skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how trying to slot casinos into the market model would help understand them any better than simply understanding them as casinos. There isn't much of a liquid market of betting in a casino. Compare with Wall Street and its endless array of derivatives and hedges and mutual funds and all that stuff to... $25 on red. Wall Street may have elements of betting, but it's also a lot more. Casinos are much simpler.
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Me too. Our usage pattern might not be typical though.
The real question is will it sell? Google doesn't have a strong track record of selling devices directly to consumers. If this thing is not available in places like Best Buy, Amazon, Verizon Wireless stores, etc, it won't go anywhere. Apple has the luxury of the Apple Store. Google does not.
Supreme Court upholds Obama health care mandate
My first reaction after going to the parent website (http://spreedly.com/) was that I don't understand what spreedly does exactly or why I would use it (vs. my paypal or 2CO account).

I'm guessing that Spreedly offers an API/front-end that 1) stores the credit card info for immediate (and future) billing + subscription purposes, then 2) sends the transaction to my paypal, and 3) offers some type of a billing/subscription panel I can use to manage everything.

The money stays in my paypal, and spreedly then bills my own CC for the use of the service.

I see the usefulness of the independent API and control panel, but...

Is that data (customer CC info) really transferable from spreedly to let's say more than 1 other provider right now (like Braintree)?
I think just letting your employees know that you go to these lengths to help them if you wind up with no other choice but to let them go will be at least as valuable as "job stability" (what ever that means these days).
HRS Announces 7 Key Components to a Successful Denial Management
Healthcare Revenue Strategies provides a wide range of denial management services that allows healthcare organizations to effectively locate and recover lost revenue within their denials.
Off topic - But what does the Ri in these type of animations stand for?
It's hard to build a single device that suits all these use cases equally well. That's why I think in the long run all the big players are going to have to support multiple formats.
I second this. Symfony2's use of Services is refreshing, and I feel that having been made aware of this practice, I now write better software. While reading the article, I kept thinking "this sounds just like a Service class."
Just watched this. That's... well... wow. My question: how do we prevent this from happening? Free market + choice?
Brin: Google Glass Will Be Available to Consumers in 2014
NDC Cage Match with Rob Conery (node.js/socket.io) and Damian Edwards (SignalR)
I don't agree with her list of companies that should apply to Startup Chile. For example, Startup Chile is great for bootstrapping companies. You get 6 months and $40.000 USD to test out your idea. You visit an amazing country and another culture. You can learn another language. Startup Chile is a great choice for people that are ready to make the jump from a boring job to starting their own thing.

And even if you are experienced doing startups it's still awesome to visit another culture and see how things work in another place. Maybe you won't like it that much, but at least you experienced it.

What Startup Chile isn't good at is creating companies that need VC funding or Silicon Valley connections. If your startup needs these things then don't look for it in Chile or anywhere else... because you won't find it here or anywhere else.
Rice researchers develop paintable battery
The problem seems to ultimately always boil down to "I added far too many people to Facebook as friends, and now Facebook is useless!"

To which the solution is easy: cut down the number of people you are friends with on Facebook.

For me, I have < 30 people I've friended on Facebook. But they're real friends and family, people I know and want to keep in touch with. And that's made all the difference to how I use Facebook.
I know some people like line numbers, but personally, I just look at the status bar at the bottom of the buffer.

I find line numbers on the side clutter up my view too much. I always use 80 character terminal widths, to make it easier to stick to my PEP8 validation script we run.
How many thousand Syrians dead by now? I bet that's a lot like A/B testing a new favicon.

Fucking exploitive morons.
We're going to have to learn how to get by on vastly less energy than the typical first world resident has become accustomed to

That is highly unlikely to occur. More likely is that we will start looking at other energy sources while the overall energy usage goes up.
Walrus has no dependencies, not even on the DOM. While it was built for client-side use specifically, there should be no reason it couldn't work in a server-side environment. I'd be glad to whip up a sample node app if people needed some proof-of-concept.
MegaUpload operated with foreknowledge of extensive infringing activity on their site, and further willfuly acted to further that activity, for instance by creating an affiliate program that rewarded site members for pushing more copyrighted material to the site.

These assertions were corroborated by MegaUpload's own email.

Again: there are two sides to complying with copyright law to obtain protection under "safe harbor" rules. The side everyone is familiar with is "complying with takedown notices". But the other side, just as important, spelled out in the law, is not operating your service with foreknowledge of infringement. It isn't enough just to wait for copyright holders to send takedowns.

By actively courting piracy, MegaUpload forfeited safe harbor protections.

