skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recently I encountered a new service called Cushion […] They are pushing a 14-day trial, but halfway through the signup process, they ask for credit card details. This is a show-stopper for me, and I’m willing to bet that their drop-off rate here is huge. They are throwing money away.

Well, that's an opinion... maybe they’re actually converting x2 times more...

http://planscope.io/blog/why-im-going-back-to-capturing-cred...

I guess until you A/B test it you never know! Requiring credit card upfront is not a "Dark Pattern", it's a business decision, and a very effective measure for abuse prevention (among many other things).

Maybe it doesn't work for all the businesses, but for others (like Amazon with its Free Tier or the above example) it looks like works wonders!
Ouch! sorry about that, which browser/OS are you on if you don't mind me asking?
Love the concept not sure the math works out:

Maxed out iOS app shows:

35 person-days UI/UX + 162 person-days dev = $88,650

$88,650 / (35 person-days + 162 person-days) / 8 hr/day = $56.25/hr per person average cost.

Assuming the labor estimate is correct, if anyone knows of iOS developers skilled enough to pull that off for 56.25/hr fully-loaded labor costs I'd like to meet them. (e.g. who is coordinating the work and working with the client on evolving specs/feedback)
Facebook to Pay About $60M for Israeli Gesture-Control Firm Pebbles
Why the hell don't the buttons work on mobile safari?
120k ~= 100 days of work for a reasonably skilled attorney who know about the (very niche) topic, including office costs (which in turn include the salary of the secretary, stamps etc). Or 150 days of work if it's split between a lawyer and some paralegals.

At this point one might object that lawyers make too much money, but then I'd like to say that most everybody on this site working for a big company, or working for their own, costs this much or charges this much (or should charge as much, if they're 'professionals' and not 'I can set up Wordpress'-style workers).

Also, let's say that there are no expenses, i.e. only lawyers who live close to wherever the cases are heard (no plane tickets, no hotels), that all proceeding are in the same location, that the defendant is held somewhere close as well, that everybody working the case drives cars that run on air etc.

So then we have ~ 6 months, for a single person with some part-time help to do the menial stuff, to research the case, prepare all briefs, do all trial prep work (I don't know anything about this case but let's say you want to call 3 character witnesses. That's a week right there just selecting them, convincing them to come, prepping them, filing the paperwork etc.); to do the PR; to work with other stakeholders; the actual proceedings (which might span several court sessions - motion for this and that, pre-trial hearing(s), the actual trial, etc. I think it's clear that a single person can't do all of this in 6 months.

It's just what things cost in the real world. But hey, it could have been worse, you could've gone to court in Europe - in which case you'd get to pay between 15 and 25% VAT on top of it (probably not in all European countries, before someone jumps on that).
If you search Wikipedia or Erowid for the chemical structures of 2Cs and NBOMes, you'll find that while the NBOMes contain the core 2C skeleton, they have an additional aromatic ring on the amine part of the phenethylamine core. That is enough to significantly change their absorption profile, tendency to cross the blood brain barrier, and affinity for the target binding site. So while they are related, it's not "siblings" like the 2Cs are to each other. It's more like "cousins".
btw you can actually plug in your own rates at the bottom. We are also going to make this a free tool for other agencies to use with their own feature lists, branding etc
this is dangerous speculation. Bright minds easily pick up different systems of explanations. Deliberate exposition of knowledge is completely other thing. For example being chrystian on public for political purpose. It is the same with scientific publications. Those rarely describe actual level of understanding that writer may have.
We are based in Bangkok :-)
Thank you. I did notice on ancestry.com they mention that some information is pulled from public records. I wouldn't be surprised if that is also abused by these sites as excuses to keep information up, but I will still attempt to get it taken down at least.
Perhaps I misunderstand your question, but doesn't the article say the source is on github? https://github.com/FogCreek/RoslynGenerator
Openstack does a large amount of testing for their code[1] but they is a huge amount of it. Barbican[2] is one of the newer less crufty components.

