skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earth Class Mail does this. They offer real street addresses as opposed to "PO boxes", so you don't run into a lot of the issues you are describing. The only thing that occasionally is a problem (but like, once in a blue moon, and usually related to buying a new iPhone) is the issue with "having a physical good sent to an address other than my billing address". However, while I've usually been able to just temporarily change my upstream AT&T address for just the day to make my order, ECM also solves this problem: you can have physical packages delivered to your ECM street address and then have the product forwarded or even go pick it up in person the same day (I live two hours away from ECM, so I'm unlikely to do this often, but I technically can in a pinch).

I have my ECM address on my drivers license (I didn't even ask the DMV to do this for me: I simply listed ECM as my mailing address, and that's the address that their policy puts on the card; I verified with them afterwards there was no mistake or misunderstanding), and have had no issues with moving my bank accounts and credit cards to my ECM service. The only people who know my physical address are utilities (though my bills actually do get sent correctly to ECM), health insurance (as the pricing is dependent on your location), and the US government (voting registration and DMV filing, though neither ever sends mail to anything but ECM).

That all said, your specific use case is somewhat different: you need the utilities to also send you bills, and they are some of the few people who actually care about having your physical address. But it isn't like Outbox could really solve this in a sane way for you either... that would involve them going through the mail of the people who are renting from you, only once every three days (so assuming your renters didn't reap the mail first), and pulling just the mail being delivered to "you" as opposed to them. If I were renting from you I'd frankly find that kind of sketch. For what misterbwong and forgottenpass are talking about, however: ECM is specifically the service they are looking for ;P.
Awesöme Orchestra: bossless (+beer) comes to music
Office for iPad updated to include printing
Not sure, as I'm an atheist and none of my theist relatives are catholic.

But I know this is a catholic church and she is a (or maybe the?) priest there. It's also possible that I could be getting my terminology wrong but she is definitely not a nun. This place is right in the middle of the TL and I believe functions mostly as an aid for the homeless of San Francisco, they close their doors some time in the afternoon. So yeah, I don't know enough about the catholic church to know what is or is not allowed I just know what I see and am told.
Looks like Microsoft added printing support to Word, Excel and PowerPoint along with bug fixes. PowerPoint also has new alignment tools and improved secondary display handling.
Presumably (for the uninitiated) under userchrome.css?
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
Why Your 409A Valuation Is Lower Than Your Post-Money Valuation
I found this part interesting. So the only way to even find out the reason for your account being banned is to hire a lawyer.

> A reason has to be internally attached to the account ban. The problem was that notifying the
publisher for the reason is not a requirement, even if the publisher asks. The exception: The exact
reason must be provided if a legal representative contacts Google on behalf of the account holder.
You can't make a blanket statement for the value if a business's website due to how dynamic business is, and how dynamic the use for a website is.

A webapp's website will be more valuable then say a manufactur who's website acts as an over glorified billboard.

Attempting to develop blanket statements for website's value is as futile as making a blanket statement for the value of an executable file. The devil is in the details.
You could make the same criticism about hosted email. Do you run your own email server and communicate only with other PGP users?
And much of what congress mandates is purchased by the junk mailers.
Amazon joins other web giants trying to design its own chips
No, i like the idea of technology-led inequality being transistory. Because technology is made with transistors. It was a pun based on a typo in the parent comment (which actually has "transistionary", which isn't as funny).

A+ for politics, C- for attention to detail!
This one of my favourite demonstrations of malleability in "the theory of evolution". Unlike other competing explanations of human existence, the scientific one is revised regularly on new evidence.
It reads like some disgruntled AdSense publishers theory as to why they were banned. Now it is true that in 2009, when the Great Recession hit, Google went through its processes and identified places where controls were lax. And its true that there has always been a lot of abuse of AdSense (it is after all the first thing a neophyte ad-fraud wannabe does, which is create a page, put AdSense ads on it, and then pay a bot-net to click on them. It almost seems like some sort of starter project or tutorial it was so common)

I would be surprised though if anyone actually sought out to 'screw' the legitimate advertisers. It is after all Google's bread and butter.
As long as the user facing API is simple, and the thing works well enough such the user doesn't have to know about how the underlying black box pastes its spaghetti together it doesn't matter. So I think what you are suggesting is fine.
> Programming is beautiful.

