jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is so embarrassing and disgusting. For reference, here's a list of United Internet properties to avoid:

1&1 (aka 1and1.com)
GMX
WEB.DE
InterNetX
united-domains
Sedo
mail.com
Fasthosts
affilinet
Arsys
This is the real answer. It's all the same math underneath, you essentially pay for an interface.
If you're building an app this is important to consider.

With in-app purchases apps are no longer either "free" or "paid". A lot of apps that are "free" allow you to download and install for free but you have to purchase a subscription to actually use any of the functionality of the app. Others will only let you get so far before having to in-app purchase the rest of the application.

In-app purchases have just replaced the old "lite" and "pro" versions of apps that existed a year ago. Back then every app had a free version that upsold to the paid version.

Paid apps can definitely do well, but performance will differ by category.
Agreed, though this is going to vary by country and region.

The parent displays the standard classic misunderstanding of Apple. The vast majority of people who buy Apple products don't buy Apple because they "want to be hip" or for reasons of image. Most of us left that kind of juvenile peer pressure behind in high school.

The problem is the pundits are simply unable to look beyond the surface details. It would kill them to admit that there are actual reasons to use Apple that go beyond the superficial "skin deep" shininess. But because the pundits bang that drum so often and so loudly (any that don't are dismissed out of hand as "cool-aid drinking fanboys"), other people (e.g. the parent poster) think it must be true. That (for instance) OS X is "just the same as Windows only prettier".

It almost becomes a grunge aesthetic. They reason that the non-Apple and Apple products are functionally the same (or turing equivalent, or use the same hardware (intel chips, A5) as their competitors), so that the only difference is prettiness and price tag, and on that basis they reject Apple. They're trying to show how manly they are by not being swayed by 'base emotions' and superficiality.

Personally, I think the burden of proof should be on the other side. Given that Microsoft has spent the last 15-20 years dishing out shit-soup and their marketing mostly consists of "stick with us because the next bowl won't be so bad", how in blue blazes are they still so popular?

The burden of proof shouldn't be on the Mac-heads to prove that they're not superficial and shallow, the burden of proof should be on anyone that supports the Windows eco-system to prove that they're not clinically insane! ;-)
That isn't how I read the opinion. How would you describe the claimed novelty?

From the first line of the opinion, "We granted certiorari to determine whether a process for curing synthetic rubber which includes in several of its steps the use of a mathematical formula and a programmed digital computer is patentable subject matter under 35 USC 101." Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981).

Rehnquist, who wrote the majority opinion, said it right there we are talking about "formula + computer."

Claim 1 of the patent itself reads, "1. A method of operating a rubber-molding press for precision molded compounds with the aid of a digital computer, comprising..." Diehr at Footnote 5. The formula is the Arrenius equation (everyone already did this), and then Diehr added a computer for continuous monitoring, calculating, and output (the novelty).

Diehr themselves claimed in their arguments that their novelty to is "the continuous measuring of the temperature inside the mold cavity, the feeding of this information to a digital computer which constantly recalculates the cure time, and the signaling by the computer to open the press..." Diehr at 178-179.

EDIT: You edited your previous comment to include the same line as me. It seems as though we actually agree on what was novel here.
Speaking of what the article does not say, the real monopoly in GIS is ESRI and not Google.
What tutorials got you started with rails?
If you are thinking of high detail imagery common for major cities in the US then most of that is from flights and not from satellites. Some states have Aerial imagery as a state wide coverage available to the public.

I know that Montana has these layers and many others available on the NRIS.mt.gov website as actual GIS data services which are free for people to use.
"+ OreoPoptart on April 26th, 2011 at 12:58 pm said:
JUST STOP! FIX THE GOD DAMN PSN FIRST THEN POST THIS CRAP UP GEEZ"

Heh.
I've always hated that saying. Absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence, in situations where you would expect such evidence. It's absence of proof that isn't proof of absence.
Thanks for the clarification. I was just quoting the number somebody quoted me yesterday, and he has about as many years/savvy invested into Thailand as I have in Japan.
Is it ad supported? Cause I don't see any ads, how does that bring income to you?
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.

That's not a call for order.
Baloney. First, two wrongs don’t make a right. Anyone in support of this seditious and violent behavior should be ashamed.

Second, you have it backwards. Trump IS an authoritian - if today isn’t proof of that to you then I don’t know what to say to you.

Which sadly seems to exactly be the problem.

