jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We're actively using 3 principles of influence from Cialdini in our SaaS-product[1] (we also refer to it as 'CaaS', Conversion as a Service).

Basically we make persuasion available for the small- to mid-size online shops by providing a tool that integrates tightly with your (shop)backend. Based on data-analysis from your visitors (we ask for a small JS-snippet on each of your pages) we try to predict, by using machine learning, which visitor is sensitive to what kind of messaging at what particular time.

Examples:

Scarcity: "3 products left in stock", "order within 2 hours and 13 minutes and we'll ship your order today"

Social proof: "23 people bought this product today", "the last order of this product was 3 minutes ago"

Authority: "Recommended by institute x"

We're seeing uplifts in conversions rates from 5% to sometimes 200% (on average 10-15%). Key is timing and finding out what works best for a certain type of visitor. So, for example, shopping at your lunch break often results in a certain behaviour on a shop (ie. going directly or through the shortest route to your desired product) which implicates a sensitivity for a scarcity message. On the other hand, shopping in the evening (more time on your hands) tells us (but not always) that you're maybe more inclined to make a good comparison between products. A social proof message helps the most in that case. It's a simplified version of the reality but you get the idea :-)

The tool is easily integrated in shop software (Magento et al) and usable for the less tech savvy users. The messaging is delivered through non-intrusive pop-ups (maybe you've seen them) and are fully configurable on for example: referer, time of day, position, layout, animation, type of visitor, country, etc etc. We also have an integration with Google Analytics to track performance.

You can try us for 30 days free, shoot me an email at bart[at]conversify.com, mention HN, and I'll give you 15 extra days for free.

[1] https://www.conversify.com
My Atom is up and running all the time until there are new app updates, which require restarts.
Are we talking about "orbiting in elliptical paths" or "planets are ellipses"? In regular Height-Width-Depth (3D) space (excluding time) the plants are circling in ellipses. In only Height-Width (2D) space plants are flat circles and when projected onto a plane produce an elliptical path. So why the downvote?
> And makes your code 20% longer, which makes for a lot of extra fun not-really-so-cost-free-after-all maintenance.

Just 20%? Sounds like a good deal, considering those that brag that brag that "over half of our code base are just tests!". I don't know if that kind of thing is fashionable or widespread any more, though.
If you old people would stop working and retire, the young people would have work to do. What's that? you didn't save anything after the best financial boom time in history? You have to work until you're 80? Well, then stop complaining.
I don't think you misunderstood (or at least I interpreted GP's post the same way). I suppose GP meant to say that you can color all 2ⁿ vertices of the n-dimensional cube such that precisely half of them (2ⁿ⁻¹) are red and half of them are green and such that no vertices of a single color are adjacent to each other.
It's an absolute godsend. Scripting in it feels really intuitive compared to POSIX shells. I find it such a shame that we probably won't get rid of POSIX shells for at least a couple more decades... if that.
In Europe people between themselves and businesses use what you call wire in America. The credit card charge back is very much American concept, I guess the fees pay for that insurance.
There is still a live thread on that forum that can be found via Google. I don't want to link to it because I'm not sure if that's allowed.
Just search for the name of the forum followed by the abbreviation of the database and you will probably find it.
There is also the startup founder path. That's what I chose, and I'm glad I did. I was tired of meaningless research and meaningless work. I wanted to build something real.
Always look at the source. Some of them are very representative of high-performance C#, but others cheat a little. E.g. regex-redux just calls out to PCRE, although .NET 5's Regex would easily be competitive with Java as well.
It will fail, as a concept it is good, as an environment destroyer it’s good, but not as asset storage or as a transaction.
Technology powers your business, but conventional IDEs and hosting systems always separate the two. You end up with massive code projects that only have text files. These do not make any sense and are difficult to manage, debug and monitor.

So we created a whole visual #ecosystem where all your #backend needs co-exist with the business. Together, in sync, forever.

