skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has never done a paid upgrade because I started my life as an indie on iOS, could someone explain to me why it's better than a subscription? Are users just significantly more likely to buy an upgrade than to just subscribe?

I'm currently experimenting with subscriptions on iPhone and I think it at least has potential. To be fair, my conversions aren't where I'd like them to be yet, but I do think there is potential. Many of my competitors are also using subscriptions, and they seem to be doing pretty well.

EDIT: It also allows you to do trials, as long the free version is useful enough on it's own you can happily give out trials of all the premium features.
I applaud the attempt, but this sounds much more annoying than regular 2FA. If it doesn't work, you'll have no idea why.

With regular 2FA it didn't work because you typoed the code, and it's easy to fix that.

Personally I don't find 2FA annoying at all. Most sites just have long-lived cookies so you only have to do 2FA on a new computer, or once every few months.

AWS is the exception which requires you to 2FA every time you login, which is definitely annoying. They should fix that.
His core "argument" is that it's fishy that a device can appear that has 16x the storage space. That is precisely what they said, so this really isn't open to debate. But that device will be unfathomably expensive. We all know it will be. It's meant for extraordinarily rich tech companies that need hyper-density, and has positively nothing to do with the consumer market.
Congrats octopart. You guys found a niche, offered an excellent service and stuck by your mission (despite naysayers).

Also, good seeing people make money off the new electronics revolution.
Congrats octopart. You guys found a niche, offered and excellent service and stuck by your mission (despite naysayers).

Also, good seeing people make money off the new electronics revolution.
Why not just import the implicit Java-Scala list conversions?
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They need to integrate more. Google Maps is too conservative with its routing, it tends to stick to highways if at all possible. Waze is far more aggressive, it uses surface roads and side streets to get you out of traffic and to your destination faster, usually 10-15 minutes faster than Google Maps does on my commute home.
Is there a way to have docs.google.com serve up plain text?
Let me guess, the documentation is in hex for no apparent reason.
Cross-references are all custom. License is MIT. [1] Porting would likely be a huge PITA.

[1]: http://github.com/softcover/softcover
The most obvious is that they have multiple cores, and it's easy to completely disable a non functional one.

Now can Intel be more granular than the core level, like running a core with some defect ALU, I really don't know.

What's publicly known from the binning process is that it involves disabling core, reducing total cache size, and finding the maximum working frequency.

The bottom line is that it requires more effort to deal with defects in complex logic, for DRAM they would reduce the total memory size.
A "slap" is too strong of a word. People have been aware that we've continued to evolve since the paleo era and some of us have better ability to digest grains and dairy than others. A popular diet right now is the Whole 30, which is similar to paleo diets but allows tubers. This research isn't some M. Night Shyamalan twist that has thrown everyone off. It's really up to the individual to listen to their body and do some research and figure out what works best for them.
Why do the testes of most mammals hang outside their bodies?
As bad as J2ME was, phone vendors were paying for it. And then they stopped paying. So in some sense it is literally true that iOS and Android destroyed the J2ME market. But blaming your competitor for out-competing you is a loser's excuse.
Right now this is in beta and we are testing this with 10 customers every week, where we make a new pair for them. In future we want to have this information available for ready to wear shoes as well and for everyone. Some people want to have all the information in just single email so we're learning from our experience and will launch what can work best for everyone.

We'll definitely look into vegan option soon. Thank you!
There's are a lot of things to cringe about in this story, but bail isn't one of them. The article says so-and-so was held in jail because he couldn't pay bail, but that's not really accurate. The guy is held because he was arrested. Bail is an out you get until the trail if you can convince the judge you're gonna show up for the trial.

IMO there are two real problems with the story about the "main character". First, the DA comes to the judge with a case against a guy charged with possessing a straw. The judge should have thrown it out and said "come back when you have evidence of a crime".

Second, we have the means to protect inmates from each other. There's no reason for a three week stay to mean a busted up face. Jail should be boring, but safe, and the state should be liable for every rape or assault that happens inside.
JRuby will do the first and part of the second
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I feel like sharing google docs links is the new emailing a Word document. I'm sure loading a static HTML page faster for the features needed.
Hi, It's still a little confusing. Maybe you want to take a look at http://www.useronboard.com/how-slack-onboards-new-users/
Yesterday I had PG's Startup School 08 video[1] on the background and he spoke about them just after being a cockroach and how companies succeed not just by not being evil but by being good.

