skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From at least the late 90s to recently you were consistently getting more for less with hardware. Things were expensive as they came out, but then got cheaper than the previous alternative. The market moved from a school having a couple of slow computers to everyone having multiple supercomputers. Not only did they become faster but you could do more things with them. These days many things seem to be getting slightly better, but more premium and almost less capable. Upgrading a couple of year old smart phone or computer today isn't exactly a mind blowing experience.

"[...] formerly for the super-rich and making it accessible to the upper-middle class (eg: a private driver, a personal chef, custom-tailored clothing, custom paintings)"

Don't really buy it. Before it was only for the rich it was for everyone. You go to rural places that's how it works. The latest incarnation of modern society is, for better or worse, based on people having their own car, camera, kitchen and being able to buy the latest fashions.
I've had amazing results with Facebook ads. We usually turn 20$ into a couple of sales of 40$ items with high margins. I've got a new ad going up in 4 hours.

That being said, if the profit margin on the items wasn't so high it would be far worse. We're in a particularly good position that way. But on the other hand I haven't done alot of analytics or improvement on the ads either.
A capitalist economy is an "empathy vacuum". This is just more vilification of Silicon Valley in the midst of the post-Trump election, where coastal residents are mad "fake news" and social media organized "flyover" states into, well, voting for Trump, and are looking for someone convenient to blame for the fact that a marginalized semi-rural population organized against globalized interests. There is a lot of irony in the fact that most East Coast-based established media is spending all this time talking about how there is no empathy in Silicon Valley, when the people in the Rust Belt that voted Trump into office would say exactly the same thing about the New Yorker and its "elite" ilk.

There is nothing about Silicon Valley that has any less "empathy" than many non-tech organizations. If the financial incentive structure runs against this ideal of "empathy", it happens and is bound to happen. End of story.

The empathy vacuum is real in finance, politics, health insurance, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, law, law enforcement, and virtually any other large bureaucracy in which individual actions are rewarded in spite of impersonal behavior. At the end of the day, people are rewarded for what they bring to the economy, not the mental happiness of a populace, which is not always quantifiable or captured by the market.
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I'm glad I said a wrong thing on hackernews because I'm learning so many new things :)
Give me a break. Libertarians don't get to rewrite history on a whim.

There were massive and volatile crashes on the gold standard. Most famously, the Great Depression.
Why App Stores Need Progressive Pricing
> Only in theory.

Not really. For example you can create a startup that might help banks find dependable borrowers more effectively than FICO and you can totally decimate FICO.

When I arrived in this country and wanted to borrow to buy a car I did not have a FICO score but I had a very good job. I borrowed outside the conventional banking system with a little higher APR.

FICO is like cellphones or email that has won and become common because it is the best alternative than everything else. One can certainly refuse to use cellphones but then that life would be highly inconvenient indicating how much value cellphones have brought to our life. FICO similarly has brought a lot of value to our lives so much that living without it is highly inconvenient.

BTW living without FICO is simpler and pretty much common thing in USA. How do you think illegal immigrants, students, H4 dependents etc. do financial transactions ?
I was a bit taken back by it's pricing of $49 USD.

That's almost 70 Canadian dollars. I was expecting something around $19 USD.

In all it's shape or form, this is a great idea, credit card sized handheld gaming, can be put forgotten until you realize your phone is out of battery, and you suddenly have nothing to do. Also, I just love the small screen with it's tiny controllers, I can see myself playing Pokemon Blue on it.
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To be fair to @bbctol, I did add that in after I saw we were #1.
Static Ice does this nicely. When you hover over the pagination links it tells you what price range is covered by the products on that page:

http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=laptop&spos=3
$49 is pretty steep compared to a gameboy, which goes for $20, has a massive catalogue, affordable flashcarts, and several decent toolchains (I personally reccomend WLA-DX). And it also doubles as an excellent music production platform (provided you like chiptunes) thanks to LSDJ.

The GBA goes for similar prices, and has similar benfits (and yes, it's got a solid toolchain). Plus, it plays all the old gameboy games, so all of the above applies (although LSDJ is a royal pain to use on the original GBA, as it assumes a standard GB button layout. Nanoloop has a version explicitly for the GBA, which takes advantage of the new sound hardware, but Nanoloop carts are very expensive).
> we are in the stone ages when it comes to spaceflight

Indeed, only 59 years since we first put something into earth orbit.

We're just getting warmed up!
Of course, here you go my friend. Remember, all these media companies are owned by a handful of companies. Why would they report on their own corruption? Of course they wouldn't. That's why you don't hear about it from them.

