skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before Apple came out with the iPhone, the carriers had complete control over the apps on your phone, and their access to the network.

Even initial iterations of the iPhone limited video streaming to WiFi only. Apple blazed the trail enabling millions (billions?) of hours of Netflix viewing. Apple devices are a primary use case motivating my initial Netflix subscription for kids to watch in the car on the iPad.

Further, Apple iOS provides the SDK and APIs to enable Netflix to develop their app in the first place, securely stream their content, etc.

The App Store is the only mechanism that Apple uses to charge companies for exploiting the power of these devices for their own benefit.

It’s a lot more than just the seamless experience of installing and running the app. It’s the whole stack that forms a cornerstone of how Netflix customers experience the Netflix product.

When was the last time I consumed my Netflix on something that wasn't an Apple device?? I can’t even remember!
Or make it so you just buy a handful of them to have on hand when an idea strikes, when you wonder if you burned up a GPIO, when you want to give one away to a friend or interested kid, when you want a few to talk in a mesh project, etc.

Price is a product feature in a lot of cases.
Housing costs are overstated for single people IMO. If you are single, want to live in SF, and okay with a roommate then it’s not hard to find a rent-controlled room (70% of rentals in SF are rent-controlled) and pay $1600-$2000.
My argument is not even about the process of teasing out a testable hypothesis. What I said is that the phrase, "just-so stories" is misused here. You even discovered that yourself when you did a Google search on this phrase, as is evident from your last post. And your subsequently combative, insulting attitude in response to this development reflects poorly on your character.
The datalog like query language combined with immutability is quite nice. I'm no expert in Datomic yet, but it is pretty nice that the queries are simple Clojure data structures. I can use regular old Clojure code to build queries dynamically (if needed).
UnionPay is more like Access or Plus or Maestro (atm networks) than VISA or MasterCard. UnionPay is pretty ubiquitous at bigger shops in China, but not at the small mom/pop store selling veggies downstairs.

Visa and MasterCard operate in China. Before 2016, dual branded visa/MC/Amex/UnionPay cards were pretty common (I had a couple). Then the government made that illegal for some reason. Lots of places do accept credit cards (eg starbuxks, hotels, fancy restaurants, ...).
Europe (maybe just the UK but I think it was EU-wide) banned claiming something is "free" if in fact you must sign up to pay money.

You can tell people what it'll cost and ask for a card, or, you can say it is free and not ask up front (you can ask later if you want but having not given you a card for the free trial if the customer has lost interest they're not going to give you one later)
What I'd like to know is which those at the end of their lives prefer.
chroma subsampling, shallow gradients, ringing, the lack of transparency are all quite visible issues when trying to encode cartoons, pixel graphics or screen captures with the standard profiles of lossy video codecs.
Because he embarrassed the country.
Realtor is protected by trademark law.
How do you propose municipal planning departments process, audit, and test the thousands of building permit drawings they receive every year? Have a staff of hundreds of engineers of their own? The professional reliance model seems to work well enough, but that isn't to say it is the optimal model out there.
Yea you are right, come to think of it, the most important thing here is, as you said, if this is specific to children's toys OP really should seek professional help.
The ESP8266 is wifi. The slightly more expensive ESP32 adds Bluetooth and some extra features. You can use them to run mini web server, MQTT, etc. Think of them like a supercharged Arduino with connectivity built in.
You'll find plate models, PGM junk, etc in modern papers on explicit density generative models and factorizing latents on such models.
I was SOL a couple of times visiting India and Netherlands, which I scarily found did not take UnionPay cards period! Always bring plenty of backup cash (USD, not RMB) and a credit card or two, especially if you are using Chinese ATM cards.

India kind of makes sense, but the Netherlands? Seriously? I hope things are different now.
As a person with 20 years of startups under his belt and a handful of diagnosed brain problems, I don't see how to address this in startups. At least here in the US, even with decent health insurance, which is rare, the system doesn't favor mental health. There is a ton of parity between my health issues and why I work well in startups. If there was another industry where I could make comparable money, even a lot less really, I would do it. But there just isn't much else out there. VCs and Founders who are not mental health professionals should educate themselves sure. I think it's essential to longevity of yourself and your team, but to fix it we need to change society and the economics of taking risks. I have no idea how that would start...

I do see a trend in focus on mental health in startups eating itself in new and interesting ways. Mandated psych evals and whatever comes out of linking your private mental health issues to your paycheck.

Wanna build a startup? Get a therapist, attorney, and take up a consuming artistic interest. It might save your life.
Without a breakdown of the stats and methodology, we have no way to know if this result was statistically meaningful, nor whether Trivago ran any null hypothesis tests. We don't even know that there were no confounding factors - just none the author thought of.

The may be a spurious figure.
My favourite Fizzbuzz articles 50 Fizzbuzzes [1] and Fizzbuzz in Tensorflow [2].

