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It's a facet of current business. They're ALL trying to give us subscriptions for everything. The "subscription" created by the Gillette safety razor wasn't outrageously priced or terribly wasteful compared to modern blades, and was a fairly good idea over cut-throat razors.

Modern product (as opposed to service) subscriptions exist to extract more cash from the consumer rather than a real tangible benefit (I don't count the marketing benefit). Printer ink (especially HP as the ink cartridge usually contains the print head too), coffee pods (complete with DRM!), air fresheners (at least one brand has DRM here too), sealed laptop and phone batteries and dozens of others are designed to get lock in and more sales/profit. Other industries and products are adopting the same model.

Ties in well with the materials used in consumer products to ensure they need periodic replacement. eg 60s Hoovers were rubbish, but could easily last 50 years, current Hoovers are far better vacuums thanks to Dyson, but are near (or past) end of life by 5 years as the plastic is disintigrating. They're often real terms cheaper, but now objectively too cheap, and there's no better made alternative offered. Even premium brands are now "cheap".

It's a profligate waste of money, packaging and environment. If a product isn't under this model it's easy to get the feeling it's only because they haven't figured out how to get away with it yet.

I'd prefer a saner balance on most of these things.
Thanks! Currently we're focusing on single host experiments. We provide an open source client for you to run the experiments on your own hardware, so it's free. The use of the platform is also free for open source.

At some point in the future, once we gather more feedback we'll let you to run the experiments on our servers for a fee.
I wouldn't recommend Szeliski for that - the book is basically a literature review (and is now a little out of date given how fast CV moves). It's great if you need a background survey on how things are done, but not for learning from.

The level of maths required varies a lot. Linear algebra is used heavily everywhere, you see a lot of optimisation (e.g. Levenberg Marquadt) and in some places graph theory. However if you're just using tools like OpenCV then you can get by with a fairly poor understanding of the maths (say 2nd year undergrad of an engineering degree).

Part of the challenge is reading past the maths. If you read a paper from Pattern Analysis there's a lot of, frankly, obtuse notation. So you see images described as discrete mapping blah blah. A lot of it is fairly straightforward set theory. It's necessary for proving things, but when it comes to actually implementing this stuff it's nowhere near as complicated as it looks.
I love that I can ask a question like this here on HN and get an answer from the Leaflet author. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
and all the album leak download links!
>If I were to move into a city it's clearly not even meaningful to talk about the price of the equivalent property to my exurban house on a fair bit of land.

To be fair, it's a lot worse than that. I live in a nice, spacious, modern loft in the middle of an urban area. We're not talking about a big, suburban house. Just a nice apartment. I'm looking at apartments in the high-COL city that resemble my current apartment's entryway in size and in conditions I wouldn't even consider here.
That's what I meant about there being 'a line' somewhere. No one much wants to see a toxic waste storage facility near housing. People seem to mostly be ok with the law not being used to prevent people with children from moving in to a neighborhood though, even though kids can be noisy and "change the character of the neighborhood". Once upon a time, it was pretty normal to restrict black people from moving into a neighborhood too. That's no longer acceptable.

I think modern zoning is way too restrictive. Central planning was best left to die with the Soviet Union.
You've misunderstood - the employees are already paid for overtime hours, but at the normal rate.

Now that there will be a higher overtime rate, it can, in some cases make sense for businesses to hire more employees rather than to pay existing employees to work overtime. For employees who choose to work overtime, that's bad news.
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This paper is a good illustration of what I see as a critical shortcoming of modern NLP work: it is all about math and algorithms, there is nothing about actual language.

The paper has lots of information about: neural network architectures, parameter update equations, learning rules, and inference algorithms.

There is nothing about: part of speech categories, relative clauses, morphology, affixes or compound words, the theta criterion, the content/function distinction, verb tenses, agreement, or anything else related to actual linguistic phenomena.

To me this seems a bit like the Aristotelian thinkers who tried to reason about physics based on pure mathematical analysis, without any empirical work.
A clean list of “io games”. Massive multiplayer browser games
Disney cannot afford Twitter at current valuation. It makes no sense, they would more than double their LT debt, and it would provide no significant income. At 10% of its current market cap (around 2B) Twitter would be a fair deal. At the current value its a stupid purchase.
I have a good CPA and am very aggressive with putting all my savings into tax-advantaged accounts. Admittedly my actual income ends up being more than $150k/yr thanks to capital gains and some freelance work. Looking back on the years where I was just a straight salary worker (earning $150k/yr) my annual savings were closer to $60k.
My question is do you have 3000 visitors or 3000 MAU? There is a big difference. With Adsense there are things to consider to increase your revenue, such as who your users are (location and demographic), the type of content on the site, and how long they stay on your site.

