skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry to break it to you some citizens can be traitors relaying on the "I know his people" and he's a good chap belongs to the right club does't work as a vetting procedure as we found in the UK with the cambridge 5 and others
So don’t sell in the App Store. Set up all that distribution, collect correct sales taxes for every country in the world, accept payment from anywhere — deal with a potentially high rate of chargebacks and the fees associated with that, also create a search and discover platform so that people can find your game nobody ever heard of until they visited the App Store. Also, do it in nearly every language on the planet, accepting almost every currency. Also handle actually hosting your content and securing downloads to boot authorized devices.

I’m not sure 30% is expensive enough compared to doing all of that yourself.

Dark Room would not have sold $800,000 anywhere else. The author even said Google Play was an order of magnitude less than Apple.. so is an order of magnitude worth 30%? It seems like a lot of people would trip over a dollar to save a nickel.
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Cars also wear over time and the onboard computers might retard the timing and your performance or fuel mileage might suffer but I don't see people complaining about that.
Well, you've come with a great idea and you seem to be upset by the fact the DT team did not put enough efforts to reach your idea. The good news is that the team is always searching for help. There is a page[1] which describe how to contribute.

You can also contact the team to propose your help[2]. Maybe it is time for you to give back to an open source project with great features by offering your copywriting skills.

[1] https://www.darktable.org/development/

[2] https://www.darktable.org/contact/
For more substance and less self-promotion, see her master's thesis here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.929...

There's also a better graphical overview of the signs here: https://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com.br/2014/08/ge...
We had dinner once at his suggestion. He wanted to pick my brains about where I work.

He speaks a lot faster than I do, which is not something I'm used to. We exchanged Flandersian fusillades of words (including some about the relative speed of talking in different places, languages and scenarios).

He's legit. We'd struggle as a programming pair, though. Both too keen to hold the lock on the talkbit.
>To be fair, I think the parent poster is not suggesting that you retire outright with $750k in the bank, but work independently "free of bosses".

Honestly I don't know what he is suggesting or not suggesting, but the reference to the Reddit group makes me think that he actually suggests about becoming "financially independent".

My note was however only about not taking the 4% and firecalc calculator (BTW very good) as an oracle.

More a reference to:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/292417-every-morning-in-afr...

than anything else.
So apple iphone was not magically faster than other phones because of better engineering?
To save others the pain of EETimes' annoying ass ad exploits:

1. Raspberry Pi Zero W -- $10
2: Asus Tinker Board -- $54.99
3: Marvell Espressobin -- $79.99
4: 96Boards HiKey 960 -- $239.99
5: PINE64 Rock64 -- $24.95
6: Orange Pi R1 -- $13.90
7: MYIR MYS-6ULX -- $24.80
8: LeMaker Banana Pi Pro -- $47.99
9: LattePanda -- $209
10: Sparkfun BBC micro:bit -- $17.50
> Why do you think millions of people bought an Echo Dot or a Google Home? Not from YOUR perspective, but from the perspective of millions of people that seem to see value in this product?

I enjoy the discussions here but the reaction of this niche audience is not a good predictor of how the average person will act. Most people don't understand how internet ads work or care that much about the privacy of mundane activities. Try asking some non-technical friends how Google or Facebook make money and then once you explain how ask if they care.

People buy these products because they're useful. They don't know about or care what the vocal minority that know about tech say.
Bemmu, you mentioned you tried YT ads. Have you tried to build an audience on YT? For example with unwrapping / “reviews” of some of the candies.

I know there are tons of people watching similar things (though my 1st hand exp is just seeing how my kid wants to spend infinite amount of time watching surprise eggs unwrapping).

Just a hunch, but that might have a bigger ROI than ads.

Thanks for the writeup, love the openness!
The reasonable consumer expectation here is that CPU speed is unaffected by device age, since reducing the speed by battery age is entirely new behavior (both in phones and other portable computing devices) AFAIK.

This is different from degrading _battery_ performance over time, which consumers have had plenty of experience with.
I feel the exact opposite. "Alexa" feels like a very clunky attempt to humanise something that isn't human.
You're assuming that these devices have anything to offer even if they worked.
On both of these platforms, ABIs and APIs are stable until you get to drawing. Which means you should probably use real process separation for the GUI - it has to be linked dynamically.
Archaeologists also aren't structural engineers, usually. So they often have quite different ways of approaching problems.

As an example of what happens when a structural engineer does some amateur archaeology, check out http://theoldexplorer.com/index.php/the-lost-secrets-of-maya...
Wouldn't you also get more hardware errors, causing e.g. sudden kernel panics and stuff like that? And wouldn't that damage the brand more than the speed improvement is worth?
I exercise because it's fun, and allows me to do fun things like hiking in the wilderness. It's much more fun to hike when fit. Also cardiovascular exercise improves many aspects of brain function, which I'd regard as a plus.
>I feel it's on us tech people to enable them the free speech they deserve.

