skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop thinking of it as a 'subscription'. It isn't, it's a purchase model, where they happen to prefer to take regular payments.

You can sign up to Audible, pay the money, spend your credit, then cancel, all within 10 minutes. Then you can do the same thing again, immediately afterwards.

If your credit cost you less than $9, you should buy the title using a credit, not cash.

I'm surprised they've managed to convince so many people to think of it like it's Netflix, where you pay periodically for temporary access to the full library. Audible have never offered rentals, and their model is nothing like the Netflix model at all.

Also, arafalov's points about the 24 month subscription, and the don't-cancel discounts, are great tips.
Not that you're necessarily emailing these, but on the "appears more polished" thing, you may be surprised how many C-level (and somewhat under) folks don't read email attachments unless they are .ppt(x) files.
I'm curious too, but from related personal experience:

1. One of the best communicators I've met strongly suggested never to present from powerpoint on screen, but rather create a brochure to print and hand off to participants. His claim was less that it impresses, but rather that it changes dynamics of "presenter vs audience" and makes it more of a "discussion group / workshop", which tends to be a more productive dynamic, especially in sales/persuasive setting.

2. Alternatively and more prosaically, dear gawd, 99% of people using PowerPoint don't know how to use it. They don't know how the slide show view interacts with a Webex presentation, so they end up sending a small thumbnail to projector, presenter view to remote audience, but hey things look ok on their screen so they keep going. PDF would alleviate some of those issues :P
As much as this nonsense doesn't belong on HN, at least the title is descriptive and not clickbait using an entire string of words that people have never heard of.
Random I/O is much better on eMMC than MicroSD, which is very noticeable when using a SBC as a desktop.
I meant that Google would try to extract any and every information from a user, while Apple can easily just provide the most important information.

Admittedly, I was trying to be a bit funny. Didn't work out obviously.
I rarely see them in SF and they're rarely in the problem areas anyways.

I've lived in SF my whole life, taken MUNI a lot (gave up on it mostly, I drive everywhere now) and I continue to take BART; I've been "fare inspected" twice.

I usually only see the fare inspectors when they've caught someone who then got belligerent and needed to be arrested.

It apparently didn't take long for this to happen at a station with new fare gates as well -> http://nbcbay.com/EVt6G4o

One of the top complaints I hear about BART/MUNI is about safety and if they can't even catch fare evaders, how are they ever going to find an actual criminal?
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Would people continue to use it if that happened? I feel like that would defeat some of the point of the service.
This is one of the solutions, using do notation:

solve (theInt, theString) =
do
a <- theInt
b <- theString
return (a,b)
Our interviewing process has three stages, in the first stage you will need to prescribe the correct medication for a patient, the second step show human warmth and caring to a terminally ill patient, and the third step perform a small surgery meant to show your mastery of various forms.
Did it start as a support tool for easy query of open data or what was the motivation?
This tweet (or one like it) caused a massive Twitter outage.
I used to use an old launcher that was mostly just a search box (with automatic favourites, generated from how frequently you select certain apps), KISS Launcher seems like a much more refined version of that.
Yes, I do purchase subscriptions to news web sites occasionally, because I don't consider writers being paid to be intrinsically immoral. Given the choice to pay them with ads and pay them directly, I'll take the latter. I suppose "rely on other people seeing ads and/or paying for content to subsidize me" is also an option.
Users have a terrible habit of not running updates. Years of botnets suggest that automatic updates are probably the way to go.
While I appreciate Apple's care to make sure Macs are as secure as possible, I feel like silently disabling or interfering with applications on users' machines is almost going to far. I hate to use such a cliche term, but isn't this a slippery slope?
I've been using Overcast, and have noticed that with certain podcasts, the audio ad-breaks seem to come in the middle of sentences, and there's no segue from podcast content to ad-read. Is that what you're referring to by "ad injection"? Or is just that the creator sucks at editing?
In the same vein of this if you like crackpot theories, research Tartaria and mud floods.
Post this on twitter and @nntaleb will correct you!
One little beef with CPS (for an interpreter) is that use it cause a hit on performance. Defunctionalization could be use to improve on that?
We could definitely use a replacement for LaTeX sometime soon. The syntax is pretty gross and the documents are difficult to understand. And if you move from using a single document to importing multiple distinct files into a main file it's quite difficult to find where a value or setting is coming from. I've found that most LaTeX documentation is merely contained within StackExchange answers, which are of highly variable quality, which is a pretty crappy user experience.
I think they might be doing away with the paper bags with handles. I got a delivery this morning and all of the bags were some kind of thicker paper covered in ads, and they didn't have handles. I don't know how the new bags are environmentally, but they didn't tear nearly as much as the brown bags with handles.
A proactive approach to more secure code
- works for people who block web fonts
> People will pay really little for a blog post emailed to them each week

You'd be surprised.
This is becoming less true, perhaps: modern road bikes now are largely made of carbon fibre, not aluminum. The cheap $1k ones are still Al, but anything over $2k is now CF.