But I’ll reiterate the facts:

- Zero election fraud.
- President Trump lying and saying fraud existing, that the election is not in fact legitimate, and encouraging a violent mob to storm the capital.
I always wondered why every OSS software project done by / blessed by Google or FB ends up having a terrible API and developer experience (think Angular, React, Go, Tensorflow, Kubernetes), while delivering great functionality (heck, I used all of these and endured the pain for it).

I was going for people scratching their own itch during their OSS-at-work time and wanting to show off - but this could very well be a better explanation.
Thanks for the links. When you said "majority" I kind of thought maybe you had an exhaustive list and had debunked at least half plus one. I've seen those and I consider the claims he is responding to to be unpersuasive.
> Still, mainstream developers make decisions based on data. So if we want them to serve our community, shouldn't we help them by giving them data on how we use their sites and apps?

Quite possibly. But there is an argument for that being voluntary rather than mandatory, even if that decision is provided via a switch in OS-or-screen-reader-level settings. But then there are questions such as:

- Should such a setting be switched on by default?

- What sort of users are likely to enable/disable it?

- If there is any correlation between level of technical skill and privacy awareness, will results be skewed towards the users with lower levels of technical knowledge?

- If a product team uses the data to solicit feedback from users who are detected to be running an assistive technology, but quote "power users" unquote have turned off that detection, again, will that feedback be representative?

Anecdotally, I will say that after working with some iOS development teams where this behaviour is natively available, cases which rely on an explicit detection of VoiceOver still seem rare. Whereas, use of features like accessibility label overrides without an explicit check are used a lot. On the other hand, it's becoming much more common to perform explicit checks for more visually-oriented accessibility features, like reduced motion or high contrast, some of which can even be carried out on the web now.
Hasn't it become clear that appeasement won't work with these people?
> I'd like to have the VA thumb drive handoff and the GA under-the-table ballot stash explained please.

I can't find any information about "the VA thumb drive handoff". Do you mean this event [0] in Wisconsin? And I assume you're referring to this non-event [1], which the Georgia Secretary of State stated in a swore affidavit did not represent an opportunity for voter fraud based on continuous security camera footage.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/17/facebook-p...

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fulton-county-georgia-no-my...
Won't Trump just pardon everyone?
I'm sorry, but WHY are you glad about that? If anything that infuriates me more. They have known about these threats for months if not years and decided to do nothing until actual violence was at their doorsteps.
An unarmed protester was gunned down by police.
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Great comment, thanks for that. I've been meaning to read some Scott McCloud for a while, but my reading list is pretty long and it never bubbles up to the top. Can you recommend any articles you've seen online that are pretty good, or any insights by McCloud you found really fascinating or counterintuitive?
Excellent - thank you.

I found this after looking at various items about orbital mechanics. Most of it I know, but I hadn't seen this piece of "news". I also searched here on HN to see if it had been submitted. I couldn't find it, I thought it was interesting, and hence I submitted it.
On the creation of the first synthetic cell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A
"that Android would make it easy, while Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users"

What would ever give you that impression? Before I went full-geek (I wasn't always this way), I considered myself a Windows power user. The first thing I ever published online (back in the nineties) was a short article titled "How To Be a Power User". It included what I thought was an exhaustive list of shortcuts that I used in my everyday computing life. I couldn't understand how other people got by using their mouse for everything. I once used my Windows PC for three weeks without a mouse, just so I could force myself to learn more keyboard shortcuts. I was in to it.

Fast forward 15 years and I'm a Mac convert. OS X contains a lot more "power user" features than most people would think. Your perception of a platform has a lot to do with familiarity, and I'd argue that the view summarized as "Apple doesn't make tools for power users" is wholly based in a lack of familiarity of their products.
It's most vendor's policy, but it usually goes out the window when reports of exploitation surface. If you're hearing about the attacks, it's real, it's bad, and there's no point to choreography anymore.
Google Analytics.

Sitemeter.

Wordpress SiteStats.

The only one I frequently check for basic, quick, stats check is Sitemeter. If I want to go in to details I will check the other two every few weeks.
The objects can be programmed to turn blue when they die. They call it the Blue Death of Screen.
How did "(cool video)" get appended to the title? Affixing the adjective "cool" to anything about North Korea is beyond my comprehension.
But, conversly, being controversial doesn't mean it's a good idea. And, while indeed different, the app store is in my opinion killing Apple because it pushes away developers, and developers are oxygen for companies like Apple.
It can be done for sure I've seen some designs for it. The 128DCR generates +5, +12 and 9V AC so pretty straight forward.