As others have pointed out, without knowing more about your site it's difficult to answer. But some suggestions. Try selling add-ons such as premium emojis or avatars. Look towards a premium account with added features as well.
Ok, but what exactly would Disney do with Twitter? How is it going to help them conduct their business?
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Luke Workman is "some guy" who works for zero motorcycles and hack's EV's together.

"Some guy" is the best description I could come with because he isn't a scientists/researcher, he hasn't published a single paper, I can't find even a trace of his record as far as education or engineering achievements go besides soldering a couple of batteries and putting them in a motorcycle.

All records I could find of him and his company are pretty much from News Atlas (their sources and references link to their own articles) or it's affiliates.
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"Actors are cattle."

- Alfred Hitchcock
You could always, I dunno... stop using Facebook and WhatsApp and other software that you find harmful. I know, totally crazy idea. Just throwing it out there.
There are already companies that do this... Today they are called innovators, tomorrow they'll be called money-grubbing, unethical, anti-FDA maniacs for do the same thing.
You have to agree during the initial setup of a windows machine.
Frankly, I'm not sure I have the guts to do it, no pun intended. It's a combination of a mental block due to the nature of the whole thing, and fear of permanently changing some of my characteristics (such as being slim my entire life).
Xamarin does not "wrap" the API in the traditional, it just provides a binding - calling a method in C# actually calls the underlying native method. The classes are just proxy classes and do not actually have anything more/less that does not exist in native code.
I agree, we need better help for weight loss.

However, that's not what most people here are arguing for. The specific case here is a complaint that people are denied surgery, and people feel that this is denial of care; that is, people are arguing that we should perform knee and hip surgeries on obese people, even though weight loss would be a much safer treatment.
You don't even have to have wifi enabled, even when Wi-Fi is OFF it will still scan for SSIDs to use for location by default.

You have to disable an obscure setting to get it to stop this behavior.
In my own experience, later courses (in computer science specifically) tend to erase the bimodal distribution because your ability to do science related to computing is almost orthogonal to your ability to actually build something with computers. Some of the people who graduated with honours alongside me could not code their way out of a paper bag if there was an exit_paper_bag() instruction.
It's because they need the money.

If your job options are limited (few readers on HN know what this feels like) then any paid hours are better than none. A 10 hour shift means 10 hours of money. Now it will be 11 hours of money. Except your shift will be cut to 7h.
I bought a 2015 Sony TV with Android TV and I'm very happy with it.
If only it were real. The California farm labor overtime provisions don't even start to take effect until 2019 and don't fully take effect until 2025.

What is happening soon are the new US overtime rules for salaried employees. Those take effect in two months. After December 1, 2016, anyone making less than $47,476/yr has to be paid overtime.
why not just provide the URL directly?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whatsapp%20facebook%20brazil
The GPLv2 contains 2400 words. The AGPLv3 contains 5090 words. They aren't enough for casual non-technical users to read and grok. And they can't be greatly simplified without changing their meaning.

Licenses are long and complex not only because they have "bullshit" and "shady stuff" in them. This is an unfortunate fact of life.

It's true that some services can do with much simpler TOS. The BSD 3-clause license is 220 words long (most of them in scary caps). But how short and simple does a license need to be to make the average user actually read it before clicking OK? My guess is most users would read 1-2 sentences. But some users, as soon as they see a dialog with a single "OK" or "Next" button or an "I agree" checkbox, will automatically click it without reading any text at all: this can be practically muscle memory for people used to next-next-finish installation wizards.
> The earlier classes are exactly the place where things like prior experience and level of interest can possibly explain bimodality.

I saw this a lot at GT. There, many students had to take the introductory programming course at the time (all engineering and sciences? circa 2000 if someone wants to help me remember). There was a great disparity between those of us who programmed in HS (or earlier) and those who didn't.

What isn't clear is whether the poor grades were due to a lack of aptitude for the material, or a lack of skill on the faculty's part in presenting and educating, or a lack of interest or focus from those particular students (given it was their first and last CS course and they had to deal with the rest of the hell that was GT's first year).
I was not involved in this test, but here is how I would have done this.

1. I would have randomly assigned pages with more than X average conversions to the versions, and then kept a count of how many pages saw an increase or a decrease.

2. The key phrase is, "If your traffic can support it." This is a question of doing statistical calculations in advance and deciding how big a random mistake you'd be willing to accept if you were unlucky. I find that people tend to err on the side of trying to get too much information out of too little data, so I would generally push towards fewer versions, not more.

