skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be exactly what needs to happen. The post office needs to fail so it can be rebuild in a better state. Allowing it to continue to exist as it stands is certainly no option.
That is odd.

Grunt on Github: 6852 stars, 740 forks

jQuery on Github: 26,238 stars, 5,563 forks

And yet, "leaning towards those that have been favorited the most by developers". I'm confused on the results of what I think is their selection criteria.

Another thing, Javascript first appeared in early versions in 1995. Ruby on Rails appeared in 2004. But Javascript is still in the early days of it being a language? I wonder if that's in reference to recent growth in popularity and/or usage?
It strikes me that an hourly rate that increases over the life of a project might be a way for a freelancer to skew his billable hours toward new development and away from maintenance. It also reflects the fact that the freelancer’s knowledge of a particular client becomes more valuable over time. On the other hand, an increasing hourly rate is a tougher sell to potential clients.
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I actually have a similar problem with UPS. Last year we had a dyson vacuum delivered to our house that was left on the front porch, about 10 feet from the sidewalk. The box was the manufacturer's box with pictures of the vacuum and the brand written in big letters. We weren't home but when we did get there, there was no package.

It was ordered from Costco and their service was fantastic. We had a replacement within a few days. The problem was UPS. After that incident, every single package had to not only be signed for, but actually have a person present to receive the package. I'm not sure if this was retribution on behalf of the delivery person, who probably got into some kind of trouble, but it is what it is. It is very difficult for us to get packages at home now.

I love prime, but it would be fantastic if I had the option to choose a shipper, even if I had to pay a couple dollars extra. USPS is actually much better about leaving packages, which are by far usually under $20 and small.
Is it open source? If not, is there any plans of making it?
So this guy had to cancel his prime membership because USPS delivers shit service in his area in Brooklyn ? I sympathize with his issue in general but this has nothing to do with Amazon prime.

I think in general, the moment you talk about NYC boroughs, logistics are a totally different ball game compared to say suburban New Jersey but I am not defending USPS with this though. All I am saying is that Amazon Prime already runs with very thin margins and adding the luxury of being able to select multiple mail carriers for a region is probably not viable for amazon. Just my 2 cents.
subsidized by taxpayers

"The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations." [1]

[1] http://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/postal-reform-...
It must be a regional thing. I've never had an Amazon Prime delivery made by USPS.
UPS/Fedex doesn't really fix this either in cities, since they can't leave the package and they always try to deliver during work hours (in my neighborhood) - so I get slips from them too. Really need after-hours delivery, I'd pay extra for that.
Ah, the seldom used 3rd definition of "Hacked": "To abruptly remove large portions of".

This freelancer seems to have contrived a way to work the equivilant of two billable weeks (spread out over a presumably longer amount of calendar time) at a tiny fraction of his market rate.

Hopefully the marketing effect of articles like this one will result in a significant uptick in his workload. If not, he's not only put in a bunch of work at a terrible bill rate. But he's signaled to the world that the correct price for his work going forward is $76/hour.

Not the best place to be. Here's hoping another hundred-odd people buy time from him so at least the final number looks respectable.
And since I live where UPS and FedEx don't care about I despise every time I have something delivered via one of those carriers. Even though I live about 3 miles from a UPS distribution center my shipments usually arrive well after 9PM and usually in pieces.

I'm excited when I see my Prime shipment is via USPS. I know my mail shows up everyday around 4PM during the week and around 2PM on Saturday. My postal carrier is also nice enough to put the packages under the bench on my porch when I'm not home.

Of course, the standard disclaimer of plural of anecdote is not data applies.
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Why would you doubt that?

It's not like the US intelligence services haven't done this before. See how they treated MLK before (e.g. spying on him, accusing him of being in league with communists, leaking details of his personal life to Strom Thurmond).
I have talked with a few people that work in campus IT about their catalog management systems. The general feeling is that they wish there was something better out there. I have a little experience with ACMS from the admin side, but most of my experience comes from the student-facing side, which is generally pretty awful.

I completely agree that I need to understand the administrative side of this better. My only problem is that I can't get access to existing systems. I'll probably need to find people who deal with this on a daily basis to get that information.

I do plan on having a nice REST API for importing from old systems. I also intend to write middleware for importing from the current big players. I was inspired to add that to my to-do list by how easy BitBucket made it to transfer all of my private repos over from GitHub.

Good point about existing ERP systems. I'll have to look into how integration with the big players(SAP, etc) in that arena works.

Thanks for the feedback!
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Is there an hn ios reader with collapsible comments similar to Alien Blue for reddit?

I've tried news:yc, hacker node, hacker news and a few others and I haven't found one as robust as Alien Blue.