It can be. But corporate programming too often is... well, it's often not as bad as the article said, but it's somewhat less than beautiful.
Bad programmers will write bad code no matter the methodology, pattern, language, tooling, or best practice.
Very good point. Performance folds in latency (determinism) and throughput. There is usually a trade-off between the two. GC might handle throughput reasonably, latency is a bit tougher. You are sort of left tweaking knobs on a black box hoping to get good results in the end.
CodeNow (YC W14 non-profit) expands to Miami to intro more youth to coding
I don't really see DHH giving any arguments as to why designing for tests leads to poor design decisions. I suppose I can buy the argument that there are cases where this isn't true, but I can't think of any and he's not giving any. I would argue that Angular is a good example of how designing for testability creates good design decisions.

Secondly, I don't buy the idea that you should focus on integration tests over unit tests. Integration tests are important, but they're also the most expensive tests in terms of maintenance. Unit tests you can run with every code submit. You can run them multiple times per code submit. Integration tests take too much time for this to be practical.

In all, I'm tired of people making decisions based on what they're against. DHH is just being negativistic and defining his code design strategy around being against TDD and test-driven design. That's ok. But what design strategies does he support? He starts giving more information about that at the end, but I'm still left scratching my head and wondering what design philosophy he's actually advocating rather than what design philosophy he's bashing.
> There isn't a feature in Chromium or Google Chrome that Firefox doesn't deliver.

Applescript support. This prevents me from using Firefox.
The huge problem with dividing rent this way is that it's effectively saying that a house is only as good as its bedroom. It puts the price of the kitchen, bathrooms, common spaces, yard, etc. at exactly $0. Meanwhile, those rooms are what most people use most of the day!

E.g., if one bedroom is a tiny 70 sqft and the other a whopping 210 sqft, your algorithm would have the smaller pay only 25% of the rent! Is their home life really 66% worse/cheaper just because their bedroom is small? They have equal access to the TV, couch, oven, fridge, laundry, etc. etc. etc.
Monopolies don't require that there be only one choice... just that one choice is vastly dominant. And at its peak, IE had something over 90% of the market. [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet-explorer-usage-da...
There isn't anyone to go first at 2AM. Nobody's packets are dropped at that time of day.

The problem with QoS is that the window where it's actually useful is miniscule. If, on the one hand, it's 2AM and nobody is using the network, QoS does nothing because all the packets are delivered and none are dropped. On the other hand, if everybody is trying to watch the Superbowl at the same time and $STREAM_BPS * $NUM_USERS > $TOTAL_BANDWIDTH, QoS can't save you. You have more time-sensitive traffic than you have pipe to put it in, so at least some of your customers are going to see choppy video (or no video).

In the middle of that you have this tiny slice where the network is saturated "just right" for QoS to actually do something. You have only just enough bandwidth to handle all of the active streams, so that when some bursty thing (like loading a large web page) comes along, you can drop some packets from a stream and have just enough bandwidth available two seconds later to let the stream catch up before the client's buffer is exhausted.

To skip to the punch line, that never happens. Networks that hit 100% utilization on a regular basis are under-provisioned. If you're at the point where QoS helps you do something, your network is broken, because tomorrow's peak usage could be higher than today's which means you needed to start upgrading yesterday. QoS on the Internet is useless.

And that's before you get to the whole trouble with what to do about ssh tunnels and TLS connections and otherwise unclassifiable traffic.
There is this rather amusing section, though:

"(Richard Wiseman – the same guy who provided the negative aura for the Wiseman and Schiltz experiment – has started a pre-register site for Bem replications. He says he has received five of them. This is very promising. There is also a separate pre-register for parapsychology trials in general. I am both extremely pleased at this victory for good science, and ashamed that my own field is apparently behind parapsychology in the “scientific rigor” department)"
I really want to like firefox, but it is just so much slower/unresponsive than chrome. Is this something specific to my setup? I tried this new version out on a clean profile and compared it to chrome: http://fixme.se/pub/chrome_vs_ff.flv

I searched a bit and found this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924411
Nothing seems to have happened though, and google maps is far from the only example..
I don't know if it's just the tab count or longer browsing sessions/history (I usually have my browser open for days without closing it) or whatever, so don't quote me on that.

But FF is definitely uses more memory than chrome and with few other resource hungry applications running it becomes practically unusable on my low end laptop.
The article wastes a lot of words but fails to explain the mechanism why low natural gas prices are a problem for this company. It just talks about money and equity. What an odd way of looking at things.
Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Announced
It looks like it handles Authentication and Authorization by providing a standard User model and passing tokens into the data layer. This is better than most REST SDKs, which tend to defer the entire problem to "something else".