3. I strongly disagree with you on this. I would prefer to run 5 small tests over one big one because you learn more. In particular I have found many times that titles, subject lines, and the like can have a surprising impact. The area of your site with the most likely big wins from A/B tests is where you have large numbers of unengaged visitors that you are trying to get to make the snap decision to click - which is exactly what this title test measures.

4. They are trying to run a business, not conduct a research product. Once they had a 14% known win on their hands, and enough sample data to be certain of it, there is no business value in continuing to do what you know is less effective. Do as they did. Collect overall figures, say "some fraction of that is our test", and don't try to measure exactly how big a fraction it is.

But to those points I would add a fifth. I have found that there is a significant "novelty" effect. For example if you're carrying on an email campaign, people will initially respond well to pretty much any subject line change the first time they see it. But not so much 3 weeks later. I doubt that was an issue here, but it is a problem to always keep in the back of your mind as a question.
What if the battery terminal/wing is hit by lightning?
You literally just assumed that millions of people would rather own a car but are forced not to instead of considering the possibility that some people simply don't want to drive.
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Me too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_fee...

> "Nearly every Western democracy other than the United States follows the English rule."

Does anyone know why the US decided on this system? It seems obviously unfair.
I too expected more from HN and I think it's because HN is generally more civil than other webs forums. I think the credit of this civility goes to the HN moderators and the enforcement of the policies, not because HN types are special. I used to think technical minded folks are more analytical and thus have less tendency for bias and generalizations but I've concluded that ultimately tech people are still people and subject to the same filters as "normals".

I hope you not discouraged from pursuing your specialization in the US.
It is often thought that humanity will leave no trace of its existence for the next civilization that will come, say, 20 million years from now. But I'd submit that unless something catastrophic happens very soon, one of the signs that "something" happened will be this sudden discontinuity in species history where suddenly the laws of genetics were thrown out the window for some reason, leaving its evidence both in the fossil record and in the attempts to plot out species trees based on genetic similarity.

What today we are pleased to panic about in the "Holocene extinction" may in fact just be the opening act to an explosion of diversity, and the two events would not be distinguishable in the historical record.
On Facebook you follow your friends and family and acquaintances, your community is predetermined. It's not content, it's chatter.

On Twitter you follow people you want to follow, who produce content you find interesting. There are subcultures. There's personality. There's less social pressure to follow your aunt, uncle, or distant co-workers from 2 jobs ago. The people you don't want to follow tend not to be even on Twitter, the people who just want to chatter are happy on Facebook. The smaller social graph of Twitter is a feature (from the users' point of view) because the ratio of signal to noise is higher. So it is more about content.

If you use Twitter the way you use Facebook, and make it about your real-life social graph, you'll likely find it uncompelling.
Depends on what they're talking about. What's the name of your site?
That's great until that major brand goes bust. At least in London you have hundreds of major brands.
Congrats on the big release.

I remember I was using very early version of Realm in the one of the Android apps I was working on at that time. It was not working properly for me, unfortunately. Random Segmentation faults and limitations that one have to use the POJO extended from the RealmObject. So, I eventually switched back to SQLite (plus ORMLite).

I have seen a lot of changes and now I think I would definitely consider giving it a try.

One question that I have is even though it's nice to have self-hosted Realm Object Server, are there any plans or timeline that it's going to be open-sourced ?
There is clearly a lot of room for improvement. This is what I got translating from Russian:

I personally think that this program is not so bad works. Sometimes she makes mistakes, but this is fairly rare.

The grammar is bad, but you can understand the meaning here.

Some people don't realize it, but perfect translation is actually an "AI-complete" task:

For example, "program" is a "she" in Russian and "it" in English. To translate such pronouns correctly (among other challenges), one needs to figure out what they refer to, and for that one needs common sense.
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Drivers, Google Play Services, Googles move towards locking down the OS (now you can't get the local device's Bluetooth MAC address without a system level permission(!)).

I work on Android daily on hardware that is as "hacker friendly" as it comes besides the driver issue, and it fights you tooth and nail.
I've heard this before, but I'm not aware of any lawsuits that have compelled any printer companies to stop this practice of tying their brand ink to the printer. I'm pretty sure Magnusson-Moss says you can't void warranties, in effect it's not legal to shift liability or burden proof, to disadvantage the consumer. In the case of printers, the warranty is not voided by using 3rd party ink, what they've basically done is add DRM to their printer where it won't use 3rd party ink.

So now the consumer is in this position where if they could get the printer to use 3rd party ink, and the printer dies, the printer company can't void the warranty due to 3rd party ink; but because of DRM and DMCA chances are the user can't legally compel the printer to use 3rd party ink anyway.
The better copywriter wins the election
Would you hire someone if they told you that their cover letter was written by an expert speech writer? Maybe not.