Collapsing comments at any level of the tree is a missing in every iOS HN app I've tried.
Long story short: If a cookie is valid (HMAC signature matches what you'd expect given the cookie contents and your secret key), Rails (Rails 2) or Rack middleware (Rails 3) will attempt to use Marshal.load(txt) on the cookie contents to populate your session hash. You might naively assume that this creates a map of strings into other strings, but surprise, Marshal.load(txt) can create arbitrary object payloads and, through a code path which the margins of this comment are just slightly too thin to contain, allow you to do remote code execution.

See: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27527/

This can be done in an entirely automated fashion and requires no knowledge of the application other than the session's secret key.
> You run their software in binary form, having no idea what it does. You have no way to verify whether what they say is true.

Sorry, but it's a bit tiring seeing this blanket statement. You can absolutely verify what closed source software does. starting from low tech approaches:

* dissasembly, decompilation and debugging. This is standard old-school reverse engineering. Native code / bytecode is source code, it's just not optimised to be read by humans. :)

* monitoring systemcalls - on Unixes you have strace and other similar tools which allow you to monitor all the systemcalls of an application. This should show all interactions with local and remote data.

* dynamic binary analysis - tools like DynamoRIO and Pin run native code in a system similar to a JIT engine. You can transparently add code which will report what the application does.

* data tracing - using dynamic analysis or managed languages. Data can be tagged based on source (e.g. treating input from files as sensitive) as it is being processed by an application. When that data is pushed outside the application using systemcalls, you can determine where it was coming from, even if it's encrypted or obfuscated. There is a project which implements this on Android (and the results are quite scary): http://appanalysis.org/
A bit more PR detail on the Content Protection HECI Service aka 'Intel Insider' -

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/intel_insider_-_wh...
>Since it's binary-only closed-source, even if they told you what it does, you'd have to take their word for it.

That's what's really funny about this. Had they just given some broad, general answer, it wouldn't have been an issue.
I would so happily pay more to choose my carrier. When I started Amazon Prime several years ago the amount I ordered from Amazon skyrocketed -- 2 day delivery for free? Crap, I don't ever have to go to Target, Toys'r'Us, the pet store, etc ever again.
Oh my goodness this is amazing. I've wanted this my whole career.
Funny, living in a rural area I have the opposite problem.

I have a driveway that is an 1/8 of a mile long that is threatened by several beaver colonies trying to flood it out. Delivery drivers are terrified of my driveway because it has a reputation of eating their trucks. One time we replaced the water line that crosses out driveway and that evening a FedEx truck drove across it and, thanks to subsidence, the wheel sunk a foot into the ground.

The driver was terrified of calling for help formally (which would have consequences) so we called the highway superintendent and she sent her husband over to our place with a floor jack and we got him out.

UPS drivers frequently put packages in plastic bags, then drive to the top of the hill hoping they can make a cell phone call about what they've done.

I'd prefer to get small things delivered by USPS because USPS can put them in my mailbox and I can get them without any problem.
That means the parent's comment is irrelevant in the context of what the article is discussing.

As for getaddrinfo, Links, a text-based browser which preceded Chrome by many years, also has one. Links allows the user to turn asynchronous DNS resolution off. Does Chrome?
http://worrydream.com/Apple/
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What do you mean by the "internet". If you go on linkedin for example, can you not search for people working at Apple ?
I'm guessing it happened because the stars are really a percentage, so a 4/5 would count as 80%; although whenever we asked amazon 'why has xyz strange thing happened?' they seemed to just respond with a stock 'it's how the algorithm works'.

It probably matters less for sellers who shift a lot of stuff, but there was always the problem of annoyed customers being more likely to leave feedback. It can get pretty serious because your whole account can get suspended out of the blue if your feedback goes too far south.

Perhaps a better system would be to assume that customer is fully satisfied if they haven't left a negative rating after x amount of days.
Is it compiled in server side?
We have the Brevoort USPO on Atlantic.
Honest question: under what circumstances would it be beneficial for my dishwasher to be "smart" at all, let alone be connected to the Internet?

If that isn't a demonstrative example, what specific devices _would_ be useful to have Internet connectivity, and in what specific ways?
Is intellisense case-sensitive for a reason? I typed "Console.w" and auto-complete list was gone. It works fine with "Console.W".
If security cameras teach us something, is that they are riddled with security bugs, never updated, and with hardcoded backdoors/admin passwords. The internet of things have high chances to make that problem worse, as it will give remote action more than just monitoring.

And that without even taking into account our friends at the NSA and similar, that will require remote access to anything popular.
The analogy doesn't hold because gas pedal's tend to do only one thing. A binary blob can do anything. A better analogy would be what some random wire in your car does... but even then if you know where the wire is located you can reason what it probably does. In this case a binary blob can't as easily be inferred.
This can be dangerous, white noise is hard to modulate volume wise, and does the exact same amount of hearing damage as playing death metal or (insert type of music here).
How do you fit a 45lbs crib in a box that is 4'x4'x5' in your mail box?

