skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forgot a couple.

1!+1 = 2 is prime.

2!+1 = 3 is prime.

Based on a back of the envelope estimate, the number of values of n up to N for which n!+1 is prime should be O(log(log(N))) so it should happen infinitely often. But proving that is likely to be difficult.
Top Freelancers hate him.
Spoken as a true engineer, ignorant of human interaction. That is not meant as an insult, it's rather an unfortunate observation.

The far better "moral of the story" or lesson should be to improve transparency and documentation and explanation. The only thing that comes from deception through obfuscation is an exponential impact upon discovery of sneaky actions.

This is a larger issue in many, if not all engineering communities; the inability to relate to anyone outside of their community of peers. It is why we get horrible documentation, why we get horribly designed-by-engineers products and structures, etc.

As much as we all know engineers are not exactly people persons, know your engineering strengths, but acknowledge and request assistance for your weaknesses, i.e., everything not engineering domain related, especially when it involves human interaction.

There's no shame, just acknowledge weaknesses and defer. And no, people are not the problem.
No kick in the pants because 99.99% of people don't care.
I'm deaf, so I don't have quite the same needs in headphones that most people do. That said, I do sometimes like to listen to music and need isolating headphones (so they don't leak sound and annoy my coworkers) that fit comfortably over a behind the ear hearing aid.

Accordingly, I've been using a set of Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro over-the-ear headphones and I've been really happy with them. I have to adjust them a bit funny to fit over the hearing aid without causing feedback, but they're generally pretty comfortable.

They're a bit more expensive at around $175 to $200 depending on where you shop, but might be worth a look.
"recently unidentifiable courier" do you mean "Prestige"?
Meh, whats one word cloud over another? We can just say the reason for Unix is because: history, and be done with the discussion .. throw a bit of 'its probably because IBM Selectric had easy keys for | and blah' seasoning, douse a fair bit of flamage with bowls of "oh, the monte-carlo on the keypresses says that its all EMACS fault" kerosene, but then again, like I said: whats one word cloud over another? I've heard much relief, for example, from the no-more-Powershell-users who finally 'grok' bash, while (1) grep :P * ; done
I am huge fan of Bose headphones, I work in a very crowded environment and these headphones pretty much save my day.
It has a great sound quality and is comfortable to wear all day long.

It is a little expensive but worth the money in my opinion.

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/headphones/n...
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I owned a pair as well until I left them in the seatback on a flight. I was given them as a gift and really enjoyed them - the quality and isolation provided by the noise cancelation was very good considering the price range.

I will say that it is somewhat inconvenient to have to enable the noise cancelation in order to use at all. There are some instances when I prefer to have some external awareness, and this didn't really accommodate that need.

Overall, I think these are a great option for someone looking for a pair without significant tradeoffs and with limited time to research. That said, there are definitely pairs with better quality out there. If you have the time I highly recommend reading reviews on Head-Fi prior to purchasing.
You're blaming USPS, but the problem is that you live in an apartment building. Such is life in the city. I live in Brooklyn as well and I solve this problem by having a doorman :)
Because it's fast, a pleasure to code in, and simple to distribute.
This is a NYC problem not a Amazon Prime or USPS problem.

- Have your packages shipped to a friends work place or somewhere with a doorman. I use Amazon Prime in the city and do just that, it's great.

- You can rent a PO box that accepts packages at many mail-services type stores. Many of them have notification services too.

- Get a business address at a co-working space, a lot of times they will accept your business mail and packages.

- If you live over or next to a business, especially a bodega, you can sometimes convince them to let you ship packages to them. Just remember to buy something each time and keep up that rapport. :)

Otherwise there's just no good solution for shipping in NYC. :(
Boohoo, any file access is disabled, and any Environment.GetFolderPath will return an empty string (except System, which throws a security violation) :P
I will get stuff through I think its called UPS Mail Solutions or Fedex smartpost. it is where UPS or Fedex delivers my package to the Post Office, and then the USPS carrier delivers it to my house.
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do the founders really have a choice ? Most often raising money takes too long so you are left with "go with this or die" unless you are some rockstar startup.

Sure, the choice is in your second sentence there. Do the math, and if a round of funding is going to dilute you to the point that you aren't going to get any return from continuing to work on the company, cut your losses, let it die, and move on to the next thing. It might wound your pride, and nobody wants to see "their baby" die, but if continuing on means getting screwed, then don't do it.
Here in Amazon.com's home town of Seattle, Prime works flawlessly (no surprise there). Sometimes things arrive by USPS, but most often it's via UPS. Occasionally Amazon will even deliver package themselves. In fact, they once delivered a three item order to my house via all three methods in one day.

