skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be guilty of this with FormAPI [1]. I heard that it was a good idea to collect the credit card information in the sign up form, and then charge the card automatically after the 7-day free trial. But then people would just forget about it and I would basically be stealing their money for a few months until they cancelled. I had to refund a few people who were angry about it.

I removed the credit card field from the sign-up form. I was also thinking that this might reduce friction, but I think it actually lowered my "conversion rate". (In quotes because it doesn't really count if you "convert" people who just forgot about it.)

Another way would be to keep the credit input on the sign up form, but require an explicit opt-in before I start the subscription. I don't know that would help. If someone actually needs the service then they're going to add a credit card. FormAPI isn't a "nice-to-have" service, it either solves your problem or it doesn't.

[1] https://formapi.io
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Honestly, the first time I read it like "sh*t". And knowing my colleagues, this kind of nickname can stick for a long time.

Edit: thinking about it, it could actually make it famous.
I believe the reason for that is the expense. They prefer to delay and trying to cut back drastically even when the situation is obviously unsustainable. Thus it gets run at 100% capacity when they finally build it and need three more.

To take truly economically fantastic extremes for current technology if desalination was fiscally cheaper than drilling wells we would see them doing that far more.
Currently testing it, can do lots of fun stuff with the routing domains. Will roll it out once they get Direct Connect support in Q1.
Collyer Brothers: Death by Hoarding
Made some money with LEGO technic sets something between 100% - 200%. But what was much much better was keeping some Magic Cards currently valued ~5k which I bought for pennies when at university.
It depends on how it is handled: are you currently crucial to maintenance; can the Indian team and the company run without you all? I for one would refuse to train my forced replacement; that is not my job description so that would need to incur a hefty redundancy sum. And yes, I would tell my colleagues. Maybe now there is still leverage: in a few months there is none and the more that demand a fixed and immediate sum to train replacements, the better. Unless you say anyone can easily take over; then I would still feel obligated to tell but it would have mostly downsides.
Do you have kids? My toddler has all kinds of toys that he loves. A short time ago I thought I would try handing him an age appropriate, non-adware, educational iPhone game. The intensity of craving for “just one more minute” was unlike anything I have seen before or since. It’s on a whole different level.

Although I know I’m going to need to teach him how to live in our screen-filled world, I’m not sure when I’m going to feel like he’s mature enough to face the intensely addictive properties of the thing. Frankly, my personal experience is that I’m not ready to appropriately handle their addictive properties for myself even now, so...
Why Enterprises Investing Thousand of Dollars to Build Their Taxi Business?
I wonder how that advice applies if the battery capacity has already degraded significantly. For example, my current laptop's battery reports itself to be "100% charged" at 60% of its original capacity. Should I keep it around 30%? I don't really know enough about battery chemistry to understand how high levels of charge cause damage.
Yeah, according to most of the world's apparent value systems, I am essentially human garbage as a middle aged person with no degree and a bunch of partial skills but no specialties who works menial jobs for a bit above minimum wage (or below, depending where you live).

On some level, I know I have tremendous potential, if I could find the right place to plug in. But the many complicated steps, obstacles and potential pitfalls awaiting me in that search are more than a little daunting. Also, how many of these workplaces really deserve me at my absolute very best? In my experience, rather few.

Oh well, I still have my cozy spot with all my stuff, and my niece seems to think I'm okay, so that'll have to do. Just need to keep the main rooms clear so she doesn't trip over anything. When the world's values and your own aren't aligned, pick whichever rates you higher, I say.
In these studies they connected the circulatory systems of the two mice together for prolonged periods of time.
Great to see it move into Version 3. I have been using Kirby for 4 years. I have found its super flexibility to be key to its adoption in my project
Passing job interview is a red herring because it teaches you that you said what people want to hear. It can be very different from being good at your work and a focus on it can create disfuncional professionals who know how to give the appearance of being good while being shit at what they do.
What did I say? :)
Mr Robot, this 'gifted' kid is not.
You can be outside all day and experience a wide variety of things. And you can sit on the computer for a day and not experience much new at all.
> Gifts stop being gifts when strings get attached explicitly.

It's already very difficult to get out of that stupid "Secret Santa gift" tradition that has encompassed most of the world's corporate offices, i.e. gifts that almost nobody really cares for, which are not given with "strings" attached, but you'd have to be a very brave individual to say to your office colleagues "hey, this year I'm not going to play this Secret Santa game".

