skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key difference between the subscription and the freemium model is the scalability with flexibility. A subscription is a fixed value the costumer pays for. If you set it to low, you're missing the opportunity to make more money from users willing to pay more. If you set it to high, you run the risk of users who would still be profitable not buy it at all.

Then you could try different tiers of subscriptions. But that only bandages the problems. Then came consumable virtual items, which automatically gives you infinite tiers of pay users. You can play the game for $15 a month, you can play it for free, or you can pay $3000 a month if you're willing to. And according to Zynga's report, many does, and that's where they get most of their money from.

That flexible scalability is why freemium is replacing subscriptions. And that's why I think the auction house will take over subscription. Because not only it's a freemium model, but it's a genius freemium model. It takes the best of the two main types of freemium (consumable and permanent virtual items) and put them together. It doesn't put a limit on how much a user can pay you. And it's also very attractive to users.
I guess I don't see it. Screenshots anywhere for comparison?
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Declined to Join Apple
this is pretty exciting. Although, I am still curiou about the portal and timeline for this.
If you're worried about taxpayer money I don't think that turning off those 250 devices will change much. If the FBI is still keen on surveilling those targets they'll do it without electronic help.

This means that the same level of invasion of privacy will occur (potentially more since physical surveillance can gather more information than a GPS tracker) but with less court approval and more cost.

Of course if we assume that the FBI was only tracking those 250 suspects because it was easy to do so then you're probably correct that turning them off will be a net saving to the tax payer.
> In the short term, our laws were written with light water reactors in mind, so anybody who wants to build a thorium reactor is going to have to build all the same expensive safety features that light water reactors need, plus the special metallurgy that molten salt reactors need.

It always annoys me that laws on safety requirements go into implementation details rather than stating the desired result. If the requirements simply said that "an independent audit must show that the safety exceeds the following thresholds: ...", safer technologies wouldn't incur the additional overhead you describe.
I really doubt that would be legal. It would be akin to the government can forcing you to pay for them to prosecute you.

Of course, I think the whole category of forfeiture law it blatantly contrary to the Fourth Ammendment, so what do I know.
I'm really confused by this. Is Megaupload (or any megaupload employee) facing a criminal trial? How can any "evidence trial" (or whatever they call it) be maintained if a law-enforcement agency doesn't have the drives?

Have any hashes been taken of the drives?
The FBI, as MPAA's minions, should be the ones paying it. Either their "confiscate" the data or they do not. If they do, they have the responsibility to keep it up, if they do not, they should have to give it back to its "owner".
Interesting. Function pointers are powerful, but are hardly a replacement for closures.
Yes; it rolls back investor protections. To understand the concern (you don't have to agree with it to understand it), stop assuming that all or even most of the people who take advantage of Crowdfunding will be businesses run in good faith, or that there will be any effective way to impute reputations to all, most, or even any of the people offering equity on these sites.
Is it too much different from how ebay deals with it?
I think you have to be pretty technical to dislike hidden inputs. But hidden inputs generally please mere mortals.
It seems that a certain culture is growing inside law enforcement agencies, one that doesn't respect the spirit of the Constitution anymore, and they just try to use whatever loopholes they can to arrest someone. Even the OWS protesters are being arrested on simple technicalities, without common sense.
We're actually working on a crowdfunding site that's been waiting on this law to pass to begin operating. That cap is an annual cap for individuals. Companies are limited to 1 million dollars of crowdfunding per year. I know there was a proposed 2 million dollar cap on how much a company can raise in a year if they had audited financials, but I'm not sure if that made it into the final cut.
This post really hurts my soul.

Can Carpathia sue the Federal Government for NOT seizing assets. It's the data, not hardware. Data is transferable. They want it, take it.