Small meanwell unit and a transformer should do the trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQE-rmo8XM for example.
The point is to start with something open ended, so the candidate can talk as much as they want on the subject, broadly, and then, based on what they say and what they don't say, I narrow in on particulars:

"Are you aware of any differences in dialect between the SQL of MySQL and the SQL of PostGres?"

It's not like they lost points for the stuff they didn't know, I simply wanted to be sure I understood the limits of their knowledge. We hired this candidate and they turned out to be great. But I hired them knowing exactly how much they knew and how much they did know.
Yeah, or dust - my C2D Macbook Pro used to peg all its cores with kernel_task at the slightest hint of work, to the point where the UI thread started hitching because it was getting preempted, and the mouse would skip around the screen. Took me a bit of research to figure out that they use kernel_task for thermal throttling (great naming, guys). Opening it up, there were mats of dust that looked like felt pads between the fans and the heatsinks. Took out the felt pads, suddenly everything was smooth as butter.
i disagree that we should make landowners "whole" in some sense, as they went into their investment knowing that the value of their investment could go down. it's not up to the rest of us to bail out wealthy landowners in that way, which creates a perverse incentive to seek government bailout for any and all risk-taking.

enact the tax gradually, say over 5 years, and the property market will adjust accordingly.
I will never look at it quite the same…
The person you replied to is being sarcastic. Their response to the quote is a also a near quote of the parent post.
38400 baud should be 38.4kbits/sec or 4800 bytes/sec no?

[edit] never mind, you're right, assuming an 8N1 configuration - 8 bit bytes, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit, and no parity bits.
> Different story with tanks though, where the extra 20% could mean the difference between a badly damaged hull and the complete destruction of both tank and crew.

This kind of additional armor is usually on the rear, which is much less protected. In fact it wouldn't make sense to put them in front of a piece of armor thick enough to survive and RPG shot by itself. So in practice this extra 20% would never change anything?
They're working on it, though: http://code.blender.org/index.php/2015/02/blender-dependency...
I do all my postings on Posterous by email, as do the rest of my team. Email posting is the main reason we switched our company blog to Posterous, actually.
You can't turn off the 'zela, it wants to be heard.
Good point, was a bit selfish on my part, I'll admit :). Good place to work, agreed.
Which part isn't true. I took it to mean they hadn't added instrumentation to do the tracking not that it isn't feasible. (Heck isn't that why Adobe bought Omniture?)

If they mean to monetize via ads then they damn well have to have adequate tracking or the advertisers won't be on board.
If I were 20 again I'd be doing the exact same shit I was doing the first time around, finishing school, drinking with my friends and trying to get laid.

I learned how to code and build UNIX systems before I went to college. So did most of the people you're going to be competing with to make any real money, so you should probably be patient, you already missed the first bus.
Ah, this reminds me of DSL (Domain Specific Language)...
I have personally loved sites which have tried to utilize the "intelligence of masses" and wikipedia being the prime example of that. Similarly Hacker News, Reddit, StackOverflow and many others which excite me the most.

1) I think I'd love a much better way of finding homes/real-estate which can derive synergy from 3rd-party apps like Google Maps as well as bring about some kind of social features more in the line of commenting we see on HN.

2) Mentioned earlier.

3) I think one can see huge opportunities in B2B niches. There seems to be a great unfilled opportunity in bringing together the businesses. The thing is that most of these businesses don't understand anything about web or Google Adwords which they might use to better market their products. The idea is to make it extremely simple for them to find other businesses which might be willing to buy the products and services.
All the nerds here only think about standards etc. Don't forget whatsapp is a company and it has to protect its market. Without controlling all the clients, whatsapp is worth a lot less.
Buy and hold is great. These days though you can build a very inexpensive diversified portfolio of ETFs (or even index mutual funds with something like a Vanguard Admiral account if you're in the US). For example, you can get a globally diversified equity portfolio using just VT (expense ratio of 0.06%) and VXUS (0.16%). So you are paying a middleman, but only around 0.1%, and you end up with far better diversification, and far fewer securities to manage.
Of course they compete. I'm sure the CEO of each respective company would like to increase their fat bonuses.

Comparing one product vs. another is a certain type of advertising. It's a type of advertising that targets a certain type of demographic, basically negative advertising. (don't know enough to know which group.)

While type a response... it occurred to me and slightly off topic. Where else do they use negative advertising? Political advertising maybe?

