skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the idea is instead of having 1 user pay you $30 a month, you have 10 users (or more) paying you $3 a month, you end up with a net win

Intuitively, I believe it's much easier to find one person to pay you $30 a month for quality journalism than to find 10 people to pay $3 a month.

Neither of us have data to back our assertions but my argument is that the people that care about and read quality journalism are well off people and the marginal cost of paying $10 or $30 a month is not significant for them.

>Blendle was able to do it because they started their own platform and essentially required little work from the publishers themselves to integrate

I've never heard of blendle until reading the comments in this topic but just as a comparison, the WSJ has 1,270,000 digital subscribers paying $45 a month. Blendle has 550,000 users.
There's a difference between charging for updates and charging for continued use. What if Sublime Text started charging a monthly fee just to use it? There's no excuse.

> But as far as most software pricing goes, if it's so bad, then people wouldn't pay.

And yet people keep paying ransomware for access to their important files.
Yeah... It's a phrase from my youth. I thought I was channeling Douglas Adams or something like that. Turns out to have been Howard the Duck comics. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hairless%20A...
Musk hung up on NTSB chief during call about Tesla crash probe
We are talking about making money, not feeling good about your moral compass, although that can always come later.
No, it demands that you create new features and bug fixes that are worth the cost of upgrading and then people buy it. this is great.

photoshop was fine in 2012. now you can’t get a copy of it from adobe and cd keys sell for more than they originally cost. this is only because adobe wants to take more money from people until the end of time.
Especially not on a forum where new posts don't bump the topic. Commenting on that 7-day-old topic means your post goes unread indefinitely. Which is about as fulfilling as typing your comments into your diary.
I’m dismayed to see this is suggesting bundling, which most consumers hate, as a solution.
Water Cooler Talk Is Toxic
How many Yap's to a Ningy?
They win because they make more money.

One of the challenges is that if you look at this as a single consumer / single producer model it is very hard to see the economics. That is why internet advertising is also hard to see sometimes. Nearly everyone I know tells me "How do they make any money on internet ads? I never click on them." And for lots of people that is true, but for another population it is not true. And when you look at page views as a 'population' of say a million different people, and 1% of them, or 10,000 of them click on an advertisement that pays $0.10 per click, that is $1,000 of revenue from that one article. And if the marginal cost to host a single article on a web site is $1 per month, there is tremendous leverage there.

So this model insures that nearly everybody that reads and article has paid a small amount. This is more reliable income than Internet Ads even with 99% of the readers not clicking. And the article lives forever, and as we see on this web site some articles get cycled through popularity again and again every couple of years. People who have blog sites and track metrics see this effect when someone puts them on Reddit (for example).

A static article page can service a lot of page views with very little hardware. Nginx on a current server can serve the same article up at 50,000 page views per second if there is enough network bandwidth and the article is on an SSD. Hosting costs go up when you add a bunch of dynamic content but much of that can be hosted on CDNs and distributed to the edge. Done with any mount of care and planning and it costs little to host material on the web.
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Yep, that’s fair enough, I suppose. What I’d wonder about would be, would it always be obvious?
You really, really, really don't want that to happen. Globalisation and global economies are very good things for human and technological development.

If you scale back economies of scale you lose their efficiencies and it becomes a positive feedback loop where shipping rates increase and cost of goods increase and volumes decrease.
A very silly argument. Breaking some zebras for a carriage proves nothing about domestication.

You know what kind of creatures hate humans, snap and bite, have zero herd or group instincts, are easily agitated, are smaller than their closest comparable domesticated species, intensely paranoid because fragile, and lash out when cornered? Russian foxes.

But it took less than a human lifetime to domesticate them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox) and now they're sold as pets and reportedly are even friendlier than most cats.

That is what a proper breeding program, done systematically with a breeding population of hundreds or thousands, with due attention to reliable measurements, heritability, and constant stringent selection, can do over several decades. (It would be even easier now with the advent of marker-assisted selection as GWASes increasingly turn up the genetic signatures of selection for domestication in cats/dogs/rabbit/foxes/etc.) A few small-scale failures by some dilettantes back in the 1800s which aren't even described can't be considered strong evidence.

If no one is doing it, that says more about priorities and the substitution of automobiles and insecticides than about whether it is doable or not. (If maize didn't already exist, would anyone bother trying to breed teosinte into corn, rather than working more on wheat or soy or rice cultivars? The foxes were a scientific research project, after all, no one actually needed a dog replacement...) A more interesting question to discuss might be why Africans were never able to accidentally domesticate zebras as useful insect-resistant beasts of burden when Europeans/Asians/Americans were accidentally domesticating all sorts of species left and right, such as horses.
Are you sure you don't have a paid account? My provisioning profiles expire after 7 days (the app is still on my phone but upon launch it just crashes with a white screen)

http://mybyways.com/blog/new-limitations-imposed-on-free-app...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36998956/why-does-my-fre...

