skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steep, but this part sounds expensive:

"If an order isn't accepted within 2 minutes, a Square Team member will call you directly, so please keep a phone nearby."

I do think Square could better explain why this service is 8% while everything else they provide is included in the 2.75% normal rate.
That would be great if they didn't also display status.
MIT is about to become the world's first Bitcoin economy
From the current cases, it seems to be a winning, low-cost strategy.
I cannot possibly recommend this post enough. Is this the top of the front page yet? Or is it some random drool about Bitcoin or gossip about funding another zero-revenue startup or the other nonsense that dominates here?

Everyone should read this.
You're 60% more creative when walking, a study has found
KVM support indeed sounds nice, though they advertised it already before for POWER7/PPC970 hardware...

Re endianness, Linux is comfortably bi-endian and so is approximately all portable Linux software. Certainly there isn't any "tremendous" difficulty, which is why I was expressing surprise at ditching the standard big-endian ppc64 userspace.

When people first started floating around the little endian PPC patches in 2010 it seems the motivation was some GPU hardware (http://lwn.net/Articles/408848/) but that doesn't really make sense in this case.
> It was an interesting read, but the author showed absolutely no clue why pre-registration was important. The point is to avoid selection bias.

You've missed his fundamental point: the mechanisms he listed like pre-registration are excellent for defending against plucking signal out of random sampling error. They do nothing for when you are investigating a real effect which is not what you think you are investigating: the point of the spooky studies listed is that in the psi experiments, there is still a signal of something. We don't think it's actual psi in the sense of supernatural activity, but the alternate explanations seem almost as bizarre and have almost as painful implications.
Joystick-like Input Method for Smartwatches
"For an enormous majority of the wider development community" => noise generated does not equal the size of the community.
In particular, the NYT's new calculator is a reimplementation of the calculator you found by Francis Su and his student(s) (which it cites).
Is this the podcast? http://www.functionalgeekery.com/episode-8-jessica-kerr/

/downloads
There you go bringing reason to a conspiracy discussion. :) For what it's worth, I immediately searched for "aq3c" within Google and within my email--no matches found there either. In my estimation, this post is absolutely fake.
I did enough ad buying from AdWords and dealt with the changeover to "Quality Score" to know that Google cares a lot about raising their ad rates, but not having the perception of doing so.

The same goes with things relating to SEO and since AdSense sits at the intersection between SEO and AdWords, it is not at all surprising that some managers at Google would use the guise of "quality" to juice their numbers.

I don't know if it's true or not, but the story certainly lines up with my experiences with Google over the years unfortunately.

They deal with a lot of spammers and scammers, which is a legitimately difficult job, but they also are a giant megacorp out to make a buck, and that doesn't always mean they do the right thing.

Mostly I bet this gets swept under the rug and isn't investigated, which is a shame.
I'm not just a programmer, I'm an artist in other media. I play music very deeply. It's just as full of suffering.
Mind sharing what these animations are? I haven't noticed any that I have to wait on.

You may find some relevant prefs at:
about:config?filter=animate
A quick google search turned up a support page with a "Directory of other versions and languages" link

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
Precision Questions and Precision Answers
> 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.

Forwarding is a negligible percentage of USPS's total mail volume. Like other commenters have mentioned, it's only designed for temporary use while you get settled at a new address.

USPS has machines that read the handwritten addresses on a label, and prints a barcode. The barcode has information that other machines use to bin mail by delivery address, in the order that the mail will be delivered. It's pretty amazing how the system works.
Amiga 500. I really enjoyed PEEK/POKE and the whole experience in general. There hasn't been anything in my life quite like BASIC since.

A friend of mine has been volunteering to teach kids using Javascript. He doesn't have much good to say about it. I think the control constructs and syntax were the hardest part iirc.

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10

Is conceptually easier to understand than:

for(;;) {
console.log("HELLO");
}

Actually don't type that into your Firefox if that's what you use. It'll just crash. I'm not even sure what Javascript does for looping but I'm sure it's weird.

Things have improved since then but the experience of programming has become something programmers do. There was a paucity of software back then and from my rose-tinted, 20-20 hindsight I think I only started programming when I was a kid because that was what you did with a computer. There wasn't a distinction or any special software to install. It's hard to explain.
The problem is if too many people opt out then the junk mail business model fails because advertisers won't advertise. It's not the loss revenue from a few houses they case about its the number of addresses the junk mailers can ship to.
Predictable is bad. It makes people lazy and inattentive.
Both "hard to hire" and "hard to find jobs" are satisfied by a disjoint set of job locations to candidate locations.