Can Carpathia sue? This kind of injustice just makes me boil.
Not sure if it exists in other platforms but with Django, some people have experimented with two-phased template rendering as described here:

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/django-two-phased-rendering/

and there's a permissive license (BSD, I think) implementation:

http://codysoyland.com/projects/django-phased/documentation/...
How much does this really change the game for any company that long-term thinks it may take VC money? Doesn't stuff like this crud up cap tables and drastically increase the legal cost of obtaining the protections VCs typically demand? Won't the best prospects among startups avoid crowdfunding, creating an adverse selection problem among available companies to fund through it?
What's the best method for 2x images for webpages on the new iPad?
I see what you did there.

But really, great job with 42floors so far, Jason. The site is gorgeous, and I suspect the other critical moving parts of the business are equally fine-tuned. I'll be checking the new source from now on, and am looking forward to reading more great "humbled" content in the future.
> Candidates need to ensure their online presence is something they are proud of (and happy to defend)

Of course, there is the problem of people tagging you in Facebook that you can never un-tag.
Indeed. While someone might talk about lambda functions very early into a discussion of Ruby, Python, etc., pointers-to-functions in C are almost never discussed in basic Computer Science.
This seems like a very obvious case. If the government wants the data, it needs to come and copy it, possibly seize the hard drives, or if it doesn't want to do any of that but still access the data, it needs to pay the bills.

I don't think the EFFs claim here is actually of any legal merit. You have no legal right to access data you sent to a third-party at at any time, why would you even think that? Theres no "lex cloud" yet.
I know pws=0 works for turning off personalized search.
So Grandma with $50k could invest in 25 start-ups at $2k each? I suppose if they each have at least a 8% probability of more than 10-bagging it...
That won't happen until someone builds an incredibly popular framework for nuclear power.
When considering a possible failure you need to consider their 100 billion cash horde which at ~20$ of their market cap is vary stable. Especially when compared to companies like Exon which depend on oil prices and the highly leveraged financial sector which caused the last recession.
Their previous (and now illegal) idea was to establish a suspect's whereabouts at a given time and thus to show that he was visiting places where a crime likely was committed. Now that doesn't work unless they assign agents to follow him, for precisely the reason you specify: it's an illegal search to enter their property (automobile) and attach the GPS tracking device.

Cell phone records, while controversial, are generally business records of the wireless telco and thus don't always enjoy the same protection. Personally, I'd like to see them get similar requirements for disclosure to law enforcement, but in the current political climate that seems unlikely.
Old Rivalries Die Hard: Oracle’s Ellison Takes Fresh Shot at SAP
Well as I said the could do it piecemeal (10 servers at a time or what have you) and it would require that the data (harware/versions/etc) for the source machine be archived with the disks. (good cataloguing)

Also $286K / $9k / day ~= 32 days, so in 32 days it costs them more to keep it all running that simply replace the disks.

Not to mention they could now lease those servers to another client and make money off of them.
“Pirating” UK Student to be Extradited to the US
Sounds like 2007 all over again:
http://gigaom.com/2007/06/17/has-world-of-warcraft-finally-h...

Raph Koster (much of whose work I admire!) seems a bit off-base speaking of WoW in 2007: “This is how Open Big MMOs all go. A big rush, peaking a little bit after the launch. Then a plateau for a while, then a tailing off.” http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/06/15/how-open-big-virtual-wo...

I would not expect WoW to be around forever, but I wouldn't bet on its demise any time soon. Fading? Maybe.

WoW subscription history vs other games from: http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png (from http://mmodata.blogspot.com/)
Friends and family money doesn't seem to interfere with VC activity too much - this is just conditionally broadening the definition of friends and family.
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
There are lots of people who don't have income, but have lots of net worth - they aren't worried about the reverse case. If your net worth is more than $100K, or make $100K, then you are in (ii).

You are still allowed only 10% though to invest (in total). So, if you have a net worth of $1M, you'd be capped at $100K invested per year.
The purpose was to require and remind the FBI that they too have to follow the law of the land.