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/47837

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4hotx3/news_free...

The worst part is that these changes weren't announced by Apple in any way.
Showing ads is unethical now?

>Maybe if the service is only marginally profitable without acting unethically it should shut down.

Also I love this neo puritan thinking. I'm sure all the users of these services agree with your ideology and you forcing it down their throats is for their own good correct?
The catch is that friendly foxes don't look that foxy anymore; friendly zebras might lose their stripes at which point they kinda look like donkeys
Read this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...

tl;dr: you don't owe him anything, AND if you were to split now, you'd be 50-50. This is because these initial commits are negligible wrt the 5-10 years you'll need before calling it success.

I think you should have a serious conversation with him on his intents and commitments for the future. If you're serious and want to approach investors, you have to be in a good position to explain both who's working, and who's owning the pie.
I can't find anything that says how the Type 212 submarines store hydrogen. After thinking about it though, I think they must be using metal hydride storage. Submarines already have to be ballasted to offset the buoyancy of the crew compartment, and given the low density of liquid hydrogen, they'd need ballast to offset that too. Liquid oxygen is slightly more dense than water, but not enough to offer much compensation.

It seems like you could use the metal hydride batteries as your primary ballast that you'd need anyway, and get the hydrogen storage pretty much for free (in the weight and volume sense, anyway).
The wide array of personalities is why it's considered a spectrum - so either saying autism or autism spectrum is referencing the same thing. There are certainly severities of what behaviours and the level that they will present - they all fit within an evolving framework and understanding of autism though. Things can be difficult to diagnose, primarily because there can be multiple causes of symptoms. Someone with anxiety might be eating a food that makes them anxious, or they have unhealed PTS, etc.

A problem with taking the pharma approach to treatment of someone with autism is that, imaging being super hypersensitive to touch - the constant agitation from contact by clothing may make you constantly anxious right? So do you treat anxiety as a symptom of the sensitivity? It doesn't really make sense to do.
Okay: In the debate between nature and nurture, we tend to assume that behavior is mostly from nurture, not nature.

I've wondered about that assumption.

So, from the OP, quite deeply zebra behavior is from nature, that is, genetics, "hard wired" as the OP says, and is quite solid since a lot of nurture won't change it.

So, in the nature versus nurture debate, with zebras we have a good benchmark: Deep parts of behavior can be from nature and beyond nurture. So, we need to consider that possibility for species other than zebras. That is, even in behavior, quite generally we need to question the efficacy of nurture.
This is like the mathematical version of trying to build a perpetual motion machine for a science fair project. At 16, I may not have known enough make the GP's argument, but I would have the intellectual humility to pick a project I can reasonably understand.
Do you know where the new elves are?
Connecting your brain implant to the charger after it unexpectedly shut off due to lightning seems like a good way to earn a Darwin award.
First you need to develop a economic naval reactor type that works with minimal manning that keeps the crew within Minimum Safe Manning Certificate. Replacing Pilipino engineering watches with expensive certified nuclear engineers is not cheap.

Secondly you need to make them tamper proof. They must withstand terrorism, theft, hijacking and collisions and the core must be easily separated in the case it's needed.

Thirdly you need to deploy security force that can retake ships within limited time-frame everywhere they operate.

Overall global shipping is has very low CO2 footprint per tonne.
Changing to LNG, building thinner and larger ships etc. to reduce CO2 footprint is cheaper.
It's a pun. It's written in go, and the project is gitea, so go-gitea (go get tea).
>You don't need Hadoop if you crunch through 100GB.
True that, but Hadoop is for the >100TB stuff where we need the throughput and cost efficiency for storage (we have multiple >100TB sets and we are not able to afford 100's of optanes!
But Hadoop is not good for some of the problems that are culled out of these data sets. We can't afford Hadoop nodes with lots of ram and fast disks.
Have a look at reposurgeon for your old-repository-to-git needs.
More than ever we need people to be guided by their own senses of principle
Doubt it is purely based on pressure, as the diagram insinuates. Like the lift effect of an aerofoil, much of it comes from entrainment: the phenomenon that the device is basically causing the moving air to stick to it and then "throwing" that air at an altered angle which generates thrust.
> Hell, we can't even get Macbooks that don't fry USB devices.

Not sure why you'd assume the mainboard and peripheral circuit design on MacBooks would be particularly good, they seem to make the same mistakes for years on end.
It's really easy to overfit and create biased algorithms, especially with how small their 'startup' training set is likely to be. That is, of course, if they're doing ML and not just encoding their own investor 'intuition' into software.

