skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically cards with extra features either (at the low end) charge a monthly fee or (at the higher end) have minimum requirements such as a minimum net worth for the holder or a minimum monthly or annual spend through it. Lower end would normally be a small fee and fairly basic bonus features (travel insurance, gadget insurance, airport lounges) while I'd expect any half-decent concierge service to be aimed at attracting richer customers. The minimum worth/spend requirements basically mean the extra services offered are there to attract people who will give the card creators more % by spending more money, giving them enough profit to offer free services.
>I also have a pet theory that Twitter's problems with epic shitstorms/political flamewars stems from the fact that you have people arguing politics/economics/important things with each other in 140 chars or less

I'm pretty sure those arguments and "shit-storms" are occurring everywhere there is written text on the internet, regardless of character limitations.
Embedded rendering of local HTML doesn't need security updates, so that's not a major problem. You can leave it alone while you update the actual browser.
I just unfollow everybody by default on FB, and I can highly recommend this. (Basically I just use FB to find interesting events, and see where everybody is going).
Reallyyyy nice! Beautiful colors, simple interface. Looks a lot like Rap Genius, but for single-purpose functionality.

I think there was something like this a long time back that allowed you to share notes with other people (so two people could go to the same site and see all the notes put on there).

The functionality is great, what do you think is the use case for this?

Also: you're doing yourself a disservice by launching on ShowHN this way :-(
Posts that make it to the front page of ShowHN usually have a ton of karma or have been accounts since a long long time.
Vcore is hyperthread of unknown CPU. So in reality 1000 vcores is 500 real cores. - All the overheads it's more like 450 given the low utilization until dataset loads to keep it at 10 sec you would need 90 real cores or 4 X 3 node dual boxes (ebay 1.5K each) and 2 X infiniband switches (ebay 2X300). For 6600 you have a dedicated solution with no latency bubbles fixed low cost.
I am somehow reminded of a snippet of a Jesse Schell talk back in 2010 [1] when he predicted convergence of technology in the pocket ... I, too, suspect devices are going to converge towards a device that can be held with both hands, has maximum screen real-estate and still fits in a pocket. One hand usage seems less important as the hold-to-ear phone aspect is slowly phased out as a valid use-case for these devices.

[1] http://www.realtimetranscription.com/showcase/DICE2010/Jesse...
I am so sold on git I couldn't see myself using anything like this for code. What is your use case like?
Yeah, reluctantly I'd have to agree. I wouldn't be willing to sacrifice 2A for all to reduce suicide in some (since it's ultimately a personal choice), but I wonder if there are other solutions which could be voluntary to reduce it. Like, offsite storage being a cheap/subsidized/available default, or a "time lock" for non-self-defense firearms, or even something silly like posting "do not kill yourself" signs on safes.

Drugs/alcohol + depression + guns seem like a particularly bad combination, so one thing I've been thinking about is a gun safe which let the user voluntarily set a time-lock in the future before drinking or whatever.
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> but I imagine most will assume your product is just low quality

And they would be right.
Another reason : you can send ops over the wire rather than data. For example, you can send "add 7 to x" when the user makes a change rather than "set x to 21". Then you use the same code on server and client side to execute the ops.

If you structure your ops to be reorderable and composable you can get nice stuff like multi user editing, arbitrary undo, multi data centre synchronization, etc.

See the google docs papers for more details.
Except that Purescript uses the liberty from Haskell legacy libraries to become even more hardcore on algebra and categoric language. The relatively small user base also consist of experienced Haskellers, and the libraries tend to be quite advanced. For example, the "basic component" in the beginning of the Halogen tutorial already mentions natural transformations (which made me instantly intrigued, personally, but I'm one of those experienced Haskellers).
If you started doing that I bet they'd start choosing another route. Problem solved!
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Link is dead with a "Error establishing a database connection" message.

I'm not familiar with "avc.com", but I imagine that any entity with a three-letter domain name must have spent a fair amount of money establishing a web presence. So whichever CMS platform runs their site, how are they NOT using a standard cache plugin that pre-renders pages for articles?

There's no way that a professional CMS-driven website should completely go down over a broken database connection. My personal blog site only draws around 10K page views per MONTH, I only spend $5/mo hosting it, and this sort of outage wouldn't be possible.
> Of course small phones would fare badly when nothing good is for sale!

It sounds like you're treating the introduction of new phone models as an exogenous event, but that's crazy. That's like saying "Of course people don't ride horse-and-buggies any more; hardly anybody make them! That doesn't mean cars are the future."

If manufacturers are introducing fewer models, it's because there is reduced demand for them.
Great comment, thanks!
What do you mean it's a compile to js language? I use ES6 with no transpilers.
That's not a very good way to run a commercial entity. And it is also why developers should not be making the call about which browser to support and which not.

The reason why is that the fixed cost of a business are that: fixed. The profit is usually over-represented in the last few percentage points of the people using the service or buying the products so if you lop off some arbitrary percentage at the top that 15% of your users might be 80% of your profits. That's a very quick way to die.
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The alternative is multiple devices that are cheap and work together seamlessly (I guess the first step is phone companies offering data only plans).
Go isn't invested by Google itself though. It's made by Google employees.
The first processing step consist from (human) face detection. We use the standard OpenCV for our faces.ethz.ch demonstrator. A failure of this step is likely to propagate in the unreliable/wrong attractiveness prediction. For attractiveness, age, and gender prediction we start from a cropped image assumed to contain a (roughly aligned) face as found by the detector.

I hope that this helps to understand the aforementioned result.
> For example, imagine someone convinced by the argument "nothing to hide nothing to fear".

"Please strip yourself to underpants. Yes, this very moment. We (society) need
to make sure you don't have any concealed weapons or explosives. I will then
assure these other people that are totally unrelated that you don't pose any
threat to them. What? Your privacy? Safety is more important than privacy,
right? And you do have nothing to hide, so why do you fear stripping?"
I saw that the post had 400 comments so thought it would be something huge. Turns out its Yet Another Personal Assistant hidden behind a UI. There really isn't that much to discuss about it which hasn't already been done to death by all the Facebook M posts.
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They don't even have to go through those motions, they could just release what they have under the same license as OpenJDK and grab some of the interface definitions they need from OpenJDK

And they wouldn't necessarily be "legally in the clear"... when this is all said and done they may be found to have infringed copyright illegally and will have to pay a price for breaking the law. Complying with the OpenJDK license would only protect them going forward, not for past transgressions.

Interesting move on Oracle's part would be to try to prove that Google infringed on OpenJDK's copyright (i.e., violated the GPL)... then under GPLv2 Google could lose their rights to redistribute OpenJDK

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-gu...
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I absolutely agree that this seems to be why meetings are so popular. It's the business equivalent of two exhausted boxers "hugging" each other.
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Well, my point of comparison is Portland's tram lines. Which already have such problems with clueless people just going right out in front of moving trains that they're having to run public-awareness campaigns about actually looking both ways before you cross the track.

So I can certainly believe that putting a rail line in anywhere -- regardless of what you think of the residents -- without installing basic safety stuff like gates and signals at street crossings is kinda bad.
That's a nice way to start my day, thanks. :)

I think what strikes me most about a program, and what tends to speak to many people, are the little touches that are a delight to discover. Especially when you're not expecting them. So many comments have said "check this thing I made" and the thing proves to be well done, but somewhat utilitarian. Now, I like utilitarian as much as the next gold tunic wearing Terran, but these little touches created by the personal choice of a developer make a random human-computer interaction seem, even if by proxy, a little more human-human.
What if i ask magic+ to ask magic+ for a time consuming task. Since i'm not asking magic+ myself anymore, should i pay anything apart the 2 minutes it took to ask magic+ from the inside?
well until you wear your phone on your wrist why would we want to go back to small phones and end up with a two or worse three device world?

we won't know till midway through the year if this new phablet size is the one to rule them all but it does solve the problem many have which is, why do we need so many devices that nearly duplicate each other, here is the common ground.

and please don't anyone point to watches like Apples which is a useless device if you don't have the phone to do the work. I don't pay four hundred plus bucks to have a device that needs another device to work
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Thanks for the input!

Use cases that I've toyed with were updating documentation of code on sites and sharing them across a group of individuals.

Students taking notes on particular sites for papers they're working on.

Creating a note list for yourself; I know when I'm going through sites about a particular programming language, I'm constantly wanting to update documentation on that site with the more current methods of doing something (ex; ES5 -> ES6 javascript).

We've had a handful more of use cases that have kinda came out of it from people using it and playing around.

Thanks for your feedback!
I urge you to look into the price of 'party hats' in runescape. They were released only on Christmas 2001, and since then have blown up in real dollars.
> In general, no Java library works on Android except by happy coincidence

Well that's just not true now is it.
In less developed countries where power is unreliable, small simple phones with long battery life dominate. The market demands a phone that can go at least three days and ideally five before requiring recharge. They can't charge power hungry phablets every day. Half or more of humanity live in these places. That should be taken into account when looking at these statistics.
That only works if they are made by the same "team". Otherwise you end up with the current mess that is the JS-ecosystem.
Right now I use 3 Softlayer virtual servers to serve up 15TB of static files a month. It costs me a whopping $168 a month. The same 15TB on AWS would cost $1325 a month. I consider saving $1157 'significant'.

Softlayer no longer includes 5TB on every virtual server and their bandwidth is equally outrageous so I'm still evaluating a plan for new servers.
We both made the mistake of discussing the US government like it's a single entity. We're talking about hundreds or thousands of individuals spanning multiple generations. I'm not going to worry about government metadata collection because of something that happened during the Eisenhower administration. Each person and group of people should be evaluated based on their own behavior and merits, not the reputation of the organization that they are affiliated with.

It looks to me like the US agencies, and the Five Eyes in general, are capable people who are just doing their jobs. They aren't bothering me and I'm not bothering them. The past actions of the US government or hypothetical scenarios based on historical examples just aren't very convincing. Anything could happen. But I'm not going to concern myself with it until I see some evidence.
Every major carrier offers a data-only plan; they're typically used for tablets, although Samsung made a connected camera and LG made a connected watch (that was pulled off the market after less than a week).
That's harsh, but probably true. There might have been good reason to make null-terminated strings the default in the past (e.g. K&R C not passing structs by value), but it has little meaning today. The arguable memory overhead of length-prefixed strings is outweighed by the significant performance and safety benefits.

Considering that stubborn programmers are still using strcpy() and its ilk to this very day and the billions of dollars lost every year to cybercrime, then I don't think it's harsh.
There are fundamental flaws in the argument

> He now uses a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop

And that is relevant in what way?

> with GNU and Linux software

Alright, fair enough.

> he’s swapped Microsoft Office for LibreOffice

As before, fair enough, if one believes in FOSS being "better" than commercial software.

> he doesn’t use Gmail but Mozilla’s Thunderbird

Apples with oranges. The former is mail provider, also offering a web interface. The latter is an email client, which is pretty useless without a place where you receive emails. So what is actually using instead of Gmail?

> and, despite considering the iPhone the best on the market, he uses an Android handset with the Cyanogenmod operating system.

Not only contradicts the "ditching Google" credo, but is also a useless move in this context. If he really wants to follow through with his FOSS approach he should be using Sailfish OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch or Firefox OS.
I left the intelligence community because of exactly this. Took a 40% pay cut (probably more like 50 if you count benefits) but I don't regret it. I couldn't in good conscience believe in freedom and privacy while working for a government actively working against those things.
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avc.com is Fred Wilson's (a venture capitalist) personal blog. It gets regularly linked off of HN, so i'm surprised that it's down.

Judging by the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zpcZCGt... It's a simple static blog entry with disqus comments. There's no good reason for it to be hitting a database on every request.
It's interesting. I thought I didn't lose much time to social media because I only used them in "dead" time, e.g. waiting for a train. But I've come to believe this was a mistake in two respects. Firstly, no time is truly "dead", and there's almost always something better I could be doing. Secondly, almost any use of social media trains me to crave more -- it genuinely is addictive, and the unreliability of the novelty ("refreshing in the hope of seeing something new") makes this all the worse.
You need some period of overlap in order to measure reduced demand. If every horse dropped dead the day cars went on sale, that says nothing about reduced demand for horses.

Thank you for introducing me to the word "exogenous"
I use it on the server because I like javascript.
We suspected this was going on when we looked at the analytics for our ecommerce sites recently and noticed a big shift away from tablets towards mobile (Google breaks them out separately). Large phones would of course fall under the latter category.
I think your argument has missed how this particular market has worked in the last nine years. People flock to the "new hotness" every year not because they demanded its features, but simply because it's the new hotness. Only afterward do they realize that this new big phone isn't what they wanted. But the companies pushing ever larger phones don't produce a new hot small model. Then they eliminate the old models slowly. It's only when the new hot phone comes in a variety of sizes that we will know what the demand truly is.

Back when cars were supplanting the horse-drawn carriage, people had choice for years. Even today, if you prefer, you can get a horse and the carriage to drive around in. But you can't find specialty shops building that small phone you want.
This is why facebook is about to go bankrupt.
Governments are also made up of individuals.
A big annoyance for me when I lived in NYC was the lack of internet in the subway. Now i yearn for that 45 commute reading sci-fi shorts reccommended by you people.
I once played a game of Solitaire on (IIRC) Win95 that had/allowed a red card placed on another red card. Pretty sure I still have the screenshot around somewhere (though that would be easy to fake).
It makes me a little sad that simply making screens bigger (for whatever purpose) is considered technological progress.