And there you have it... a whole another topic of discussion that would be pretty interesting.
I felt like I had to remember how to shop other places online as I’ve been making my switch to less Amazon. I’m so tired of finding little business cards in all my orders to review the products. I gave a bad review on a vacuum cleaner, and the seller has been contacting me every few weeks to refund me if I take it down. I sympathize with sellers because I know it’s hard to sell anything less than a five star product on there. The whole system feels so broken these days.
i did this with an AWS system because we never configured security keys properly -- basically got tired of whitelisting 1 IP at a time for development tasks, especially since I had issues accessing from behind corp firewalls.

client told me they got a big IO bill from AWS & i was deathly afraid it was from bots just probing the SQL server ports. thankfully it wasn't (it was from s3, they are a media heavy site with many users) but it reminded me not to just leave things accessible via internet, cuz even though it seems irrational to think someone would just probe you over & over, the fact is you have to pay an AWS bill, & attackers are just operating from their laptop.... if the amplification is right they can cost you looooots of $$ with no cost to them.
Li-Ion batteries do not contain any rare earth metals
just so you cant zoom in the text and not view the ads. IAB pricing model is going over (the technically fallible and worthless) viewable ad instead of ad impression.

just another way third parties found to take the advertiser money and not pass it down to the publishers.
Why do they need to know my location?
The firm’s real innovation began last March, though, when it announced its Simple Choice plan

This is how the rest of the world already works.

I buy an iPhone direct from Apple and then pay ~15USD per month on service with no contract.
That's not beating him, that's cheating. You can make it look like you have lots of commits but you won't actually be person with the longest streak.
and v8 has its ass handed to it vs the mozilla engine when running asm.js code... and there is pypy... and c extentions... and WHO CARES.

It is fast enough for every job I've ever thrown at it... Do you only want there to be one programming language or something.?
Avro is awesome, and I miss working with it.

At my last company, our main method of IPC was sending Avro messages over AMQP (using Apache Qpid). It was the best IPC I've worked with.
That's not really a correct analogy though.

If I take a piece of software and keep my changes to myself, it would be fair to say that I'm antisocial and selfish, but overall I have not negatively impacted anything -- I've simply refused to reciprocate the benefit I've received. That makes me a jerk, but objectively nothing bad has happened. Whereas if you were to block off your street, you're actively depriving people of a service, etc.

In this case RMS is actively refusing a feature that would be a boon for many people, because he want's to make sure it doesn't help people he dislikes. IMO, that's on the same level of companies obfuscating file formats so people can't build off their products. That's not defending freedom, it's just being a prick.
I don't think you'd even get published for presenting any result that runs counter to the feminist orthodoxy in academia. Or that any career-minded researcher would ever take the risk of being labeled as misogynist.

With that said, the result itself is interesting enough. We know intuitively that women tend to make consensus decisions, and men are more individualist. That consensus building leads to measurable results in the quality of group decisions is very interesting. I wonder how those results would hold in nonWestern cultures, where men are group-oriented already.

Keep in mind that there is a slight bit of bias built in to the study. It provides evidence women are more adept at making group decisions (confirming our intuition), but would leave us to assume that a good group decision is the best decision. What about the decision of a single leader (where we'd expect men to have an advantage)? So an interesting follow-up to this study might be to compare the quality of group versus individual decisions.
As a built-in language feature they are missing, but you can and some codebases do implement a kill channel for child goroutines.
You should do some reading into the economic theory of bundling.

While custom pricing gives the user the most freedom, it may be confusing, and you may make more money by bundling your services. The classic example of this is movie studios which, when selling movies to theaters, will bundle a hot blockbuster movie with a less popular movie. By bundling these two movies together, the studio ends up with a higher profit than if they sold both movies individually at a higher total price.

That is the important part: by selling goods as a bundle at a lower price than the sum of the prices of the goods sold separately, you can actually increase your total revenue.

Here is a good article to help you:
http://livingeconomics.org/article.asp?docId=288

You should be able to use analytics to get a sense of the utilities that users place on each item within your larger product. From there you can construct the pricing of your bundles to maximize your profit.

Good luck!
How do you know there isn't another, yet undiscovered, bug?
Things have gotten considerably better. Read that NYT article. As recently as 1994 we were debating whether sex without consent but without use of force was rape or not.
Having cables for the elevators means that they can have counterweights, which I assume greatly decreases the amount of energy needed to raise and safely lower them.