They should have had to get a warrant before they put any tracking device anywhere (and I'm willing to bet they knew that) and they should have been smacked down for every instance where they didn't.
No harm. :)

If you want a good example of where they're useful, write the interpreter loop for a simple 3-byte wordsize VM.

To expand on that, make an array of function pointers corresponding to your opcodes. Have the eval() function for a bytecode instruction use the first byte of the bytecode as the array index, and then call the function pointer at that position with the other two bytes as arguments. It's a pretty solid use case.

Also, you're not strictly incorrect--the function pointer does "close over" the execution environment of the system at that time, though that's more a feature of C and globals and pointer arithmetic than anything else. ;)
Function pointers in C are like salt. Use them sparingly and you can greatly improve the readability and size of your code, use too many of them and you'll end up spoiling the broth and it will become a terrible mess.
Cocoa UI isn't that great. The Photoshop UI is much more compact and suitable for the kind of application it is. Turning it into a cocoa app would degrade the experience considerably.
I lose money through inefficiency because sometimes I drop coins on the ground and don't bother going after them, but if you start reaching into my pockets for my pennies, you and I are gonna have words, followed by fists.

It's not that they/I worry about watts/pennies, or even that they/I worry that you'll damage the powerlines/pockets, but that it's outright theft.
A lot of people here have pointed out that closures are not the same as function pointers in C, and for that I thank them. I have added that note to the blog post (it should be up on GitHub shortly), but I would also like to say that the reason for introducing function pointers in that way was to establish a sense of familiarity for those coming from Ruby / Python / JavaScript, who are not well-acquainted with their use in C.
Looks like 2005-2008 to get 10 million users: http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png (from http://mmodata.blogspot.com/)
I kind of wish HN as a collective whole would check their privilege at the door.
"Growing"? Look up J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO. Look up the 1968 Democratic National Convention. American law enforcement has never respected the Constitution.
I'm feeling old. 25 years of compilation with gcc.
I don't understand why this is the case, why can't they exchange the HDDs in the servers, tell the FBI to come with a big van and store the HDDs with the evidence on it themselves in some evidence room?
Radium on Rails?
Screenshots of Despair
The four letters that run The Valley
While true, the submission title does, and the submitter is the author.
"The rest of us"? Funny, I only hear you bitching, or even disagreeing. Everyone else is too busy playing with their new iPads, I guess.

You clearly just can't handle the fact that Apple has succeeded, and you have been driven into twisting others' words, inventing reactions and projecting them onto strangers ("You probably drank that up"), and similar twit behavior.

Take it back to grade school.
Xcode 4.3.2 distributed as an app (not installer), has SDK for Lion and iOS 5.1
I do not think they are simply attempting to replace existing reactors. I know in many countries governments have slowed down building reactors because of environmental concerns and costs. With the dwindling oil deposits and increasing energy need, safe and reliable nuclear reactors will be in high demand.
"The German flag, long weighted by the country's postwar reluctance about open displays of national pride, is flying again, an expression of exuberance as Germany plays host to the World Cup" [1]

Looks like times have changed recently.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/world/europe/18germany.htm...
Any keyboard will be a "contrived interface". The logical thing would be alphabetical order for ease of learning, but that would be terrible for speed. Alternatively, you could go with something like Dvorak, optimized for speed, but at the end of the day Dvorak feels just as contrived, has the same awkward learning curve, and the evidence that it's significantly faster than qwerty is virtually nonexistent except for a couple of old studies whose results have not been substantiated by newer studies.
I don't think you need to be worried about it being free. It's not actually free for everyone, I'd assume.

The fact that they let you put a badge on your page to get "4x more views" makes me believe they're going to price it similarly to how Mixpanel is priced—it's free up to a certain number of interactions, and then has tiered pricing from that point on.
Simply? Why don't you post the location of the bug-feature?
it does make sense that the role of policing will have to be done on the portal owner's end. Brand Reputation, Success, etc. People were skeptical of Kickstarter at first but look at how it has flourished.
> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement.