[1]: https://github.com/openstack/openstack
[2]: https://github.com/openstack/barbican
Sorry to hear that; have you had a chance to try it with VR?
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I'm not a native speaker but I always thought the word "man" is also used as a short way to say "human".

> the human individual as representing the species, without reference to sex; the human race; humankind [0]

[0]: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/man
Try "Dev days" or "Developer days"
In most cases its two cases ;)
Honest question: who were they? The last thing I read [0] had no direct connections between the leaks and people being harmed.

"Brigadier general Robert Carr, a senior counter-intelligence officer who headed the Information Review Task Force that investigated the impact of WikiLeaks disclosures on behalf of the Defense Department, told a court at Fort Meade, Maryland, that they had uncovered no specific examples of anyone who had lost his or her life in reprisals that followed the publication of the disclosures on the internet. "I don't have a specific example," he said."

0: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning...
I'll give a quick alternate perspective: I'm 2.5-3 years into my career, and have only worked at small 100% cloud (AWS, then Azure) based businesses. It's been wonderful.. I love my VS/R# combo, and the extreme ease of setting up lots of services on Azure quickly. Certainly a much more productive and enjoyable development experience than I had in 4 years of *nix-only college work.
Thanks for that, and thank you for getting me into the whole PEP. Previously I had only heard about PEP 8, and I thought that was just it , an opinionated piece about how to write Python. Now I have a whole other source of information to look at.

And for people who will no doubt call me out on this, I have been working on Zed's LPtHW for about a month. I have done numerous searches regarding Python problems, and this is literally the first time I have come across a PEP reference to look at beside PEP 8.
"We are responsible for our products."

"Oh no they leaked!"

"You guys are all fucked, but it's not our fault."
Am I the only one seeing a Unicode issue in the title?
Seem ok here on mobile safari?
Do you think the results from this tool are HIGH? I went through a couple different apps I know and thought the estimate provided by the page needed to be multiplied by 3-5.

The default rates are $56 an hour. For Android/iOS developers, I know a dozen people making $100-200 an hour.

It's a great tool (and note you can actually adjust your price at the bottom), but I would consider all of the quotes around time & rate as the low end.
Sure, but money doesn't change the facts. After a confession - the reality of the outcome changes.

That's a statement with which nobody disagrees. She still deserves a legal defence. What's your point?

There full names were leaked. Security for them has been compromised. Maybe they don't go to the news about it, they're private individuals.

Yeah, obviously tragedies get reported only when the victims mention them to news organisations. The rest just passes us by.

Bradley Manning seems to have a lot of free defense already. Not a lot of people defending the facts. He's confessed.

The fact that she divulged the documents isn't under dispute, not even by her legal team, so I don't see why would they need to be "defended".
+1 for a PDF warning
So, much depends from the observer, right?
A coping mechanism I have is to work from home.

Tracking time in-the-moment (as opposed to waiting until the end of the day) also helps.

And having a boss that's been a programmer and is aware of how context switching can hurt productivity.

Context switching bleeds time from the main tasks I'm assigned to. If I'm not tracking my time precisely, making a summary at the end of the day, I'll wonder how I was so unproductive in the span of the day for the given task.

If I measure it in the moment, I'll see all the little interactions that stopped me. This developer asking me a question. QA asking me to look in something that requires investigation. A little fire to put out over here. Things that are too short and resolved to remember.
> One way to make it more fair is to make it cheaper, and [one] way to do that is to reduce its complexity.

You've made a good case against that solution. But I remain far from convinced that there's not another solution, like having the lawyers of both sides be salaried employees of the state.
The django project is a good example of a large opensource project which has aged well. http://github.com/django/django
This is very true. That's why you MITM everything with your own CA!
You should be be able to get a free account at FT Alphaville so it's not a paywall (but still annoying).
Just out of idle curiosity, what's a more reasonable rate?
To convert to women days * 0.76
On balance I probably agree that this particular scheme is unlikely to be an NSA scheme.

