jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The numbers they display for iTunes and Amazon are completely incorrect. Having listed albums on both through Tunecore, I can tell you you get closer to 70% of the sale price through Amazon or iTunes than 9% - and when we sell MP3s/albums on Bandcamp.com, we get 100% of the sale. Good riddance to the compact disc.

That said, they're pretty much on the money as far as Rhapsody, Spotify and the like are. It's amusing that these companies even bother reporting the pennies we "earn" through them.
> I prefer to read and write software with <80 cpl, and find it difficult to read programs with longer lines. Maybe the difference between reading articles and software is to great to expect the same kind of outcome.

Maybe the characters per line is not the relevant data point. The fact that there are so many studies that give wildly varying results using this measure seems to be a strong indicator that this is the case.

They chose specific font metrics, and used a single monitor at a single distance in a single context, so they have no way of knowing whether it was the physical width, the pixels per degree, or some other factor that they were actually measuring.

Think of it this way: if they had doubled the text size, that would undoubtedly have resulted in far wider line lengths in physical terms, yet the characters per line would have remained the same. If they rigged the conditions so the physical width and characters per line were fixed in lockstep, were they measuring responses to the number of characters per line, or were they really measuring responses to physical width? There's no way of knowing with this study.

Any study like this that could usefully be applied to the web needs to take into account varying font sizes and all the other things that make the web different from print. Fixed font sizes in pt is not how the web operates.
Good point, and China has for years adopted this approach. Problem is, they are now long of a trillion dollars of US debt, and are as a result, at the mercy of their own debtor. I think the Swiss were wary of that scenario: becoming longer of European debt. If they had adopted a gradual approach, they would have been showing their spoof poker hand, days after having asserted that the peg wouldn't move. The market would have sold billions more euros to them which they didn't want.
Here's a list of opensource bits Apple uses: https://www.apple.com/opensource/

Some BSD stuff, some stuff associated more with Linux, some random stuff. They of course have also supported a few of the projects.
This is not really a 'high school rule' but I am almost certain that in a standardized test like the SAT you should round up for such a question, and not round down to a number that doesn't satisfy the question, since that would just be logically wrong and fail to correctly answer the question.

This was the kind of tricky question that would often annoy me in high school or college tests since teachers and professors were not always good at catching such ambiguity and resolving it in the most logical way. Standardized tests are usually pretty good about this.
Your comment contributes practically nothing, insider trading exists in every market, bitcoin is no different in that regard.
I think Andy Gavin already wrote up quite a lot about those details, here: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
the time when we realise mouse would have done awesome job...
You have to appreciate the impact that Piketty has made on economics. It's one year later and columnists and academics are writing about the blog post of students that have minor quibbles with his data or conclusions.
Please: GoldenEye and MarioKart!
Seems like that scheme doesn't necessarily solve z-fighting, unless your method also split overlapping polygons something akin to Newells algorithm.

>>I'll leave the matter of weaving the foreground characters -- Crash himself and the other creatures -- into the pre-sorted background for another day.

Please do \drool
Like Super Smash Bros, man I spent hours on the N64 version!
You are right, my times are apparently somewhat dated. HHVM 3.6 actually gives me 1.88 seconds with costs of 15.

Good thing you made me re-measure :) That makes 13 my new bcrypt default.
as an aside, for hackers who roof, that's a GREAT nail gun.
Yes, we've re-defined domestic nation law constantly since the Marshall trilogy in the early 1800s.

You're right. There's no way it could work that way. There'd have to be a bunch of rules to limit it and be a benefit for the states, too. Which there are, but the newspaper story only carried the introduction segment. I'd wait to see the full thing. :-)
Which data centers?
The overall feel of the sequence is a mixed bag. On the plus side, kneath offers a workaround (filtering + APIs), apologizes for initially misunderstanding which feature the customer was talking about, and doesn't promise miracles. On the minus side, the "hard time believing" and "sort of heartbreaking" lines don't sit so well.

