skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is actually innocent here. What Apple wanted was the dinosaur publishing industry to adopt the agency model for pricing ebooks. The publisher sets the price, and revenue is split 70/30. This was the model for all digital goods on iTunes for the previous decade. The publishing industry had always been a wholesale model. They set the 'list' price on the book jacket, and the retailer would 'discount' it to the consumer. The retailer would pay the publisher the wholesale price, which was about 50% of list. Amazon loved the wholesale model because they compete on price.

Amazon, at the time, was trying to create an expectation for consumers that all ebooks were $9.99. What the consumer didn't know was that Amazon was taking a loss on each ebook. Amazon was able to get publishers on board with their plan by paying the 'list' price on an ebook, and turning around and selling it for a loss at 9.99. Amazon's long play was 1) creating a market for ebooks in a price band they thought was attractive and 2) forcing the publishers to capitulate later when they had more leverage. Amazon never wanted agency pricing since they would lose their competitiveness if it ever came to bare.

But Apple was successful - it eventually got publishers to adopt agency pricing, and that also meant Amazon ebooks had to adopt agency pricing (if you're setting the price, you can't give one outlet a better price). Amazon hated this development and championed this price fixing suit as a result.

If you ever wondered why physical books are priced less than ebooks at times, this is why. Agency pricing.
Sabayon Linux has been shipping binary modules for years. No one has ever complained.
That's an interesting approach to explaining the theory!

Two observations:

- I've taught introductory book-keeping and accounting to software engineers, PMs and finance people at a few large tech companies, and found that having them actually enter a bunch of debits/credits into Excel or Google Sheets makes a big difference to their comprehension, and flushes out the parts they didn't really 'get'.

- The one thing I'm sad to see missing from that post is the idea that profit is the derivative of the company's book value, with respect to time (assuming no new shares are issued, and no dividends are paid). People are often confused about why profit and cash flow are different. The main reason is that profit is a measure of the change in book value, and not everything that has value is cash.

Oh, and one slight inaccuracy: "The total of the balance sheet is a lower bound on the value of your company.". This is not strictly true: a company is worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and that could be even less than book value. Assets are not marked to market, but valued based on historical cost. The assets may not be worth as much as the book value and/or they may be useless to the company and/or they may be hard to liquidate (sell).
not in Scotland[1], England yes.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cunt+(Scottis...
Came here to say the same thing. I've abandoned storyboards and nibs in favor of SnapKit and it hasn't let me down so far. It's one of the better libraries I've used on OS X and iOS.
Are you really arguing for deregulation of the financial industry in the name of 'liberty'?

Lack of regulation leads to things like the global financial crisis.
Redundancy and spare capacity everywhere in production, staging environment, QA environment, development environments ...
Let's see: Due to quality control “Those results are not worth anything,” Yet doctors were relying on them to adjust warfarin levels, where "Too much warfarin can cause fatal bleeding, while too little can leave patients vulnerable to clots and strokes, according to medical experts."

But the attention is because people can't stand high valuations?
Email pioneer Shiva Ayyadurai prays for recognition
I think you mean distributions (S Corp), not dividends (C corp), but I get your point.
As a kiwi who mistakenly slipped that out among friends (who were familiar with it) at a bar in the US.. Oh god.. I know.
It goes away if you decrease the width of the viewport
Apparently they have some sort of proof-of-work system going on.
I thought there would be at least one watercolor, or one warning. I was wrong.
VCs becoming more risk-averse, startups moving slower:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/fundraising-advice-for-yc-compa...

http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/139377970205/dear-startup...

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Great paper that compares and contrasts the 3 industrial revolutions: 1) steam/railroads, 2) electricity/internal combustion engine/running water/chemicals/petroleum, 3) computers/phones/internet. Author reflects on likely future challenges and what we can do to get back to growth.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18315.pdf

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Required reading for thoughts on the state of US industry, life, liberty, GEICO insurance, etc. (mostly outside of tech): http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2015ltr.pdf

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My thoughts, in response to an article about the end of Moore's Law, and the need to design more efficient software as advances in hardware slow down:

I think we're going to see this phenomenon - wringing efficiency out of what we have now - across a lot of different fields and industries in the coming years.

One example is the whole IoT movement. Most of the real (industrial, medical, automotive) applications are efficiency/cost-savings focused. The central theme is connecting devices that we have now to better monitor, analyze, and utilize what we've already built.

Another example that is a bit further removed from computers is the whole Uber/car sharing trend. At any given time 95% of the cars in the world are parked somewhere, not in use. Even if we could only bring that down by 5%, we would be utilizing billions of dollars in capital more efficiently.