Of course, some commercial aircraft are now getting CF parts, but they're still mostly Al.
Founder here. The blockchain gets you a couple of things.

The key thing in our blockchain is the storage contract, which is something like a blockchain-SLA. The host has an obligation to store some data, and the host also puts up money out of pocket as a promise that the data will be stored faithfully. The blockchain will occasionally challenge the host, and if the host cannot create a proof that the data is still being stored, the host's collateral is forfeit.

The renter also puts money into the file contract, this money is used to pay the host if the host is honest/keeps the data, and the money is destroyed if the host is dishonest or loses the data. The money gets destroyed so that the renter has no reason to interfere with the host, nothing to gain from seeing the host fail or working to make the host fail.

Thanks to the blockchain, the host has a guaranteed payment if they store the data, regardless of whether the renter sticks around for the duration of the contract or not. And also thanks to the blockchain, the renter knows that the host will not get paid until the end of the contract, and that they will actually lose some of their own money if they lose the data.

There's another great benefit though to cryptocurrency, which is that payments are super low friction. Every time you upload data to the Sia network or download data from the Sia network, you make hundreds to thousands of tiny payments to the various parties over state channels. This wouldn't be feasible using more traditional payment systems, we'd have to track everything in a centralized database, and that actually doesn't scale very well.

Sia is both low cost and high speed, but these are side benefits over the primary goal of uncompromising decentralization. Storage just happens to be an application where the decentralized version is actually highly competitive to the centralized versions.

I'm glossing over a fair amount here, if there's anything that doesn't make sense or seems off feel free to ask, I'm happy to clarify.
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Procedural scattering and scaling based on reference image ( Unity)
It's a bit of both. But also, you need to remember, legal may pass blame, but they won't keep your app up. Your app being down is likely bad, even if you get paid for it.
Coffee shops gets me 3 results in my city, coffee shop gets me 4 results with the closest 45 miles away. Totally useless.
Hello, article author here. You wrote:
"There's lot of focus in this article on failure. I enjoy Apple bashing as much as the next guy, but one has to assume in the same 20 years Apple's head of design would have had as many, if not more successes?"

I point out in the article that Ive (plus Jobs) undoubtedly saved Apple. Without Ive, and the inspirational design of the first iMac, Apple would now be a footnote in history. The Apple Watch is a good design. The "sunflower" iMac was a good design. The unibody MacBook Pro is a good design. The 2001 Titanium laptop was a fantastic design. The iPhone 5 was a delightful design. There's a long, long list of good products. There's also a list of less good products, and I cited some of them.

I use and enjoy Apple products every day. But nothing and nobody should be above careful critique. My motivation was to point out that Ive leaving isn't necessarily a disaster, because he didn't always get it right, and to cite some examples to back that up.

(edited to replace attempt at blockquote HTML with "".)
related medium article ::
https://medium.com/@snayss/exploration-into-image-based-proc...
The only motivation was to make a tool allowing you to query multiple datasource simultaneously in SQL and that was also the start of it.
That doesn't affect TTFB.
> or less costly

They're definitely less costly. I could host over 10x the amount on Sia for what I pay for B2 at the moment, B2 is already one of the cheapest providers, plus that's just in storage, ignoring all bandwidth costs. I'm really curious what the numbers will look like in terms of reliability here. Theoretically you can figure out how often storage contracts try to retrieve and fail and the host has to pay a fee by looking at the block chain, anyone done the analysis on this yet?
Other than potential legal issues, I don't see any significant barriers to what you are proposing.
Simple example: RegExp allows you to find the next closing parenthesis. But it can not "see" how many opening parenthesis there were before that. Therefore it can not tell you if the closing parenthesis it found is the "matching" closing parenthesis
Differential equations and electromagnetism?

Maybe 30 years ago, but these days electrical engineers know how to code
Australian waste used as fuel to make tofu in Indonesia
One Product to Rule Them All
Whenever I hear people describe non-physical confrontation as "violence", my only thought is that they have no idea what real violence is.

The tech echo-chamber is fostering unrealistic opinions about life and liberty.
Ask HN: UI dark patterns related to privacy
I'm looking to accumulate a list of dark patterns that are misleading and lead users to mismanage their own privacy or leads to unintended outcomes. The goal is to create a template that can be published to help users be aware of these patterns.Would love to get examples from the community here.
Tracking attached event handlers doesn’t need to be a pain
Reminds me of the gif showing its own hash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704
When somebody claims something, they should provide proof.
I can call you a thief, but until I bring any proof for my claim, you are innocent. We are not Google, so don't expect a comment that proves Thiel wrong. Furthermore, I don't know what proof can Google come up with to prove they are not doing anything wrong.
Read up on the burden of proof:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P...
But do you have the same level of durability and availability of your data? Do you trust the storage nodes to not be making copies of your data? Can you pay with dollars instead of bitcoin?