Still, I agree the weight of personal relationships and human-powered-decision-making guiding the 'tech' industry is a bit ironic.
> He’s an agnostic troubled continuously by the unknowability, indeed the incomprehensibility, of total reality; of what lies beyond the world of appearances and can never be breached.

The article gave me the impression that Bryan Magee is troubled by boredom mostly.

These 'meaning of life' questions can trick people into believing that it's not knowing the answers to some questions, that is the cause of their unrest.

It's never that, it's always so much more simple :) I don't know that philosophy students realize they're playing mind games with themselves, for self-amusement. They have a tendency to take ideas seriously, life seriously, and then oh my, you have 1001 problems to deal with!
Or Hulu.
Why serverless computing is one of the biggest threats to containers
Just curious: why would you say not eat pizza more than once a year? Isn’t that on the very extreme side?

Go to Italy and you’ll find people eating pizza and pasta at least weekly, and they are generally fit and healthy. But obviously they don’t drink half a gallon of sugar water with their pizza.
As another surprising thing, calling interrupted() actually clears the interrupted bit. If it's true, you pretty much have to throw InterruptedException. Otherwise, you have to re set the bit, and exit quietly.
I'm on third place in Google for "rails iodine" now, lol
I've long held that, if we want computers in the classroom at all, we should steer well clear of any modern gee-whiz gadgets. A modern Commodore 64 clone would teach vastly more about computers than an iPad and would cost maybe $50 total. Modern computers are designed so people don't have to understand them, which is exactly backwards for a student.
I strongly recommend "A Planet of Viruses" by Carl Zimmer

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo222...

There are viruses that enter a host, merge with its DNA, replicate along with it for generations just like "normal" DNA. Eventually, it can "wake up", cut itself out of the host genes, and start replicating as a virus again.

Some of our DNA is apparently made out of viruses that did this and got stuck.

The model that emerges from consideration of recent discoveries is something like, bacteria and viruses form a single global organism that is the primary resident of this planet (by mass, by throughput, etc.)
Agreed. The very title conflates taming with domestication, two totally different things.
How to Reconstruct an Ancient Meal from Dirty Dishes Alone
In case anyone hasn't read it already and may be interested - this is the story of the Morris worm that leveraged a finger vuln in 1988:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-...

Robert T Morris is a YC partner now I understand.
I have trouble seeing this as anything more than irrational territorialism and/or a disingenuous defense of the pork barrel status quo.

If we are unwilling to try something new because we decided fifty fucking years ago that it was a bad idea, we're done. Time for NASA to hang up its space helmets and watch China (or possibly SpaceX, BO, etc. using private funds) take the next steps.
It's very hard to design a device that can reliably tell that it has not been damaged in a way that hurts the user.

We have this with regular socket power too; if live and ground are shorted, connecting the device will shut off power to prevent the user from any harm due to a charged casing. There is no feedback other than "everything stopped working" because the GFI cannot tell if the situation is cleared without putting up power and potentially harming the user.

Think of the other scenario, the stimulator gets damaged, switches back on and kills the user. Pacemaker could do the exact same, if it's damaged it could kill the user very easily.
2/135 is failed flights/total flights.

Over the life of the shuttle[0], there were 355 astronauts who flew, 14 died. So for every ~25 astronauts who flew on the shuttle, 1 died..

0) https://www.space.com/12376-nasa-space-shuttle-program-facts...
Like Webstorm?

I do feel that I get value for my money and with the yearly fee I get all the updates (which are important in the ever changing world of web development), but sometimes it still feels like protection racket.
Jetbrains also has it done "right" I think... yearly license fee... and the version at the time of payment is "perpetual" while you get to continue getting updates as long as your license is "current".

Stop paying? When you aren't "current" you can either pay up... or downgrade to your perpetual version "owned".
The real innovation of the *aaS model is that you no longer need to compete with prior versions of your own software or hardware infrastructure. You can hike prices, cut engineering costs, cut some nines off your availability, defeature, or just plain embrace incompetence, and, in the short term, it will improve your balance sheet.

Of course, in the long term, customers will revolt, and do so swiftly, and without mercy.
NFS will give you redundancy but not high availability. In fact it will probably lower your availability the first time NFS gets hung.

But if manual intervention works for your setup, then you probably don’t really need HA anyway, just redundancy.
This... seems to be written by someone trying some extensive mental gymnastics in order to justify why everyone else should embrace his work preference.

Water cooler talk isn't about discluding other people. It's about chasing down an idea without wasting the rest of the group's time. It's about getting things out of your head so you can focus on the task at hand.