That's gotta be a huge mailbox sir!

OR the post office could end its monopoly of your mailbox...
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In the UK Amazon has its own parcel delivery service that is used to deliver the majority of the larger parcels in my area. But it's not great. Some of the drivers decide they don't have time, or it's near the end of their shift, and log deliveries as no one home. I've had this confirmed by some of the drivers that do bother delivering.

So while I've been home all day, I get an email (usually around 6pm) claiming no one was in when they attempted the delivery.

This is frustrating when it happens once, but it has now become a regular occurrence and complaints just end in a free month of Prime being added to my account (had 4 extensions this year so far).
They don't even give slips to us in my building. We have fancy lockers in our mailroom that the USPS worker dutifully uses.

And then puts the key in someone else's mailbox. So you have to wait for someone to check their mail and then hope they're nice enough to notice the package that arrived was not for them.

UPS, FedEx, etc, are allowed (if the resident signs a waiver) to leave packages with building management in their package room, after which point the night doorperson will email you when your package is ready to be picked up.

I will choose non-USPS every single time I can.
Commented here in the past on this subject, I think the best solution is a combination of headphones and two other things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802700
typeof(self) __weak weakSelf = self;

self.block = ^{
typeof(self) strongSelf = weakSelf;
if (strongSelf)
{
// ...
}
};
If you're going to take cheap shots at RMS at least make them accurate. You may not agree with his reasons, but they have nothing to do with sin.
Here I've received from many different carriers including OnTrac, UPS, UPS SurePost (USPS final mile), recently unidentifiable courier.
I agree very much. All honest work is honorable work and it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round.

But I also think the organizational distinction between receptionists, nurses and doctors is helpful in making a hospital function. I must admit I sometimes feel that missing in the software industry.

Given time we tend to organize into functional units where people know who's good at what and how to contribute, but it's sort of like if everybody was hired into a hospital with the same job description and then had to informally hash out who should play doctor and who should be the receptionist...
If I wanted to be pedantic I'd say that you'd really want a heart transplant done by a surgeon, not a doctor...

That said, I think the real questions is: who is Robert Martin, self-described uber-hacker, that his opinions should be taken so seriously? What has he written?
For a second, I read the title as Jeff Bezos: Why I had to Cancel Amazon Prime and I was this close to picking up my pitchfork.
Yeah, I also live in brooklyn, and very, very few of my prime packages are delivered by usps. I order a ton of shit for me and the companies I work for, I'm really surprised OP has this problem.
It's like Tamagachi for the iPhone, yes? I don't remember exactly how that fad went down, was it everyone who was into it or was it just kids? I think that'd be a good trend to explore for insights.
A heads up to the author -- I've had Amazon Prime for three years, two of those in Phoenix and one in Austin, and UPS were always the carrier delivering the packages, unless I chose one-day or same-day shipping.

I also sell products on Amazon using their Fulfillment services, and the majority of shipments go out on UPS as well. I only ever see USPS shipments if the receiver is close to the Illinois warehouse.

EDIT: The real takeaway is that the article implies that USPS is Amazon's exclusive shipping carrier for Prime shipments, when in reality it varies based on geograpy, shipping speed and other factors. However, I would say that UPS delivers most shipments.
Good catch on the cc2.8xlarge disk -- thanks!

As for the GB/$: by default we display prices assuming you'll use the server 24 hours a day for one month. That means that if you take a reservation, you'll be reselling it a month later. It turns out that a 1-year light reservation is best here (assuming you can resell for the full pro-rated value): with a heavy reservation Amazon's 10% cut on the resale is too expensive, whereas with no reservation the hourly rate kills you.
Habits > forced tasks. Cultivate good habits wherever possible.

As for building up will power, I've found that distance running is an excellent way to hone your determination. Distance running is essentially the act of pushing yourself when you want to quit.

There are plenty of books on the subject if you'd like to study up on it more. Thinking Fast and Slow, Drive, Switch are all good books on the subject that immediately come to mind.
I have the opposite problem - USPS packages are put in a special mailbox in my building, but UPS and Fedex won't get delivered at all because I'm not home.

Even if Amazon's worried about letting the user choose what shipping option they want, they should show the shipping method at checkout as a read-only field, so that I know whether to ship a particular package to home or work.
I looked at that myself, and decided that it wasn't the path I should go down.

ParseFragment throws an error on bad input, but actually I just want that stripped and to carry on processing things. If a user has put in a mostly usable piece of HTML and then got something wrong as an error rather than bad intent then permissiveness in how we handle that should rule.