Code development? Architecture? DevOps? Deployments? All embedded in the same place, right in the browser

So join the #backendrevolution!
I believe its Adobe policy to only announce security issues if a fix is available. At least, that's how the policy was a few years back. I assume it's still the same.
And read the fine print regarding 10.1 RC: "The Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate available at ... does not APPEAR to be vulnerable." Very different than "Here's a fix."

(Snarky comment removed.)
You must have missed ngx_echo module, because it's the part that makes this exactly as described in Facebook's BigPipe blog post.

I've prepared simple proof-of-concept configuration for nginx:

http://labs.frickle.com/misc/nginx_bigpipe.conf

As you can notice, every "sub-page" is generated individually. Using presented configuration everything is chunked and flushed, so it will be sent to the client right away. Response on the client side looks like this:

http://labs.frickle.com/misc/nginx_bigpipe.output

DISCLAIMER: I don't know how Taobao is using released modules internally or if they use them in production already (but I know some portals do).
I agree on the high valuing of good character.

But I don't think Brad Feld was putting just his wife ahead of the audience-- he was putting anyone who dialed his number ahead of the audience. In the video, I believe it turned out to be his aunt calling.

If he had some wife-specific ringtone, or some other way of making it a wife-specific alarm, I'd be 100% on his side, but as it is, I still think it's inconsiderate to the audience.
It's much more fun to learn about Huffman Coding, practice it, imagine how you'd implement such an algorithm and then read this article.
Some similarities this time around:

1. iPhone leads out of the gate.

2. Apple charges a premium.

3. Apple does not license the OS for clones.

4. Google not only licenses the OS, it's completely free, as is their development kit and app store.

5. Apple lacks some infrastructure redundancy and is reliant on ATT and Foxcon, maybe others.

Some differences this time around:

1. Meta standards. There's no longer the Microsoft file formats vs the Apple file formats that locked so much of the world into Windows/Office. These open meta standards eliminate the possibility of lockin. Hence even if Android pulls ahead in market share, it won't have the lockin that Windows had.

2. Apple has fully transitioned from a computer company to an industrial design company. They just happen to specialize in consumer technology (and are not too shabby with the business tech either, thanks to BSD). Most people, consciously or subconsciously, perceive Apple this way as well. Apple owns this niche.

3. Unlike Microsoft, Google actually has a sense of design and aesthetics. Not quite at Apple's artistic level, but, crucially, intuitive, easy to use for noobs, with power-user features under the hood.

I do see Android eventually outselling iPhone simply because of its cost, openess (to handset makers, app devs, and end users), economy of scale, and Google brand.

But I think there's room in this field for both, and no lockin to prevent that. Apple will do fine as the BMW of handsets, I don't see them coming so close to death in that role as they did the last time.
No, no it does not sum up why there's no Flash on the iPhone. Thanks for playing though. Enjoy your consolation prize.
After browsing through the spec a little I can't take axod's claims seriously. He's way off the mark saying that endianness of values sent over the network doesn't matter. The fact that they are random bytes is irrelevant, they have meaning even if they are generated randomly.

If you don't understand the point of sending values over the wire in a known order then I'm sorry but I don't trust your ability to properly evaluate the rest of the spec either.

axod: I don't mean this as a personal attack but considering your strong opinions on this I'd expect you to have thought about it more diligently.
Actually Jason contacted me before DHH linked to me, fwiw.
You don't get infinite acceleration from one velocity difference. End of story.

"If you're really so confident that you're correct, I'm sure one of the "shills" would be happy to make a wager with you"

Funny; demands to make a bet seem pretty common around this whole matter. No, I'm not going to waste my time dickering over the terms of a bet with shills or true believers. I'm going to wait for this farce to fall apart.
Yeah, I put up with a lot more than I normally would because I keep getting raises. It's funny how I look for jobs with a better title offering quite a bit less than I make...Good problem to have I guess.
It took decades longer than most technologists thought for the "paperless office" to become anything close to a reality. In fact for a long while it seemed like technology was only making it possible to produce and manage more paper, not less.