I also strongly believe that we will see this reflected in living situations with growing urban cores/hubs of activity and jobs. Suburbs are no longer economically viable at the scale at which we built and inhabited them post WWII, and as the infrastructure begins to decay and inequality increases, more and more people will move to the city to take advantage of the economies of scale of living a dense, vertical lifestlye.
Can you not see past the first degree at all? Or does it just escape your mind that if the boy didn't grow up in the house and family he did these 3 wouldn't have endured such a tragic death?

Poverty and mental health. The two most taboo under-and-mis-treated topics in America.

The author didn't want you to feel bad for one guy, or his victims, the author wanted you to understand that the death machine isn't solving anything, she wanted you to understand that military grade armed police and pretending that economical imposed segregation doesn't exist don't absolve all of us of the problem. Eye for an eye doesn't build a better society and it def doesn't fix what's wrong. Oh and you're paying for it btw.

All of this has to end. We need basic income, we need a mental health system that by using it doesn't reward you with lost job and societal joining opportunities. Yet... in 2016, I have yet to hear one presidential candidate mention either one of those two topics, much less have I seen one citizen, journalist or blogger try to solicit a response from our politicians about it.

In 2016, it seems that even our privacy is in question giving one the feeling that we're headed backwards instead of forward in becoming a better society.
Not trying to "protect" anyone. Thing is, even googling sudo doesn't give someone who has never sudo'ed the insight behind the comic. So, yep.
Maybe it's time to rethink your conventions...? The solution to your problem is in front of you, but you're avoiding implementing it because of strict adherence to arbitrary conventions.
Do you also feel this way about photos?
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They don't call them tiger economies for nothing.
MS SQL Server was based on Sybase 4.2 as I recall, which is the Sybase release that predated introduction of SMP support. (Internally known as the "boat anchor" though I doubt that name appeared on the contract to sell the code.) Microsoft basically rewrote it, so I would guess there is little original Sybase code left. You can still see the the heritage clearly in features like T-SQL dialect and the Tabular Data Stream wire protocol, both of which were developed at Sybase.

Sybase is not in anyway related to Ingres that I know of other than the fact that Bob Epstein and Mike Stonebraker worked on the Ingres project at Cal. Sybase in fact was considerably different from Ingres in many ways such as use of SQL instead of QUEL, network access to the SQL Server, and specialized features like stored procedures. The Sybase founders did not come directly from Cal or even Ingres but rather from Britton Lee.
Computer Programmer Admits Under Oath He Coded Computers to Rig Elections
Shiva Ayyadurai has delusions of grandeur. His behaviour on social media after Tomlinson passed away has been appalling. It would be best if everyone thoroughly ignored him.
Yeah that's a terrible [0] article. I have no doubt that Cruz is nuts, and I was hoping this was a straight-laced "here's what he actually believes with evidence" articles, but instead after 6 paragraphs I knew the author didn't like Cruz, but aside from "he's so far right he's in outer space" I had no idea why... The author comes off as nuts him/herself, waving their hands in the air and begging people to listen to them.

I think a plain telling of facts about Cruz would be scary enough. Someone should write that.

[0] but seriously I'm no one to judge.
Anecdotally, yes, people tend to know when they're too stoned to drive.

Here's something addressing a similar question[0]:

> Detrimental effects of cannabis use vary in a dose-related fashion, and are more pronounced with highly automatic driving functions than with more complex tasks that require conscious control, whereas alcohol produces an opposite pattern of impairment. Because of both this and an increased awareness that they are impaired, marijuana smokers tend to compensate effectively while driving by utilizing a variety of behavioral strategies.

[0]: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10550490902786934
The annoying thing about (for example) SSRIs is that it's annoying to take accurate doses like that.

My escitalopram comes in 5mg, 10mg and 20mg. If I want to slowly taper down from 20mg a day, I have to start chopping off bits from an already tiny pill every day for months on end. I can't just drop down to 15mg a day, it's too abrupt.
Octopi are really interesting creatures. They're said to be about as smart as a three- to four-year-old human.

The disturbing part is, that's how long they live. What would a hypothetical twenty-year-old octopus get up to?
I have a feeling that we're going to wake up one day and there will be a legitimate breakthrough in quantum computing, leading to RSA no longer being a legitimate standard for security.

My question to HN: Have any of you guys attempted to come up with a plan for if/when this happens? Are there any algorithms in suites like OpenSSL that are quantum-resistant? Is SSL/TLS even compatible with a post-quantum world?
Blockchain idea: Decentralized LinkedIn
What language was Sybase written in?