That is, there could be plenty of X jobs in City Y, but that does little for the X candidate in Z city. Flip candidate/job as desired.
I'll add some more to nickff's comments:

LBOs reallocates capital; a liquid capital market is thought to be a good thing.

Our tax system massively favors capital obtained by debt.

For all forms of capital you pay something. It gets complicated in our favorite situation where future growth prospects result in a rising stock price, but stock buybacks are taxed once (they come from profit), dividends are notoriously taxed twice (they're shareholder income), but the interest payed on debt is deducted as a cost of doing business.

Before adding another regulatory epicycle to a system that's choking to death on them, perhaps consider reforming this perverse incentive?
If this is not a scam, it might be perfect for an aquaponics water quality sensor (if it can detect single ppm quantities of ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites). They specifically mention hydroponic solutions analysis.
I guess the IRS isn't the right place to go because all that money is probably reported as income by Google. Too bad because IRS whistleblowers are eligible for a percentage of any amount the IRS is able to collect, and with a company as big as Google, that could be an earth-shatteringly large amount of money.
Couldn't quickly find the limitations when parsing these .csv files. How many lines in them would be still ok?
Strange to see you being downvoted. I think many commenting did not read the article and did not the video (http://www.justin.tv/confreaks/b/522089408 fast-forward to 10:30). DHH does not argue agains testing, his argument is against cargo-culting and hurting the design in pursue of faster testing and more coverage, even when it is usless. DHH even quotes Kent himself in the talk: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence".
I think it's cool to have great PHP support on Heroku. PHP doesn't always get much love from a lot of the developer community, but it has its place and if nothing else, Heroku support means you can migrate your app there from a shared Dreamhost account if it ever blows up.

It's good to have options.
It seems like they currently have two products: Square Market, for online sellers, and the Square Reader, for retail point-of-sale. This product connects them, so you can use the online storefront to buy things that are delivered at the point-of-sale.
>I'm talking the sciences here in particular

Heh, tell me about it. There are better programs out there but we still use some written 20 years ago because they have a UI.
This is such bull. How could any postal service in good conscience (or legally for that matter) co-operate with a service which consists of opening other people's mail?

Any postal service should deliver mail to the addressee, unopened and unchanged. Any deals that put that mail in the hands of third parties should be a no-go to start with.

And they also shouldn't be offering this themselves. Closed envelopes stay closed. If that means postal services are not profitable, so be it. That was never the reason they existed in the first place.
Ubuntu: "I can still bypass the logscreen by rightclicking the indicators"
Only a subset of rewrites are redirects. A common usecase for rewrites is to change the request URI to make it match another location block in your config, but without returning 301 or 302 or any other redirect code to the client.
Okay, that is neat pretty neat.
For anyone looking to get into PHP development now, check out Laravel:

http://laravel.com/

It's a Rails-like framework for PHP, and seems to be pretty well designed. I wouldn't start a new PHP project without it.
No offense, I don't know where you did your research but I don't see anywhere on Marvel's landing page where it makes clear its main flow is PSD -> storyboard. In my opinion, Marvel's landing page makes it very clear that workflow is paper -> photo -> storyboard just like Popapp, but also supports importing a PSD image (which doesn't seem like a groundbreaking differentiation). Granted, the founder explained the difference somewhere above but they're still "improvements", they fundamentally do the same thing.
Here's the Cast of Star Wars Episode VII
Can someone enlighten me as to how, as the article states, the Rogers-Ramanujan identities have played a role in Physics?
Things will definitely start slowing down pretty linearly after 100k lines, but we often see millions, and most files shouldn't break us as long as they're not over ~500MB.

Edit: Fleshed out explanation
This originally pointed to [1], which links to [2]. However, it doesn't seem that the project itself got any attention on HN, so we changed the url to that.

Submitters: please double-check what you post for links to more original sources. HN strongly prefers original sources.

1. http://boingboing.net/2014/04/26/3d-printer-that-lays-down-c...

2.http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247934/This_3D_print...

Edit: s/was blogspam of/links to/
I can't speak for 2009, but by 2012 large publishers definitely had account managers.
CISPA Take 3: Feinstein and Chambliss Draft Another Cybersecurity Bill
As a business, it's pretty easy to have your mail (and packages) delivered to a "private post office" but that becomes your official mailing address and you notify the senders that you've had an address change.
Well, I won't be too upset at the VP. But that co worker of yours? Take it up, she should not be trusted not for confidentiality or reliability. Take it up to HR.
I believe it's safe to assume having more endian-diversity is then a good thing. Bugs in software and protocols will be exposed and eventually corrected.