I would guess that office work will grow and be around for quite a good while yet. Nothing really substitutes for having a team of people face-to-face together in one place.
Problem exists between chair and beer?
There is a web-based mobile phone: Firefox OS.
This just lines up with what we've seen in the KV space over the last 5 years. Mutating data and key-lookup are all well and good, but without a powerful query language and real index support, it's much less interesting.

Quoting the Google F1 Paper:
"Features like indexes and ad hoc query are not just nice to have, but absolute requirements for our business."

Cassandra got ahead of this with CQL. FoundationDB saw this coming and bought Akiban to add a SQL layer. But bolting SQL onto a KV store, even a really good one, isn't trivial to do. I'm not sure it ever delivered on the promise of a real query layer.

Still, I hope this is a good exit for the FDB team. The KV layer is pretty cool stuff.

Full disclosure: VoltDB engineer here.
> I wish Linux would replace dynamic libraries (especially ones referencing specific paths) with a system based on the library's hash.

Given this scheme, how would you distribute a security patch? Is each user of the library supposed to re-compile against the patched library?

Also, a program A depends on library B and library C v1.1. Library B also depends on C, but v1.2. Which gets used?

> More often than not, when I upgrade a library, I find myself having to upgrade my app’s code because so much has changed.

To me, this is the point of major version numbers. If you break clients, you increment the major version number, resulting in libfoo.so.2 and libfoo.so.3. Then, the scheme becomes much like hashes, in that newer versions won't break older clients, except you get security patches and a single copy of the library. However, the responsibility of knowing when to increment the major is left to a human, and all the error that entails.

As a sibling notes, there are distros out there that do this. (They are not my preference, for the above reasons.)
I'm referring more to the use of unsophisticated language and occasional grammar errors.
So, next time <huge company> does something wrong, someone will need to check several hundred thousand "not me" documents?
Thanks. Advice noted..
Linear Algebra Done Right, Axler. Don't learn Linear Algebra without it.
I didn't know he was from Pittsburgh... What's going on with Mt. Lebanon? First Mark Cuban, now Mason?
While you're right that Y Combinator (or, rather, companies it has sponsored) has demonstrated that minimal funding is required, there is no harm in a government trying to secure the best for its citizens. Nothing says the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, China, India, or any other nation on the planet must make it easy for an immigrant to enter and establish a business. Least of which, establish a business that requires minimal presence and that can direct its expenditures to any other country. Put another way, if you were the Minister of Immigration, would you prefer to have the cloud-based start-up with 4 employees, two of whom want to live in your country, or do you want the datacenter that has millions of $currency_units worth of equipment that can't easily be forklifted out of the country?

To address your second point, without making any pass at politics: Someone once said that states are laboratories of democracies; therefore, each state conducts its internal affairs differently. Michigan allows the formation of a Limited Liability Company with nothing more than the payment of $175 to the state and an online form (ironically, the link to that form appears broken at the moment). Texas is more expensive--$325 for a LLC or a corporation--but offers the same thing. Both states have minimal requirements for non-residents forming and operating corporations under those states' laws, so if NY doesn't suit your needs, there is "something for everyone," even when creating a business entity.
Technically, Minecraft IS the sophomore effort. Notch/Marcus worked on 'Wurm Online' for 4 years prior to releasing Minecraft.
Ah nice: onTouchStart, onTouchEnd.
I'm absolutely distrustful of any companies where an interview requires prep work. Who is woth more? That who remembers 50% of a heavy algorithms book right after reading it or that who remembers 20% of it after having used it as a display riser for the last 5 years?
We've been using Portable Allegroserve + mysql (running on SBCL on EC2) with very good results.
Ha! Excellent. Although I might like to add a ♨ in there (technically the hot springs character, but it could also be melting snow).
I really can't see how DRM is ever, ever in the consumer's interest.
According to police and the courts, he absolutely stole what the article says he did. The souvenir shop replica story has also been repeated by police and has never been disputed by the jewel's owners as far as I can tell. (I remember the police statements from the time of his initial arrest - I don't have time to hunt for them now but if you really want to you would probably have some luck at cbc.ca.)
Ahh, right. Nice. So keys never leave the phone due to magical hand waving. Got it.
> my doctors always agreed that stimulants arent necessary

Is this because it's looked down on?