[1] http://vihart.com/fifty-fizzbuzzes/

[2] http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
Valve.
Or an obscene amount of money for replacement car keys when you make the cars.

Sony can decide who's games can be published on the PS4, and they get a cut of every single sale, physical or digital.

Incredibly, Miele have a monopoly on the retail sale of their whitegoods. When someone buys from a retailer, the retailer act as mere agents; the actual sale is actually directly between Miele and the customer.
Sounds like we're quite some way from an 0% failure rate. 11% of a population of murder victims (n=231) had a restraining order in place against their killer at the time of the homicide. Although only a small number of all the restraining orders issued result in homicide, courts in one state found that domestic violence restraining orders were violated about 1/3 of the time, whilers self-reported a total closer to 60%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18523113

http://extras.denverpost.com/news/violence/viol0912.htm

'too ridiculous to be taken seriously' - I'll put hard data up against epistemological hand-waving any day of the week. I fact-check my claims before I state them publicly.
Funny, the previous manager actually wanted a gate with a keycode to avoid anyone from ever coming.

> Your company should be an engineering team, some of which can't code very well, that also kicks ass in whatever field you're in. That's probably a big mental leap! But it's where you have to go.

> Tear down the barriers and integrate engineering as tightly as possible with the "real" work. Hint: whatever you do, you can do more. Put coders on the customer support phones. Rotate people through the teams as SMEs. Physically put them in places where they rub elbows with other groups. Got a bug in a CSR app? Bring in the folks affected and have them personally explain the impact to the team.

This is kind of amazing to read, and a great idea to reorganize the team. Would surely solve our cultural problems, and would actually free time from the programmers. Makes a lot of sense.

> Once you get the social walls down, work on the technical stuff. Otherwise you'll just make more arrogant tech teams.

That's interesting to read and makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
> Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic.

Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right?

I would probably start with this one.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sociopaths+and+crime+st...

It's not that I don't have empathy for a demographic (sociopaths/psycopaths), it's just they are incapable of feeling empathy, so showing them some will not be an effective deterrent.
That has stopped working for me the last few days.

Personally I think it ought to be against the HN rules to post a link to an article that is hidden behind a paywall.

Or how about this rule: it's ok to post a link as long as you also cut and paste a copy of the whole article into the first comment.
It’s not just the charts, “In Minneapolis, a 10/12 pitched roof that is perfectly north-south will have a 57% penalty between the south-facing and north-facing modules.”

Really, you should not complain if you’re badly skimming an article.
I would also include some books about statistics.
Two excellent introductory books are:

Statistical Rethinking https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Rethinking-Bayesian-Examp...

An Introduction to Statistical Learning http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
One morning about six or so years ago I woke up with this strange number on my mind. After google produced a lot of results, I finally wondered if it was my old ICQ number.

Thankfully the ICQ support doesn't care about security, and I was easily able to get back into my account without the account's email address or password, but purely by naming three people on my list (first names only.)

I've always had a head for numbers. Old credit card numbers, bank cards, phone numbers I only had temporarily, etc -- but do you think I could remember the name of someone I met five minutes ago? Not a chance in hell.
If you don't like something I'm doing, settling the issue with violence is fine by me. But be warned, my gang is better at violence than you are.
The phenomenon is known as “chabuduo” (good enough):
https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...
There's a word for the inexplicably poor material that otherwise visibly identical Chinese components are made from "Chinesium". I'm sure it will eventually be viewed as some kind of slur.

The good news is that the quality of Chinese goods is rapidly improving, if anybody remembers the absolutely rock bottom quality of Chinese made good 30 years ago, the products are absolutely improving. It's just that the rest of the world is working at such a level of quality that Chinese-made goods just aren't quite there yet.

Just wait for Chinese society to catch up and I have no doubt that in 30 more years "Chinesium" will represent some kind of unobtainable praiseworthy material that nobody else can seem to make.
They didn't give you one? They gave me one, and I put in basically what you complained about.
If you make 300k you need to either be fairly old, or buy a ridiculously expensive place to pay it off for the rest of your life.
Good rule of thumb is that the best production per panel ratio to get the most utility consumption offset (so you drop to the lowest tier) will return the most savings.

Shaded or North facing panels in the northern hemisphere are almost never worth it. Put what you can on the south and look into a better AC unit, new windows, LEDs, and insulation first.
Maybe it’s a topological conductor under high pressures? Is there some kind of dopant or glaze which could improve conductivity? Is it a very good insulator? If so, maybe those properties could be useful.

I’m being a bit facetious, but too many great discoveries have a backstory like, “We thought Jello might cure cancer, but it turns out not to. During the course of our investigations though we realized it was a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s.” Sometimes going back to solved problems with new tools and insights is valuable.
Elizabeth Warren announces 2020 candidacy
Should we? Perhaps not if how much turns out to only be a little.
Enjoy a beer on my beach down the street every morning and keep on traveling.