I doubt kneath was trying to belittle his customer--which reinforces your point that customer support is hard. My original question should have been, "Why this particular title?" Was the poster holding this up as an example of perfect support, or mocking it as an example of terrible support? In reality, it was neither.
Reminded me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/686/ Which just made me sad.
So.. we should just think about doing our work and not actually do it. Because imagining, and not reaching the finished product, is the most fun? Uh.. right.

I like the implementation in his house, but it doesn't apply to business or creating things. In some ways, what he's done is created something by creating nothing - but very rarely does that occur elsewhere.
it's a website that generates apps for small business and big groups. Apply for a beta key in the registration, and there are floating clouds that follow you explaining how everything works and how to get your app into the app store.
I agree, but for entirely different reasons. Android will win for one reason alone: China.

There are 900 million people with cell phones in China. It is currently and will continue to be the biggest cell phone market on the planet. However, the market's fragmented to little bits; shanzai phone here, nokia there, motorola sprinkled in between. But there are two driving forces common to all of the successful phones in China.

1) Price
2) Adaptation to local needs

Shanzai (unbranded local phones) came out and took massive market share by having an almost immediate feedback loop with which to respond to customer demand. Want two sim chips? You got it. Want a phone so loud it turns into a boom box? We can do that. Can you imagine Steve Jobs making these concessions?

MediaTek is cranking out Android capable SoC that bring the price of a smartphone down to $150 - unsubsidized. This is a price level that allows Android to go Shanzai - a very scary proposition for any large handset player. What now separates these 'low end' phones from the high end? They're not perfectly designed by Jonathan Ive, they're not super intuitive, they're not 4g, but they're good enough for China. Remember how Flip came out and just decimated traditional video recorders? It was good enough. MediaTek's $150 android phones are good enough.

If you really want to put the nail in the coffin, realize that if they're good enough for China, they're probably good enough for Africa, for South America, and beyond. The iPhone might retain the high end crown, but Android will undoubtedly become the dominant global smartphone platform.
> Instead of doing proper A/B testing

I disagree. It is not easy, if not impossible, to go from ugly to beautiful, with A/B tests. A/B tests can make judgments on things, but they aren't going to make it much more beautiful. Making it more beautiful, and doing A/B tests, seems like the best approach.
You know, i hear stuff like this a lot. Mostly on reddit and sometimes on here. But Ive never experienced anything like this at all, nor am i aware of anyone i know experiencing anything like that so i just choose to forget about. I still smile at kids in the street and use my camera phone in public and trust people not to be complete idiots, works for me :)
That's a cop-out. You really have to define "everybody."

I know a guy who deployed a Java application on servers with 64MB of memory, and he did it back before the JIT compiler was any good. It was performant and got the job done. He's not unique: lots of performant Java applications were built on hardware that was tiny compared to today's hardware. But for some reasonable meaning of "everybody," everybody writes horrible bloated Java code that requires costly hardware to run.

I've used simple, practical XML web services -- in fact, we have several running at work, and when adding or changing functionality, dealing with the XML aspect is a rounding error compared to implementing the application logic. But for some reasonable meaning of "every," everybody writing enterprise XML web services creates overengineered, overcomplex, finicky interfaces that require ongoing error-prone tweaking of DOM or SAX code.

Sometimes when everybody's getting it wrong, that just means "it" has proved irresistible to stupid people and PHBs. It doesn't mean a sensible, tasteful engineer won't be able to use it correctly. Ditching a technology because stupid people love to misuse it may be a good fashion choice, and it may have a good way to influence hiring if you don't have more direct influence, but there's no engineering justification for it.

And don't forget that for some reasonable meaning of "everybody," everybody who has tried Lisp programming has become horribly lost and failed to accomplish anything with it. (This may be less true since Lisp is rarely taught in colleges nowadays, but it was true at some point in time.)
I knew about this one but we are looking for cpu/hour service.