A few examples of many:

Campaign staff discussing how to blunt the successful Bernie Sanders attack that cast Clinton as the "establishment" candidate. Their strategy involved getting bloggers and columnists to "write about this from a racial justice and reproductive rights perspective, including a few people who joined us on a call to talk about the "Bernie Backlash" that was unfolding even before his remarks last night—current list is Elianne Ramos [HuffPo], Jessica Valenti [Guardian] (who is writing a column on this as we speak), Jamil Smith [MTV/Viacom], Sady Doyle [Guardian, The Atlantic], Aminatou Sow, Gabe Ortiz [WaPo, Univision], and others". /podesta-emails/emailid/56243

Lisa Lerer (AP) writing an article about Clinton's "Wall Street problem" is asking campaign staff how she should characterize her article: "she is asking if we wish to characterize her remarks in any way." /podesta-emails/emailid/36373

Campaign staff for one candidate are being given the opportunity (CNN) to provide with questions to ask another candidate in an upcoming interview. /dnc-emails/emailid/27526

Mark Leibovich (NYT) allowing campaign staff to edit his article - literally picking what to include and what not to include in the article. /podesta-emails/emailid/4213

Party staff saying Kenneth Vogel (Politico) gave her his story in advance, and that if there's anything the campaign doesn't like, she can "push back". /dnc-emails/emailid/10808

And of course the infamous Donna Brazile (DNC/CNN) getting caught red handed giving debate questions in advance multiple times, and was subsequently fired from CNN.

Also worth mentioning remembering they were pulling the same tricks and more on Bernie. The head of DNC was fired because of emails that showed the supposed neutral DNC was in fact fully against Bernie.
Wow, what an empty article. An official unwilling to be identified asserts the default (not tampered with), and then implies malicious intent on Russia's behalf as if it were a side note.

If we have a credible reason to think Russia is unilaterally attacking our infrastructure in a way we don't do to other nations (e.g. reading tapping their president's phone) then please provide the evidence to the public straight up. Otherwise, don't insinuate.
Hi dozzie, you certainly got a point. We wanted to clarify our mission first and then progressively publish articles.

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In our post mortems we tried using "How come .." instead of "why" for a while but the wording was a bit to awkward.

"For what reason .." is a great starting point I think -- thanks a lot!

It really shifts the perspective to objectively look at the "thing", without having too much ego on the line
I'm not sure if you are referring to this, but:

https://github.com/thseiler/embedded/tree/master/avr/2boots

Basically - there are bootloaders available that can flash from an SD card...
Can anyone comment on the Blackberry Priv? The article mentioned it, and I know their security goes down to hardware level and what they claim is a secure manufacturing process, but all I know is what they claim ...
>You can most definitely not set up your first campaign, pick the first targeting criteria that comes to mind, and expect good results with a positive ROI within the same day.

I have actually literally done this. Just took a stab at an audience, got sales that justified the ad right away.

But we're in a great position with profit margins. They're hand assembled craft items that people generally buy for gifts or weddings, so cost to make is low and sell price is pretty good. Businesses that require high volume on low margins would have a much worse time.
That is why the word "maybe".

Of course given the way China works miffing the government actually means an existential threat. Unlike American who take for granted things like trial by jury, protection from cruel punishment, unauthorized searches etc. Chinese people dont have any such rights. By default they live because the government lets them.

We would never know he full extent of such score keeping.
C got ubiquitous well before Linux, at least. I'd date it back to the '80s on microcomputers ( mostly meaning DOS) .

Lots of Pascal, but Pascal really was an engineering constraint at the time if you were doing actual system
programming. And back then, that was a serious consideration.
That cost is primarily borne by those in undeveloped regions, where 0.2-2.0% of average global annual income can easily equal >= 100% of local income.

Further, from the report (emphasis theirs):

> It is very likely that globally aggregated figures underestimate the damage costs because they cannot include many non-quantifiable impacts. It is virtually certain that aggregate estimates of costs mask significant differences in impacts across sectors, regions, countries and populations.

It's extremely disingenuous to provide the 0.2-2.0% figure without the massive footnote that this is a stark underestimate.
I don't think these kind of simplistic characterizations are the least bit helpful. This particular regulatory outcome is atypical, and furthermore you're ignoring the rather significant body of tort law and its impact on theories of legal liability, even though the state is rarely a party to product liability lawsuits.

More and more, every time I hear the word 'simple' it's followed by some irrational bullshit. It's becoming my least favorite word.
>open sores

>lulzy

>the overall general tone

What next, "ayyymd" and "nvidia bankrupt and finished" threads?