I'm sure NYC is a big market for Amazon and no matter what the root cause is of the problem you are talking about, I'm sure it's one worth solving for them. Have you emailed Jeff B. about this? From the below Business Week article, it sounds like he pays attention...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-10/jeff-bezos-a...
For the stuff you don't want the post office to touch / screw up / fail to deliver / whatever -- pay the $4 / item prime rate for one day delivery. No post office involved then.

My only complaint with amazon using usps for the last-mile delivery (fedex smart-post, whatever ups's equivalent is) is that being just outside a good-sized city, fedex/ups will get it to their facility in a day or two, and then the post office will take another full week to move the package 5 miles.
Yes, they are (albeit less than many people think, and much less than in the past, but still there is a long road ahead for achieving equal treatment). This, however, is tangential. The point of discussion is profiling, which may or may not be discriminatory.
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This is simply my prior - an assertion I find plausible about the world.

I'm a bit curious, though - out of everyone using priors and reasoning to discuss this story, I'm the only one you've demanded academic articles from. Why is that?
Must be nice to have enough money to pay the astronomical rents that a doorman building costs!
In my case, I've received my prime packages from every carrier available USPS, UPS, FedEx, even local courier. I can't recall if I received anything via DHL.

I live in Western New York, but we are near FedEx and UPS hubs...which might account for the various delivery methods.
Repeat after me: Ruby on Rails is not a language. Ruby on Rails is not a language. Ruby on Rails is not a language.

Ruby appeared in 1995.
ER-4 with custom molds here. Customs give you almost complete isolation but there is a warming-up period. They actually hurt for the first week or two that you wear them. Recommended if you can put them in and keep them in but not if you must be interrupted regularly.

One more thing to be aware of with Etymotic products: the microphonics. Lots of noise from the cable hitting stuff. It looks super dorky but the cable clip fixes a lot of that.
> I would venture to say there are a lot more people like me out there.

How many people reside in areas where they go around on foot vs by jeep?

Also:

> doesn't bode a single issue.

Should probably be "doesn't pose a single issue". Bode means:

indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
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A doorman can't really help when USPS brings a pick-up slip instead of the actual package.

Also not everyone can afford a building with a doorman. But good for you.
There are answers on page two and this all played out months ago. Waste of time.
Ask HN: Hardware with regular software updates from the manufacturer?
What are your recommendations for devices that get regular software updates from the manufacturers?

For example, I've given up hope on my non-Nexus Android phone getting any updates even though it is from a major manufacturer and is only a year old. A similar thing happened with my Netgear router, which has had no firmware updates for a very long time.

In contrast, I understand Nexus phones and Apple routers do get regular updates for a long time after they are released.

Please share your advice for all kinds of devices, phones, routers, washing machines etc. that get regular updates from the manufacturer.
I expect no less than misleading from the mainstream media.
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I also live in Brooklyn (no doorman) and pay $9/mo for a USPS registered mailbox at a laundry store so that I never have to deal with the physical post office. I used to go there to pick up packages and it was a hellish experience. $9/mo saves all of that hassle and it is definitely worth it.
I've bought an expensive pair ($100) and a cheap pair ($20), both have a nice fit. I didn't really see a difference between them.
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I've had Prime deliveries by many different carriers. Since I've moved to a real house instead of a condo, the only difference I've seen in carriers is that the drivers will leave packages in different locations -- some drop it off at the front porch, some by the garage, once there was one by a side door... so I just need to take a walk around the yard to see if anyone left any packages anywhere.

When I lived in a condo, some carriers would leave packages by the door and some would just leave slips. For a long time UPS would only leave a note, then I'd have to go the next day to pick it up from the distribution center. Eventually I got them to start leaving packages though. Sometimes USPS would leave a note and sometimes they'd just leave the package, depending on the phases of the moon or whatever. But I don't get notes anymore at all at the house.
Ask github: can you PLEASE allow us to force MFA?
Can you PLEASE give admins the ability to force organizations to have MFA on. Also please give us the ability to see who does not have it on.
I assume that you have created some kind of sand box in order to prevent malicious code execution. Can you share some details about that?
I'm very happy with the Bang & Olufsen H6 (http://beoplay.com/Products/BeoplayH6). They're the only headphones that I've had that actually feel like they're worth the money I paid for them, unlike the Bose headphones I've had which felt somewhat cheap. They're not going to be the best for cancelling out noise (although they helped me a lot at my last job, which was an open-plan office) but if you're after a pair of premium headphones, I wouldn't recommend anything else.
I had searched for it to see what kind of feedback it was getting but came up empty:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/marti...