Are you able to function perfectly as a normal adult? i.e. all the symptoms from the top posts are in check through habits, etc?

If so, what's your secret? Because just living is very difficult and that's WITH vyvanse+2 energy shots per day with l-tyrosine, taurine, b6, b12, b3 and at least a little l-theanine per day.
My point was that all law enforcement agents across the world are same at their core. They are very good at putting pressure on people and exercising people's bounds. So, I think, making things public, defending your rights actively and bringing a lawyer helps in any country.
Regarding the Black Lists - we have that in Russia too. They can even block you from using your bank account and it's very hard to get off that lists too.
I find that often you’re right about enjoying things like puzzles, math problems, riddles, those little 3D wooden things, crosswords. It seems like a lot of programmers enjoy those things. Except for me. I hate most of those things yet I love programming.

Programming is a creative endeavor for me, whereas puzzles seem pointless for some reason. I finished the puzzle, now what? The same goes for computer games.

With programming I often have created something that didn’t exist a few minutes prior and that is such a joy.
I suspect the puzzle point has more to do with the kind of puzzle to be solved than solving puzzles in general. Word puzzles, dexterity puzzles, progressive discovery puzzles, etc. Each of them has a very different appeal. For instance, a really quick way to annoy me is to through a word puzzle/game at me ... ( figuratively of course ...)
Not really. Most people wouldn't typically have a criminal defense lawyer in their phone unless they were accused of something in the past.
Invoking your right to an attorney basically just means the law enforcement officers have to stop interrogating you until you've either found a private lawyer, or been assigned a public defender.
I wanted to put together an API to open our front door from our phones. I spent way more time putting the phone app together than popping open a VPS, installing Django and the Django Rest Framework, and coding to handle the requests.

Django is stupidly quick to do "standard" things. And Django's "standard" extends a long way. And Django understands a lot more about "standard" than you do until you've been coding your app for a while.

Yes, Django and Python are a bit "boring" today. For those of us with a job to do rather than resumes to build, that's what we need.
TSMCs 7nm is roughly equivalent to intels 10nm, the numbers don't really mean anything (anymore) and are not comparable
Interesting that you see things that way. I think the biggest hurdle to any Goodreads competitor for me is that it would be without GR's massive amount of user-content.

My reading loop is like this:

I start a book on my kindle ; it's automatically added to my GR collection.

I highlight as I read, on my kindle ; those highlights are transferred automatically to my GR account.

I finish the book, give it a lame 5-star rating ; its status and rating updated automatically on my GR account.

I write my own notes & thoughts about the book (pen and paper style in my own journal).

I go to GR to read what others have thought about the book. There are always a couple decent commentaries (and I read a lot of somewhat obscure translated fiction, sometimes only 100 or so other readers of it).

I just don't see any other service pulling me away, no matter how slick the interface.
Interesting. "Samuru" brought it right up, but putting it in context "Samuru search engine" brought up tangential, secondary information, i.e., stories about samuru.
As others have mentioned, it depends on the sport. Something like hockey, where you need to go forward/backwards a lot, look out for 9 other players on a small ice surface and be constantly aware of your surroundings to not get leveled means tons of head movement -> not very pleasant to watch. Single player sports are better suited for this, or for specific replays of a few seconds.
Doesn't Zune Pass do that? If you live in the US it should work. For $14.99 you get music streamed, but also downloaded to your Zune, and you can keep 10 songs per month in non-DRM'd format. And SmartDJ should be able to do the automatic downloading (although I don't know how good it is).