Most of the high-end phones now seem to settle around the 5+ inch margin, leaving those of us who need a good smaller phone with little to no choice.

Even with good build quality and lighter weight, I would take a phone I could physically hold in one hand over something which needs software gimmicks (Samsung) for one-hand use. Just one anecdotal datapoint.
PC has nothing to do with it. Do you really want visitors associating your site, even unconsciously, with addiction, the stench of smoke, death, etc.?

Personally, when I see a business use stock photography that has cigarettes, I have that reaction. And I also wonder whether they're trying to appeal to smokers in particular or trying to convey something else about themselves that I don't understand. To me, it's no good.

How prominent is the cigarette? Could you have it edited out? Does the license for the stock photo permit that?
Proof-of-waste is far too environmentally damaging to use at scale.
How do you enjoy a salary without time? Do you just glance at your mobile banking app in between meetings for kicks?
Hi tsumnia,

I am Radu, one of the authors.

After 2 years we face almost the same issues, but probably we cope differently with them. Note that our solutions are fully described in the two papers mentioned on our faces.ethz.ch page. For attractiveness we used data from Blinq.

Our apparent age estimation solution is the winner of the latest LAP challenge, ICCV 2015.
This is all well and good, but in 3 to 5 years, VR/AR will make the screen go away completely. The shape of your device will be purely a fashion statement over any sort of feature requirement.

And yes, I think there will come a point where people will want to be seen with a headset on. It will be a form of conspicuous wealth signalling, like smartphones to begin with, smartwatches now, or long fingernails millennia ago. After the initial growing pains of "ugh, what an asshole", it will normalize and then everyone will do it.
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Not sure I get the logic of Varnish being on different providers. Are your static assets also hosted on Linode/DO, in addition to Varnish?
Ask HN: Which Android book do you most recommend?
I am looking for a book about Android development, which does not cover the usual what-is-a-variable-and-array bits but jumps straight into the actual specifics of the Android platform.

"The Big Nerd Ranch Guide" seemed to be a good choice, however some comments said the book is rather weak on some lower-level bits, particularly threading and services and I definitely wouldnt want to miss those.

Any ideas?
It sounds more like you'll be able to attach a long-form text document to a tweet just like you can attach a photo. The tweet itself, as presented in the normal view, is still constrained in length.
It turns out that priors don't actually need to be distributions all the time. This often occurs when seeking maximally "uninformative" priors.
In Seveneves, Stephenson discusses "Amistics, the study of the choices made by different cultures as to which technologies they would embrace or spurn."

"Anyone who bothered to learn the history of the developed world in the years just before Zero understood perfectly well that Tavistock Prowse had been squarely in the middle of the normal range, as far as his social media habits and attention span had been concerned. But nevertheless, they called it Tav's Mistake. They didn't want to make it again. Any efforts made by modern manufacturers to produce the kinds of devices and apps that had disordered the brain of Tav were met with the same instinctive pushback as Victorian clergy might have directed against the inventor of a masturbation machine."

You see those kinds of choices being made at a cultural level all over the world. Developed countries where nobody uses leafblowers, or in-sink food waste disposals, or what have you. People understand how those things work, they just don't want the effects.
And most important of all, showing off spending money.
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Yeah... I would be up for trying it (if they now or in the future allow European customers), and could imagine liking it enough to be willing to put in $1000 to last me a while, but not without trying it for a few $10s first.

Maybe they are choosing to price out those of us who would use occasionally but not often, or maybe it's an acceptable downside to benefits they get from having other people pay that lump up front. (For example, maybe they've found that in the first $200 of spending people aren't convinced, but if they're forced to spend another $800 then they start to appreciate the service more and are less likely to stop using it.)
That's a valid criticism if the test taker is trying to cheat, but if its yourself trying to find out your own IQ and you didn't train for it, it's still a useful predictor of academic success.
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I seriously doubt that the American population is that gullible. On top of that hispanics and blacks hate him. Those two groups represent a large voting block. Other groups like woman, muslim, and asians don't appear to like him very much so I don't see how he is going to win.
then maybe kotlin is what you want ?
It shares some nice features with C# and is entirely inter op with java code. Also, it is free.
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Wouldn't FB be a ghost site like myspace or G+ if everyone is unfriended?
At that point you're rapidly approaching the scale where cloud-style on-demand provisioning isn't really helping you (unless you prefer AWS's tooling to any "private cloud", which is legit), and you might as well put a bunch of dedicated servers in colo, right?

That is to say, the reason you can negotiate a discount once you get well past that point (or if you intend to grow well past that point) is because staying on AWS makes increasingly less sense for you.
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