There's a dangerous consequence to saying this. Here's how:
1. Voting is easy.

2. Voting is valueable: it literally changes HN for everyone else.

3. Agreement/disagreement is easy: we're taught how to do it as children.

4. Agreement/disagreement is value-less. Saying that you agree with pg on 'Hackers and Painters' is valueless. Saying "prior to reading H&P, I was in mindset A-B-C supported by points of view D-E-F, and here's how they were modified, and here's the new mindset H-I-J" conveys the same agreement, but it provides value.

We shouldn't incite people to use up/down votes to express something value-less. Agreement and lack thereof (alone) is valueless.
Exactly. The totem is "an elegant solution for keeping track of reality." And reality is the garden on the cliff, something emphasized not only by the comparison of life to a dream and dreamers to "figments" and "shades", but much more directly in such lines as Cobb's father urging his son to "come back to reality" when none of the characters are even dreaming.

We know Cobb doesn't need his totem by the end, because his rejection of Mal at the climax is an expression of faith. To understand the implicit alternative, look to the parallel heist sequence which opens the film. There we had a very different Cobb place his faith in the "reality" of Mal when he lowered himself out the window above a fatal fall. Nolan emphasizes that this is the wrong decision by showing us Cobb's immediate (biblical) fall, blasphemy and then betrayal and loss. Death destroys the world by water as foreshadowed in the parable that opens the film.

At the end of the film the logic of this sequence reverses. Cobb resists Mal's temptation to stay with her in limbo. He rejects her for the first time ever, telling Mal she is not "real" where even moments before he was expressing lingering doubts to Ariadne ("how can you know"). And whereas his lack of faith had previously led to his defeat, here his expression of it leads directly to Fischer's symbolic reconciliation with his father. And while the film presents another death sequence as required by Matthew 7.24, this is but prelude to a heaven sequence that breaks the endlessly circular logic of the dream world / penrose staircase. The rules are violated because they no longer apply: Cobb is free of the maze.
Heh, I wonder if we have the same SS7-stack. Your description sounds disturbingly similar to our experience. Do your stack also have a wait of several minutes before reporting that starting it up went ok? (to the logfile of course. It is to good to actually report that to the console or to have service scripts that can be trusted). That wait is very popular with our testers.

Oh well, at least in our case our signals originate in IP and we only have to check against a HLR, which do have a semidecent mockup.
Well, we've hardly treated Latin America, most of the Middle East, or Iran fairly, now have we?

There will always be relatively isolated wackos who want to cause damage to you, for real or perceived injustice. As long as you are not provoking a movement against you, it would seem that those can be considered random events which don't need to shape policy.
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!"

-> "Oop, looks like Bob's wearing the same thing as yesterday."

-> "Kinda desperate there, eh?"
You are understimating the value of your software. You never know who can find your work inspirational or educational, even entertaining.
No, she could invest $100 in 25 startups or $2500 total (5% of $50K). The limit was on total investment.
A quick look into LA parking and valet parking at Los Angeles
Valet parking is often offered in urban areas where there is scarce of parking space. A valet who is an employee of the establishment parks the customer’s cars instead of the customer parking it themselves. This saves a lot of parking space as the valet can park cars closer and straighter.
Do you have any open source projects that I can read through?
I was referring to Thinkpads specifically. While I loved mine, the display has never been their strong suit at all.
I've seen this too. If I'm not logged in or using a different computer, I get the new design. When logged into my account, Amazon looks like it has for at least the last few years.

I actually prefer the "classic" Amazon look, because I prefer having the additional color. I'm so used to the old design, the new one looks too white to me.

I'm not sure about the menu redesign. Not having it show is a little cleaner. I use it a fair bit, but I may be strange. Having it show up if my browser is wide enough is a smart idea, but the drop shadow make it looks like a menu popped up because of my cursor. Since my cursor is somewhere else on the page, it triggers sort of a "why is that stuck open" note in my mind.