However, if we learned anything from Snowden it is err on the side of assuming that if it is possible then the NSA will eventually try to do it - and this definitely includes forcing US companies to act on their behalf. So post-Snowden the derogatory slur of "obscure conspiracy" doesn't carry so much weight.
One of the problems is that the article ascribes a lot of decisions to the editor that were actually made by the writer or the director. Which is weird, because something can't be an editing decision if it had to be shot a certain way, because editing comes all the way at the end after everything's been shot.

Of course, writing about film is hard, because it's such a collaborative medium. It's hard to attribute a decision to a single person, when in actuality it was probably hinted at in the script, then improved from the director talking to the actor, or the DP suggesting an experimental camera angle, or the editor finding an accidental shot that just happens to work for the scene.

So let's look at whether some of these decisions were born in "writer," "director", or "editor" land. I'll pretend that Whiplash wasn't written and directed by the same guy.

However, after rushing to get to the studio, he
realizes that he is early — by 3 hours. He was
manipulated, leading him, and us, to question:
should he trust Fletcher’s version of “time?”

This series of cause-and-effect events is the story, which is the purview of the writer.

Andrew re-enters the rehearsal space in slow-motion.
He gets behind the drums, also shot in slow-motion,
until Fletcher re-enters the room, which resets the
film into normal motion.

Again, if you had to shoot it in slomo, it wasn't the editor's decision. It's hard to say if this would come from writing or directing. The script could say "he approaches the bench in slow motion," or it could say "he approaches the bench" and the director intuits that the film should ratchet up the tension.

It’s interesting to note that while his drumming is off,
the editor chooses to place cuts of Andrew placing
band-aids on his hand that are in perfect rhythm with
the timing of the ride cymbal –-

This does sound like an editing decision. But again, the script could easily say "He band-aids his hand in rhythm with the cymbals."

If you want to read more about some actual decisions an editor goes through, I highly recomment In The Blink Of An Eye, written by sound and film editor Walter Murch. Tony Zhou's Vimeo series Every Frame A Painting is great too, although it focuses more on directing and cinematography.
Small structural changes can result in large changes in effect and toxicity. Moving to a new series like NBoMe which may share some properties, from halogenated phenylethylamines can mean very different effects.

Likewise sulfur compounds like the 2C-T series may be very different.

The fact that they all start with 2C, indicating a phenylethylamine, is not enough of a discriminator for their action.
Irresponsibly? If this vulnerability exists to download the certs, it should be assumed that somebody else has already downloaded them. Thus, it should be assumed that the voting system is already compromised. Its use should be immediately halted.

Voting systems are sacrosanct.
The Python standard library is hit-or-miss. Some parts are really excellent code. Other parts are horribly hacky crap from 1990 that can’t be ripped out or improved for backwards-compatibility reasons.
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We must have different definitions of "deep". But I guess it depends on how often you need that functionality.

And I don't think it's called "settings menu" either, because settings are about:preferences or about:config.

It's just a regular menu, like many other applications have.
Doesn't sound like you are battling with sleep then. There are some people who do get by with 4-5 hours of sleep.

Then again, there are a lot more people who think they can get by with so little sleep, but when they do start committing to 7-8 hours of sleep they realize that extra time spent watching TV or browsing the internet doesn't make them feel nearly as good as they do when they are fully rested.
Yes. What they don't have access to (with 100% certainty) is the other part of the potential dataset -- i.e. lists of grey-hat hackers.

(Again I doubt that this is actually an NSA backed scheme.)
Big Motorola announcement coming July 28th
> No, but the tickets were worth far more than what AA sold them for.

This is short-sighted.