And then I wondered about the wisdom of creating a potentially large security library on a not quite nailed down API.

Ultimately, given that this is a security thing, I figured it's best to go with the proven many-eyeballed solution that was had widespread acceptance.

Feel free to use the package we've provided, the bit of go code you need for it is:

import (
"os/exec"
)

func SanitiseHTML(html string) (string, error) {
cleanse := exec.Command("java", "-jar", "/usr/sbin/cleanse.jar", "--permissive")

writer, err := cleanse.StdinPipe()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}

_, err = writer.Write([]byte(html))
if err != nil {
return "", err
}

err = writer.Close()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}

buff, err := cleanse.Output()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}

cleanse.Start()

return string(buff), nil
}
> Making matters worse, many of the Cupid Media users are precisely the kinds of people who might be receptive to content frequently advertised in spam messages, including male enhancement products, services for singles, and diet pills.

Oh wow. So Internet dating users are generally stupid, under-endowed, desperate and overweight?
Really, by far the best solution is IEMs. But, if you must got with active noise cancellation, the PSB M4U 2 is about the only decent one of I have auditioned... most active noise cancellation phones absolutely sound like muddy crap.
The results are biased towards favorited projects because it's a good indication of their perceived importance by the GitHub community.
The last fifteen packages we've ordered were via the USPS. Either someone at Amazon thinks this is hilarious to mess with people, or their system for selecting carriers is oddly tuned.
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I disagree that the wifi is a terrible single-point-of-failure. The chief concern in privacy security is not a criminal on the street or a member of your local police department - it's a vast swarm of overseas hackers or massive advertising conglomerates.

For that case? Keeping the data in your home is fine. Doubleclick and Tribalfusion aren't going to be wardriving your neighborhood.

Honestly, I'm waiting for somebody to make the one-stop zero-configuration grandma-friendly home server device. Something that gives you a DropBox-like file-server with optional internet-cloud mirroring, has a media bay with one-button backup functionality so you can easily get a detached hard-copy, runs a Print server and DNLA, its own Gmail-like webmail/imap system. If you make it a wifi router, it can also run its own domain and whatnot. The problem, of course, is half the ISPs provide a wifi router that isn't grandma-friendly to configure.

Have all your home devices talk to that thing and not the Internet.
I do the same, only KeePass is my wallet, safer and easier =)
That's a valid point, but there's a difference between what software does, which you're recommending you divine based on historical activity, and what it can do, which remains unknown.

Even disassembling provides only a limited view into the code itself. If this method worked every time, we wouldn't have viruses. There are ways of concealing the true functionality of a piece of code to make disassembly and interpretation extremely difficult.

Granted this is true with pure source code as well, but usually subversive code is much more obvious. This is not always the case, though.
Have you ever worked at a job where a guy who learned to program 20 years ago has to sign off on everything you do? I did, and it was awful. I've also worked at a place that hired nothing but fresh graduates, and that... actually turned out pretty well. There were cases where they wrote more code when they needed to, or used an unsafe construct when there was a better alternative... but they were willing to reason about things, to experiment, rather than just "this is how we do it". I'll take an untrained grad over someone who rigidly follows procedures any day.
When I lived at home with my parents we had a similar problem. Our driveway is also 1/8 of a mile or so and half of it lined with bradford pear trees. They form a very pretty but low canopy over the road. If the UPS or Fedex driver were to go through it would scratch the roof of the truck. Which they also get blamed for. So they end up leaving stuff right where the pear trees start. It also causes problems when there is a different driver and they tend to leave the package in other less than predictable places on our property.
Same thing just happened in Kazan Russia. A pilot was on the landing path and decided that he was too low, too early so he aborted landing, and pulled up the nose to go around again.

Problem was that he was also too slow at that point to safely pull up. The result of pulling up the nose was that he lost airspeed, stalled, and plunged nose first into the runway.

It's counterintuitive to go down and increase airspeed ( or at least remain level while you gun the engines) and that is why these pilots make this kind of mistake. They don't have enough practice flying in full control of the airplane.

An additional factor is age. All of the air force pilots that fought in various wars from WWII onwards have retired. The world actually relied on these guys to fly the commercial passenger planes and build the air industry. Now the industry has to train their own pilots and the gaps are beginning to show.
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I live in Brooklyn too. Not sure if it's a regional thing but lately all packages have been delivered via USPS. I don't currently have the problem that the OP has but that's only because I live in a larger apartment building to which USPS sends a truck with all the packages for the day.

But I can definitely relate. USPS offices are usually in very unfriendly places as far as public transportation goes. Having to travel, wait on line and then carry your package home would be a deal breaker for me as well.