You can sort of also see this in action in the FOSS world. Most of the FOSS code doesn't have anything in its license on the lines of "you should not criticize the makers of this free software" but, nevertheless, I have met lots of cases (and it has happened to me, too) of FOSS users being reprimanded by the code's creators for daring to say that some things don't work as they should, with replies such as "it's free code! If you care so much about it why don't you contribute back?".
Using IoT and Computer Vision to Build a Stand-In Smart Robot for Remote Workers
This is an excellent read for data scientists, as it illustrates how easy it is to get possibly wrong conclussions from trying to find a particular correlation in data
If Sonic had really trained you, you'd have learned a different lesson: you can survive anything if you can keep just one ring.
I can't recall where I came across it before, but I do remember the name being discussed and some principal / authority saying "sir hat" was the intended pronunciation.
I partly agree with this, but also find myself addicted to my phone and worried that it's not great for my mental health. It's true that you can set your watch to collective freakouts over change. It's also true that some new things have caused major social problems and, in hindsight, we didn't panic enough when those changes were starting to become widespread. It's a lot like obesity. Sure, we shouldn't freak out about the food system, people can still make healthy choices, but the obesity epidemic is real and we need to think it through.
It could well be. I’m just recalling something an instructor taught me about 25 years ago ...
Investment markets come in to ruin yet another thing - people who just mix up Lego and play it themselves, now under pressure to keep their sets, sets.
Black Hole singularity avoidance by the Higgs scalar field
Or a power plug...

Article: https://www.hln.be/regio/antwerpen/rechter-straft-it-special...

Check out the image in the article.
They attached keyloggers and sent the strokes to the box. Saving them and once in a week dump them over to a car in the parking lot.

The original article is great, but the guy was really not putting any effort into it.
Dark Data in Healthcare
A startup has three main functions:

- define the product
- build the product
- sell the product

As long as you can successfully execute all those functions, it doesn't matter how many people you have doing it, and it becomes the matter of resource availability.
Yes, I just built this from a set received for my birthday. It's a great set! Highly recommended.

However, I already had one, as I like to try and 'hold' a copy of any sets that I think are special.

I tend to collect what I like, mainly Lego Technic, but I think my most valuable set right now is the big Star Wars AT-AT walker, but I have one of the older Ferrari F1 cars, the big Technic crane 42009, etc.
Cash is paper. No one cares about paper. Numbers in a bank account are numbers in a database somewhere. No one particularly cares about numbers in databases. What we care about is either investment or consumption, the use of resources. If rich people are not consuming their wealth then they are not using their resources. That means they’re available for everyone else to use because there’s only so much productive capacity in the economy and most of the time it’s almost all being used.

Investment is good for creating future wealth. Not using money rounds to investment, not at a personal level, but at a macroeconomic one.
Mostly look at Symfony, the framework or the individual components. It's a bit too "enterprise Java" sometimes but otherwise it's very solid (and a very well run project).

Laravel seems more popular in the US but it stills uses many Symfony components.
When in technical contexts, the technical definition matters more than the dictionary definition. Clearly the plant isn’t discharging the stuff I season my chicken with!
Pushb/popb: small cli tool that works like pushd/popd, but on Git branches
>and is now worthless.

Not quite. You can always part stuff out on http://bricklink.com/ and might get a penny per element or might get several dollars per element depending. Us AFOLs that make MOCs are frequently buying random elements we need for this or that. For example:

To make this Mars habitat MOC I spent about 60$ just to get some of the elements (like the curved tops of the habs, the PV panels and the ISRU tanks) because I simply didn't have the elements or anything comparable. That base plate was 11-12$ by itself and it's the only thing remotely Mars-regolith looking that Lego has produced https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2016/7/29/my-lego-m...

When 31032-1 Red Creatures came out I really wanted a black dragon, not a red dragon, so that was another 15-20$ I had to spend, again didn't have some of the necessary elements, to be able to make one https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2016/7/6/lego-31032...

I will agree though that speculating on any given, current production, Lego set is idiotic at best. You never know what will be popular and what won't, you'll never know when something will be retired or won't.

I also add to my Modulex collection every quarter or so. Modulex elements are considerably smaller than traditional Lego and incompatible. They were a 1:20 scale for building architectural models that never really caught on but are just neat https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/Modulex
Wow, a grand total of 75 user accounts, and $130 000 of ads.

How is this anything but a drop in the ocean? If this is the extent of 'Coordinated inauthentic behavior' I'm rather unimpressed with the capabilities of Russia.
Telstra and Arduino Partner for IoT in Australia
Not sure you have really thought this through.
It's not just an admin rewrite in Vue.js, the core has also been rewritten using new features introduced by latest PHP versions.

It also introduces a new API for plugins allowing things that weren't possible in Kirby 2.
I do not know what invisible vowels I could add to make me remember this.
"sir hat"
Granted this is a layman's perspective, but it doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me.

On the one hand we have rampant marketing pushing the idea that stuff will make us happy, and on the other we have society telling us that waste is dooming the planet.