There's opportunity cost to be considered. AAL needed money at the time they were granting the tickets to investors. The way to figure out the total benefit of the tickets to AAL is to consider what would have happened if AAL had not used the tickets as investor compensation and had instead:

1) gotten the same amount of money from regular banks

2) entirely gone without the money

This is neither an easy analysis nor a straightforward one.

I would also expect the penny-pinchers of a in-danger-of-failing company to forgo such an analysis, and instead play the "These lifetime tickets granted as investor compensation are costing us too much! We have no choice but to renege!" card.
I'm all out, sorry everyone.
They weren't tossing out the "woe is me" card. They were pursuing an option for raising money that you think is too hard.
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Well look at that after I hit 'reply', the top post is 'estimate cost for your apps'! It looks like one can buy a legal defense for a highly complex case with world-wide attention for the cost of 2 medium-sized iOS apps, with only 'basic' level of finish, and no more than some simple sign up and in-app purchase functionality!
There's a suggestions thread. I'm not sure how often that gets read by the mods. Or you could email them - they seem pretty receptive. Having some tag for PDF / Video / Audio would be good.
Sure .. on the other hand, it's not 1968 any longer, and we are talking about medical data, which if you get it wrong can have all sorts of life-changing/life-ending effects. It's probably time to think about removing such systems, if only from the point of view of patient safety.
We can do that. We are based in Spain and Uruguay. www.decemberlabs.com
This Is Windows 10s Edge Browser
Using an iPad here
Netflix Profit Beats Expectations as New Subscribers Increase
Unlocking employee potential in the open organization
oh man. Color perception is pure biology. You can train neural networks in your brain for distinguishing colours. Average Japanese sees more than one hundred colours, where average British sees only "black". Not to forget tetrachromatic vision inherited by some human females.
But this far cheaper for United than offering cash rewards.
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Just brain dumping here but I have this thought that maybe the universe unfolds like a grammar. You start with a description of everything that can exist according to some laws of physics, if you do this recursively, like a grammar. You would have a root node (this would be the Big Bang) from there you generate every possible state.

This would result in a tree where each node (present) is either the Big Bang or hangs of some other tree (the past) and has branches for each possible configuration (futures) to generate from that state.
>Words mean things.

Yes, let us let the fox define all the terms with regards to the hen house. What could go wrong?

>Whom did he reveal to adhere to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort?

Everyone involved in covering up our mistakes that served to further recruitment efforts of our enemies. Instead of admitting the mistakes and explaining how we would prevent such mistakes in the future. Instead, they covered it up so that Americans wouldn't see it (thus protecting themselves from blow back from us) at the cost of giving the enemy a far better recruitment tool.
Here are the financial documents from Netflix: http://ir.netflix.com/results.cfm
Hey man I got a great app idea I am gonna let you in on. First, I need you to sign this NDA. I'll buy you lunch and tell you about. When this thing hits big, there could be a job in it for you. But for now, if you build the app I'll give you 5% of the company. When we sell this puppy, you're gonna be rich dude!!
Good suggestion, once the traffic calms down will update :-)
Unless you are convinced that time or even the entire universe will end when the last human (or animal or alien) dies, this is nonsense.
We launched this week and I'm curious on what you guys think. Any feedback is welcome of course.
Cool, thanks, didn't realize openstack was Python. It may be too much for me to take on at my level, but it is definitely on my 'to look at' list.

Cheers!
> Is the reason you say that a consequence of relativity theory is that time isn't exactly a property of the universe because the 4 variables of spacetime are all distances [(c*t, x, y, z)] as opposed to having 3 variables being distances and one time [(t, x, y, z)]? Or is it simply because Relativity proves that time isn't universal etc ?

Yes, pretty much that. The "units" of z remain constant/consistent independent of the values of x,y. However, t, cannot be thought of separately in the same way. The experience of/speed of/duration of/distance of/... of t is dependent upon the x,y,z location.
Well is not. In fact if you are based in a country other than the US you can arrive to those costs with competent developers. I think we are very competent, you can check us out in www.decemberlabs.com
I wouldn't use the word 'usable' here, that's true :)
However, C++ and those who built it deserve a spot on that list.