Really happy for them. Great team.

[1]https://youtu.be/q7K0vRUKXKc?t=891
Looks like there is. Given

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kBx98ulj5V5M9Zdeamy7v6of...

change "preview" to "export?format=txt":

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kBx98ulj5V5M9Zdeamy7v6of...
The second approach is likely preferable - with the first approach, FOSS Stalwarts will still complain that there's non-free software in the system.
No one is suggesting to "lock them up." They just don't get sympathy from me in cases like this, especially when they want to speak at a conference and interact with other professionals.
Probably that Scala is extremely verbose and boiler platey compared to Haskell as soon as you start playing with higher kinds.

And when you use just regular Scala syntax, it's just pretty ugly code overall IMO (and one of the slowest compilers of the 21st century too).
From the article, in the section titled "History":

"Tropical diseases have been affecting people in the American South as long as humans have been living there. In 2003, archaeologists discovered that mummified remains in the Rio Grande Valley from more than 1,000 years ago showed signs of Chagas disease. Transatlantic trade brought the mosquito Aedes aegypti over from Africa, and it thrived in the long, humid summers south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Human travelers brought pathogens that could be transmitted by imported and native mosquitoes. As a result, European settlers in North America were cut down by repeated epidemics of malaria, yellow fever, and dengue."

That's why the article title carefully says "resurgence," not implying that this is anything we haven't seen before. This will be a challenge for medical personnel and public health personnel in the United States, especially for people trained farther north in the Temperate Zone like where I live, but information can travel even faster than disease vectors, and I expect the long-term trend of age-adjust all-cause mortality, including infectious disease mortality, dropping over time[1] to continue.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2014/018.pdf
Why not just bootstrap your way to your first 1~10 million dollars and then be in a much more dominant position when it comes to trading cash for equity?

...because that's actually rather difficult.
No question about it, but I don't know of a clearer criterion. Any suggestions?
Thanks for pointing that out. I should have written "If you want to keep your job then never upset your (future) employer."
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I personally would love women (or anyone) to work if they want to.

Unfortunately, exploitative situations are common in the shoe industry in developing countries and some of the most vulnerable people end up working for too little, doing work that can be physically harmful to them, and not having the option to quit. That's the kind of situation I was talking about. We're in a position to give people new options, like working for a decent wage and being able to take time off if they need to.
Anyone else notice his hostile tone in the copyright/license text.

Some of this sort of belongs on Wikipedia.
The problem with your remark is the implicit way that you want to make sure no men get left out. De facto alienating women is fine. It sounds like "girls" aren't really people in your eyes.
What I don't understand is why the Paleo diet doesn't include a mandatory fasting period. Because lord knows our cave-dwelling ancestors were not getting three full meals a day. Intermittent fasting is also known to improve longevity.
Well the thing is you're analyzing in a way that's both in-depth and shallow at the same time. It doesn't matter that they have 'excellent structure' unless you care about actual wafer costs. Just use diamond prices and dimensions.
I would be interested to know how they made the call to sell men's shoes instead of women's first. Not that I think it's a bad approach, I am just curious because I assumed this would be for women.

The shoes look really nicely crafted and it seems like a great cross-cultural thing. The black Chappals look fantastic. Kudos.
One of the companies I've admired most through the years. Congrats!
As explained in the article, this is different to combining exposures, which is what conventional HDR does too. The important thing to consider here is how does this scheme affect the SNR of the sensor. This scheme encourages keeping essentially maximum possible sensitivity (ISO), but this "modulo sensor" circuit may introduce some additional noise.
One of the most important factors in eliminating mosquito vectors in the 40s & 50s was absolutely rampant use of DDT. It remains the most cost effective insect killer. Perhaps soon its use in certain areas will be reconsidered.
Sexism is a Thing
Sexism is a thing. Probably always was a thing. History is a plethora. There was a time when women could not participate in public life. They were confined to a "domestic sphere"--given away for marriage, responsible for rearing children and managing the house. Forget about voting or having a career. Forget about walking any path other than the one proscribed.

There were also the times when rape was a fact of life, like during every war ever, including the conflicts between "civilized" peoples during WWI and II.

It's all still there today in different forms. At the extreme end fraternity culture which objectifies women so totally we need to have national conversation about how rape is bad.