The Revel comment was more about a criticism I've read several times now.

I liked and bookmarked the article. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil_Martin

He’s the head of the agile movement.
This article is ridiculous. Someone needs to program the software obviously.
You can use hotkeys in the WYSIWYG editor.

In this text, we can do CTRL-B bold CTRL-B and CTRL-I italic CTRL-I words.

as opposed to

In this text, we can do SHIFT-8 SHIFT-8 bold SHIFT-8 SHIFT-8 and SHIFT-8 italic SHIFT-8 words.

And, happily, there's a separate hotkey for bold and italic that makes sense (I and B) as opposed to having to remember that one asterisk is bold and two asterisks is italic. No, wait, it's the other way around.
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Holy crap.

Or write Sony’s user management. Or Adobe’s. Or …
That's really not good enough, though. Lots of email that is spam will get through the filters over time.
They wrote "many", not "generally".

And yes.
I like that idea a lot. I would throw money at it.
Thanks for mentioning it. Will fix...
If you can read german, this one is more in-depth and is even more horrifying: http://www.monde-diplomatique.de/pm/2013/11/08/a0001.text
Or anything related to large amounts of money
That's true, it can be decoupled. But not in the direction leaving Rake with less percentage than Rails. The authors could've deduped the results where Rake is being used by Rails, but I'm not sure they did.
Technically, javascript already has built-in a Nil interpreter: the void keyword
Send you a text when it is done or out of rinse aid. The text would actually go to your sibling so they can do their new chore.
I wrote it up the other day conveniently. Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750630

Basically, mutt, postfix, procmail.
However, I would happily pay more than $79/year for a version of prime which guarantees that the USPS will not be involved in shipping: not via FedEx SmartPost, not direct, not ever. I would venture to say there are a lot more people like me out there.

Any flavor of the comment "I would happily pay more than <current price> for <what I claim I want>" is always hysterical to me. This kind of statement does two things that are incredibly naive:

First it suggests that you as the consumer know at this point what you would or would not pay. You only know what that figure is when it comes time to pay. If Amazon upped the price to $99/year and switched to private carrier and gave you no choice, you might not be so happy.

Second, even if you do know 100% that you'd happily pay more, it suggests that you as one data point know more about how to price a service like Prime than the legions of pricing analysts and product managers employed at Amazon who are privy to years of customer behavior data.

There's a reason Comcast and Verizon are constantly bitched about by consumers yet continue to lead their industries in customer volume. Individual consumers are fickle but really only care about immediate cost.
In general I like the new design. I do have one thing that I'm not wild about:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/

The page that you are dropped into for that is not very friendly. I much prefer the layout for a sub-page once you've clicked a link.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php
I've been a prime member for years and I just (naively, I guess) assumed they ship everything UPS, because that's the only way I have ever received a package shipped by Amazon.

I'm in a suburb and whether it's UPS, FedEx or USPS, my item is always left on my porch unless signature requirements were specified. In the nine years I've lived here, packages have never been stolen. I, however, would prefer if Amazon shipped via USPS. My mail is delivered, very consistently, between noon and 1:00 PM. For UPS, however, I am almost always the last delivery, which is at 7:00 PM and sometimes later.

I also found it interesting that this person received so many credits for screwed up shipping. I would expect a company like Amazon would have analytics in place to monitor the frequency of these problems and intelligently pick the best shipper. Reading the comments and the problems that others have had with FedEx and UPS makes me wonder if the issue isn't so much USPS vs. FedEx vs. UPS, but instead the location being shipped to isn't served very well by any of them and USPS was picked because they have more pick-up locations conveniently located. Getting the "slip" in my area from UPS means driving about 20 miles to stand in line versus the USPS, where it's only 2 miles. But that's just a guess.
Indeed. I got 9 Ghostery blocks there.
What google-fu did you use to find the first post on bitcoin on HN?

I am asking, because I tried to find the first post on reddit.com (obviously before /r/bitcoin was created) and couldn't really retrieve anything useful.