It seems that linode only have monthly plans!
My bad. When I first watched that video, I thought I specifically remembered Martin talking about the community in an inclusive way. So he's a bad example.

Regardless, I still stand by the original point: I wouldn't make such sweeping generalizations about the ignorance of an entire community of people.
My homelab (and VMs) have been on Jessie for some time now - systemd is the default and I really like it. It solves a lot of issues

Before systemd::

* is it checkconfig, configtest, etc to test this service config?

* Why the are you storing logs in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and your own logs?!

New features::

* Dependancies, systemd handles these nicely.

* Different types of services, from simple to one-shot (which is where your startup scripts are meant to go! The devs have thought of this!)

* We can do away with GRUB menus if you only have one OS (systemctl set-default rescue.target) - you can also set it in your boot parameters.

* journalctl - well, at least it's all going to one place now....
Spent 30 minutes scrolling to the side following the trail that promised infinite treasures. After a endless track following footprints through the whitespace desert, behold, an oasis of poetry and song. It was like Columbus landing in the new world.
Hrm. I guess I'm just strange then. I always read footnotes as soon as I run into them.
Thanks! But the darn "buffering" skipped over some of the good parts...
Thanks for the kind words Jon. Didn't expect to see you around on HN. :)
Let's not be snobby about ads. Relevant ads actually help people. I l-l-l-like the ads on google. There I said it.

Why was that so difficult? Simply because my opinion of ads is colored by mass marketed ones that are not relevant the vast majority of the time. I see them, more or less by accident, trapped in a passive moment.

Ads of the future will seem more like helpful suggestions as I go about my day. Look at Kayak. It's essentially nothing but a marketing tool and I love it.
So do I, and it's a pain. some of my CSS files feel bloated and unnecessarily big, but it's an even bigger pain to go through the whole codebase and check everything out by hand.

It's a problem and if there's a solution out there it would make me very happy.
Would you be up for an email/AIM chat about this?
What your said is closer to what it really is.
If it could be employed - it is much better than nothing. So if the immune system is somewhat functioning it may be enough. And with the amount of garlic eaten - the LD50 of the stuff will be insanely high.

And the antibiotic properties of garlic are wildly known.
Define 'some'...

You could simply buy them, take your wallet offline (store it on a couple of USB sticks and check on them periodically to make sure they're all still readable).

Buying bitcoin is not an investment, it's mostly a gamble.
I saw that, but using polyfills for layout give me pause.
I don't get the hate, I think it's a great idea. It's completely opt-in and both sides win.
Interest rates are low because inflation is low and central banks are irrationally terrified of even mild deflation, fearing some sort of hypothetical deflationary spiral (despite a complete lack of precedent). And since the rate of technological progress is increasing, and technological progress creates deflationary pressure, they have to work extra hard to keep up.

Tell me, when was the last time you stopped buying milk because you noticed housing prices coming down? Or stopped buying cars because you notice that coffee is getting cheaper? Hell, when was the last time you stopped buying coffee when you noticed coffee getting cheaper?

We really need to start challenging the idea that mild inflation is the only acceptable monetary policy. At the very least, when considering the scariness of some degree of deflation, we should use an inflation metric that excludes consumables (as proven in repeated rounds of econometric studies that consumable items have no decrease in purchasing rates during downward pricing trends, and in fact have statistically significant increases in purchase rates).
Yeah talent has been massive for us as well. Probably the single biggest reason we are where we are.
As a kid I made "ant poison" by mixing various household chemicals and water in a gallon jug. Then I'd pour it on ants. Sure enough, they died. Mostly by drowning, but still. It worked.