But there are also many subtle currents in tech that lead to an exclusionary environment. She's not invited to the bar with the guys. She's not welcome in the testosterone atmosphere of the game room (someone make another balls joke). She must deal with a number of socially awkward people who have trouble interacting with those who are different. And finally scepticism about her hacking skills. I personally participate in "boy's club" activities. I personally am awkward. I personally have some kind of bias where I expect less from female coders until proven wrong. I see these subtle currents in my own actions and experience.

And I'm not even going to get into the seething hatred outspoken women often face in the form of online bullying and death threats.

"Women need to stop whining about sexism," is a totally callous response which ignores the ways in which women are made to feel as outsiders. You know how black people faced all this prejudice in the 60's and yet some are still virulently homophobic today? I think it's kind of like that with tech where people who used to be unpopular nerds don't know how to treat the minority in their own midst with respect and acceptance.
Again, what you are saying is the equivalent of "if you don't want your sink to overflow, make sure less is coming in than is coming out". It says nothing of value.

If you just blindly go into a caloric deficit, without taking into account any of the hormones, your body might not burn what you want (say, for example, muscles). It will also fight you at every occasions and slow down your metabolism, meaning you'll have to be even more in deficit and feel like crap.
As bad as J2ME was, phone vendors were paying for it.

True, but it could have been a lot more successful.
> "The purpose is to point out that people sharing information about how they think about things is a valid a way of influencing behavior. You are simply wrong to dismiss that."

I agree that people sharing information about how they think about things may INFLUENCE behavior. In your previous comment you used the term "cause." These are very different words, especially when we are talking about science. It's not clear what you think I dismissed.

> "inappropriate to dismiss phenomena just because you don't have a good way to understand them."

I never suggested that we dismiss phenomena. If you read my original comment, I agreed with the authors general premise but I offered an alternative explanation: "This phenomenon is better described by the concept of immediacy of reinforcement. As one decreases the delay to reinforcement, the strength of behavior maintained by that reinforcer increases."

Thus, I'm not sure what your point is.
I agree. We already have projects like http://test-load-balancer.github.io but I have a feeling I will see five more posts on he in the next year about re-inventing this wheel and yet not see a single contribution to existing solutions like tlb.

It must be a little depressing to build a really useful product you know many people need, give it away only hoping people will use it and be happy, then find out everyone would rather build their own.

But we do like to build things, it is in our nature. Plus, what looks better on your resume:
1) I migrated my teams test suite to using test load balancer in two days, saving hours every test run.
2) I contributed improvements to the open source test load balancer project.
3) I designed and implemented my own distributed test load balancing tool!
I'm not familiar with those cameras. But if they're using a conventional sensor, this technique yields qualitatively different results.
I've had the understanding that subscription isn't an option for most types of apps. Auto-renewing subscriptions are only allowed for content or services. And non-renewing subscriptions are pretty narrow in scope as well. What type of subscriptions are you selling and for what type of features?

Here is Apple's guidance document:
https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/In-App-Purchase-...
This has been the modus operandi of many unix sysadmins for custom router/firewall setups. I did my first setup like this in 1999(?) for a museum office's router/firewall based on FreeBSD:

* standard install, strip down kernel to bare minimum, configure everything

* mount everything read only (/var memory backed)

* set kern.securelevel to 3 (to disallow raw writes to disks, modifications to the firewall or un-/loading of kernel modules)

* ignore the on-site admin when he begs for ssh access (because you of course disabled sshd)

The system was first rebooted in, IIRC, 2004 when I had to change the ppp-config after they changed providers.

Overall costs: about $100 for old hardware and about 1h of my time.
Actually putStrLn "" is enough, since it prints a newline after the string :-)
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New Human Trial Undermines the Carbohydrate-Insulin Hypothesis of Obesity
Planning Poker plugin for Google Hangouts for remote developer teams
Yes. The market is full of uninterested, uncaring, 9 to 5ers. The bar is really really low. Just show up with some excitement and a "can ship" attitude and you will be snapped up in no time.
Moon+ reader has made my phone my ebook reader.

I really wish something would replace PDFs that was much more ereader/phone friendly so I could read technical books on my phone as well. I have tried many PDF reader and the format is just too cumbersome for mobile. (Yeah, I get that is my opinion.)
Test Load Balancer
Not a user of Octopart, but a fan of them and their story ... congrats to them!
Previous work:

• http://www.nomyx.net/ as mentioned in another comment by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10057433 is a Haskell-based software implementation.

