skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has kept the previous year's model around at a lower price for a long time, but with limited storage options it was obviously positioned as being only for people who couldn't afford to pay any more.

Or who didn't need or want anything more. Most of my older relatives would be with a 16 or 32GB iPhone SE for example.

This year I can't even decide for myself whether to get a X, an 8, or just stick with my 6+. If someone asks me whether the X is worth the price premium over the 8, or the 8 over the 7, I won't know what to say.

Yeah, I get the price/performance thing, but at the end of the day, it comes down to do you want the latest and greatest? Is that something you're willing to pay for?

When Apple Pay shipped, I knew I wanted an iPhone that could do that, so I got a 6s, even though I could have gotten a lower-end model. I knew I didn't want something as big as the 6s Plus, so I didn't get that, even with its dual camera setup, because the photos I can take on the 6s are good enough for me.

It's not a matter of is the price premium of the X worth it vs. the 8 in some objective way; is it worth it to you is all that really matters.

If you can't figure out what to buy, that says to me you haven't gotten clear about what you need vs. what you want and what you're willing to pay for those needs and wants.

Touch-ID works great for me, so I don't need Face-ID. However, I'd love to have an OLED screen iPhone but I'm not willing to pay $999 for it at this time.

Timing is a factor too. If you need a new iPhone right now, that means waiting until December or longer to get an iPhone X isn't really an option, especially if there's a hard deadline. Apple won't achieve supply/demand balance until Q1 or Q2 of 2018.

In some cases, these decisions make themselves.
> if they infringe on one of my patents

Well, the implicit assumption behind FB's bsd+patents license is that you should be ok with anyone "infringing" on your software patents, since software patents are mostly bullshit and you only acquired them to be used in defense (i. e. never suing someone first). That license doesn't make any sense if you believe otherwise.
please send your deck to dy@deepmagic.io, we might work something out
But how exactly does an ACH transfer work? I assume it can’t be done anonymously. Wouldn’t it be incredibly simple to find the culprit and reclaim the funds (using the article’s gas station clerk example)?
I think if you polled American's on whether the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21, most people, if not a significant majority would probably be in favor of it. In fact, a majority have probably violated such a law.

If it turns out true, then it means there's something fundamentally wrong with the legal and voting system where somehow it completely restricts itself from the ability to enact a change in the laws in this area. And if this can't be achieved, there's no hope for any progressive drug use laws.
> You'll probably work, but may not be able to replicate the same financial success you experienced previously, so it's hard to count on future income.

If that is the case, then you should focus on learning how to invest properly and on achieving, say, 10% annual returns yourself (i.e. without having to pay bank fees for subpar investment advice, which is what you usually get).

Just because you made bank doesn't mean you have to get all conservative. Or at least, I wouldn't.

One example: you could make calculated bets when there's "blood on the streets", e.g. wait (for years) until the market crashes, but when it does, leverage up that $14m to $50m and book a nice 20-30-40% gain.

Or acquire an existing company using mostly debt (and a bit of equity), etc
[Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat as an OpenShift Consultant]

The truth is a bit more nuanced as Kubernetes and OpenShift are actually made up of dozens of projects and integrations. Our company contributes to (as upstreams) in support of our OpenShift Enterprise offering: Kubernetes, Linux kernel, HAProxy, Jenkins, Hawkular, Heapster, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, FluentD, Kibana, Jenkins, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Ansible, Go-lang, and probably many more. We do almost all of our work completely in the open (our docs, container images, templates, examples, blogs) via github and trello. In fact, you can run just about the same OpenShift (officially called OpenShift Container Platform (OCP or OSCP) or OpenShift Enterprise (OSE)) we sell by using our upstream project for it, OpenShift Origin [0][1]. If that looks complicated, you can try minishift [2][3] to start which also has an upstream Kubernetes project in minikube [4].

In terms of superset vs. fork: it's not quite a superset because almost everything we commit to OpenShift gets committed to Kubernetes and/or vicea versa. You can almost always say if it works in OpenShift, it works in Kubernetes; if it works in Kubernetes, it works in OpenShift.

It's not really a fork either (as we say often "Best idea wins!") and so our people (including management!) try to make sure we are adding value to Kubernetes so that our customers & the community can then extract that value. OpenShift/Kubernetes metrics is one place that affects me & my customers that we're following the community's lead on that and implementing new developments in OpenShift as Tech Previews when appropriate. Our code is not diverging from Kubernetes as much as you might think in supporting some of the "enterprise" features we've added.

So, I would say OpenShift is a Distro of Kubernetes in the same ways RHEL, SuSE, et. al., are GNU/Linux Distros. You might say Kubernetes provides the "kernel" for a modern Data Center (compute resource scheduling and management, internal/external data structures and interfaces to use such compute resources). OpenShift is intended to help provide everything else you expect your data center to do for you or to support your Application Development in Java, .Net, node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, etc (UI & CLI management interfaces, simplified build and deployment processes (S2I), Jenkins integration, external logging integration, external monitoring integration, sample 12 Factor Applications, etc.). We partner with companies when they want help bringing on their storage systems, frameworks, databases, applications, etc., just like you'd expect when companies provide drivers for their databases, hardware, or storage systems for OS kernels.

[0] https://www.openshift.org/

[1] https://github.com/openshift/origin

[2] https://docs.openshift.org/latest/minishift/getting-started/...

[3] https://github.com/minishift/minishift

[4] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/
I could be wrong also, my remembered banker stories were about larger transactions, it's true.

(PS, why can't I reply to the comment to my comment? I guess I don't comment enough to understand HN :-)
> Where's the CSS declaration that tells Safari to make those pixels black so no one has to care about this?

body { background-color: black; }
And Gitlab server, the actual app, is written in Ruby.
This claim sounds like a post-hoc rationalization... Should this not be applicable to any type of engineering? "The industry pushes for more STEM education so they have access to cheaper engineering labor force". Yet engineering of any type is fairly well paid (of course it could be better, there are way too many things that could and should be better).

And the point of modern education is not simply to create a work force (this is way too cynical). The fact that it creates a population of well rounded individuals necessary for a functioning rational democracy seems quite a bit more important.
This is not how paid software development works (beyond maybe stealth mode/no customers start-ups- if you have no money then you do what you have to). If you have a going business, the trade-off is totally in favor of paying someone not at your company to do this sort of thing.

All up, even a new grad (= the cheapest you will find) in $NotSeattleOrSVButStillUS costs your company about one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year (more in SV or Seattle). You could have one of them spend several months coming up to speed on how to fix weird device driver issues necessary to get the latest kernel patches to run on your DB server, which costs you minimum 50k and gives you tremendous risk (what happens if a necessary security patch comes out while she is on vacation? If you train two people that's twice the costs.) Or you pay someone else to worry about that. Red Hat will charge you 2k for patches for a year for a standard server and if it doesn't work, will fix it.

If writing OS network stacks are a part of your company's core mission, go ahead and do it. If the one sentence description of where your companies money comes from doesn't mention anything in kernel land, having programmers spin up on that is a waste of their time and your money. You cut RH a check and get your programmers to write you something that does bring in money, because every minute they spend porting in patches is a minute they aren't earning you money.

As a side note, if your business plans for your developers to be working on a weekend you work for a terrible business and all the employees should leave and go to a place where they aren't exploited.
Rotten Tomatoes is owned by a Time Warner and Comcast, they're ratings now end up wildly biased. That's why there are so many decent movies that end up being '93%' etc.

MetaCritic is owned by CBS

Looks like this controversial for some reason.

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

"since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, which was, in turn, acquired in 2011 by Warner Bros. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities"

Rotten Tomatoes now uses 'Top Critics' to compile their overall score instead of 'All Critics'. This distinction didn't originally exist.
I too want to work in tooling. Sadly, we are just animals and want features faster rather than having a low memory footprint (don't know how I'd do it to be honest but I'm sure desktop apps should be leaner than they are now). I mean even gnome feels pretty bloated to be honest.

I think the problem is we are too accepting. We should put our foot down and say no. No to two clipboards on the same system. No to Eudora or whatever running in the background even though you haven't set up an email account with it. No to apps having ability to access the Internet or run at boot or run in background by default.

The problem is if I try to implement this, my best hope is to fracture everything further and realistically I will fail and have no users.
"Code is governance" -- the article does support the idea of cryptocurrency as fiat money because the laws, in this case, are the code. The developers and miners, no matter their good intentions, do hold power over the currency that everyday investors do not have. No matter how egalitarian the distributed ledger set up looks on paper, we'd be remiss to think the power structures behind cryptocurrencies are so radically different from the fiat currencies developed in the past and used at present. With time, especially if the cryptocurrency bubble pops, we'll be sure to see those structures made more explicit than they seem now.
>Not once did wealth, influence or ability to pay impact our recruitment decisions

Yet, I don't imagine you would want to trade places with any of the guys you blackballed from your friendly club. Having been a navy fighter pilot, are you really going to try to tell me, with a straight face, about how hard it was to pay for school or fit in?
APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective
It's worse. Continuous deflation (increasing real value) is a very undesirable characteristic for a currency as it dis-incentivizes the actual use of said currency. Why spend money on anything not absolutely essential if the money itself will appreciate in value more than any investment you can make with it, and with no risk?

It might be okay for domain specific uses but for general purpose currency use it's awful. If the world ran on Bitcoin as presently implemented we would enter a permanent depression.

(Too much inflation is also really bad, but Bitcoin definitely doesn't have that problem.)

I'm very bullish on the idea of cryptocurrencies and the technology of block chains, but I regard Bitcoin as kind of a proof of concept toy. It's version 0.1 alpha of something that might someday change the world.
Tell me about these policies. Why are the French policies repressive
John+McCain+Saves+The+Day+AGAIN+Why?+-+freedomfortheoppressed
I prefer to watch Cinema Sins on youtube, its more entertaining than the movies it describes.
more info => dy@deepmagic.io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSNwBgO5qVY
Making 14m on a startup is 1/100 shot. Like taking a hundred sided die and nailing it. THEN, you are asking if you should push in all your chips, roll the die again, in another gamble. That is completely insane. The amount of founders that lose big because of greed could fill AT&T Stadium. I know what you are thinking: this isn't luck. Perfect, then you will have no problem doing it again.
The latest iTunes update removes the possibility to handle apps though.
For a great demo of an analog video graphics processor looking at itself, and a deep explanation of the chaos theory behind video feedback, to some cool mesmerizing boop boopity boop electronic music, check out Jim Crutchfield's video, "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kn3djJMCE

"Self-Organization and Pattern Formation in an Image Processing System"

"A video camera views its monitor: information flows in a closed optical-electronic loop"

Here is his paper about it that he published in Physica (1984):

http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/Crutchfield.PhysicaD1984....

SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS IN VIDEO FEEDBACK

James P. Crutchfield

Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

Video feedback provides a readily available experimental system to study complex spatial and temporal dynamics. This
article outlines the use and modeling of video feedback systems. It includes a discussion of video physics and proposes two
models for video feedback dynamics based on a discrete-time iterated functional equation and on a reaction-diffusion partial
differential equation. Color photographs illustrate results from actual video experiments. Digital computer simulations of the
models reproduce the basic spatio-temporal dynamics found in the experiments.

http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/

A great youtube comment on the video:

Ross Oldenburg

Crutchfield's paper is massively influential for video artists. I've done very similar things to this. The key is to have an image processing system in the feedback loop. In this case, he's using a Sandin IP (you can see it at 1:05), which is an early video synthesizer (that you had to build yourself. there weren't even kits. Just a manual). That's where the colors are coming from, and I would guess the black and white fields that are obscuring parts of the image at points. I would bet he's using a black and white camera, too. To pull of video feedback like this successfully, you need to have control over all aspects of the video signal and you need a camera that allows you to manually control the iris and focus. That said, it's amazing and a lot of fun. And LZX industries makes something similar to the Sandin IP today.﻿

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qh6jRzjmcY
> But how exactly does an ACH transfer work?

If you want this from a developer perspective, the subject is discussed in great detail in the following blog post series.

How ACH works: A developer perspective - Part 1 => http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

How ACH works: A developer perspective - Part 2 => http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

How ACH works: A developer perspective - Part 3 =>
http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

How ACH works: A developer perspective - Part 4 => http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

and

HN Meta Discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636066
The only interesting thing about this non-issue is that people brought it up without realizing how they were embarrassing themselves. Talk about a middlebrow dismissal.
From https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/explaining-r...

> As our business has become successful, we've become a larger target for meritless patent litigation. This type of litigation can be extremely costly in terms of both resources and attention. It would have been easy for us to stop contributing to open source, or to do what some other large companies do and only release software that isn't used in our most successful products, but we decided to take a different approach.

Never heard Facebook answer: why didn't they just follow Red Hat's model and make a "Patent Promise"[1]?

Then accumulation of software patents would help deter meritless litigation while staying out of the way of FLOSS developers getting their work done.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/patent-promise
Cartels or not, you can't have success by attacking primarily the supply side of this trade.
I would stay with Vue. While the react world is bugger it's mostly made up of competing solutions instead of distinct tasks.

That said, this healthy Vue/Angular/React competition has been great for us devs.
Did this come out of Amazon ?
I remember a similar set of tools for passing along "recs" through pipes.
My claim is not that attacks don't happen, my claim is that your original statement ("There is a correlation between the % of Muslim population and # of acid attacks") is unsupported. You are creating a strawman of my argument to fight. I never claimed anything else, and your rant is totally off-point. You are the one making the claim, you are the one who can't back it up.

You then proceed to say we are talking about London - your statement was not bounded to London - if your correlation only holds in London, why is that? That implies that there is another factor influencing things, and only further undermines your link.

Again, you then go on to continue to rant about positive claims - the statement I am arguing was not "acid attacks have happened", it was the one given above, which is not proven by a single positive example. You are not presenting evidence to back up the statement you made.

And then you go into further rants about reporting - which is all totally irrelevant. You can't make broad claims about groups of people based on any reporting like that. It is clear the data can be misleading because of why and how those stories are chosen. Again, you keep falling back to "you can't say this didn't happen" - no one was claiming that! I said I never saw it happen in locations I lived to show the pointlessness of your anecdotal evidence - there is selection bias at play, and it's too small a sample. I'm not claiming they never happened, just that your argument does not prove the point you made. Just because it happened, and was reported on, does not prove a causal link or even a correlation.

Let me make this clear: You made a claim ("There is a correlation between the % of Muslim population and # of acid attacks") with no evidence. If you want to say something like that, you need proof. That is what I have been saying - very clearly - all along.
People like drugs because they allow an escape from their normal lives, which they don't like. Boredom, depression, etc. Read about the rat park experiment, rats like being high too if their lives suck.
There literally is no way to get an amount of "active wallets". First, what constitutes active? Second, what defines a wallet? For me, one address is a specific wallet, and I use an HD for different things.

If you look at the bottom of [1], you'll see it's pretty hard to get just a "volume" metric as well.

[1]: https://blockchain.info/charts
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Stop teaching kids anything! It will just make wages go down! If you teach every kid to read and write, it will proletarianize the scribes! </sarcasm>

Seriously, though, this is the lump of labor fallacy. There are not a fixed number of jobs that require programming skills. This is a well-known fallacy, and people should not be making arguments that have been discredited for >100 years.
Sounds like the confessions of a heroin dealer!

5:21 "The true skill of the flying asshole wipe is in the timing."
People that didn't mess up their brains with bad choices
It's because a smoker, you can be pretty sure, is someone who knows how to say "Fuck it." Oh I'm shortening my precious, precious life on this wondrous planet? Fuck it! They are adherents to not-caring or at least to not-caring-overmuch. Disciples of doing what you want, not what you're supposed to.

They're also practiced at sharing and sharing alike, and the social rituals that go with it. And they know man is powerless - the addiction teaches them that. They become Zen masters by accident (the best way).

The ones who insist on a measure of control, eventually quit.
I think dogecoin failed to go anywhere at least partly because it was a literal memecoin.

Certainly made it hard for me to take it seriously as a semi-layman at the time.
I didn't quite follow joshstrange's accounting so I don't know if this is what he's describing, but (unless it's been changed recently), in some states it's legal for manufacturer of an expensive medication to give coupons to customers to reimburse them for their copay.

This sounds like a nice, generous thing to do, but basically it means that the drug company is bribing the customer to force their insurance company to spend more money on their behalf.

So, imagine that a drug costs $1000 and the customer's copay is $200. The drug company can give the customer a $200 coupon to recover their copay and then raise the price of the drug to $1200. They've basically shifted the price from the customer (who decides whether or not to get the drug and is probably very sensitive to price) to the insurer. They make the same profit, but can probably sell to a lot more customers because it's "free". While they're at it, they could raise the price to $1500 or $2000, and it's still free to the customer.

I think this is a corrupt practice and it's crazy that it's even legal, but it's just one small part of the complexity and perverse incentives of our health care system.
> German measles “Liberty measles.”

odd thing to rename.

reminds me of freedom fries.
I fear the conclusion here does not stand the test of reality either, sadly, as many quality films have gone overlooked by audiences despite fantastic word of mouth and reviews. Is big part of it the terrible taste of the audience? I'm sure. Is there a new trend of the same audience to spend less on cinema? Yes, but it may not be due to the low quality output (hasn't stopped them before). I think television—including Netflix, Hulu, etc.—is the culprit. There is just so much quality television being produced, that people don't want to leave the house. Much more convenient, cheaper, etc. Let's hope this quality television brushes on the taste of the audience and it demands similar rise in quality from films.
Cool attack and nice write-up. It's always interesting to see how so much information can be extracted through so restricted a channel.