The downside is all of that unnecessary redundancy that we avoided in the demo now has to be created if we want proper access control. It would be nice to assign roles to users, and declaratively state which roles could access which verbs for which models.
There's even more to it. Business is good for the USPS as more people shop online. They carry a lot of packages for FedEx and UPS to places they won't go. Their pensions are overfunded by billions. This source estimates $82 billion. The article is from 2011, but the process to reclaim the money is ongoing.

http://www.pionline.com/article/20110627/PRINT/306279976/usp...
> Junk mailers sort their own mail, drop ship it to the local BMC, and pay the post office for the privilege. This subsidizes the regular mail.

Actually, some evidence shows quite the opposite, that first class mail costs are subsidizing the junk, because the price paid for junk is less than the savings by having the junk dealers do the auto-sorting and drop shipping.

See:

Title: Junk Mail's Endless Summer URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-paglia/junk-mails-endless.... Quote: "Our standard postage subsidizes junk mail. "

Title: Why Do We Subsidize Junk Mail? URL: http://shuthimup.mitzenmacher.net/?p=252 Quote: "So why do we pay 45 cents to mail a first-class letter while direct-mail advertisers pay only 18.5 cents? Can you say “crony capitalism?” Can you say “union busting?” This amounts to nothing more than a very costly subsidy given to the direct-mail industry, at the expense of first-class mailers,"

Title: Snail Mail Spam Subsidies Stuttering Towards A Stop URL: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/09/08/snail-.... Quote: "the USPS loses billions of dollars each year so that advertisers can send out billions of pieces of spam at below market costs."
Why's it matter what it looks like, it's literally a few tabs and an address bar to wrap around your webpages. Does it function well?
Test cases for a PHP vulnerability scanner[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7665232
I don't think you need to avoid private methods in Java. Rather, I think you should ask yourself if a private method is really necessary. Secondly, you should be asking yourself how you can test private code via the class's public methods.
> Apparently conflicting results without a methodological error in either imply that the explanatory model that appears to be supported by at least one of the results (if not both) is, while useful within its own domain, in some way incorrect.

When scientist thought they found particles travellig faster than light speed they checked the results, then the equipment, and then they assumed they had made a mistake and asked other people to check the numbers and the experiment. They realised that they had an extraordinary result and they wanted very high degree of rigour.

Some parapsychologists appear to rush to publish weak results and to claim success for flawed experiments.
> but XML is cool when it flows and has available tools

That's just excuses ("having tools") for failing (on an aspect)

If flows ? :-)

It's been a great contribution thank you TBL! Thank you. (Let's move on)

> for pedants to be a pain

:-) (strange) computer scientists "we are interested in formal completeness" WHAT ?!
Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA | IgnorantGuru's Blog
For a while, yeah. But there really is no such thing as a truly sustainable competitive advantage. Anybody can be knocked off their perch if they don't adapt quickly enough.
This looks stunning! When I clicked through the first time it said the MRR was about $250k which surprised me. On refresh it went back down to $9k.
This not necessarily the case. Most advertisers will have fixed budgets to spend on AdSense.

Under this assumption banning a publisher would not diminish the revenue stream but just diverting the ads to other not yet banned publishers.

That doesn't mean the scheme as described is true, but it's not as obviously stupid as your first paragraph makes it seem.
You're saying that if a unit has two 500 square foot bedrooms, and one is in the basement with no windows next to the furnace and the other is upstairs with bay windows on two walls facing a garden, there is always someone willing to pay half of the overall rent for the basement unit? How exactly are you arriving at this extremely counter intuitive conclusion?
What about common areas? It doesn't make sense to me that someone with a 2x larger bedroom would pay 2x the rent, since the person with the smaller bedroom still has all the same access to the kitchen, living room, and whatever else.

If we're going by square footage, it would make more sense to me to calculate each person's rent as:

(Bedroom area + common area / total number of people) / (total bedroom area + common area)

In short, everyone pays for an equal slice of the common area in addition to their own room.
Illuminati? Real twerking Nuns in new music video
Agree, but due to my mild OCD, I still keep using Get to pair with Set :)
The eHarmony of Recruiting (hironomy.com)
Polling SSL Kerberos and SRP support
Maybe this nix-docker can help http://zef.me/6049/nix-docker direct-link to nix-docker command line dance http://zef.me/6049/nix-docker#introducing-nix-docker
Dammit, RTFM.

Here: http://docs.strongloop.com/display/DOC/Controlling+data+acce... is pretty much exactly what you asked for.
Is their revenue entirely from the "Buffer for Business" plans?
Amazing Fully-Automated Money-Making Mini-Site
To give a concrete example, let's say I want to show that I can influence a coin flip with my mind in order to produce a heads result every time. I do this by publishing trials where each instance involves me flipping a coin four times.

I conduct 16,000 trials. On average, 1,000 of them will show that I can flip a coin and get heads every time. If all I publish are these trials, that yields the amazing result that I can, in fact, influence the coin! Furthermore, the p-value is phenomenally small. And it's very easy to design this experiment to meet all the criteria mentioned in the post other than preregistration.
Not sure of the ideal solution but you are referencing 3 forms of social validation users are aware of: upvotes, karma, and retweets. I understand the relationship among the 3 but it adds an unnecessary layer of complexity.
> If your tests take 10 seconds, how much did you really test?

I see your point, but time-to-test is a horrible proxy for quality of tests. Business logic isolated from external systems can run incredibly fast, so ten seconds worth of testing can mean an awful lot in that case. The nature of TDD basically demands that you structure your code that way to remain productive. Otherwise it's like using a text editor that takes five minutes every time you try to save a file.

That's my inherent frustration with this argument. Both sides aren't arguing for their methodologies, they're arguing against the byproducts of each others methodologies.
Zen of Software Design
OpenBSD Foundation's Google Summer of Code Projects Announced
Are you sure about that? It seems like there is nothing 'insanely efficient' about physically sending paper across the country when the recipient has indicated that no, you actually don't need to do that.

It's like the USPS has an insanely optimized implementation but inefficient algorithm for delivering mail. Change the algorithm and you can throw all your micro optimizations out the window.

The important quote from the article is this one:

> ‘You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.‘

This sure makes it sound like the USPS isn't so much a 'public good' as it is a private, tax payer funded business whose primary business model is advertising.
You're talking about people who're super bright, sparkling resume and in a fortune-100 company but stuck in their job and wanting to make the move. Sure, taking the plunge is necessary but not enough on its own. There has to be something in between weekend-searches-for-startup-jobs and taking the plunge.
Even a single delete/free is nondeterministic. How long it takes depends on the state of the heap (true of new/malloc as well).
Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn
Google's position as a major backer of the competition gives them credibility at the negotiating table. Intel won't give them better terms unless Google can demonstrate a viable alternative.
This is really helpful. I'm getting started with Go now and common idioms and refactoring are useful when moving past the tour and introduction stage.
Assuming that means "jump on overflow": branches are bad for your pipelines, so one should, in general, avoid them if possible. These functions easily can do without jumps (but, presumably, the caller will branch depending on their result)
Whilst I've never used adSense much, this does corroborate with chatter in SEO/webmaster forums, especially around 2012.

The paragraph on G analytics is also very interesting, it never seems to line up with other tracking tools like Piwik.
Congress caused the budget problems by forcing the USPS to move their obligations onto their balance sheet.

See previous discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6710232#up_6710602
Ask HN:  I'm building an API.  Suggestions?
Double edged question: 1) What is a good way to solicit advice for potential consumers of an API you might be building? 2) What endpoints should I support?

I'm building an API for FollowUp.cc, a service that lets you forward emails out to email addresses like 2days@, march10th@, etc... and sends you the email back at that time. At the moment, I'm adding the basics: creating reminders, finding all your reminders, finding old reminders, et al. I'd like to eventually add new functionality as well, like the "send this email later" feature Boomerang supports.

We're eventually going to have an API contest, but I first wanted to see if anybody out there has any suggestions on interesting features or endpoints to support.
No, Buffer's MRR is 250K. Baremetrics' own MRR is $9K. Both dashboards are public. You might've been toggling between them.
Hey! We're close to PDF support, i think next month we'll have it in.

It's actually a pretty common request as many people have their wireframes and visuals in PDF format and want to prototype it up so you're not alone :)
yeah, it hacked me off when every time I mistyped a 127.0.0.1 address, that t would send the information to the borg when using Chrome.
Funny; back in 2010 this exact thing happened to a company I worked at. The day before payout (for the previous month) our AdSense account was banned. So we lost 2 months worth of ad revenue. They completely ignored all of our emails and we had to move to another ad provider immediately.
> Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account.

The publisher (ie your website showing ads) isn't the one paying them that money; they aren't losing any recurring revenue by banning them.

Since they're Google AdSense, it's very likely that they have plenty of new signups to show those ads on.
That doesn't do any good for streaming when there isn't enough bandwidth. If the video bitrate is twice as much as the available bandwidth then it would take 30 minutes to fill the buffer in order to watch an hour of uninterrupted video. I want to turn on my TV and watch Netflix, not turn on my TV, come back in 30 minutes, watch one episode of House of Cards, come back in 30 minutes, etc.
I also feel that mild nagging feeling, but it passes quickly. The brevity is worth it. :-)