It's interesting that all over the world, an individual can be hired to run a nation depending on how good their speech writer is.

It's election season and once again the masses are depositing truckloads of hope into people who may or may not be able to do what they promise.

Whoever invented modern day politics must have been a genius marketer.
Some exercise certainly helps long-term health. Calling it necessary greatly over states the importance, though.

And, I should be clear, I was saying "exercise" to refer to gym style exercise.
If I remember, that's one of the things Cheng has done. He tries to find companies currently facing threats from the same troll and share costs to drive the price of a suit under the (summed) price of settlement.

There's no real way for the defenders to make a profit, since getting damages out of the troll is basically impossible. And unfortunately, that means that even with pooled resources, trolls are purely a drag on the economy. But at least this way, they tend to lose and stop being a drag for the next guy.
Thanks for the contributions and for the example! I'm just getting started with React and its useful to see examples with integrating non-react JavaScript libraries like leaflet.
The streamingpocalypse first hit the record industry in the 1930s: radio
But it's still true that Musk believes he would out-execute anyone who takes his IP to try to copy and out-execute him, his cars, AND his batteries.
Mozilla has zero focus. Their constantly creating new online initiatives and abandoning old ones. It's like groundhog day.
It's OK to point something as "Completely wrong" and as a "Urban myth", but a source is appreciated.
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That's a nice way to put it, but it may not be that inevitable.

Here is a very simple idea: next time you talk to one of your friends who works at FB/Goog/etc. ask them pointedly how they can work at a place which obviously lacks any morals/ethics. Their first reaction would be to defend their actions, of course, but if a few people start doing this, my guess is that the message will start going up slowly but surely.

After all, what are they going to do? Stop having friends?

Those are the words that the head honchos at FB/Goog/.. etc are telling themselves about the viability of their privacy violations. At this point, no shame in turning it against them.
we're looking to support AWS Lambda, as well as other IaaS serverless implementations - but also give you "AWS Lambda in a box" for developer experience - but with devops transparency and control
>He took Zero Motorcycles from a battery pack that only went 40 miles to one that goes 120 miles while making the battery pack physically smaller.

And what did he actually do? lithium ION batteries have been increasing in capacity over the years and quite considerably, 18650's are now nearly 4 times the capacity they were introduced in.
I can't find anything he actually did other than hack batteries together to make "custom" packs, while this is some sort of an engineering achievement this is quite far from designing an actual battery.
Isn't this wording just a misunderstanding on the users' behalf? You download a messaging app, you want to message your friends, and it needs access to your contacts. I don't see this as being suspicious. In other apps such as a music player or photo viewer it may be suspicious, but a messaging app has a clear need to know who you can connect with, and I think Whisper Systems saying "We do not store your contacts..." should at least give them the benefit of the doubt (if that's not enough, you can always read the source or speak to Moxie yourself).

Seems like much ado about nothing.
This is a problem in general in math-based education, and sometimes in science also. The solution is problem-based teaching, where the problem is introduced before the solution. By establishing the need for something first, it makes it much more concrete.
Realms approach to conflict resolution is very different from what you see in products like Couch. Realm is an _object_ database, so in contrast to document databases where conflict resolution happens very coarse grained at the document level, in Realm it happens at the object level (and actually all the way down into individual properties).

This essentially means that the entire object graph is treated as one big CRDT [0], transparently handling conflict across individual objects, properties and relations.

When talking about ordering by time, both in the context of LWW and insertions in lists, we are talking about vector clock time, not necessarily device time (or though that is taken into account as well).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
Even if all it does for them is add another marketing channel for Disney content, it could be well worth its price.
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This is unbelievably stupid.
(1) Supersonic airplanes get incredibly hot, just by flying. Largest battery fire the world has ever seen?
(2) It would be impossible to manufacture.
(3) It would be too heavy to fly.
What did we all do in the past without those CRITICAL messaging services? Did people simply not communicate before IM apps were invented?
This may be a definition issue, so I'll give an example to explain it.

If someone makes $10/hour and they work 8 hours, they make $80.

If they work 10 hours at $10/hour here is the difference between overtime and not overtime:

With Overtime - $10/hour X 8 hours + $10/hour X 1.5 (overtime pay) X 2 hours = $110

Without Overtime - $10/hour X 8 hours + $10/hour X1.0 (reg pay) X 2 hours = $100

The worker still gets paid for 10 hours, but because the first worker gets overtime, they make an extra $10. The reason overtime exists is to prevent managers from requiring workers to work 16 hour days etc.
I'm young, so if I'm not coding at work, I would be doing it at home most of the week.

Travel is < 30 minutes each way.