So we have significant pressures to a) acquire things and b) not throw them out.
Urbit is sufficiently bizarre to constitute outsider art.

I attempted an explanation here: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/141832812938/argumate-al...

"I knew I recognized the name. It's like a giant model of a toothpick made out of toothpicks." - Peter da Silva

I would call it "TempleOS but on the blockchain", but that makes it sound more interesting and useful than it is.
Vanguard is owned by its funds. This is sometimes referred to as "mutualized". It's a unique ownership structure.

As you point out, Gates and Buffett became wealthy due to their ownership in their respective companies. I don't know how much Bogle "owned" of Vanguard - but I suspect the structure he set up made his ownership no larger than his actual investment in Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs.

Probably not good to compare Bogle to Gates or Buffet. Better to compare him to Larry Fink of Blackrock or Charles Schwab. Blackrock manages slightly more assets - around $6.5tr vs $5 for Vanguard. Blackrock is a $65bn market cap company. Point is, as a founder of a comparably large asset manager, he didnt leave this earth as a billionaire. All the better, you can't take it with you.
PCA in a nutshell
Apple products?
Faster Pandas Python
Yeah, I agree it sucks. I like the short URLs, though. I own sourcehut.org and will likely be using it to find a happy medium soon.
> You tried to airbnb in India ? It’s probably barely passable in LA

yeah, rookie mistake, my first Airbnb, but probably the last too :)

> Hotels in India would be quite cheap with the American dollar

A good hotel (or BnB) in India is not particularly cheaper than in any other country, they tend to have more staff than needed and the service is crazily good when it's good. I've had to bounce back from supposedly good quality hotels, and expensive in relation to the average, to a hotel that would be considered expensive in London a couple of times before this incident. Obviously all depends on your hygiene and quality standards. But if you think that flashing some dollar will make a red carpet appear in front of you... probably is a good idea that you try for yourself to have the exposure that you might be lacking

It is true that you can find very cheap hotels, but let me assure you that you don't want to sleep in those.
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Monster 773M-record breach list contains plaintext passwords
> overt influence operations that are clearly labelled, like the BBC World Service

Huh?
They will, don't worry :P It just takes longer for some sets than others. It's not like Disney, where you'd get a year and then into a vault for 7.
The point is he could have retained ownership of Vanguard itself.
How to write a rootkit without really trying
Agreed. We use it extensively and it lets us move very fast. Devs coming from Java and similar environments usually say something like "I thought I hated PHP but it's very nice now and I feel very
productive in it".
I did the same. I think you're overly pessimistic so early on. It was released less than 2 years ago, and while I read somewhere (but may be wrong) that the regular production run of LEGO IDEAS sets is 1 year they'll likely stop manufacturing sooner than later, like their other sets.

I bought a few with the idea of keeping them until 2069.
Except you can’t yet do cross-account transit, which makes their Transit VPC offering pretty much useless. The whole point of transit is so you can talk to other VPCs across accounts.
The weird story of Bob's game
I've been a fan of LEGO since I was a kid and have got back into in the last 5 years or so.

I wish I'd have bought more sets when I was younger as some of them sell for crazy amounts of money now. Particularly the early Harry Potter, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean sets. The minifigures alone can sell for close to £100.

I dabble in buying and selling LEGO and it is true that you can make money but it's a lot harder than it used to be. LEGO makes and sells a lot more sets now so it's not as lucrative.

At the end of last year I bought a load of sets that were shortly going to be discounted in the hopes of making money in the future. Some of the sets I'm expecting to do well are the Silent Mary Pirates of the Caribbean set as this was the only set released when the latest film came out. Also I'm predicting the Old Fishing Store set should do well as it's a much loved set and it was only on sale for a year. Generally the higher priced licensed sets have netted you a nice return in the past.

The problem with buy sets if you have to have somewhere to store them and be prepared to keep them for a long time, even slight damage to a box can harm its resell value. Plus my wife doesn't like having lots of boxes lying round the house. I'm mainly concentrate on collecting minifigures now as their easier to store and take up a lot less room.
PHPStorm makes everything so easy.
Not quite. If you knowingly acquired the information from an insider and the insider himself would be liable for your trade (e.g. you're a friend or family member), then you could have derivative liability.
Can't answer the question, but I can say that when I did HUET we'd breathe into a bag in the suit and back again. This worked surprisingly well for the time we needed to stay underwater before we could escape. I'd still warn against implementing ones own version of this without studying the topic well, there's a number of pitfalls that one might not be obvious of up front.

