skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a tricky balance to the point you have raised. If the business makes the process too easy, the attrition will increase and the pricing structure will have to go up for the remaining buyers. When that happens, you would come in here to complain that the prices of goods & services are exorbitantly high.

"Invest some time in a better product" is not an appropriate solution since consumers have different incentive processes and those incentives changes throughout their lives. There is a diminishing return on investment for the producer of the g&s and they have to find the right balance.

The process of increasing cancellation cost (e.g. time), inadvertently puts the onus on the consumer to do their due diligence prior to purchasing a product.
Is it possible to grow enough food in your backyard to live off of (plus chickens as a yard waste disposal) if you also work full time? I can't even eat at a restaurant without knowing if they use organic produce.
> because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier

Yes... until you want to take anything back out - then you're going to have to wait, and you're going to pay a lot more than €5
I know a bunch of natural photographers, and they're all very anti-outdoor-domestic-cat. As in, they want them all killed as an invasive species. Especially bird photographers are very vocal about this. I'm not sure why municipalities consider off leash and roaming dogs illegal, but it's OK for cats to roam and also be off leash. Cats have way more infectious disease potential transferred from a bite than a dog.
It's really pretty simple. "The jobs" didn't go to robots, they went to humans in China. Blaming automation is just a way to sweep under the rug the results of the last 20 years of American trade policy.

Even if all those jobs eventually get automated, at this point they will be done by robots in China, not in America. It's still a big loss for the US.
That thing has 3G. Terrible screen resolution. God knows about battery life.
Leaky? Like, other people can hear them?

I'd have a hard time caring about that if I had to wear headphones and play them loud enough to drown out the noise around me in the first place.

(Luckily, I have a door and a pair of headphones with a noise cancelling function that is usually good enough without even any music playing.)
Yes, let us thank the anthropomorphic deity that science has a discipline called Chemistry with a subdiscipline called Toxicology where we don't have to guess about these things. All hail the LD50 and likewise the LC50 so that we no longer have to engage in blatant chemophobia.
I keep wondering as I read more and experience more things if the cause of some depression is as simple as nothing to look forward to. Joining a club, taking up a hobby, visiting a church, learning a new skill, etc. all seem to help people with their condition. We're wired to connect and to hope and dream. For some people exercise does that but it just makes me tired and want to crash (even when I was in shape and playing football in school). It is a difficult issue and I worry with our technology induced isolation that it will worsen.
> You acquire that skill which is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs: the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your imagined reader/gallery-goer/customer.

That's pretty similar to the API design, where you have to switch rapidly from the point of view of implementer to the point of view of user and back again.
> Mastercard and Visa are undoubtedly going to pull every lever at their disposal to take out Apple

The images shown are labeled the "Apple Mastercard". So it's a Mastercard with Apple branding.
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The Count of Monte Cristo, is such a rollicking story from beginning to end, almost the entire 1300+ pages.
Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" springs to mind.
How does okular compare to zathura (which can use mupdf or poppler as its pdf backend)?
Plasma 5 is my Desktop Environment on all machines capable enough to handle it. Xfce for all others.

I love the configurability and theming capabilities. Dolphin, Okular and Spectacle are just incredible. I do not use Discover at all.

On Arch Linux, I have had no troubles in the past 5-6 months. The quality is pretty high.

I thank the KDE/Plasma community for enriching the world with their contributions.
Even I am waiting for his email id.
That information is available in the Apple Wallet app, just not on the physical card.
If you think about it, game studios and movie producers are two of the only art businesses where something remotely close to the artist is able to make any money off the actual art.

Musicians only make money off concerts, not selling music. Writers literally don't make money any more. And I'm not certain if there was ever a time actors or directors made money -- outside of the EXTREMELY successful.

With Netflix really commoditizing the movie business, I wouldn't be surprised if the margin on movie production steeply declines in the near future.

So, my point is, yes this sucks. At the same time, doesn't it seem like the natural order of things?

I hope we can change the natural order of things. But maybe the value really is in the distribution and not production. As a self-described maker, it sucks to think that. But maybe it's the truth.
It would add trivial cost to hang heavy sound-absorbing curtains as room partitions to break up an open space. These would reduce noise significantly from all sources and make the roomlets colorful and cozy. And they could be moved around over time to accommodate changes in team size, and just to add visual variety.

No decent restaurant uses stadium seating as their decor. There's good reason. Patrons don't want to dine in a gymnasium.
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>With the rise of smartphone payments like Samsung Pay, Android Pay and Apple Pay , is there even a need for credit cards?