Writing out everything in an explicit and formal manner is a non-trivial effort to clearly communicate context to someone (potentially remote) who is missing it.
The title is incorrect it seems. The stimulator detected a fault condition, and turned off. This is what it was designed to do, it was working just fine. it really ought to be something more like:

> A woman's brain stimulator turned off after her home was struck by lightning.
NASA Challenger and others have proven record of putting lives at risk. It's a dangerous job. As for hypothetical danger, that's more of a clickbait "analysis", timely after recent lash-out by Musk on Tesla conference call, IMHO.
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I think the problem is the pricing model. If I watch one Netflix movie a month, it’s not really worth 11$ to me. These subscriptions should have tiers starting from few cents - but it may be less a Netflix problem and more a problem of labels and production companies who may not be willing to see it that way and force higher Subscriptions implicitly.
Since OCaml allows side-effects, they are not really necessary to do simple things like printing some output.
The standard library is not monadic in nature.

However, there are a some very popular monadic libraries (for example, for concurrency you have lwt and async). The main advantage is that you have explicit information over which calls are blocking (it's in the signature), and explicit control over when you relinquish control back to the coroutine/fiber/lightweight_thread/future/whatever_you_want_to_call_it scheduler.

Anyway, monads are hard to compose, so the shiny new thing here is called "algebraic effects".
http://www.eff-lang.org/
Or just use Netlify or Github pages that also do that for free now and are as simple as pushing to your linked repository.
One of the keys to learning is making students engage in the material and to fix their mistakes. Computers are uniquely able to give individual, rapid feedback.

Even at the advanced level it would be really cool for students to have access to and use proof software. I wish I could have had the opportunity to work out proofs for myself, guided by software, instead of just being given them.
Ask HN: Best tech stack / architecture to create an MVP that records live video?
Hello HN!

So I want to create an app that as soon as you open it, it starts recording video and uploading it to a server simultaneously.
It shouldn't wait for the recording to finish to start the upload.

Also if the phone is turned off or the app is closed in the middle of the recording the part of the video uploaded to the server should still be watchable.

What would be ideal:
The video recording continues even though you close the app

The app simulates the phone turning off but it keeps it on and recording when you try to turn it off.

Why do I have all these requirements?
I had last night a slight episode where the police didn't behave as expected. I'd like to create a new app that instantly records everything the police is doing as soon as you tell it. And also if the policeman grabs your phone he shouldnt be able to stop the recording.

I don't live in the US or Russia, so here the laws regarding the police are quite different that what you might expect, and sometimes you need this kind of defensive apps.

I know there are already made solutions but I want to make my own as a way of practicing.

I have coding skills with web technologies like angularjs and nodejs.

Is that good enough for this kind of purpose (doing a PWA lets say)? or should I go native?

Do you think something like sockets is fast/robust enough for this task?

If not, what do you recommend?
the thesis is wrong, of course compromising the entire article. you/we aren’t getting previously free content, now for a fee. you are getting content previously paid for with ad dollars, dried up thanks to advertisers abuse (leading to adblock).
Global shipping is very efficient per tonne.

The fuel used to ship your fruit from another side of the world is less or equal to the amount of fuel used to move the fruit from the harbor to your home.

If locally produced fruit requires refrigeration, they are very likely less ecological than shipping dried fruits or canned fruits from another side of the world.
End to end encryption, content rich messages, very fast, and it can be especially hard to leave if most of your friends that you talk to also have iMessage.
Here's a video of him talking about See's Candies and moats more generally.

https://youtu.be/2MHIcabnjrA?t=1955 (In case the timestamp doesn't work, the relevant part starts at 32:35.)
> Robert Lightfoot, the former acting NASA administrator, lamented in candid terms how the agency, with society as a whole, has become too risk-averse. He charged the agency with recapturing some of the youthful swagger that sent men to the moon during the Apollo era.

> "I worry, to be perfectly honest, if we would have ever launched Apollo in our environment here today," he said during a speech at the Space Symposium last month, "if Buzz [Aldrin] and Neil [Armstrong] would have ever been able to go to the moon in the risk environment we have today."

That is a really underhanded way to say, "Let's kill more astronauts so we can get to space faster."

The folks who risked their lives and, in some cases, gave their lives to get us to where we are today deserve better.
> calling isInterrupted() actually clears the interrupted bit.

Thats incorrect. Calling Thread#interrupted[0] clears the interrupt status and returns true if the current thread was interrupted. Thread#isInterrupted()[1] only returns the value of the interrupt status on the thread receiving the method call. The interrupt status is unaffected by that method call.

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.h...

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.h...
Generally companies do not decide against a product due to the price tag. There's always another, stronger reason.
Server key? Sure, but what's the accept rate on new keys? On short-lived, poorly provisioned, AWS instaances, as just one example.

Again, percentages. With enough attempts, some will succeed.