Heading to Malta in 10 days, country number 45.
LOLCODE is hilariously readable.
Can a company have a monopoly over its own products? That doesn't make sense.
There was some discussion that this gene isn't just related to HIV immunity but also related to memory and this may have been a different kind of experiment than was presented.
On the one side, you have WiFi and therefore can communicate with servers using different protocols. On the other side, you have spi, i2c and gpio, to talk to sensors, blink LEDs, move motors.

It's a real-world-to-web interface.
The state has a monopoly on violence; they do not need to protect their reputation. They’re the only game in town.
I am in the same boat. For most things I will happily subscribe through iTunes and pay extra because I know that I can go to one place to manage all my subscriptions.
You're not going to learn much of anything by just reading a ML/AI book. Well you gotta be pretty good at math to understand everything, my suggestion is to enroll on some ML/stats course and start working on basics. It's long and hard road, and if you're not comfortable with math in general i'd reconsider investing too much time on it. I'm doing it yet i'd much rather do software engineering. Much more practical without math to solve.

So do exercises, spend time digesting and trying to explain things to others. If you feel it's hard, well you are correct. Get comfortable feeling that way. Hopefully theres light at the end of the tunnel. Dont buy into the hype. Know the basics

Edit: so didnt see op said exactly this. My bad, new year and all.
In the past, you bought software in a box from a retailer who took a margin as high as 50%. After you pay for manufacturing and distribution (shipping shrink-wrapped boxes of CD-ROMs, multilingual manuals and a unique serial number to retailers in Alaska and Singapore is definitely not free) a developer would be lucky to end up with one third of the retail price in their pocket.

The Apple app store is actually a huge improvement over that model; it just seems unfair because digital sales shouldn't cost much, right? Right??

Well, Apple created the marketplace. They spend a lot of money making that marketplace work correctly, keeping their software platforms and merchant facilities robust for customers and developers, and putting that marketplace in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. They built this opportunity for devlopers and every developer who has built an app did so knowing exactly what the terms were.

If you don't like it, don't complain after you voluntarily and knowingly agreed to the terms.
A little balance:

> Identifying a potential human fingerprint on recent sea level rise is confounded by the large magnitude of natural internal variability associated with ocean circulation patterns. There is not yet convincing evidence of a fingerprint on sea level rise associated with human-caused global warming.

https://judithcurry.com/2018/11/27/special-report-on-sea-lev...
My team opted for postgres over a graph db in one of our projects to model a network of devices. Primarily due to the pgRouting extension, which implements many graph algorithms in postgres.

https://pgrouting.org/
I find it hard to blame anyone for leaving any store when there has been almost nothing of value added in years and things are even regressing. That 30% should have gone a lot further

It's not really a market if the seller thinks there's no alternatives, and the buyer has no choice but to put up with anything. Works the other way around, too.
Perhaps that is the argument, but corn or sugar cane or whatever don't magically become diesel. There's energy and other external costs put into the system, pollution by fertilizers, etc. Then again, growing trees on the same agricultural land would sequester how much carbon? And trees would be processed to building materials (among other uses) not released back into the atmosphere so quickly.
Simple priorities. We value these money games we play with each other more than people.

This is why capital is free to go where it may find the most benefit to it, but human beings are not.

Priorities.
I'm sort of half sold on the idea of nuclear. My problem is their past unfulfilled promises lead me to doubt anything is really going to happen.

For about two decades now I have been reading nuclear boosters talk about new advanced tech that would soon overcome all of nuclear's disadvantages. But nothing has ever become ready for real, mass adoption.

And so I am assuming that by the time in the future when something is finally ready, solar and wind will be doing so well there will be no point in putting any major effort into nuclear.
There’s a similar effect mostly experienced by women: they want to eat babies. Not really — there’s no danger — but the idea pops into the head. My wife had our daughter seven weeks ago and noticed it, we’ve had friends say things from the common, “I want to eat you up” to an outright faux aggressive “I WANT TO EAT HER” from one of her friends. Some articles claim it has something to do with the way they smell. https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0923/Why-do-people-wa...
Ahh - so coupled with whatever sensor you have, you can have a wifi broadcast capability at extreme low cost...

So, ostensibly - if you have these all participate in an SSID of e.g. "sensors", then you can place these all over and have a low-cost mechanism to deliver the reads to your (already) existing wifi infra...

So the key, then, is the family of sensor types you want to place on them. The limitations in the case of this object are power and size....

So given that - whats the minimum size battery req'd to run this little guy?

Then What is the power req of the sensors you attach -- then whats the lifespan of that power budget and then servicability to replace it?

I like this... a lot.

I have a bunch of BLE sensor beacons from china which cost ~8 but they are dumb as rocks.