Back then alot of that stuff was C. Hard to imagine Microsoft continued writing SQL server in C.
The O3X project lead has joked about porting ZFS to Windows after he finished the Mac OS X port. That is the only discussion of porting it to Windows thus far, although there was one guy who tried reimplementing it as a userspace filesystem on Windows, but that did not get far.
MySql is a joke and always has been. I blame a huge majority of the RDBMS hate on the fact that many peoples only experience with a RDBMS was MySql. The issues are numerous, but two of my personal favorites are silent data truncation and allowing 'indeterminate' results with non-aggregate or non-functionally dependent columns in the select[1]. 5.7.5 finally changes the default behavior of the former.

This site lists many of the issues: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-by-handling.htm...
They seem to favor reusing existing tools a little bit more, instead of reinventing an ecosystem in a bubble...

I love docker but it feels like they are going too fast to do things in a more modular and plugable way.

They could explore extending systemd or having foss tools that match each other or have at least the minimum support for features that are put forward but only properly supported in their SaaS offering... Anyway, I just hope we get more stability and replaceable parts in this field! :)
The article paints a false dichotomy between teaching calculus and statistics/heuristics/linear algebra.

In reality, it is increasingly important to have exposure to all these fields.
Bottle, peewee, gevent workers, eh? Interesting choices.
SimpleTemplate looks interesting, I hadn't seen it before.

Would be nice to hear some discussion there, instead of the column layout.
Aren't there some viruses which do more damage on reboot?

And removing power could remove forensic information, if the virus was loaded exclusively in RAM.

I think air-gapping would have been a wise move, but I would have kept the server powered and running until a post-mortem could be performed.
Maybe it would be simpler to grind the pills into a more easily-measurable powder and put it into your own empty capsules?
You can make even more money in the long run if you use leverage to bet on the S&P 500. If you don't believe me, do the math out.
A strange hum is haunting residents of a Canadian city
EBS is certainly capable of implementing the shared storage that the database requires, and the quorum driver for wolfpack ought to implementable without a physical scsi device backing it.
The tools do include that functionality, called Interface Builder or the Storyboard Designer.

The editor on its own is fairly nice to use these days, but it outputs obtuse XML and has a propensity to edit parts of the layout XML file that weren't actually modified. This makes source-control level collaboration and especially code review very difficult. To make things worse, for a long time the tooling encouraged putting almost all UI into one giant "Storyboard XML" file, guaranteeing confusion and conflicts.

The editor was also quite slow and crashy for years which drove the proliferation of these libraries and the "don't use the storyboard editor" meme accompanying them. It's gotten a lot better in the last ~2 years and I haven't had a crash in heavy day-to-day usage for quite some time.

If Apple could improve the XML output format to be easier to review, eliminate the serialization/deserialization weirdnesses, introduce a visual diff-and-merge tool, and improve the performance just a bit more, the Interface Builder would be excellent, but as is, I see why a lot of people don't like using it, especially on big projects with many collaborators.
AsyncDisplayKit is cool stuff, but I really wish it were possible to yank its layout and “doesn’t do layout on the main thread” parts and apply them to vanilla UIKit. It’s frustrating to run into the inevitable unsupported use cases, bugs, etc with alternative UI systems. UIKit has its quirks but it’s mature enough that coming up with a use case that it can’t serve in on way or another is difficult. It’ll be years before alternatives can achieve that.
But that seems like so much work...
Awesome :) Now a days Microsoft changed a lot, welcome to the new world (Linux). The raise of NoSql, how MS SQL survived ! amazing.
> Apple is actually innocent here.

Ok, I get that they were going up against a monopolist who appears to be dumping. In what world does responding to that by building a cartel of suppliers engaging in monopolistic behavior to raise the pricing above the price of physical books and fix the pricing across all retailers turn into "innocence"?

We as consumers are worse off for what Apple did here.
I don't really know what you mean.

But here's the wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...

Which says:

"This act only applies to U.S. domestic copyright as that is the extent of U.S. federal law. The U.S. government asserts that it can still hold the copyright to those works in other countries."

With a couple cites. You can google more about it too. It is the U.S. government's position that they do hold copyright to such works in other countries, and I believe they have generally succesfully enforced their copyright in other country's courts. (I don't know if they have ever failed in other country's courts, on the grounds that U.S. law says the U.S. goverment can't hold copyright? I'm not sure what bearing such a U.S. law would have in another country's courts, which is the whole idea).
A twenty-year-old octopus would either be:

Switching majors, chasing tentacle and hanging in the quad

-or-

Getting their first $1B valuation as cofounder of an octocorn
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Learn C. Specifically learn pointers and memory management. Just these two concepts will give you a huge understanding of any other language.
Okay, my last try.