C++ gave the programmer tight control over everything that's happening. I see it like driving a car with a manual gear while other languages like Java, Ruby, Python or PHP are automatic gear cars.
>No, what I'm saying is that murdering journalists and unarmed civilians is not treason, because…it's not.

It is directly aiding the enemy by giving them a great recruitment tool. A soldier would be hard pressed to find a better recruitment tool to give the enemy.
Depends what part of the world you're in.
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In github it states "The CLR importer, lexer, parser, interpreter, type checker, language runtime, JavaScript generator, and other components of Wasabi are missing."
anyone not in SF/LA/NYC?
Pretty cool solution but it doesn't seem to be 100% reliable, eg. on this page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31454681/progress-bar-wit... it displays some css definitions at the beggining of the page
Sounds like PingFS. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
Same here, Mac OS 10.10.3 and Firefox 39. But also doesn't work in Chrome (newest).

Good idea though! :)
All of these just get the public ip address, which the server already has.
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I'm actually Ukrainian ^_^
I know it is a good project, but would you recommend it for someone to read through the codebase?

(Honestly, looking at the repo, I don't even know where to start if I wanted to do a read through. Has anyone created a map? :)
I have kind of gone off Moleskines due to their price and low page count. For my software development work, I've recently taken to buying 9x12 sketchbooks (Canson artist series at the moment, but sometimes whatever is on sale at Michael's) and I use these for notes, and especially for state machine diagrams, flow charts, charts, etc. Occasionally the results are even pretty, but mostly they just become a mess. That's OK. My pens are "Paper Mate® Flair® Felt Tip Pens, Medium Point, Black" and I buy them in bulk since I am always using them up and occasionally losing them.

I have at times had various fetishes for mechanical pencils and fountain pens but that way can lie madness, so this is sort of the antidote to keep me grounded in a state of "just write it, dude, stop fussing with your tools."
A. No need to be hostile. It wasn't confusing, I asked for clarification.

B. You didn't say anything about "marketing strategies carried out by e-mail" - you specifically said email and push notifications. Push notifications are not spam. Email notifications are not spam.

And truthfully most marketing email isn't spam either. The actual definition is "irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients." But feel free to keep changing the definitions of words so you can be irrationally angry at people.
Bjarne Stroustrup – What – if anything – have we learned from C++? [video]
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We have a similar concept, with a far less fancy estimator. http://www.decemberlabs.com/appEstimator.html
I think these estimators are good at helping non savvy potential customers tu understand the actual costs of making an app.
http://perfectedtech.com/calculator/
It looks like before the bankruptcy, they traded on the NYSE under the LCC symbol [0]. However, I too am having difficulty finding historical stock data. I might stop by the library to ask a librarian later today. :)

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/11/15/the-new...
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Truly horrible. I've once been trapped in a cycle of this for what seemed like dozens of times before I finally broke out of it drenched in sweat.

How to you get out of it?
Gun-firing drone video causes controversy
Is literally a single keystroke and two clicks of the mouse deep now?
Will be interesting to see how this plays out, people wont like not having no control over their cash!
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I understand and I know it's just an estimating tool but are you saying I can hire your team to deliver a gold-plated does everything iOS app with geolocation, health and sensor inputs, a top-notice design, etc including the detailed functional requirements (we all know what clients think is a complete specification), tested and delivered in the app store for 1,576hrs of billable work at $56/h total cost to me including any overhead you may have (like your market street sf office)?
It's actually slide 9 where five comes up. Great intro by the way.

And thanks to all who have shared their stories of OCD. Godspeed.
Because Manning exposed terrible people doing terrible things.

We need those terrible people to understand that we will stand by good people who expose them for what they are.