If you ever travelled to Asia and don't wanted to install WeChat then yes, cards are good unless you're ok with going cash only.
Only 90?? What does the other 10 do to avoid pesticides????
This seems pretty straightforward. I get worried about the complexities of nesting routes, but then I have a fairly simple use-case anyway so I doubt I'll get into the weeds.

Similar to another commenter, it never seemed quite natural to me to define routes in jsx. Your solution looks more like a server-side routing table and I appreciate that!
Speaking as an amateur radio operator who does experimental stations....

Encryption is illegal as you stated. However "Unique encodings of an analog or digital nature" are completely legal. You don't even need to tell the protocol.

We had this issue with D.star where it was an amateur radio digital protocol in which they didn't tell how to encode or decode. Brought up at an FCC hearing and deemed completely legal.

So call all encryption a "Unique encoding" and you're legally in the clear.
The death hugs I have seen have usually been products that are on shared hosting, which is never a good thing, even when testing an idea. The few that are hosted somewhere like DigitalOcean or Linode, they didn't scale the VM before getting hugged.

Based on the small handful of times a post of mine has hit #5 or higher, you can expect between 20k and 40k visits. How many conversions you get completely depend on your product.

My blog has had 4 posts that have taken top marks. A total of 150k visits (during those days) and I have had 0 newsletter signups, 0 contact form submissions, $0 in advertising revenue, and $0 in attributed business.
both of which should be illegal. (at least banning plastics for single-use items)
The numbers can be found on the Apple Wallet app
Im using this site https://bulliontradingllc.com/ to but gold online. Its easy and reliable.
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My friends sometimes use it in an ironic sense to refer to my wife who is Japanese.
Do I want lorca[1] or fyne? I know that they are different, but which one would you go with and why?

[1] https://github.com/zserge/lorca
Sounds awfully cartel-like.

Unfortunately I agree with you regarding the lack of incentives Apple has. IIRC, the money for cash back rewards comes out of the interchange fee. How do you get consumers to adopt a card that's opaquely better for businesses and immediately worse for themselves?
I agree we are already exposed to this problem. Visa and Mastercard already make judgments about whom to support and whom to disallow. This is dangerous, especially because they are willing to succumb to the Internet outrage machine and pressure from loud activist groups to make these decisions.

When a platform is large enough (or has to be inherently large due to network effects), we should ensure (through regulation perhaps) that they act neutrally and provide service to everyone except where the law explicitly disallows it. That is, they should behave as a "dumb pipe" and not curators.
The part that worries the hell out of me is the “hand picked”. Screw that: if the game exists anywhere on the store, and people want to play it, LET THEM and find a way to pay the developer (e.g. based on time played, or some other measure). [Edit: If they want to introduce new rules like “no ads”, fine but any game meeting the requirements should be allowed, not “hand picked”.]

Otherwise, I can tell you right now what will happen: most developers will be (further) screwed by Apple’s Latest Arbitrary Hidden Process. And of course, big important devs will continue to be quietly given special treatment.

I have no faith in their “curation” either. Half the time they feature games that people would easily find anyway, e.g. the latest Angry Birds or Candy Crush or Lego game.
It goes
Customer -> Merchant -> payment processor (eg PayPal) -> acquirer (eg First Data in the US) -> Visa or MC -> bank the CC comes from (issuing bank)

CC transactions are all settled later.
It is a great experience to have and know that you will not want to do it again :)

I think setting it up is not as difficult as to maintain and make sure emails are not bounced back, etc.
What would you recommend for debugging nested virt, i.e. with Xen or KVM as the 'guest'?

https://github.com/Wenzel/pyvmidbg is also using libvmi with Xen.
The kind of system with circulation is overcomplicated. Would be much better to just put the heater into the pool/take it out.
Your comment is a nice example of how low-frequency distractions (A specific coworker shifting position in your field of view) can be much worse than being immersed in a high volume of distractions (strangers milling about in a coffee shop that's probably playing music, running grinders, yelling names, etc.)
I'm confused. The Apple card is a MasterCard.
I'd argue that companies can provide everyone offices for the same reason that companies can't provide everyone robots that do the dangerous labor: It's expensive.
I really like diffpdf: http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html
Keep in mind apple pay is not available world wide yet
They're not PDF-based. They take in a JSON spec of their own design and the output seems to be a custom HTML-like view. It auto-reflows [to the chagrin of some art directors and designers].

They seem to have prioritized readability and accessibility by limiting composition.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_news/apple_n...

edit: Some back issues are PDFs. Future issues won't be.
Well, having just purchased the laptop, luckily I have no idea :-D and I hope I won't need to use it anytime soon.
Will I need an iPhone to use it? If not, any difference in the benefits?
Skepticism is dead.
Right. Those are the best unlimited rates you can get, and Apple is matching that rate with their digital card.