I was searching by date ranges on site:reddit.com and was getting user profiles not posts.
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Losses by the Post Office are largely due to Congressional oversight. USPS can't stop Saturday delivery and has to overpay their pension obligations.
For me:

• I prefer to find my errors at compile time. Consider the time to find and fix a missing method in a go compile (one 'make' and all the info is still in the developer's brain cache) versus eventually having a user drive the website into that method and having a mystery occur on a duck typed language. (hope you have good stack trace logging on the back end)

• I prefer a language that doesn't repeatedly break all my code. When I write and deploy a site, it should stay written. (Looking at you PHP. Granted, this was over a period of 15+ years, but all the more reason I don't want to go back and look at that code.)

• Efficiency is nice if you are ever going to hit a performance bottleneck. To elaborate: you get to defer the "OMG I need to map this load over more than one machine!" crisis for a while, and if you end up in a "I need N machines!", then making N smaller is good for your well being.

• Builds are fast enough that I don't care. I generally have a makefile for a website anyway to get everything organized and encoded, one more rule to build the go is no burden.

The weakest spot I'm finding is the html/template end. My strong typing evaporates at that boundary. I'd rather have the template get precompiled into go code and then compiled into functions with nicely defined interfaces on its parameters; faster to run and catch all those typos in field names. The current go mindset of a "go only", non-extendable, build command forecloses experimentation in this direction. (Unless you are a barbarian from the olden days, like me, and wrap everything in a Makefile.)
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Totally addressed to wrong person. Should have been sent to Patrick R. Donahoe.
I agree with the "those who have some property against those who have none at all" part, but in modern times the "rich against the poor" doesn't hold as strongly, given the existence of the middle class.

But in a way isn't it tautological? If you create a system of "private property" obviously it's a system to protect those who have property from those who don't. The same thing is true for systems to protect bodily integrity. Obviously they protect those who are strong from those who are not.

I think the "romantic notion" that people need to lose is that the civil government is some neutral level playing field, even in theory. Giving preference to certain kinds of people is part of the system by design.
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I think people underestimate how hard it is to find good developers. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, experimenting with hiring processes, and hiring yet I still wouldn't trust my success rate very much.

The issue is that we don't have any objective measures as to what makes good software. This means that everything we do in the hiring space is subjective, which makes it really difficult to do rigorous study/improvement on.

That said, novice programmers even excellent ones are exponentially less valuable than experienced ones. But, the ratio of good developer to bad seems constant across experience levels.

In my mind the 2 biggest issues in finding good developers are:
1) the cost of novice developers. The market has driven demand so high that it is too costly to experiment/mentor young developers knowing that they will (and probably should) only provide 2 years of valuable work (1 year of uselessness and 2 of value in a 3 year hire).
2) the senseless ageism in our industry. The idea that older developers are somehow inflexible or out of touch just doesn't gel with my personal experience. The older developers who are still out developing are doing it because they enjoy it and keep up with new technology. If they didn't they would have left the profession a long time ago.

Unfortunately, this has led me to a policy of hiring a few more experienced developers instead of a more healthy mix of novice/experience. I know that makes me part of the problem but I can't afford to be otherwise.
Linux setup video posted here:
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Oh man, my childhood memories...gone... sniff
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Web servers aren't back end service-type-of-stuff?
> How many people reside in areas where they go around on foot vs by jeep?

Cities have a _lot_ of people, last I checked.
Unknown drivers? How much do you know about any of the other drivers for any of the hardware? Most NICs and Video chipset drivers now come with a binary blob you have to feed it, it's completely opaque binary microcode.

As far as video hardware goes Intels is far more open than the other two vendors of actual useful video hardware anyway.
Does anyone know if noise-cancelling headphones are bad for your hearing? By creating a wave that's out of phase with ambient noise, isn't that just as "loud" as the noise around you?
Why not use Amazon Lockers [1]?

It's actually sad that it's amazon specific. I'd love to see this rather implemented for the post services like USPS/UPS. In Germany, we have DHL Packstation and you can just have it shipped to those location and pick up your package 24/7. It started getting a bunch of locations in 2004 and nowadays they have them every ~300-500m around big towns (like Munich for instance).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=locker_hp_fd?docId...
Despite slowing my browser to a crawl, that's pretty damn impressive!
Before making the switch you might consider https://uploadcare.com

Benefits of UploadCare:

- Free Tier includes cropping and S3 storage

- Better UI

- Better API (cropping doesn't require a query string which breaks cacheing on some proxies)

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> This passage described a poor black man in Philadelphia -- the tip of the iceberg

It's not the tip of the iceberg, it's the base of the pyramid.