Why is this /g/-tier opinion piece in HN?
I would bet a lot of money that it's more than 40 seconds when the app is a professional tool and the target audience is software developers.
It would be nice, and is certainly the result I hope for (with all the good wishes do), as I'm not sure we will work very well with slow and expensive growth. Reading 'Against a Dark Background' was certainly interesting as it considers a system which essentially has its growth capped by the distance between itself and the rest of the universe.
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My (to be fair, minor) issue with gift cards is that they're essentially saying "hey, have some money...but you can only spend it at this one place of my choosing, not yours"

It's often a lot easier to know someone well enough to know which store gift card is something they'd be likely to use by choice than to get a more specific gift right.
Hi, I'm Justin. I co-created the game with John. It certainly crossed our miiiiind that a post like this would give us some "earned media" but we certainly would have wished it was a rosier story.
When you do a promotion on amazon, they also list your game under in that 'Sponsored Products Similar to This One section' . That's where most of the clicks come from.
As an aside, this is how null is defined in many languages as well. Many behaviors of SQL, for instance, are much more intuitive if you remember that SQL sees null as "unknown".

If a boolean value is null in SQL, it conceptually means it could be either true or false - it's a maybe. If you ask "is maybe true equal to maybe true", the answer is "maybe". Likewise, asking SQL 'null = null", it answers "null", instead of true/false.
To be fair, it's an abandoned reseller.
It's not that simple. These sensitivities don't come out of nowhere. People learn to communicate in different environments, and so in a new environment, they can often make a lot of incorrect inferences.

If someone is defensive at what you think are innocent questions, it's probably because they're used to communicating with people who only ask questions like that when they think something is wrong. In that context, trying to work out what the other person thinks is wrong and respond to it is potentially a more effective way to communicate than simply answering the question as posed.

So if you encounter such a person, you can sneer and blame their inexperience if you like (and you're probably correct), but it's probably more effective to try and adapt your own communication.
I wish this thing wasn't the size of a credit card; I mean - I understand cuteness and marketability and everything...

...but with buttons that small and close together, for me it would be painful to play for any long period. Heck, I didn't play my gameboy color for long because it's smaller size caused my thumbs to ache after a while.

Maybe my hands are just too big.
> Micro:bit has a display,

On

> http://microbit.org/about/

I only see 25 programmable LEDs, but no display.
You'd need a lot of auxiliary knowledge outside of that. Perhaps FPGA programming, perhaps even hardware development.
I don't know why this isn't more upvoted. As an SF resident I can confirm that this happened over the holiday (Friday) (I heard a muni station agent mentioned the word hacked, all the gates were open and said "free"). Plus the article has a photo of proof.

The gates seem to be working as of this morning though... I wonder if they paid?
That's a beautifully simple analogy.
Yes (Rust's "unsafe" blocks serve the same purpose), and my point is you're narrowing the definition of "explicit" to exclude C or C++ by definition. And that isn't exactly a fair, in my view.
You still have the source?
Simple -- people tend to think in the gutter, because there's no harm in it. I can wish you dead right now, and it will literally not materialize into anything, and because of that, I may not even feel bad about it. A problematic situation arises when thinking about something is pretty much all you have to do to make it so. There's a lot of good, and also a lot of bad that come from having that power.
You have depression, and it's warping your thinking whenever you think about yourself. A sample size of 20 is tiny, and you can adjust your CV/resume.

It may be helpful for you to imagine a friend who is in your situation, and to think about what advice you would give them. It's a quick hack to get around the way that depression localizes on the self. So, pretend I had posted this, instead of you, what would you tell me?
How about something else that is not the daily fail?
It seems to already be implemented in https://docs.rs/seahash/2.1.1/src/seahash/.cargo/registry/sr...

But it only seeds one of the lanes, so you can still make collisions trivially in one of the other lanes. I guess it could still be useful for namespacing.
Windows 10 Mobile is not subject to these issues. Windows 10 Mobile has more restrictions on manufacturers than older versions, hence why they're "stuck behind".

Any OEM, for instance, that didn't give up control of software updates, couldn't get Windows 10. Even 8 had some more leeway, Dev Preview could install over the OEM build whether the OEM drivers were ready for it or not.
One tip would be get it in front of the guys at the d6 generation and some of the other mini/ board game podcasters.

If you get over to games expo in the UK I will have to buy you a beer
Cold Fusion Lives?
I've been enrolled in an MS Statistics program part-time while working full-time. I'm around half-way done, and by the end it will have taken me three years total taking two classes at a time, although that includes a few extra courses beyond what the program strictly requires.
LetsEncrypt actually has multiple options available for validation. Only one challenge type, http-01, requires port 80 to be open. Another, tls-sni-01, requires port 443. dns-01 requires configuration of your DNS provider. I personally make use of tls-sni-01 and dns-01 in different situations.
You write a good comment, I don't know why you were down voted.
That video is well worth a watch, but to summarise it: the channel owner's users are predominantly first-world and engage with his channel to some degree. He purchased FB advertising to promote his channel, and got a huge amount of traffic 'from' third-world locations that didn't engage (leave comments, etc) and that came from content-free FB accounts that liked hundreds to thousands of FB pages with no particular pattern.