The downside is that their physical card rate (1%) is not as competitive, but they're trying to nudge people/businesses towards digital payments.
>I have an ex colleague who was very helpful to me when I moved here. He looked out for me and even invited me to his home for dinner many, many times. He hooked me up with local groups, etc, etc. He even occasionally still asks me to go to some local events these days. But I'm pretty sure he hates my guts.

Why would he do these things for you if he doesn't have to? Obviously, he doesn't have time to do this for everyone, so does he have some incentive to expend this energy on you? Does being nice to you help him out in some way?
yes, the touch ID sensor was near my fingers, the lock button is far from my fingers.
In my experience the danger zone when cycling on a mixed traffic bike path (pedestrians, slow bikes, etc) starts at 25 km/h, which is about the double of the speed of the casual or low range cyclist. 20 mph (32 km/h) is too fast for the other traffic. They don't expect to have so little time to react and get scared (even if the cyclist does everything and saw them since long before, they only have to keep doing what they were doing). Furthermore with a normal bike it's a waste of energy so when traffic increases I slow down because the average speed doesn't change much if I sprint between each group of pedestrians/slow bikes. I understand that with an engine you can do a lot more of stop and go but please don't scare people too much, it makes them hate all cyclists.
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I think that would be because Uber has some USD 24 billion invested in it while Lyft has raised nearly USD 5 billion (figures from Crunchbase). With deep pockets, Uber's right move is to spend fast and monopolize as much of the market as possible. They do this by buying out competitors or offering massive discounts on their pricing to out run their competitors. They can afford to figure out how to be profitable later.
I had just replied to the comment above yours that doorbells do indeed have wires. Forgot completely about the new wireless ones. That makes much more sense.
> Mastercard and Visa are undoubtedly going to pull every lever at their disposal to take out Apple.

The Apple card isn't competing with Mastercard and Visa -- in fact, it uses the Mastercard payment network. It's competing with credit cards issued by other banks on top of the MC and Visa payment networks (and AmEx/Discover, which unlike MC and Visa combine the payment network and card issuing).

I doubt the other banks are too afraid of Apple though, I didn't see anything so compelling about the Apple card that would cause it kill other credit cards. It's a slick product, but not game-changing the way that e.g. the iPhone was to entrenched phone makers.
"ice chewers, mouth noises, farting"

My kryptonite is nail clipping.
> you get message integrity but no encryption so some observer could see all the traffic but not be able to interfere

Authentication without encryption isn't very useful, unless you sign every message.
Okular is the only PDF reader that could handle PDF on my previous slow computer. Windows was a breeze but I always had problems with PDF on linux before I could settle for okular.

It bugs me that it's easier to select text with the underlining tool than with the select tool.
Interesting that they wouldn't just display the number of votes. By using brightness, they transform their method of cheating into something much more difficult to quantify.
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The CC networks are known cave to political pressure to shut down certain merchants. Apple is likely no better or worse here.

example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/caving-government-pres...
Bernie Sanders railing against Apple/Goldman Sachs = Priceless
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19484757 (which hit the FP first and is also not a press release)
In 2006 would you have said they were qualified to make a cell phone?
Nilay from Verge posted an interesting comment about what if one of the magazines, say Wired, decides to write a negative story about Apple on Apple News+?
I would imagine that it's because most cats aren't "threatening" to people, in that they don't generally approach people, and people aren't generally afraid of them when they do. E.g., my grandmother was terrified of unleashed dogs (as are many others), regardless of how "friendly" they were.
This is a good thing to remember for anybody who creates.

I would follow it up with something equally important: You don't have to write for any freaking body else besides yourself -- and many times life requires you do to exactly that.

When I started blogging, I did a lot of thrashing around. I still do. As a freelance writer with a bit of a similar background to this guy's, I was quite perplexed. Wasn't I sweating blood enough? Am I so scatter-brained? I used to write copy that sung.

What the hell is going on?

What was going on was that my brain was working through some complex problems. The only way it could do that was to dump it all out there, edit like hell, then see what the fuck I was trying to say.

Sometimes I was wrong. That sucked. For a long time, on many subjects I refused to take a stance one way or another. That also sucked -- for me.

Creatively writing, then editing your work like you hate everything you could possibly say? It has a beauty and magic of clarifying thought that nothing else I've seen in my life does. It's the most magical thing I've come across.