I'm paying for trust, and it is a hard sell that a distributed storage system spanning worldwide jurisdictions is inherently more trustworthy (although it is possible that it can be as durable and reliable as traditional storage systems, but the proof is in the data).

I would like to be proven wrong.
What do you do when the director / manager is actually the one doing the interrupting?
Are all statements true until proven otherwise?

He spoke, with no substantiation, at a conservative conference denouncing a contributor to the democratic party.

Not only is that venue suspicious but any real counter intelligence conversation is done discretely. So perhaps the burden of proof is actually on him. And perhaps the requirements for such are rather high. And if anything, his actions strongly discount rather than support his claim.
I don't think you need to make an argument for what you wrote, I think that's pretty obvious.

But the people who care about the brain drain are being outvoted by the voters who support this administration, and are honestly happy about the brain drain.
Indeed - using the Czech-language version of Word and email client.
I would not be surprised if step 5. is a platform that is essentially an aggregation of different platforms which pays out royalties/fees to each of the individual services and thus completes the digital recreation of cable TV.
I was a big defender of Apple Maps, largely because I almost never saw any problems with the data. Then I moved into an apartment complex in which Apple had the driveway in the wrong place.

I've moved since, so I'll spell it out: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5940+Arapaho+Rd%2C+75248&t=osx&ia=...

Apple Maps believes that the driveways are to the south and east, but in fact the front driveway--the main entrance--is to the north, and there is no direct passage from the east. So every set of directions to or from those apartments begins or ends incorrectly. When leaving, I just have to guess whether I should turn east on Arapaho to catch up to where Maps thinks I should have ended up on Preston to start out, or whether it will send me west on Arapaho once it realizes I'm already most of a block in that direction from Preston. It added a minute or two to every trip, and delivery people would fail to find my apartment unless I specifically said "don't use Apple Maps." So I started saying that to everyone, all the time.

Apple's commitment to privacy means that they deliberately don't track the beginning or ending of any trip, but that's precisely the bits they needed to track to see that their routing was completely and totally wrong. So the problem will apparently never be fixed, at least until an Apple employee happens to want to visit a friend who lives in the Enclave at Prestonwood and realizes they can't get there.

So I've switched to Google Maps, and I loathe the lack of privacy, but I love the sharing option, so I guess I'm staying, even though I live elsewhere now.
Saucelabs is very bad this way. We have tunnels flake out once in a while (I'm still convinced there's a concurrency bug in their tunnel implementation, based on missing events I've seen in test logs), but sometimes Sauce is just having issues.

When I'm seeing 100% failure rate, there's often nothing on their status page. Or there's some bullshit metric like VM acquisition times are double normal for, say, some Windows VM. But I'm not seeing 8% failure rate. I'm not seeing an extra 30 seconds. I'm seeing 100% failure rate, with long timeouts, and retries.
The person running the meeting should be moderating it as well, which would solve these issues.
Decentralized computing is a challenge because unlike storage, it's very expensive to encrypt computation. You see something like 10,000x slowdowns.

With storage, we can encrypt and checksum everything client-side in a cryptographically secure manner, and we can have full faith that even though we are giving our data to someone else, they have no way to view the data or tamper with the data.

If techniques like homomorphic encryption gain substantial speedups, I'm sure that we'll start to see decentralized/trustless computing, but for now you really need to be doing your outsourced computing with someone you can trust and someone who is regulated, because it's possible to act maliciously.
Worse still, imho is that it may not be a popular video I'm looking for. I really wish they'd factor in a "I have viewed" for results.
You're not necessarily wrong but it's not so one-sided. In Sia you are definitely paying, the storage is automatically verified, and the storage providers don't get paid if they go down.
AT&T Will Now Filter Robocall Spam, If You Pay Them Extra
I've been intrigued by the idea of compiled Go based web apps and this looks like an interesting approach.

This is clearly Experimental / Alpha and missing some basics, such as:

On Chrome:
Click "get started"
Click the back button in the browser
URL changes, but you stay on the "Getting started" page
> By default it opens the Yelp website (which of course nags you to get their app and/or login, but that's not unique to Yelp).