(From Zune.net: "The songs are yours to play on up to three computers, and three Zune players and phones, for as long as your Zune Pass is valid." and "Additionally, a Zune Pass gives you 10 song credits to redeem each month. You can keep these songs forever - they become part of your permanent collection.")
I'm guessing the use of AnyObject is implicitly bridging Int and String to their non-struct types. The benchmark for an array with type Any seems to perform twice as fast as AnyObject.
I designed and built it as part of my submission to the Gopher Gala 48 hour Golang hackathon. Hope you guys like it.
Please let me know if you have any feedback.
I was fairly disturbed by the repeated pointless sacrifices of major pieces (which typically aren't even accepted: black offers its queen in exchange for nothing, and white doesn't capture it!).
Jeez. That's more than a Google (55,030 in 2014Q3 earnings) plus six Facebooks (8,348 in 2014Q3 earnings). And I have no idea what they may have been doing.
tl;dr but this reminds me a lot of "The Quest For French Fry Supremacy", a two part article on Cooking Issues.

http://www.cookingissues.com/2010/04/27/the-quest-for-french...
One, because "success" often comes with more responsibility and less choice. More people depend on you, in more ways, and you can't let them down if you want to keep your "success".

You might find it annoying to unfollow your successful acquaintances, but imagine how it feels to be on the other end, with multiple investors threatening to pull funding and kill your company when your "social media presence" is waning -- and you can't even express your frustration on Twitter because that would be company suicide.

Secondly, it gets worse because your standards of comparison change. You compare upwards to people with even more success. And, since "success" metrics are exponentially distributed, so is the gap that you feel between the people more "successful" than you.
I'd imagine the experience, even within the company, would depend on the position.
In France, they prune the apple trees into a hedge to make the fruit easier to pick, similar to what they describe in the article for the olive trees. Now that I've seen it, I don't know why all fruit growers don't do this.
That's effectively and end-run around the whole net-neutrality debate.
Obviously...Google. You should think about including (not Google) in your title.
EDIT:

Even if he wanted to, Cook doesn't have enough power at Apple, practically, to be actually in a position to do that yet.

I mean clout. He literally can't personally decide to do that (yet) and just do it.

The Apple watch is the first category or undertaking of a similar size and novelty, and has yet to be accepted or succeed. (It will.)

My comment is being misinterpreted so I've clarified above. My comment isn't about what Apple can 'afford to do' it's about what Tim Cook can 'afford to do' (politically and in terms of consequences.)
Former iOS and Android user here. Never had a "meh" by people noticing me with this phone, rather genuine interest. As far as using it is concerned, it has its quirks, but I left iOS and Android because I feel they had much of those, too. At least Blackberry's trying something different, and features such as the Hub, the advanced multitasking and the 2-day battery life are a nice change.
This name is ridiculous.

"#" is a hash, or if you insist on using American "pound".
"#" + some kind of identifier (i.e. a TAG) is a hashtag.

How is this so hard for people to understand, particularly people working in the IT industry.
I'm sure the emacs GUI runs great on your macbook, but for people who live on remove linux servers day in and day out, trust me they are using emacs in the terminal.
Sigh. Just use Firefox and NoScript. And "clear history when Firefox closes". Close Firefox on occasion. Voila, no full page ad.

The Internet will not change its business model to please you. It's you who will need to change your behavior.
You still aren't permitted to write your whole app in a real language, though, of course.
How did you improve your writing skills? I absorbed mine from reading recreational books, but I'm curious how other people did it.
While reading, I hit upon this sentence:

"Dad’s example made me feel that, if I wanted to write for a living, I had an obligation to try and do it, and I’ve been writing full-time since 1996, when my first novel did well enough to let me quit my day job as an editor at the London Review of Books."

particularly "my first novel did well enough to let me quit my day job"

... so, the money he made set him free from his day job so he could do what he was interested in. :/
Ok, I killed it and banned the site.
Are you referring to the lolcat derivative websites you guys have or is there something big going on behind the scenes?