takes 3.5%. Amazon charges 6-15% of a seller’s sale price, and so does Buy.com, which in addition takes a flat 99 cent commission from each sale."
Does it support drag and drop components? From the contributing page it looks like things are fairly centralized.
Maybe it is.

What's the cost of prime shop space in SF with no directly adjacent neighbors and a supreme view of the SF bay?

What's the cost to purchase an old barge, construct a building on made partially with shipping containers, then the cost of docking it permanently. They could even add onto the store by having 2 barges side by side.

Plus, they can easily move it to another dock whenever they want. So they could actually have the same store open in one city for a week, then drag the barge somewhere else. It would almost be like an event, "Hey, the Google Barge is in town this week, lets stop by and play with some robots and other cool stuff!"
Shopify offers a great product and has been innovating in the eCommerce space for years. We think what they've done is very cool, but we also think there's a lot of room for improvement.

So far we've focused our efforts on building an intuitive way for anyone to create a high quality site. Our new eCommerce offering is the best of both worlds, mixing our easy drag & drop interface with the power of a fully-featured eCommerce platform. This is useful, for example, when dragging a video into your product description -- it all just works.

Check out the demo video we put together below. Would love to hear your feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnqEB0XxAbM
I'd personally be a little happier if people besides the post office stopped using ZIP codes.

Basically, ZIP codes are not maps. ZIP codes are (collections of) delivery routes. You can then reverse engineer a map more-or-less from the collections of addresses in a ZIP code, but it's messy and not necessarily meaningful.

If post offices were as plentiful as they are in (say) Manhattan, ZIP codes are a good proxy for location. If you live outside a major city, not so much. My parents live about 15 miles from the post office from which their ZIP code derives; my house used to be about a half mile from its post office, but that one was shut down (for mail delivery -- still exists for PO boxes), so now I'm attached to a ZIP code for the post office two towns over.

This matters, because if you do any sort of map-business off of ZIP codes, instead of political boundaries, the results are crap.

So death to ZIP codes.
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Well done SendHub!
Weird. Not seeing it on my Win7 machine. FF25.
I don't mean to reply with just a me too - but, absolutely agree with you through my own spend a year developing a product I can't market experiences...

Software Development = Easy

Marketing that Software = Wicked Hard
And this leads down the rabbit hole into the argument about Congress forcing USPS to advance-fund its pensions in a way no other government agency is required to, and which many argue is A) the source of practically all of the deficit, and B) was a deliberate move by members of Congress who wanted the USPS to become money-losing so as to make a stronger case for privatizing it.
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But why do they use holocaust_tn.gif as an example filename?
Nobody uses or likes Java for its syntax. They use it for safety. Languages designed since the have gotten progressively terser. That's not preference: that's good engineering: reasonable defaults, avoiding duplicate logic, avoiding surprise, and so forth. Good design is when there's nothing left to take away.

Nobody is asking you to make everyone happy. You could have made (and still have the opportunity to make) dart look like any modern web language - coffeescript, or Python, or ruby, and you'd have both users and a measurable impact on web development.
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Seems inevitable, but I do note constant usage at RedBox kiosks, so there's clearly still demand for local (i.e. instant) movie rental. Even with the (significant) additional overhead, I'm kind of surprised that a store's not viable as a local option with much broader selection than RedBox. I guess the long tail of local movie rental isn't thick enough.
Let's see this thing rock and roll! Great software!
FWIW hypem does not support SSL so you must turn off your https everywhere or make an exception in order to sign up for an account.
I'm not surprised the XBox division is bleeding so much cash. Microsoft should never have gotten into the hardware business in the first place. Every time they release a new piece of hardware is cause for a face-palm.

15 years ago, when no console maker had a viable strategy for going online, MS should have built a cross platform solution that made online gaming possible for every console. Does that sound familiar? A cross-platform solution for a number of competing hardware makers?

This division would probably be a huge part of Microsoft's business if they had pulled it off. Just think of the leveraging possibilities if every gamer over the age of 25 had an XBox live account, instead of the much smaller subset of gamers over 25 who also owned a Microsoft console.

I think they're back on the right track with Windows phone, but Google already beat them to the cross-platform solution.