Couldn't be more obviously a scam if it was twirling a waxed moustache.
Yessir - I was drawing that from the article. His principle thing seems to be "end the Fed" and the FDIC thing was presented as a secondary consideration in the article.
The most successful company will raise $0, in theory. Raising more money from bigger names is not a metric of success. It's not an indicator that you're going to succeed or not. In fact, it may indicate that your goal is harder, since your product doesn't immediately generate revenue and prove itself to be profitable.

If you want to raise a friends/family round (the size and terms work for you), then do it. Stop thinking about whether your round looks like success or not. Again, you'd be better off if you were cash-flow positive and didn't need to raise at all.

I would say, though, that friends/family rounds are a great way to destroy relationships with friends/family if they're not absolutely loaded. Startups are one of the worst and riskiest investment vehicles, and you don't want someone with < $1M in assets to lose, say, $50k on your startup.
Hi, I'm Justin. I co-created the game with John. Both of us used to travel the country for work and would drop off copies at any cafe we'd see!
Yep. Not under this name though.
A trade deficit has a well-defined meaning, and describes a thing that does really exist. It must, of necessity, be offset by a net capital flow from the partner with the surplus to the one with the deficit (usually, in the form of increased foreign ownership of firms and property in the country with the deficit.)

It's can't be made up for in financial services, because trade in services, including financial, are included in the calculation of the deficit or surplus.
Ahh I see, I can imagine that being a pain (especially with the clipboard). Nice app!
ESP32, the successor to the ESP8266, has both WiFi and Bluetooth, but it's fairly expensive.
Newly discovered router flaw being hammered by in-the-wild attacks
Venezuela's currency now worth so little shopkeepers weigh vast piles of notes
You can ride along with Voyager in "Eyes on the Solar System" (https://eyes.nasa.gov) It's an open world Solar system with NASA missions and imagery.
Yeah, I may be eating my words in a few years but I figure I should at least try it out before going down the code monkey rabbit hole.
College teaching is not easy, for a number of reasons. One suggestion I would make is that every college teacher should be required to take course in public speaking.
Oh yeah. I've def click on other people's Facebook ads. It's not a skill that I had and we didn't have the bankroll for me to get good at it.
> Does anyone know what's "normal" for a startup coming out of an accelerator?

Most startups I've seen out of YC get the bulk from accredited investors

> Would it be a red flag for future investors if we raised from friends/family at this point?

The only true red flag is a product that users don't love or no growth

Amazon's first funding came from Bezos' parents. Friends and family funding won't kill your company
Interesting insights. There's a lot to unpack here, but ultimately it boils down to working with, and creating, a "bicycle for the mind." The computer is one such example of such a technology, but so are the software programs it runs, as are art forms and language.
Someone should go in there and get those posters from the "Think Different" campaign. They're collector's items!
I agree that in some markets the airbnb prices are close cheap hotels. From my experience, I used to use Airbnb in Paris (France) and for the past 2 years, I ended up in an hotel, since it was cheaper.
Now, hotels pricing is way more flexible when it comes to react to low demand. Airbnb hosts, do not adjust as well or as quickly to the seasonal (even week day vs. weekend) nature of hospitality.
Airbnb is not always the cheaper option vs. hotels.
I won't bother making the wide array of arguments, they're already well and truly made during discussions of sugar taxes that various nations around the world are considering.

For US readers, many other nations don't quite have the same fierce focus on 'our freedoms' and so there's far more acceptance of government interventions for the 'greater good'.
If userland processes are passing unauthorized commands to PCI devices, you have bigger problems.
The guidelines do not ban politically charged content; they only ban political content that is not "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Flagging all political content is not consistent with that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hey, this is Andrew (Acre Founder). Thanks for the comments.

Price is entirely depended on location, in Kansas City (our original hometown), our homes are in the upper most price tier. In the Bay Area we are at or below market rate for typical homes and significantly under for anything comparable in quality and efficiency.

In Austin and Portland (our other two focus markets for 2017) we are about at parity and a good fit for the sustainable cultures.

But alas, we are not currently a fit everywhere and for every home buyer. It's part of our vision, but just like Tesla, we have to focus on a higher end product before we can create the every-mans product.

Regarding commute, we have an option to easily and affordably add capacity to allow for 6,000 miles of EV charging with ability to go beyond. Tis the future.

Keep posted next year for our tech that stretches beyond our own walls.
Buy and selling old cars/bikes is also cost effective in some countries.
By the definition of science you are using, wouldn't much of climate science, oceanography, geology, astronomy, cosmology, paleontology, and archaeology not be science? In all of those fields we have limited if any ability to conduct experiments.
I doubt they'll even debate it. And on the off chance they do, it'll be a "we understand the concern, but it's needed and your data will be safe".

Frightening, really.