This provides a heck of a lot more functionality than those...

Unless there are gotcha's which I am naive to?
Same here. I always thought the "so cute I just want to strangle it to death" thing was just a funny expression. I'm sort of mind blown right now.
App Store -> Profile Pic -> Manage Subscriptions
What country are you based in?
> I've never seen a simpler and more straightforward billing UX as Apple's.

I don't like how it doesn't show the purchase method on the TouchID screen - it's fine if you are using it a lot, but if you only use it infrequently, it's annoying to not know which payment method it is using.
For me it’s my Windows 98 CD key (25 digits alphanumeric). I had to wipe and reinstall so many times that it saved a lot of trouble to commit it to memory. And now here I am 20 years later...
Ban them for what? It's not like Netflix is refusing to pay the tax and keep using a feature.
I was about to write that this was not true, because I could not believe it, but boy was I wrong: “in the 2004-05 school year, 74% of college campuses had sworn officers with the power to arrest, and 90% of these departments were armed”. [0]. That seems absurd to me! I went to tiny liberal arts schools for undergrad/grad school, and we just had nice dudes with pepper spray that walked around occasionally.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_police
I think they will be sued for anti competitive practices
It might be Hollywood therapy, but real world therapists are not limited to that.
Exactly. I remember when HP printers were built like tanks, too.

The problem, too, is that apart from goods that are tested for durability, there aren't many signals a layperson can use to judge if say boots are well-built and made of quality materials.

Then, of course, "quality" is multi-faceted, too. Type A boot could cost more because it is better-looking, light, flexible, comfortable, and made of thin, soft, supple leather as smooth as baby's bottom. But because of that, it will fall apart as quiclly as WalMart boot for $20; you'd just enjoy wearing it more.
Here's an example from today's news of what a cop (and I) considered to be a true threat of violence but which the defendant maintains (so far) that he was trying to prove a point about workplace safety.

http://nixle.us/AMTQ6?fbclid=IwAR1pRErR6-CuOjvULJWJDSSKLISJ_...

So far this person hasn't committed any violent acts and I'm willing to stipulate that his stated grievance is founded in fact, though it may or may not have been his actual motivation. Have his free speech rights been infringed?
So.. when you implemented stack ranking and a cutthroat Survivor-island-style “how can you make sure the other guy gets the axe and not me” culture, morale took a nosedive and people started bailing on you? Interesting.
possible that it's related to enhanced cognitive abilities, this was discussed after He's talk:
https://youtu.be/cH57-YO9Eso?t=5636

No good reason to believe it was chosen for a reason other than HIV immunity.
Since this is being used as a guide, it might be worth being pedantic and pointing out that it's the 'wrong' way of doing it. It definitely beats carrying cash but it's a 'second class citizen'-ish way of using mobile payment.

The mechanism the OP used is the 'pocket change' system which, like its name suggest, can't be used everywhere. It's great for getting casual consummables, getting ice cream etc but doesn't work for services that requires more trust (since there is no credit system and they can't hold a charge on your credit card). For those (like rentals), you still need a local bank account.

Luckily, as others pointed out, it's fairly trivial to open a bank account with a foreign passport. The primary use method is also not to move money from your bank to your WeChat and then use it. People just leave their money in the bank draw from that via WeChat or AliPay directly.

As a random fun fact, you also don't need a local phone number to have a fully functional WeChat/AliPay account with bank linked. Though you do need a local phone number to open a bank account so it's a bit moot.
I thought they recently announced they were moving to such a system for large businesses (i.e. Netflix and Spotify), basically to avoid this exact scenario where those business drop the Apple payment platform altogether.
Blog spam, the NYT article appears to be the primary and only source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/asia/he-jiankui-chi...
Dr He chose a bad time to skirt scientific ethics, regardless if there was any direct harm to the people, as China recently announced measures to punish scientific misconduct [1].

They will likely make an example of him since he's such a public figure now. Whether they can really change the culture there is to be seen, but one thing China knows how to do is add layers of administration to select areas.

Ever since CRISPR was announced people have always been scared of what "rouge" actors could be do, now that this technology it's so 'democratized'. It was probably bound to happen somewhere. So they'll be interested in clamping down hard on the early minor cases of ethical violations, in order to protect against other much more deliberately malicious future cases.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07740-z
Yes, Hammerspoon goes in many different directions with its API, providing not only the kitchen sink but the house and the neighbors' houses, but lacking the paintings and many walls. That inspired a lot of decisions in how I designed Autumn's API, because I wanted the user experience to be buttery smooth from start to finish, and I wanted the API to be both useful and comprehensive without being overwhelming or spartan.
Could you try addressing the argument instead of constructing a magic trapdoor by imagining additional facts? Assume you can verify the authenticity of a threat, in case that was not clear from my earlier description.
I'm pretty sure it was more that the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing.