skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial...

Non-comprehensive, but gives an indication of how fucked jury instructions are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_instructions
This raises really good points. a dula income move is much harder. and less likely to be done on spec. combine that with the real-estate inflation which has eaten up much of any surplus from regional wage variations--and you have yourself what is likely an 80% explanation.
I used Food Runners for close to a year at my old company and was continually impressed with their service. Even when something went wrong, they were quick to correct and improve each week. They began small but are growing. It felt good to donate the food rather than compost it.
Indeed, 2010 here. Sequential for sure.
Eh, these are people that had a look at Stripe's financials and decided to invest in it at that valuation. I'm not going to speculate on their actual numbers, but I trust that Sequoia and co have a good idea what they're doing.
Very true. It's important to note that the majority of a (well maintained) CF patient's health is the result of the the breathing treatments and enzyme treatments; I could probably not see a doctor for years if I had my meds. (Probably true of many chronic conditions I'm sure, but speaking to my experience only)
Not that economic orthodoxy is a good measure of reality, but there is a theory of the optimum size of a firm that will determine its size.

There are natural monopolies which grow without apparent limit, or rather, whose growth is constrained only by the total size of the market, rather than some lower bound. For these, there's always the capability of adding additional profitable production.

For other businesses, there are natural constraints on scale: a regional market or operation which can only sustain so much business, high scale-related costs, etc.

As two canonical examples, telecommunications scales quite well with scale, and in the history of telecoms we find a long history of monopolies: Western Union in the telegraph age, AT&T in the telephony age, and now Comcast in the broadband era. Once you've got cables strung, your primary limitation is last-mile wiring. But it's the long-distance and total bandwidth capacities which give you maximum value.

Concrete is a counterexample: there's a limited local market (whatever local building activity will support), and your transport costs are very high: concrete is heavy stuff. Concrete tends to be a pretty localized industry, though it might be possible for a single firm to develop out of what are essentially multiple regional markets.

Growth, where possible, profitable, and sustainable for a business, is often pursued, but it's not a necessary condition for success.
The killer feature in Chrome was and is the multiprocess implementation. I use Firefox for intranet browsing at work and Chrome for personal browsing: the former is a sloth compared to the latter, and hangs even for seconds when loading a big page whereas Chrome will happily use as many of my 12 cores as it likes and it just doesn't even slow down.

Firefox has had their comparable hack (Electrolysis?) in some prototype stage for a long time but the thing is Chrome actually delivered it... years ago. This turned the roles into a catch-up game where Firefox tries to match Chrome instead of other browsers trying to match Firefox, and the setting has remained as such since then.

The difference is still astronomical and I'm not at all convinced that a new user interface could have much effect there. The browser UI has pretty much standardized 15 years ago.
>with better asymptotic probabilistic bounds than simulated annealing

This seems unlikely to me. The Metropolis algorithm is just simulated annealing with a constant temperature. Which means that simulated annealing includes Metropolis MCMC as a special case.

Also, while simulated annealing is guaranteed to find the global optimum given infinite time (almost sure convergence), I'm not aware of any such guarantees for Metropolis.
The privacy reason honestly seems like a post-hoc justification... you can easily turn off auto search in Chrome. If you were really anal, you could do what IE does and actually _ask_ the user for permission before hitting the search engine. There is really no reason why the search bar has to be kept separate, other than user comfort. And that is not a bad thing: there is no need to start making up excuses for it.
Its Presentation very clear. easy to used.

Thanks
This 3D printer technology can print a game controller, electronics and all
You're point is solid, but can you clear up some confusion for me? I'm not sure whether:

1) Round-trip times from Australia to the USA are truly as bad as 266ms

2) You're confusing ping's RTTs with one-way trips

3) You're assuming DNS has a syn/ack, which it doesn't.

EDIT: I suspect you realize there's no syn/ack in DNS based on your other comments... :)
Now that I've read them, those responses are great.

But... a moderation policy that relies on all users having read all comments on all stories is unrealistic.

Just create a page somewhere and say "these are the moderators, they do this when necessary, but most of the time it's not necessary as the community is largely moderated by users, and these are roughly the switches that the users have to control things".

I now know, as you've said. But I really wouldn't have guessed that people flag stories as much as they must do, nor that it carries such a penalty. And I'm a fairly heavy user and hadn't seen your comments and responses before.
Significantly, this article neglects to consider how sample size (and demographics) might affect the measurement of hospital treatment quality.

tl;dr: If you don't adjust for the sample size, what may appear to be the best, or worse, hospital, may look like that only because of how they have (un)successfully treated a single patient, and thereby yield an unrealistic estimate of patient quality (ie; 100% cure rate of a single patient, which may not be reflective of the actual caliber of doctors).

Further reading, which is strongly recommended if you want to learn more;

http://nsmn1.uh.edu/dgraur/niv/TheMostDangerousEquation.pdf‎
Has anyone figured out how to get the tabs below the address bar again? This is horrible. I'm not really sure how to describe my hatred of this but it is there. I love FF but if the tab bar can't be moved I think I might have to switch to Safari.
http://archive.today/4ZGpR

Fully rendered cache with images.
Why do people, even (possibly) smart and well-meaning people, think there is some one size fits all lifestyle that works for everyone? Maybe some people/jobs work better on different schedules.

And exactly how is this experiment going to collect useful data about the impacts of a shorter workday? Details matter if this is actually science. If it is really just politics then who cares as long as it is popular with the majority.
Even if it's turned off you can leak information. Mis-type a local hostname and suddenly your secret URL is public to Google. I've done this more than a few times.
Thank you, that did work for me as well.
Government offers school pupil data to private companies
undivided attention? being in the courtroom doesn't make you any less distracted or harried. the lawyers are handling multiple cases at the same time. the judge is probably doing crosswords up on the bench. some of the jurors are probably thinking about where to eat for lunch, others decided the case soon as they saw the defendant walk in the courtroom wearing jailhouse orange. and That's just for the 10% of cases that actually make it to trial.
No kidding. I love the local speeds, and no doubt Google and Amazon do a good job of redundancy, but I'm sure as hell not going to put all my eggs in one basket. Not with DNS.

I had the same problem earlier this year, and if Rackspace or Route53 had AXFR support, I would have used them in a heartbeat...
I have now released my similar documentation system that supports SEO: https://github.com/Ben-G/Lightdoc
At Leftronic we've also started to avoid clients. When you connect to many APIs you start running into issues with poorly supported clients and mile-long pip freezes. We like providing our own clients to our API because it's a nice quick way to get started but I think nothing beats good old python-requests and reading API docs.
> So I can do COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Turbo C, Ada, and a lot of other misc languages that the current graduates and drop-outs don't even know.

I'm interested because you mentioned Turbo C, It's usually the ANSI flavour you get these days (I tend to write the C90 variety).
Food-chain fads are pretty common. Some persist (McDonalds), some muddle along (TCBY), some collapse spectacularly, such as Boston Market (though I find it's still going).

The similarities with tech startups exist, including overambitious growth plans.
Right, thanks for catching the typo.
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It's only another tool in the diagnostic toolkit. My presentation is, um, "non-classical" to say the least (intentional tremor being, perhaps, the weirdest part of it) and arriving at a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease pretty much involved ruling out everything else that might have been causing my symptoms (which is a rather long process, all things considered). I've met dozens of people who I could have spotted as Parkinson's sufferers two blocks away at night during a blackout, and a few who, like me, seem to have a bespoke version that "isn't the other things" and responds to treatment for Parkinsonism. Well, as well as anything does, at least - meds are always a pretty blunt weapon and can't exactly track the body's own chemistry, so there will always be good periods, and under/over-medicated periods as well. When it comes to neuropathy - or normal functioning, for that matter - we're not quite stumbling around in the dark, but there's still one hell of a long way to go before we can say that we understand much about the machine.
>"In functional organizations, functional software happens even when the people aren't that bright."

It could happen, but I've never seen it, nor have I even read about it the literature. The sum conclusion of 20 years of software engineering literature is that two things matter: the quality of your programmers and the stability of your requirements. Of those two, the first matters more than the second. Get those two, and it doesn't matter what methodology you use, you'll have functional and elegant software. Miss those two, and it doesn't matter what methodology you use, your software will be crap.
That's a good point. Sometimes you need outsiders to point out blind spots that you may have from having lived too close to something... so to speak.
One theory says that a business should grow with GDP.

That presumes that 1) GDP can grow without limit and 2) that GDP is itself an accurate measure of real economic growth.
You submitted this already under a different URL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664065
Well, following that logic, Facebook owns thousands of web sites because they require FB account to login.

It seems obvious to us, but we are an exception. Most of the people just don't care.
When you need a reliable & low-latency DNS for your services, you need Anycast DNS - not the one bundled with your GoDaddy's domain, see the differences between Anycast DNS & Unicast DNS: http://dyn.com/blog/unicast-vs-anycast-dns-nameserver-routin...
You don't know what killed him.
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I saw this years ago having development updates on Forrst. Tubalr outlived its spawn-place.
Fedex drivers aren't. That doesn't matter as much when there aren't real alternatives, but it can become critical if technology starts to drastically reduce the need for labor. That's part of what happened to the American auto industry during the 80's.
>A model 1987 longitudinal study of 269 patients suffering from severe schizophrenia and released from the Vermont State Hospital between 1955 and 1960 found that one-half to two-thirds of them had significantly improved or fully recovered. These were the most hopeless back-ward cases. These patients had benefited from social workers and therapists and employment counselors—an extensive support system continuing over several years and consisting of one essentially unchanging professional team. By the time of the study, a significant number of them had reintegrated into the community.

i always suspected something like this. Looking at the obviously mental ill homeless people, i always feel some guilt that we, as a society, are just leaving them behind by not mustering the necessary support and help.
Is GDP growing due to actual output growth and wealth generation or due to inflation?

"True" GDP should be inflation-adjusted, hence you'll see real GDP growth in adjusted statistics.

Measuring inflation is its own kettle of worms.

The more relevant challenge IMO is that GDP is a highly flawed measure. NNP (net national product) corrects for some of this via accounting for externalities, but both are still cash flow measures, when what would be more appropriate as a net measure of wealth would be a capital growth account -- equivalent to a businesses balance sheet.

Sadly, this is one area in which macroeconomics has been stubbornly and persistently lacking.
This intuitively is flawed. If you offer me more money in a place with expensive housing, the decision is based on the joint NPV(x|y) wher x is an income vector and y is a cost vector. Likewise, a single job offer is going to be only 1/2 of the x vector. On its faces, a new job offer for a two income household stream would be 1/2 as implactful as under a 1 income scenario. That is not even counting doing the joint probability of x=xa+xb when xb has to change because xa'=/=xa. These variables are also non-observable, so without actually reading the study its implausible to consider them well accounted for IMHO.

Similarly, there is a lot of technical overhead when dealing with housing costs in relation to work opportunities. Each opportunity has to be considered in relation to the balance sheet, not the income stream. Most 100k jobs lose 30k to taxes and 30k to expenses each year (at a minimum) netting 30k of savings. But many US metro's where 100K jobs are prevealent have homes with average prices edging north of 10x 100k. So, that is 30 years of net saving--a hugely consequential trajectory for a NAV calculation. So, if you have assets invested in a hot housing market, it will take more than just a good job offer in another area to get you to move. because moving reduces your exposure to a market that is equally if not more consequential to your NAV than your Job. Unlike the stock market, you can't just keep the same portfolio of residential RE as you move about.
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Are there any functional changes other than moving some buttons and menus around a little?

I like Firefox and will continue to use it, but I just don't see what good this update is supposed to accomplish.
FWIW I use a plug in called "tree style tabs". It puts the tabs in a hierarchy on the left side of the screen. One of the main reasons I like firebox better than other browsers is this feature.
It also allows you to move the tabs to top/bottom/right of the window, although I think top is just the default.
They're treading water businesses

More accurately: they're earning normal economic profits. This assumes that economic activity is normally profitable, which isn't unreasonable in certain circumstances, though it's not guaranteed.
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I love that you allow people to "pay outside". I wish more services offered this. Just be sure that users understand the risks associated with "paying outside".
Doesn't the central limit theorum imply that most sane distributions of quality of care (including all doctors are equally good) will result in a bell curve?

There are tests you can do to tell if the variance between care centers exceed that you would expect from chance, but the mere observation of a bell curve seems completely uninteresting.
Great and all (and I'm a big fan of smaller, lighter passenger cars) but it only works to a point - a tiny car might not kill a pedestrian or someone else in a tiny car, but it's unlikely to do well in an accident with a semi truck, or a large fixed barrier. (And people buy cars based on how well they protect the passengers, not others.) We should have smaller cars, but with reasonable safety features.
I tried using Chrome (from a decade+ of using Firefox) and while it is definitely faster in some instances, it is also laggier in others. Tab switching is noticably slower for me, for instance. I also found it frustrating that it would draw an unusable interface before it was done loading, which 'felt' faster, right up until I wanted to actually use it.

Chrome has some good points though - its scrolling feels much better, one tab (flash) crashing doesn't take out the entire browser and I can just switch to another tab until it recovers and (obviously) Google products have much better performance. Ultimately though, its slowness in other areas, plus its inherrently broken mouse gestures, meant that I switched back to Firefox.

I do wish Firefox was a bit faster moving. I know there are difficulties in dealing with a huge, old codebase, but I just wish features that Chrome has had for years, like chromeless app windows and multiprocess would just hurry up. Features like window-based private browsing took years to migrate from Chrome, and it's frustrating as you said to be perpetually caught in a game of catch up.
> Performance is tough. I feel most often C++ is not chosen for its inherent cleanliness, elegance and beauty, but because there are no viable competitors at the given performance point.

I don't think there are many popular high level languages that target systems programming in the first place.
I like the idea of it, was thinking of something myself not too long ago.

It's great because it provides big value, and your (i.e. betatype founder, contractor specialising on prototypes, etc) job is to highlight the value because it's not obvious for many. Doing that seems like a fun experience.

Tell the "idea people" that you will sell some seemingly incomplete software which might need to be thrown away for $3500 and they will shrug their shoulders or laugh.

Tell the same people that for $3500 you will help them to find out the potential of their idea for a small price, and they, in the ideal world, should love it. Many of us have worked on some project, which was sort of stealth project and founders spent loads of cash just to find out that no one needs it. All of it could have been avoided for $3500.

But how close the real world is to the ideal world?
I would name Atari, but I'll instead just say that probably 1000s of video game companies have created "cultural contributions" that have driven youth creativity and imagination - possibly planting seeds that lead to careers.

Apple?

Remember watching Jurassic park and being blown away? Great claymation wasn't it?

It's almost too easy to go on, so I'll stop there.
look at table 4 in the paper ( available for free here http://www.scribd.com/doc/219732275/99907-w20065 ; pg 35). The authors say, "As a proxy for two-career households, we create an indicator for households where both spouses are employed in a professional or technical occupation." That addresses the dual-income question, though I think it fails to address it adequately. The authors show that intra-state migration fell both for couples both employed and even attempts to break out prof/tech and college degree requiring employment. Nonetheless, the base year is 1981-89, and I think (even attempting to call it technical employment) that this is possibly long enough ago -- at least 25 years -- that the nature of women's employment has changed. Perhaps the nature of work of secretaries is more homogenous, less value-adding, or easier to find as compared to senior engineering leads? So as women became more the latter than the former, perhaps this doesn't control.

To the authors' point, though, this isn't a big enough fraction of the population to skew their results. That is, while the situation may well suck for dual-earner professional households, there aren't that many.
Almost no new features, other than some flexilibility with the new Firefox menu (you can add extension buttons to it, for instance).

Lots of customisation options have been removed (with the justification that it prevents inexperienced users from 'breaking' the browser), like the navigation buttons being locked to the address bar, the inability ability to move the refresh button (urgh) and the addon bar. Most can be restored though the Classic Theme Restorer addon, though it broke another of my addons last time I tried it.
There seems to be quite a lot of wasted space in this new design. For example:

http://www.donotlick.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tab-shap...

1. The curves of the 'aerodynamic' tabs sacrifice pixels in the horizontal ramp-off / -on whereas old 'ugly' rectangular tabs can abutt.

2. A vertical void above the tabs, too shallow into which to put icons.

I'll have no choice but to become accustomed to it but I fear my little 12" screen will become even less efficient.
100/day is lower than I thought but it does make me shake my head to think about the media and public uproar that would exist if robotic cars were responsible for 100 deaths each and every day!
i think it is there so the person about to hire him/them has some reassurance of privacy
I think I'm in the minority, but I really like Safari. It doesn't use reverse tabs, I find it to be easily as fast as Chrome (and it tends to use a lot less resources: battery, cpu on Mac OS X), and I almost always use the "Reader" and Reading List features.
I don't think Mozilla should be holding back functionality to avoid breaking extensions.

I respectfully disagree. Extensions are the USP for Firefox, and IMHO breaking compatibility should be considered a serious issue and not something to be done lightly. (See also: all the hate when they switched to doing six-weekly updates and it kept disabling extensions every time for months afterwards.)

In any case, there was no pressing need to remove the add-on/status bar. Arbitrary rearrangement of UIs is generally bad for usability. Ditto for major things like moving tabs (for anyone who isn't using an enhanced tab plug-in anyway) and the burger menu (which is now a tiny area right underneath the close window button, and appears to be completely inaccessible by keyboard).
Well that's good, the law is there, but ultimately you still don't want to make someone sick. ;)
What a expletive is this guy. The world would have been inasenly poorer in culture if not for TCP/IP ...
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Why does this sound like a scare tactic to get people to drop XP?
I don't think it's the fact of charging money that makes the difference. The creator of Instapaper did also charge money for the app itself (I don't know current owners, but they still probably do). To be fair I also don't see the difference (I mean regarding legality) between this new service and Instapaper.
what is your company? am looking for remote data scientist position
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Maybe the store will drive to you ;)
I believe that for (1), the tabs overlap so that they take the same amount of space as the old tabs. It's an illusion that they're larger (which I initially fell for also, until I was corrected).

(2) is the same as Chrome and older Firefox versions - to ensure that there is still some draggable area in the window when it is filled with tabs, and it disappears when the window is maximised.