It's clearly not a technical problem, so it's foolish to try to find a technical solution. This kind of silicon valley elitist Tellerism is doing more harm than good in cases like these.
And for me, Finland. I guess it picks the client location the same way online ads do.
It's more a mix of both than an either-or. In the western world we can see Huxley's vision much more dominantly, while in China / NK it's not far a stretch to full Orwellian.

However, Orwell's envisioned surveillance apparatus is ubiquitous all over the planet, no matter what nation you live in.
Is this the start of Prometheus??!
Was he paying his wife a salary? You have a very odd idea of marriage.
I don’t read the rest of W3C’s spec to be honest. It’s useful to have a brief summary of changes to see where things are heading (and any convenient changelog implies some kind of versioning), but I’d likely be checking MDN or WHATWG for specifics if something catches my eye.

For example, after I saw the new <dialog> tag in W3C’s changelog, I jumped to MDN to find a friendly overview of its usage and a compatibility table (spoiler, the tag isn’t supported by most major browsers).
I'm using a mix DT and Flickr for photo management. The import feature of DT is pretty decent and you can choose the folders structure you want. Once imported, I'm using tags extensively to categorize my photos. You can even automatically apply tags to imported photos.

Later, I export all my processed photos to Flickr[1] (1TB of space for free) and use their albums, tags, geolocation features to categorize them further. By processed photos, I mean photo I have reworked with DT (so not all my pictures, but the ones that really matter).

[1] https://www.flickr.com
As much as I would love for it to happen, why would they put the effort? Windows is still a second class citizen in the OCaml world.
You are missing the point. Even a random name wouldn't work when people talk about it. Alexa is the perfect example! Google did the right thing. Google home is what people talk about and "Ok Google" is what activities the device.
Dithering in image processing
Seems like well researched advice to me, but I literally know nothing about investment. Still, seems like you were being helpful so I upvoted you.
What are the corresponding Unicode code points?
Ok, that's a great policy story. Germany works hard, though. After all, this is the country that responded to a climate catastrophe by banning their only zero emissions source of baseload power!

The story behind the negative power price is a great example. This is some delightful spin by the NYT on what is an awful situation here in the country.

The economist[1] has a great little explanation about how the Energiewende fucks Germans into paying more per kWh, earning lower profit per kWh , and producing more CO2 per kWh, all at once. And it takes tax money away from productive uses, to boot! It's not often that a single piece of law can screw EVERYONE. But that's German ingenuity!

[1] https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/12/e...
Reminds me of xkcd "Random Number": https://xkcd.com/221/
Then you run into the systemic failures of the current political and electoral systems in the US (and some other countries with electoral systems dating back to a similar period) - that voting for a third-party candidate is to throw away your vote for the most acceptable of the two "provided" candidates, and practically guarantee that the least acceptable wins due to the divide in votes.

There are, of course, a variety of electoral systems that allow and encourage third-party candidates to have a chance, but it's very, very hard to change an electoral system that got everyone in the political system where they are, to one which provides them new competition. See parallels with regulatory capture.
It's Google not Amazon.
No, as long as antennas and signal power is concerned, I stand by what I said: every improvement in transmission power has a equivalent improvement in receiving power. If you have a more specific doubt, please, feel free to ask.
He could probably build a sizable business sending out used panties every month. Or maybe I'm projecting.
Yeah. One could argue that if you are getting hardware errors you are already at the red line (and not just close to it).

Regarding damage: It depends what your goal is. Some people want to get as much performance out of the CPU as possible since they maybe upgrade after a year or two anyway. Some people even try to set records by using crazy cooling systems.
I am just amazed how much this pretty simple technique gives to the quality of an image after a heavy color-space compression.

And the Hilbert curve finds application in dithering [1] as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve#Applications_and...
Let's be honest, weeaboos make a poor target market to base any business on. No real purchasing power other than the allowance they get from their parents or perhaps a burger flipping wage, and I'd imagine most of them just pirate their cartoons.
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Some papers by scientsts are so they still have a job .

Some papers by scientists are there to influence / mislead people.

Some papers by scientists are to take credit for other peoples work.

And finally some papers are there to tell people that something new has been discovered.

Some / all / none of the above can be present in academic research.
That article deserves its own thread. TIL instead of using red lights Roman brothels just carved a dick in the ground to point the way.
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I forgot to mention that DT support lua scripting[1] which might help you to further automate some steps of your photo management process.The Lua API is fairly complete.