I wouldn't be comfortable buying a pesticide based on that research, however.
I for one look forward to the erosion of the unholy axis of massive tech monopolies and hall monitor journalists that we've seen rise in the past few years as the latter begin to overreach and demand the cancellation of Silicon Valley darlings like Scott. With Trump out of the picture tech figures will realize that the burden (both financial and psychological) of complying to ever-ratcheting demands of performative wokeness is not worth bearing.
It almost reads like an article from The Onion.
Actually, it's probably easier to get two pair of 3D glasses and then swap the left eye of one with the right eye of the other. No trimming needed.

(Edit: come to think of it, there may be some trimming needed if the left and right glasses aren't the same shape but in that case flipping them over would probably work unless they are curved)
Seems like a similar approach as SparkleShare [1], albeit less/not focused on UI (and using XMPP for notifications to update the repository).

1: http://www.sparkleshare.org/
I suspect a series of "Thomas Friedman, 12 years ago" looks back would generate a lot of yuks. Friedman offers a lot of goofy predictions, phrasings, and oversimplifications with an easy, unearned confidence.

But some of this is the fault of the form: NYT op-ed columnists have to spit out something at least mildly discussion-worthy and topical, fitting neatly into 800 words, with an authoritative tone befitting the Gray Lady, like clockwork multiple times a week. So all the columns can't be gems, or even fully-baked.

(We're now spoiled by blogs, which can vary in frequency, length, and tone with the topic matter, and speculate and self-correct via rapid iteration with readers and other correspondents.)

To Friedman's credit, he reported Positively-You's failure – despite the boost of NYT coverage – almost exactly a year later:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/opinion/foreign-affairs-sa...

Though, the lessons he draws from the failure are a mixed bag, and mostly boil down to: they couldn't afford advertising once their free media wore off.
Also, stop by the Tech Brewery for Beer:30 (every) Friday at 4:30 pm - http://techbrewery.org

And in May, don't miss http://leanstartupmi.com with Eric Ries, Dan Martell, Brant Cooper, and a bunch of Valley/Michigan investors and founders (including 2 YC companies) presenting. It's going to rock!
Oh thanks for this, what a great article, I couldn't stop laughing reading it. The "graphs" part is the funniest part (and so true).
> Over 1000 sworn affidavits from witnesses.

The number of affidavits is a rather meaningless number. The quality of the affidavits is much more important, and those have been found much less impressive by courts.

> What exactly is the point of voting in your state running legit by the book fraud proof elections, if another state isn't going to verify signatures to make sure there are no fraudulent ballots?

If that other state's laws don't allow signature matching or make it optional, then that's their prerogative; states choose how to run their elections, after all.

It doesn't mean you have to be happy with their choice, by any means, but it's still their choice.

> Even if your legitimate election state is won, the unsecure election state will nullify your state with their electoral count.

How do electoral votes from one state "nullify" electoral votes from another? One state's electoral votes will get counted regardless of what other states do.

> Because the Supreme Court said it doesn't matter.

The US Constitution says states get to choose how their elections are run. If one state doesn't like how another state runs their election? Too bad.
> That is sufficient for the government's job of taxing income.

But not of fighting money laundering. If all income is anonymous, it'd be relatively easy to set up a fake digital-only product and buy yourself lots of it.
No support for commodities, bonds, or currencies. How is this a Bloomberg terminal replacement? If you’re just looking for stock screeners, there’s already a hundred better options.
The only issue I've ever had is the login auth email can take 20 minutes to arrive at fastmail. This seems to have gotten better lately.

What a great service!!
Not surprisingly, he put his finger right on the weird shift in tone at Class X.
I read about Taler a few years back, and I'm excited to see that it is still under development.

In my opinion, for those of us who aren't anti-government, Taler represents an ethical future of digital spending:

It is interoperable, so unlike our current Visa situation, the free market should be able to bid down payment fees to a fair rate. It's insane to me that Visa and Mastercard have basically positioned themselves as exclusive middlemen on the vast majority of digital transactions, in an age when so much commerce necessarily is digital.

It offers privacy that Visa / PayPal / etc cannot.

It makes income traceable in a way that bitcoin does not, to facilitate lawful taxation.