Once you get off the home page, everything looks basically the same as always except for the change to white.
Perhaps we could attach his corpse to a generator and put an induction charging mat in the roof of his coffin (or shallower if it's really 6 feet down and the surrounding soil is found to have high iron content, thereby effectively blocking the inductive charging) so that the rat bots can use /that/ to charge. We'd need some type of authentication system for the rat bots so the police ferret bots don't tap the same power. I'd suggest a pressure-sensitive switch linked to an arduino-powered RFID reader. Perhaps it would also require a key revocation system in the event that one or more rat bots ate recovered and the ferret bots attempt to spoof the RFID tags. We could accomplish this with some type of coffin-to-coffin mesh network (an "Under[ground]Net[work]", if you will.)

I'll start the project on Github and propose my idea for budgetary consideration at Noisebridge. We can get a Google Docs group going and I'll run the Dokuwiki off my linode vm.

Cheers!
bus/train won't get you door to door, so you get further expense (monetary or social) at both ends (coupled with more pay-attention time). plus the added coordination time due to not wanting to miss your departure. i've done the bus, and i'd estimate it's more like adding 2hr of non-attention to the existing 2hr of pay-attention.

bus/train also requires packing/bundling and simultaneous handling of cargo, where with a car, you can just throw everything in the trunk/back seat at your leisure.
25 petabytes of hard disc is a considerable cost.

Some people have mentioned insurance. Would any policy cover you for a customer being investigated for possibly criminal activity?
Or ones hoping to build the first nuclear broactor.
I agree, as it's described, it sounds like the equivalent of putting nitrous and a spoiler on a chevette.
I agree, standard operating procedure when dealing with digital information should always include a generous window for destruction of evidence.
A good coder?
A comment from
http://journal.dedasys.com/2012/03/22/im-not-good-enough-to-work-on-open-source-software

"You never will be good enough of a coder unless you hinge your existence on your code. Not your business skills. Not you marketing skills. Not your people skills."

Penny for your thoughts.
I think that a swarm of cubesats[1] would be a very possible solution. Much more practical than small drones and probably not that expensive.

[1]: http://www.cubesat.org/
How Education Will Change In The Future
Kickstarter isn't an investment vehicle. You don't put your money into Kickstarter hoping for a financial return.
Try using another browser or the private browsing mode. That can trigger it for me.

Here's a shot: http://imgur.com/FULDM
http://journal.dedasys.com/2012/03/22/im-not-good-enough-to-...
I apologize for thinking we share the same values.
Will this make Kickstarter illegal in any way? I mean are people still free to give money (capped of course) without having to receive stock in return?
The first result, an ad, is for Florida, where I live. The next three non-ad based results are for California, Virginia and New York. The fourth (and on) non-ad results are for Florida.

So you click on the relevant link ("happened" to be an ad,) as the Stanford MBAs high five each other at Googleplex. I remember reading a very interesting comment about the incentives of providing the best results and ad revenue. It's clear to me that ad revenue has been winning at Google.
I'm not sure if this got modded down because people think I'm being facetious, but I'm seriously wondering what happened with that. For people who don't know, every country in the world, besides France, used "Dollars" for their units of reactivity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#The_Dollar_unit_of...

France, on the other hand, used "Francs". Conveniently, the exchange rate was 1:1. I'd be surprised if they went and changed everything to Euro's now, but I haven't heard anything firsthand from French nuclear engineers.
I like the idea of the menu being responsive, but I dislike the drop shadow when it's open by default. The drop shadow makes it look too out of place.
Has it ever been determined where the first seeds of life came from? Hydrogen atoms don't spontaneously mix with whatever else is needed for a cell and just become a bacterium or virus. It is widely accepted that everything on earth evolved from single cells, but where did the very first "parent" cell come from in the universe?