So yes. If you know what you want to say and you're just looking for a good transaction, buckle the hell down and write like a copywriter. But be aware that you're missing all of the good stuff. If you're only putting out what was already in your head without the re-organization, cross-pollinization, and sythesis part of intelligence, you're not being creative. You may sell a crap-load of stuff, but all you're doing is re-organizing somebody else's ideas into stuff people want to consume.
Or the night skies light up completely because there was another big bang somewhere else and the light from that universe cluster just reached us

our observable universe may be around an unobservable area whose light hasn't reached us yet
Apple needs to put a hardware effort behind this to really make it worth anything... if Apple wants developers to push games to their platforms, the platforms need to have a stronger focus on games. A huge part of that, IMHO, would be making the Mac* not a pile of shit for games. That involves two things (and likely a third):

1. Complete compatibility layer with DirectX12, fuck everything else. No one is gonna rewrite their games in Metal to start at this point.

2. Writing drivers for a few hundred existing graphics cards.

(And the likely) 3. Partner with AMD or NVIDIA to create an intensely powerful per dollar line of proprietary graphics cards that obliterate the competition.

Apple seems to like an adaptive experience with certain tasks being best accomplished on certain devices, progressively upgrading features, as the devices support more complex user input. They generally execute this near perfectly everywhere _except_ gaming.

I think this is a neat announcement, but will likely fizzle. I really, really, wish Apple would take gaming seriously. At this point their platforms are primarily for content consumption, not creation, ignoring gaming comes off as sort of pompous (though maybe I'm the pompous one, ha).

Maybe with the upcoming modular Mac Pro this will be fixed, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

* Apple TV is currently garbage too because the standard outta the box input device (remote) is horrible gaming. They need to ship a system with a sanctioned controller, or make an enclosure for iOS devices.
It would be interesting to know what % of their users play these 'premium experience' titles, in comparison to Candy Crush and Clash Royale where ads, microtransactions and data harvesting are incredibly popular
For a 2D structure, maybe. What is the depth of the feature though? I saw those pictures as light shining along the plane, not across it (am I wrong?). If it’s across it’s not obvious that CDRW’s features are deep enough and the “empty” space transparent enough.

How about 3D micro-structures? It’s hard enough to make a one off 3D structure reproducible, never mind a changeable one.
How come us manufacturer output has gone up while we shed jobs then?
Police. Right.

Sure.

Your anecdotal experience is of only minor consequence here.

I've known people that have been abused by the police and other authority figures.

Plus if you're a minor and you're being abused by your guardian and the police show up to ask questions you're going to face backlash and it isn't going to be good.

For some there's really nowhere to go for justice.
Great writeup. The visualizations make it a lot easier to comprehend how these data structures are actually used to make queries faster.
I would rather have a direct press link than through NYTimes, especially given that there is a conflict of interest.
I wonder how you can challenge a fraudulent transaction when that information is missing
Then Visa will pull every lever at its disposal to take it out.

It's also disappointing though, because it means Apple is not competing as a separate entity. What we want is for Apple to jump in be an actual credit card company. Then for all of them to try to destroy each other. (Unfortunately, now that I think about it, there are probably legal reasons that Apple is restricted in this regard. That's a shame. Basically means that it's Mastercard and Visa forever.)
I think numbing might be useful if, for example, you’re currently incapable or illequiped to deal with whatever underlying thing is causing it, but its not a soltuion by itself, but rather a delaying tactic until the point when you can deal with or treat the issues.
Like de-listing vendors they do not like? CC processors can do that too, but they are nothing like the app store(s).
Yeah I mean, this is what cryptocurrency is supposed to help solve and does for people willing to jump through the hoops. Instead of waiting on corporate overlords to enter a ridiculously relegated and bureaucratic mess, we have the open source community actually moving forward with ideas (ones no one seems to like on HN because it's not as simple or convenient, not that Linux was easy to use when installing Slackware from a bunch of disks) and almost no one wants to embrace them, rather just shit on them here.

I'm fully aware this is an unpopular opinion here, but cryptocurrency is one answer to the conglomerates everyone is complaining about. Is it perfect, or even very good? No. But I use it regularly on major merchants and get stuff delivered without much hassle and pay for my VPSes without trouble.

People want an alternative that is as good as Visa/MC without the conglomerate control. That is not going to happen. You can't get 100% of the convenience of the major processors with 0% of the problems.
No, I do not believe in the divine right of kings.
I think you missed the "seconds later" part. Even if they run water after flushing, they haven't done it more than a second or 2, and thus have barely gotten their hands wet. They haven't even come close to cleaning anything.
The first few paragraphs remind me of a book called "Your Money or Your Life", which provides a simple way of expense tracking that can help build up savings. I recommend it for anybody who likes money.
I can go to Europe for 2 weeks for $2k or so, all-inclusive. Spending that much money just to sit on a train and look out a window sounds like a fortune to me. Maybe for very sedentary people it's an attractive option. Even a cruise ship is a more active experience, since there's a LOT more to do on a cruise ship, and you can probably do that for less than $2k as well if you avoid all the extras.