Since most Linux distros fully support a very diverse set of machines, endianness is usually not a problem with most of the software that's already part of a Linux distro.

As for software developed inside Google, they hire smart people. They'll manage.
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Ask HN: Email Intro / Rejection Etiquette
Much has been written on email etiquette. Great stuff like blog.42floors.com/email-introduction-protocol/.

But everyone assumes:
1. The introducer wants the two parties to meet.
2. Both parties want to meet.
But what if this isn't the case.

Let's say a fried of mine (Jim) asks for an intro with my mentor. And either (a)My mentor says he doesn't want to meet Jim. Or (b) I think it's a waste of time for my mentor to meet Jim.

What do I say to Jim? Tell Jim my mentor is busy? Say "I'll check with my mentor," and not. Is it my job to play gatekeeper for my mentor? Or to repay Jim for the intros he's given me (by asking mentor if he has time for Jim)?
Customers should be able to choose between overage fees and throttling when they exceed their monthly limit.
That's what I thought but then the article says this:

"""

The Y has been stable for the past 25 million years, scientists say. And a major reason is that many of its remaining genes are crucial to the survival of all humans, going far beyond sex determination. There are genes that affect protein synthesis, how active a gene is, and others that splice RNA segments together. They are found in the heart, the blood, the lungs, and other tissues throughout the body. “These are powerful players in the central command room of cells,” says David Page

"""
The USPS is still important. For example, no private carrier has a Constitutional mandate to serve all Americans. They are essential for rural communities: for example, if you need medication but there's no pharmacy nearby, the USPS will deliver it to your house even if UPS and FedEx won't.

Also, the USPS kicks everyone's ass in time and cost when it comes to delivering small packages. For a 12-oz package from NY to SF, USPS delivers in 3 days for about $2 while FedEx and UPS start at ~5 days and $10.
Seems that GA is always lower than Piwik and adsense is always much lower than GA.
This looks really cool!

Is there a reason why you have something like:

newGame ::= a game of Wump the Wumpus;

as opposed to:

newGame is a game of Wump the Wumpus.
"Fair" in the good old American capitalist sense of the word. Money is supposed to be a proxy for desire here... The one that desires the room more gets it because they are willing to pay more for it. The reality is money isn't an equal proxy for desire. The poorer roomate can want the big room with every fibre of their being, but be casually outbid by a rich roommate with money to burn.

Edit: as expected, HN swings decidedly capitalistic and my comment has been downvoted.
> Thanks for the link. What about IndexDB, Web SQL and Local Storage?

Not yet, but a storage inspector panel is being worked on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970517
The vast majority of tech books sell fewer than 5000 copies.

A typical advance is $4000 - $10,000 (for well known authors), split into several parts.

Royalties vary, 8-15% is standard. Programatic Programmers is much more generous.

$1000 advance is unusually low.
Does it really need to be there?
Yes, if you're writing a multithreaded memory sensitive application (or really just any application in general that has performance as a primary objective) then PHP is not the right tool for the job.

It's not a golden hammer, it's just that most websites at their core are simple CRUD apps that initially don't need more than what PHP offers. When you do need to scale your PHP app to tackle these problems, there's no reason why you should limit your stack to PHP.

It's OK to not like PHP because it's not a beautiful language but I don't buy the argument that it's never useful.
> so anybody downvoting you can't be that new of a user.

IME, you can earn a lot of karma quickly with links. I'd say 1/3 of my karma came from links, and initially that's what pushed me over the top. So they're most likely not new users, but anyone with a month of submissions could have crossed that threshold. It makes me wonder if the two karmas, and the features that get enabled, should be separate things.
I hate to break out the tinfoil, but do you have any reason to expect the Ads team would admit to you if any of this were true?

Secondly, I'd be impressed if after the China incident, you still had access to Ads mailing lists given that you work in Search, so it at least seems unsurprising that your searches would reveal nothing.
Want to try on the latest release? I can't reproduce with Release (29) or Nightly (32) on 10.9. If you can give some solid STR and a test case we can investigate further, but as it is now, this isn't very actionable from our end :-/
Can't get over the way first sentence sounds:

> PHP developers are makers at heart.