I've briefly considered if there might be something to remove CO2 inside the bag, but decided against it since this was training equipment so not sealed and probably reused multiple times.
Wouldn't DDG be able to monetize their search engine by simply showing ads relevant to your current search? They don't have to store your search history to do that, and you still get the same privacy.
Do you have an app that does that or are you using a Pixel device? (I think this feature was restricted to Pixels only)
It's always been popular and many of the big successful products are written in PHP. We see more and more startups doing PHP as well. I think a lot of devs have discovered that the new PHP versions let you have a very fast work flow.
I created a public community for Hacker News itself: https://spectrum.chat/hackernews

Something that I have always disliked about HN is the lack of the ability to delete comments and accounts. OTOH, Slack etc are private and lock up good content/discourse away from search engines. Hopefully, spectrum will offer a better balance.
They should use a name that's straightforward to pronounce, like "PostgreSQL".
So my question was actually rhetorical.

The point I was hoping to bring to the discussion is the fact that nearly all of our value-preferences (here, the value of time spent on various activities) come from social conditioning[1].

In this particular scenario it could well be the case that this particular value-preference (the belief that watching TV is wasteful) comes from the work ethic (as in 'working' is useful, and 'leisure' is wasteful).

There is no autonomous thinking in all of this and yet we claim to be living in an individualistic society. Doesn't that make anyone pause?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning
Someone from a well-known leak forum is claiming that the "Collection #1" discovered by Troy Hunt is only part #1 of all available collections (there are at least 5, and additional other dumps).
He also posted a screenshot of the original sales thread of the owner.
The dumps together seem to have a total size of almost 1TB.

Not sure whether it's cool to post any links here.
I don't see how you can think of this as a negative thing. We should be celebrating people buying $100 toys for their kids because they know they'll retain (or increase) in market value than $5-10 trash.

It:

a) Reduces waste, since we get re-use rather than disposable plastic that's thrown away soon after its first use.

b) Gives owners an economic incentive to preserve quality toys for generations, thus preserving iconic products.
Is that what sr.ht stood for? Source Hut? If so, that's pretty cool :)
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Leak claims Google regularly DOES manually intervene in controversial searches
How the Word ‘Family’ Triggered a Meltdown at Google
No, keep it hovering around 50% as much as you can, provided that it never ever reaches really low states of charge, 15% or less. State of charge is always relative to the capacity at current time, not the original factory capacity.
I find makefiles are an excellent universal interface for other build tools. If I am downloading some sourcecode off the internet I'd much prefer to be able to just type make or make build and be done with it rather than sifting through pages of instructions for how to set up and configure their build server of choice, etc.
I've been in a similar position in the past, where I had already been made redundant, but had been brought in to another team on a trial basis with a few other devs.

While getting my machine set up in their office, I had been given elevated Dropbox privileges, and I noticed a file with a name like "temp-dev-interview-approach". It was a document saying they were only going to hire one dev, and that it would be me.

I went through a similar dilemma, and I didn't tell them. I hinted heavily at it being an option, and pointed out the reasons why I might be the person to stay on (most experienced, worked on the larger client that was coming over), but no one caught on. I literally dragged them to a user group one day and mentioned redundancies to a mate of mine that was hiring, and despite him offering an interview to all of them, only one took it. To make things worse, I was told this by the MD a few months later. He also told me to not say anything until he had told the others, which he'd do soon. A day passed, and I kept shut around my co-workers, until they were all told that they wouldn't be there past the end of the month - and that I had been told yesterday.

Despite the fact that I was sworn to secrecy, I felt like shit about it, and I think my co-workers lost a bit of respect for me for essentially sitting with them at lunch "worrying" about whether we were all staying when I already knew. I didn't really talk to many of them after they left. All but one moved into different careers, and the one that took my mate up on his job offer left quickly to become a creative lead.

Having experienced what I've experienced, which I'd consider a fairly shitty situation, I would 100% tell my co-workers if I could be sure that they wouldn't rat me out for it. Since a clients work is drying up, it sounds like you'll all have a fairly iron-clad reason to look for another job anyway, since experienced devs tend to have a feeling when a contract is about to wind down.
Yes, but those pressures are applied to everybody while only a relatively small percentage of the population becomes hoarders. There must be more to it.
I like how there are 2 products called Spectrum on the front page and they are completely unrelated. Anyway, this lib looks pretty ok for it's purpose.
Probably in the original announcement[0], or maybe in the HN thread

[0]: https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...
Maybe it'll go the way comics went; a massive increase in people purchasing items solely for investments, the manufacturers pandering to (or alternatively, taking advantage of) them, and ultimately a massive crash leading to plenty of choice and low prices for actual lego aficionados in the future.
It's in the announcement blog post of
sr.ht: https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit... (pronounced “sir hat”, or any other way you want), also quoted in the LWN.net article.
So.. an e-reader display is not a screen then?