You can also grap some existing lua plugin like the one who can export/import to GIMP.

[1] https://www.darktable.org/lua-api/ and https://github.com/darktable-org/lua-scripts
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I don't believe it would be a case of building your own cloud on top of Amazon, it would be a case of saying something like:

I want 2 instances of my account service, 2 instances of my comic-book viewer service behind a load balancers. You are specifying how you want your application to look as opposed to a fully fledged cloud offering.

I hope this clarifies things!
I walk away for a while. This helps me in 2 ways:

1) it helps answer if the problem is worth solving in the bigger picture

2) it allows me to approach the problem differently. (A new approach compared to head banging against walls)
You could sniff the network connection and see whether it is sending anything home. Of course you'd have to do that again after every update and you wouldn't know if it doesn't activate silent recording for specific key words.

If you want a voice assistant you can trust, you have to build your own out of open hardware and software and run your own hosted service for it, but the thing being hacked would still be a possibility. In the end, the only way to be sure is not to have one in the first place.
For anyone looking for cheapest SBC. Best I've found was Orange pi zero at $6.99 for 256mb version. That includes wireless wifi onboard.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way. They can be found at their official aliexpress shop.
I would have agreed with you to a certain degree if this post was just about BTC. OP asked about crypto-market, and BTC can’t represent all of it even if it has the lion share. Your response paints everything as Ponzi scheme (or that’s how interpreted it) which is unfair to serious projects.
I thought we dropped the "5" and continued with just "HTML" as a living standard?
Re-reading it this morning, I would tend to agree, it's slightly terse and could have done with some more backstory. I'll take this feedback onboard for my next article!

I am new to this style so I am still playing around and seeing what sticks. I do really appreciate your comment!
Because cars don't lose 1/3rd of horsepower after 2-3 years due to manufacturer ECU being programmed to slow them down.

A maintained car will lose less then 10% of its horsepower due to wear and tear over 150.000miles / 10 years. Note that I said "well maintained" - meaning there's a way to maintain the car to keep the advertised performance. There is no way to "maintain" iPhones to keep their performance over three years - the battery will degrade and Apple will silently make your phone slower than advertised.

This is a world of difference from losing 1/3rd of performance due to software hardcoded loss to push new sales. Intent and reason for degradation matters.
I like exercising too. But I specifically like doing it outside. The gym has no appeal to me because I like being a part of the wider world when I exercise and feel that paying for the privilage to exercise is ridiculous.

A more nuanced critque might consider whether some forms of exercise have a higher cost than their reward (e.g. they are really boring or expensive).
Interesting. The Met vs. crowds seems to have a varied history; I ended up next to the famous May Day 2001 protest where people were "kettled" in Oxford Circus for 8 hours, entirely by accident.

I was between jobs and had gone to the shops on Oxford Street, noting a commotion and went to have a look. I then noticed that police lines were forming loosely around me, and decided that I needed to be behind them quickly. Very much the right decision. A little later I was looking at a completely deserted Regent Street (unthinkable given how busy it is normally), chatting to the only other bystander. He was a rightwinger's caricature of a "liberal elite"; an English lecturer at a polytechnic dressed in a red corduroy suit. We discussed Marxism. It seemed appropriate under the circumstances.
I've sent refunds for the missed packages to Germany. If you haven't gotten a refund, please contact bemmu@candyjapan.com. This Germany thing happened very recently, I'll update the site to reflect it.

Update: Just changed it, should update when the CDN cache expires. Incidentally noticed I also had "East Germany" in my country list, oops :D
This reminds me how muslim preachers condemned coffee houses because they would draw people away from mosques.
Ok, fair enough. In that case it's an argument in favour of finding out what the top wealth percentile gets that others don't that makes them better innovators.

My point is, if unlike me you read the study properly, you can still use it to set useful directions for further research, if not policy conclusions, rather than just justifying failure as the parent comment suggests.
> Researchers should stop producing this type of misleading content that clearly started out with a hypothesis driven by an agenda.

Don't you find that your comment is, eh, just as like the research but without any statistical data. Anyone can have an opinion. It is very dangerous to censor people because we disagree with them.

More dangerous to shame them for it.
A reality show on the frontline of the German army's battle for public support
There are quite a few countries where it's A-OK to give your entire salary to your wife, so it's more like not paying her your salary, but her giving you a fraction of yours.
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I invested a year ago and it is a interesting resource. As all car companies need Lithium.

Renewable energy is also in the same ballpark
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That is WHATWG not W3C. I don't like versioning HTML either, to be honest.
> "you could have a real impact"

You could have a real impact on what? Your wallet?

My point is, we ultimately want to reduce demand on non-renewable sources of energy. With that in mind, running additional devices to soak up the excess demand of the current grid is a mistake, as it hides the fact that not all the electricity was truly needed, and therefore gives no incentive for the electricity producers to reduce supply, which means they'll keep running all the non-renewable power plants they currently do.

You may think that the actions of an individual don't add up to much, but collectively they do, so small acts of reducing electricity usage can have a real impact, both on your wallet and the environment.
You mention you haven't expanded. Have you considered also doing Japanese stationery / office supplies? All the best tools I've got came from my one trip to Japan :)
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Why? What special about JavaScript that makes this kind of analysis possible? Or what is it about WebAssembly in particular that prevents it?
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Its "interesting" how one of these symbols ended up in one of the unresolved cases of project "Blue book".

https://imgur.com/NB45sQ6

It would be a great start of a movie script :)
I agree, but this is a slippery slope, and be mindful that warrantless surveillance is technically illegal (or not, i don't know what patriot act brought these days). It's a slippery slope because there is no end to it. It starts with surveillance - which evades privacy, then comes your freedom of speech, then your freedom to choose.
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Ask HN: Investment Advice from Hacker News
Hello Everyone and Merry Christmas!

I have a feeling Hacker News will have some interesting thoughts on investment ideas over the next 5-10 years that are going to give good returns.

I would love to know your opinions on medium to long term investments, funds and companies expecting to outperforming the market and why you think this. I look forward to some interesting suggestions. I realise few people here are professional investors but I almost think it's better to get a more forward looking/technologists view of where we'll be. What are you investing in and why?

Finally and slightly tangentially it would be awesome if the HN community got to invest directly in YC companies; I'm sure there would a big demand from people here (even if it was only 1% or so) and it would make interesting relationships between the community and companies more possible.

Thanks and have a great new year!
Funny thing, I was thinking "I bet they don't ship to Romania" but then I saw "even to Romania" and was both happy and somewhat disappointed that even they knew Romania doesn't get much love. Makes me feel a little better that everyone's getting the same template.
> Additionally a lot of YC-type people benefit by the current VC system and funding via ICO’s or similar mechanisms is anethema to what they have constructed.

Aren’t REQ and QSP supported by YC.
Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
I'm part of a small group that is working on a new set of protocols for terminals and shells, in order to move terminal handling out of the kernel as much as possible, and to replace the huge organically grown mess of ANSI escape sequences, terminfo databases, and so on.

I'm posting this from 34C3, where I'm asking people the same questions:

- What do you love about terminals?

- What do you hate about terminals?

- If you had to build one from scratch, how would you do it?

If you do not wish to answer in public, you can also write a mail to 34c3-terminal-survey at posteo dot de.

[I'm posting from a throwaway account because my Github links to the work that we have started on this, and I don't want to bias the survey by having you look at it before answering.]
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My wife and I both just upgraded our iPhone 6's because they became unusably slow after iOS 11. Prior to the upgrade they had been running fine with no issues.

We tried many things including disabling all background app usage, full wipe and restore, etc. My wife eventually took hers into the Apple store and they said they didn't know why it was slowing down but that she shouldn't have upgraded and that there was nothing they could do.

So faced with unusably slow phones, and no resolution, what other choice is there? We both upgraded. She bought an iPhone X and I bought a Pixel 2 XL. We would have both been happy sticking with our iPhone 6's as they were under iOS 10.

The crux of the matter is this: our phones were fine before iOS 11, then unusably slow. We upgraded because we were forced to (unknowingly at the time) by a software update.
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Read the link. It contains more than enough hard info for anyone with a real interest in the subject to look up a few things and become a whole lot wiser.
Also, he's not a total rando; he is a wind power pioneer and was the CTO of Siemens Wind Power until 2014. Look him up at Wikipedia - there's an article in English.
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”My guidance counselor […] told me that I'd never get into college without As and Bs

[…]

I went back and finished high school in a part-time night school program while working full time.

[…]

I believed a guidance counselor who told me it was impossible. Approaching 40, I realize how full of shit she was.
”

So, what were your grades at that night school program?
> though my 1st hand exp is just seeing how my kid wants to spend infinite amount of time watching surprise eggs unwrapping

If kids are the main demographic, I doubt they generate a lot of ROI.
If it isn't fraud then it should be a user option. "Slow down phone as battery ages" yes/no
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No, that is not even remotely resembling what you claim.
Well but you DID buy another iPhone right? Apple got exactly what they wanted - you spending another 700$+ to replace a perfectly functional device after just a few years.

The iPhone now goes to the garbage bin adding to pollution even though it can run the OS just fine without being crippled via update.
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