It is inherently scalable in a way that bitcoin arguably is not (bitcoin has offchain scaling mechanisms, sure, but if you're being honest it's a stretch)

It's not introducing a new currency or coin that will be endlessly speculated on, unlike most every crypto solution out there (even stablecoins rely on eth or others for transaction fees)
He and his team (mostly composed of scientists, not economists) provide very interesting insights on global warming/energy transition. Unlike others, they provide the big picture of the situation and are not trying to hide their sources.

I'm surprised to see one of his presentation on HN, where the opposite opinion reign I think. As an example, they are really "bearish" on the Green New Deal, as it will simply not be enough to address the challenge ahead of us.
Curious to see people' reaction.
I think the implicit desire of the parent is for the environment to handle data conversions for you.

Unix shell is an unstructured text environment. Data loses all semantic context the moment it's pushed to stdout, and thus every program that wants to interact with it needs to have its own, half-baked, buggy parser included. This is wasteful and a source of many maintenance and security problems.
They really do. And it goes in tangents and details I wouldn't have expected. Their support is great.
I didn't read the above comment as dismissing the NSA's history with backdoors. It generalizes by referring to 'state actors'. The NSA is not mentioned at all.

Perhaps it was edited?
I think the idea is to add some sort of flair, like you would in real life. For example, people wear unusual socks, and you'd notice them in real life, but in a video call you'll never see someone's socks. So the video call takes away that dimension of being alive.

I'm not sure GIFs are the answer, but I think that's what the attempt is.
I have two words, “Thank you Jesus”
I've tried it too, although I've said to donate to a charity of their choice in my name. In retrospect, I wonder if making them choose made them more or less likely to give...
Microsoft Missed Mobile in that they didn't make anything compelling enough that people wanted to buy. Google and Apple did.
Why is it that when you move white people to somewhere hot and sunny they become rapid bible-bashers?

Is it something to do with a vitamin D overdose?
Definition: Terrorism is the creation of fear in a population intended to achieve a political end.

What does it take to create fear? Certainly not successful terrorist attacks. Failed ones would work perfectly well too, as evidenced by the underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc.

Things as minor as prank phone calls, etc., will still strike fear into the hearts of the target population.

So unless you can tell me that it's possible to stop failed attacks and prank phone calls, you must agree that terrorism cannot ever be stopped.
Unless it contains auto-magical admin interface (like Django's ORM), why would you ever use it over battle-tested SQLAlchemy?
It's not the tears. I could tear up as well. It's the disbelief that anyone would want to harm you, even though they never met you, just because you belong to a group (eg nation) they're opposed to.

It was strange to me, since I grew up knowing there are people who never met me who'd harm me given the chance. It was actually happening pretty close by, from time to time. I didn't realize, until then, that there are people who don't grow up with the same notion.

Again, I'm not singling out Americans at all. I actually seem to have a higher opinion of America & Americans than most of my fellow New Yorkers..
> It's like how the anti-religioun crowd tends to pick on Christianity, instead of one of the actually vicious religions that will kill them.

This would perhaps be a reasonable argument if they _never_ picked on Islam (I assume that's what you were referring to). This would indicate some actual fear of reprisals. However, this isn't actually the case. Dawkins, Hitchens, Myers, and most other figures have all 'picked on' Islam at one time or another.

PZ Myers:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/11/allah_does_not_ex...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/islam_hates_women...

Dawkins:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1959627-richard-dawkins-apostasy-in-...

Hitchens:
http://sacredcanons.com/islam-and-atheism/christopher-hitche...

The first comment on the Hitchen's link shows some of the issues inherent when you criticize a minority religion (with respect to audience), however. Namely, you get the nasty anti-(legal)-immigrant crowd thinking you support them, or at least provide ammunition for them (conveniently ignoring arguments against their own beliefs).

Granted, they haven't picked on the Aztecs to my knowledge. They might be afraid of them.

My apologies for going OT.