A bit of a sidenote, but the worst part is that now Yelp doesn't just nag you to get the app and/or login. It displays the nag splash page and doesn't let you see any information at all until you install the app and/or login.
Well, knowing your audience is a thing too. If your C-level eyeballs only read pptx, then do that. But honestly I wouldn’t count on C-level at any company to understand what I’m saying unless I say it directly to them and answer their questions in person.
Once a week would already be nice. How about bring your dog day once a week? Then add a “no meetings” once a week and the workplace would already be much better.
Unless you're buying very cheap audiobooks, you'd be better off upgrading to a heavier 'subscription' and spending the extra credits, rather than paying in cash.
Isn't News the current big winner in paywalls for articles? The NYT digital service grosses $700M.
Other people's violations of the site guidelines don't justify your breaking them as well. That's not only a non sequitur, it's a fatal one. If you see someplace we didn't intervene where we should have, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases.

We're not trying to be neutral in the sense you describe. I agree that it's impossible, that everything is ultimately political or at least connected to it by one or two hops, etc. But this is a hard problem with no easy answers—actually with no answers, so far as I can tell. I certainly don't have one. In particular, the answer you're offering is not an answer. Picking a side and banning the other side would explode this community. It isn't just people on the banned side who would oppose such an approach; most HN users on all sides would. The rift would kill the community. What good would that do?

Another reason is that political issues are more important than most of what appears on HN. Justice is more important than Rust. Does it follow that no website dedicated to less important things has a right to exist? I don't think so. I think it's ok to have a forum dedicated to intellectual curiosity, even though justice is more important than Rust. It's fine if you disagree, but then it would be good to make clear that that is what you disagree with. So far I don't think I've ever heard anyone come out and say so. But if you do agree that it's ok to have a forum dedicated to intellectual curiosity, I think I can argue confidently that the approach we take as moderators follows from that.
The ‘biggest change in oil market history’ is less than six months away
Unless SGX works.
Clean and organized code – start from the beginning
I would say there's plenty wrong with this list, but this one is, ironically, mostly true but malphrased. A better way to put it would be: "don't be content with being so bad at communication that it gets in the way of your ability to make your (technical) point". If you know something about how _not_ to communicate (badly), you can allow your technical expertise to be more influential when technical decisions are made (by people higher ranking than you).

It's not becoming a salesman. It's avoiding the situation of being so bad at communicating, that your technical expertise is ignored. Non-technical people usually _want_ to hear your point, in regards a technical decision. If you are unable to help them know what you're trying to say, they may not understand what you're trying to say, and then you'll wonder afterwards why they hired the technical person and then ignored their technical advice. They're not ignoring your advice, in many cases they simply cannot perceive clearly what you are trying to say.

I hope that I have made my point understandable here. But, you know, I may not have. :)
I think slack does this, you don’t need to type in password, instead it emails you a temp link, you use that to open the client.
> I would expect that building large datacenters and employing people to manage them is exactly how you go about providing reliable storage capacity.

Further, I imagine that if there is money to be made providing reliable storage to Sia users, then those with experience of reliably providing low-cost, high-volume storage will corner the market pretty fast!
> Do you trust the storage nodes to not be making copies of your data?

No, I trust the cryptography to, I sure as hell wouldn't trust Backblaze, let alone Amazon not to do that either. I use Restic when using such services to encrypt before sending anything to them.

> durability and availability

This is IMO the only real question. I want to see some numbers and I think their blockchain should actually be able to provide values for this theoretically.
I don't think it's best to think of this in terms of "safety." Interruption is a dark pattern. It enables the user of the pattern to gain more attention and get more "turns" at speaking, but does it at the expense of group members being able to express complicated or difficult concepts. It's a pattern which suppresses thought and information.
There are two potentials here.

One potential is if it's just one or two people being cut off constantly - if so, they might need to practice being engaging speakers and speaking more concisely. Everybody has the one coworker who takes 10 minutes to get to a 30 second point. (Cutting people off is still rude, the above isn't an excuse, it's an explanation.)

The alternative is that everyone is fighting to get out their idea instead of cooperating to lay out all ideas. If you need to, go buy a damn ruler, label it the talking stick, and whoever holds it gets to talk. Preferably before getting to that point, have a conversation with your peers that the deliberative process is a cooperative one - it's not about winning and losing, it's about everyone putting out their possible solutions and working together to build the right one.
Each person has the right to dictate what economic arrangements they will participate in. This does not mean they have the right to dictate what arrangements other people will participate in.
"I have here in my hand a list of communist agents and sympathizers working for the State Departmernt... er, I mean Google."

It really is like watching history repeat itself. I've just been amazed by the past few years.
Did I miss something in this article? Krebs mentions an "academic paper" about bulletproof hosting, then never gives a link to it, or even a title/authors, right?
That seems more like an argument to say that a per-unit measure of productivity is meaningless than anything else.