• In a previous HN submission of Nomic, talked about organising one over Github https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890109 and some people played it that way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890944 though the repo has since disappeared…

Architecture idea:

Node.js game server with repo on github. When someone sends it a PR, players can post +1 or -1 to vote, with some threshold that makes it pass or fail. If the vote fails, the PR is rejected. If it passes, the server merges the PR, serialises the game state, reloads the program, loads the saved game state, and continues.
Sure, that's not unsurprising. Information symmetries are fundamental to how you distinguish between states -- so much so that you could probably just define information to be the manifestation of observational asymmetries.
Should you consider a chaotic architecture?
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Lawrence Lessig is running for President to do this and then quit
The Database of the Dead – Are You in It?
Bought a pair of black loafers from Markhor during the Kickstarter campaign, and they are both elegant and comfortable. Bought another pair shortly thereafter, and I've got my eye on the chappals.

Best of luck to you guys!
This protects you from nothing. It actually makes it LESS secure. Because you now have to enable JavaScript.

The service provider can still decode the info by MitM'ing.

If you are using Google Fiber, for example, your service provider can do whatever they want anyway – they control your browser, they are a CA and they are your ISP.

If not: As we’ve seen with CINNIC, MitM'ing is trivial because CAs give out root certificates far too often, far too easily
We started Markhor with a small group of craftsmen in our village. At that time (early 2012) they were making just men handcrafted shoes. So it was natural to start with just men shoes and master that before we add new products. In addition to me being CEO, 4 of our 7 team members are women - so we also feel left out. :)

But the good news is we have been working on our women collection for few months now and will be launching them very soon.
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This is a terrible idea, given the existing use of a tilde at the end of a sentence to indicate general positive sentiment:

"I loved the present! Thank you~~"
What you've just explained is that some options are very much preferable to others. What you haven't explained is how preferences means that less preferred options cease to be options at all.

By all means, call this a "simplistic lens", but please don't try to avoid that you have options.
if you go the ready-made angle, it would still be cool to see the step-by-step story for the shoes, even if it's months old.
I feel like OpenBSD-based Firewall price is ridiculous compared with FreeBSD-based (i.e. pfSense). Honestly, what make OpenBSD-based fw more expensive like that? Or am I missing something?
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Im not sure I would call Erlang obscure any more, it has stories that end up on the front page often, with plenty of comments, is being used at a fair number of companies now.

Sure it is not as well known as languages like Java, C, and Python, but there is only a dozen or languages at that point.

Personally (and this is certainly not an absolute way to call this), I would say a language like Erlang and Haskell are fringe languages, where as languages like IO and Self are obscure.
Kinda pathetic though, isn't it? A group of people devote their lives to a product, working round-the-clock for years, and then reap (relatively) tiny rewards compared to the money man.
Anecdotes aside, steak won't spike your insulin.
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This is similar to what I have found in poker. The tougher the game, the more steps that the opponents take.

What cards do I have (1S), what does my opponent have (2S), what does my opponent think that I have (3S), and what do I think that my opponent thinks that I have (4S). I have found that beyond 4S, the analysis really loses its value even in the toughest games.

Paradoxically, I have found these tools are a detriment to easier games because the game is dominated by 1S and 2S thinkers and a 4S analysis often results in the wrong conclusion.
This is really interesting and relevant to what my startup is doing. For each brand page, we build a optimized forward-looking schedule that tells you when to post and what type of content. Maybe we should build a slack bot :)

http://www.meetcortex.com/
Running this on our AWS sandbox ec2 instance after snapshotting it:

freebsd-update fetch install && freebsd-update -r 10.2-RELEASE upgrade

EDIT: Updates to 10.1-RELASE-p17 (currently) before upgrading
I applied but I haven't received a response... Is there anything I should do to make my application stand out?
It's called humor. You should get some.
>> I don't understand how anyone can prefer reading on a phone or kindle

Well my phone (Galaxy Note 4, 5.7") is also my ebook reader. I can easily read my favourite books and comics while on the bus.

Kindle is fine, but I don't like to bring lots of gadgets while travelling.

Sure, some folks still prefer the good, old physical books, and so do I, when at home.