What is the difference between a PHP developer and any other developer? If they tried to stick this in the middle, I could swallow it but opening sentence is just ridiculous.
It would be nice if someone who has a world class CompSci program and perhaps a "captive" audience would spend some time working on making it easier for the normal person to use safely.
Anatomy of a (failed?) free-software fundraiser
Right, because this is a problem with women?
Looks good but I'm curious, why is it not distributed signed with an Apple developer account? That means there is no kill switch Apple can flip in case it turns out to be malicious software. (Especially important for a package manager!)

Is it just the $99 fee or is there some other reason not to sign it?
Indeed, the behaviour should be identical when too few or exactly enough arguments are given.

The way I see it, if we're not given enough arguments we introduce wrappers around our function to accept the rest. With this alteration, when we're given too many arguments we eliminate wrappers from around our result by passing them the rest.

This hints that they might be 'dual' notions, in a Mathematical sense. Maybe I should dub it "cocurrying"? ;)
Yes, if your building a user deployable product like TeamCity, Crucible, or other app where it might be deployed on a number of database tiers to fit your customer. In that case, a Repo abstraction (or ORM) makes life livable.
Debian Drops the SPARC Architecture
Holy shit, if this is true....
One thing to consider: does the success of newcomers depend at all on the current power structures and wealth holders?

If it does, then some part of the success of new people is dependent on the power holders tastes and biases, conscious or unconscious.
A/B Testing and Webpage Design/Testing Metrics
I'm not sure how that even follows from what I wrote.

Note, I am all for extensive static analysis. To the point that I am excited about such tools as Coverity and friends.

I am beginning to take exception to requiring ever more from the programmer. To the point that a programmer can't "in practice" specify a program correctly without a type checker. (Which... is what the parent post says. Right?)

I would much rather have it such that "in practice" we can specify programs without help. Since that implies that we can "in practice" read and reason about programs without extensive help, as well.
Yes, I am curious to understand what sort of problems may be solved with this result. I know just enough number theory to be impressed by the finding, but I'm no mathematician and had to stop reading around page 6 of the paper :(
Considering statistical mechanics as a branch of physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_hexagon_model
Or for detecting gluten in food before eating it? The real question, is what can it accomplish in practice?
"No one owns enough socks of enough different kinds"

Not sure if you're making a legitimate YAGNI argument, or falling into a programmer fallacy of believing you can safely generalize from your own experience to your users...

I'm leaning towards the latter, and am further going to suggest that your experience might be limited to being single, and likely male, and that it generalizes badly on any axis away from that state.

This problem feels like a surprisingly good example of how your personal intuitions about a problem space can lead you to make incorrect simplifying assumptions to find an elegant solution, that will completely fail when they run into the real needs of your actual users.
It's a fake. It's an anonymous post on pastebin, submitted by a one-time account. The terminology is wrong. The policies are wrong. The post is full of typos. The post has almost no specifics, and the one specific thing they mentioned ("AQ3C") isn't real.

If this story isn't getting traction, then HN is doing the right thing here.
Yes, I am.

It might be clever but it's unintuitive and as a consequence developers (even otherwise experienced ones) who have not yet mastered AngularJS will write the kind of mess that is painful to clean up later. This is more or less true for any technology, but as a general rule the more complicated or different the concepts are, the less likely it is that people will get things right the first few times. And this gets worse as the application gets larger and / or more people get added to the team. A simpler approach with less cleverness would help.
Chrome on Elementary OS (Probably consider this Ubuntu 12.04 for this purpose) does a completely chromeless fullscreen on F11 too. Out of interest does OS X support fullscreen on all apps automatically or does the button (it's a window control right?) only show up for supported apps?
Pentadactyl is unfortunately messing with userChrome itself (shrinking size of tab bar), which the devs really should not do across the board (it breaks a lot of unrelated addons).

Which I hate to say as a diehard Pentadactyl user.
yep! Although it's kind of a weird dynamic going on - the host gets defensive at times, getting a sense these two were grating on each other a little bit. Always enjoy the things Jessica has to say though.
An obscure algebraic number:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_number
CoinDesk Bitcoin App Now Available for iPhone
It doesn't make any sense for ads team to lie. If the accusations are true, relevant employees can simply become a whistle blower, and collect bounty (i.e., a percentage of fine that Google will need to pay).
I know what you're talking about. I remember feeling it often when I was first hacking away at QBasic in high school. I don't have any good suggestions on how to bring that "sparkle" back, other than to find projects that you're passionate about.
who knows of it, who uses it ?

There may be like circles (ofc... the circle of live ;), but not the same (different things are different :)
8% per order.

Yikes.