For Bayes' theorem, we need a theory of how the data is produced given the parameter of interest. Bill and Lorena's plans certainly influence what data I observe: in scenario two, I can never observe the data BBBBGGG, but in scenario one, I can. My point is that your first category is not "exact statements about the likelihood of 7 births in a row being mmmmmmmf", it is "exact statements about the likelihood of observing mmmmmmf", which is, in fact, quite different, if you admit the possibility of Bill and Lorena having particular childbearing plans.
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Your question seems to imply their intelligence increases at the same rate as a human and keeps doing so until they die. That would be very strange if it were the case.

I'm guessing they reach their maximum intelligence well before they die, and then they plateau, like most other animals. So living 20 years would make it more experienced but not able to apply to MIT.
Looks like they've included their .DS_Store files within the git repository:

https://github.com/s4cha/Stevia/tree/master/Stevia/Stevia

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/5EPUNeZ
Although it may be true that "les sacres" (swear words derived from religious terms) were a form of insurgency against the power of the church, their usage extends far back into the beginning of the 19th century: http://www.maisonsaint-gabriel.qc.ca/fr/musee/chr-20.php
UPSERT should be a standard, why isn't it?

And it's very useful in a ton of situations which is why so many other SQL dialects have added it. It's not like SQL Server is completely standards compliant so I'd rather have the functionality then have to use MERGE because it's "standard".
I was a little surprised that the download was 50Mb, but this app is very well done. Really like the theming options.
Interesting as it's quite different from how I generally structure my own projects. A couple questions:

1. Why store dependencies locally? Seems a bit wasteful and unnecessary with tools like pip/virtualenv. (OP does mention virtualenv, but also "Include ALL the dependencies locally" so I'm not sure what to make of that)

2. You've chosen to separate your code into MVC-inspired directories instead of by function. Flask/Django have ways (apps, blueprints) of making application subcomponents modular. It seems like a single controllers directory and a single templates directory, etc. could get cluttered pretty quickly. What will you do as projects grow?
Blockchains are decentralized cloud computers that enforce rules on a historical record. Bitcoin's rules are about managing a currency: how coins are issued, how to transfer them, etc. You can build a blockchain that enforces any rules, though, and Ethereum lets you define new rules without having to spin up your own blockchain.

Your identity will no longer be a key. It will be a pointer to a program and its associated storage on a blockchain. To identify yourself, give someone a proof that you control that identity. To add a new key to the identity, use the rules you put in place to add new keys. To change the rules that control the identity, use the rules you put in place to change the rules. You can build any rules for an identity management process into a program that runs on a blockchain. Through trial and error, we will discover the most resilient patterns with the least trust required.
Project scaffolding like this feels very 2005.
You haven't demonstrated convincingly that she is wrong. At best you've explained why ad blockers don't serve the short-term interests of those who consume the NYTimes. Your mistake is that you extrapolate that the short-term interests of consumers are aligned with their long-term interests.

I suggest you read Garrett Hardin's writings about The Tragedy of the Commons, so you can see how one's short-term and long-term interests are not always aligned and that finding mechanisms to curtail one's own and others' short-term interests might be in most's long-term interests. You might also be interested in Elinor Ostram's work on managing the commons, for which she won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

(Of course examples of short- and long-term interests not being aligned abound -- high tobacco use, high alcohol use, high-cholesterol diets, etc.)

I think the key question is whether NYTimes' readers' long-term interests are closely aligned with the NYTimes' long-term interests. I suspect they are (disclosure: I pay monthly for online access). Many of us believe the NYTimes produces quality content, primarily news reporting, that's expensive to produce. And we realize if we want to have long-term access to it, the NYTimes needs to generate income by various means, which can include subscriptions and advertising.

Furthermore, your use of the term "customer" for those who neither subscribe nor view the ads is problematic and defies the common definition of "customer".
Arizona.
yeah, more or less. it's called drug repositioning for 're-discovering' existing drugs for new indications. several firms are currently focusing on drug repositioning by mining fda databases such as drug adverse events data to mine possible new indications. major pharmas already use the find-new-trick-for-old-drug to find new usage (eg botax). by the way viagra is also such 're-discovered' drug as it was originally targeted for hypertension treatment with poor clinical trial results but with a surprising you-know-what 'side-effect' in some male patients.

any way, the solution might not be so straight forward for in-silico biology as several major bottlenecks still hard to resolved, such as those failed clinical trials data are never revealed and shared, and the most cash-burning process still concentrate on clinical trial stages.
Can confirm. The part that's really telling IMO is that a lot of the withdrawal symptoms are not at all related to depression: they're dizziness, vertigo, and strange electrical feelings in your head – not symptoms of depression or relapse. Minimally reinforcing in terms of "drug liking" or "wanting to take more" in my experience, but there is definitely profound physical dependence.
> Subscription models just don't work

he said and looked at his torrents
How about a gaussian distribution which peaks at 700k?

Assuming max as the norm is not too right. (just to make the number look high)
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