This question comes up in almost every thread about MegaUpload. The answer is very simple. Even if (in the back of their minds) the operators of Youtube must have known they were a haven for video piracy, so long as they themselves didn't engage with that piracy (and complied with takedowns) they were safe. MegaUpload's staff engaged.
Apple propaganda around the corner, again! The media should try at least to conceal a little bit more the Apple-coined "PC" term (with the meaning used in that context), or choose a more specific naming - Windows machines.
Close enough.

The market maker knows the odds and is incentivized to be honest with the customer, to keep their trust and get as many people to play as possible as it 'wins' only in the aggregate as more and more people play. [1]

But the point is that there isn't another, let's call it 'evil', branch of the casino, separate from the market maker. Where this 'evil' branch can bet against each gambler.

So now, instead of making 2% off a gambler, you can now make massive sums betting against any gambler you lure into horrible odds.

So the incentives have been thrown out of balance. Pulling in astute gamblers and making 2% becomes an inefficient strategy. Reeling in unsophisticated gamblers, luring them into games with terrible odds and then betting against them, becomes an optimal strategy.

And down that road, almost inevitably, comes distortion and outright fraud.

[1] Slot machines only earn something like 2% for the casino. It's more in their interest to be very transparent about those odds and get more people to play, than to be shady and try to squeeze out 3%. Because you'll lose more gamblers than you can get with a 'tighter' slot.

EDIT: to be clear, I only used 'evil' because the 'gambling against' branch was housed with and colluding with the market maker in this example. I have no problem with the analogous financial services. The argument is simply that you can't do both. It's bad for the market as a whole.
I've done macro assembler. (Hell, I've written a couple). I know all about macros. C is not just a fancy macro assembler.

This doesn't get you away from the ooky stuff that C does for you, like register allocation and code optimization (link time code generation is a wonderful thing, even for C). Very few assmeblers are bright enough -- or should be trusted enough -- to do code motion, strength reduction, common subexpression analysis. And, oh bog, just writing a plain expression? Not even possible in a macro assembler.

[I rewrote the ST's file system in assembly, btw. It started out as an honest effort, then got bogged down in stuff that would have been a no-brainer in C.]
But, you could probably use C as a stepping stone to Assembly...or just dip in whenever you need clarification on something.
I'm disappointed that there's no microsd slot to expand the internal storage. I appreciate that they want us to use Google Drive, but thats only an option if you're somewhere with wifi.

Apart from that, I'm very tempted. And I await Apple's reaction with interest.
Okay,it says here:
http://richannel.org/about/what-is-the-ri
that it stands for Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Another way to put it would be that the taxpayer was subsidized by France Telecom.
About not using CSS classes
I agree with your point. However, it will happen anyway. We know they are trying to force draconian laws down our throats already.

As I keep saying, people need to wake up and take some responsibility for allowing our democratically elected governments to treat us the people like their business pawns. Problem is most people dont care because it does not effect them. Never forget the selfish serf serving nature of humans.

Sorry to be biter and negative, but history has left me no option. Government will prioritise business over the rest of us. I mean, banks?
The post states that one of his coworkers was promoted to the role.
Mobile  Facebook iPhone app to go native
Additionally, the US has higher crash survival standards, making many of those small, light European cars impossible to sell here. Improve their crashworthiness, and there goes the light weight, and along with it, the mileage.

There's also the case that the US has tougher emission standards, which makes it harder to achieve those high mileage rates. Although I've heard that recently, the UK and the rest of Europe have been tightening their emission requirements, so there isn't as much of a difference any more.
Cheddar
A new simple to do list that instantly pushes changes to all of your devices. Cheddar supports Markdown and has tags. A free universal iPhone/iPad app and web app were just released.
Keybindings are weird animals. I've always used Ctrl-L for that, which focuses the URL bar and selects it. I note that Alt-D will not remove focus from an existing text widget, so it doesn't work as reliably. Where does Alt-D come from? I guess it's a vestige of an earlier browser?

Also, as the OP is using a mouse action, it's worth pointing out that triple-clicking the URL does a select-all (by analogy to selecting the whole "line" in other apps).
But on the good side, it should be harder to get other countries to simply play the bitch and do whatever the US says in future.
The limits on inviting non G+ users are being tuned. I believe the change should roll out today or tomorrow.
Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination (video)
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I sometimes find the contrary though, that some developers can be very reluctant to acknowledge that a particular problem calls for a CRUD app, and they instead spend countless hours 'domain modelling' when there's really no problem domain beyond 'some text we can edit'.
Wonderful! Kim Dotcom doesn't seem like the cleanest of individuals but the US government is even worse. I hope that people in NZ law enforcement suffer enough career damage that other countries think twice before simply bending over for US exceptionalism.
...if Flame contaminates my computer, the US government "owns" it? Rather poor choice of words.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain. I've spoken in the Faraday Lecture Theatre, and will be doing so again tomorrow, Saturday, and next Friday. It's a fabulous place with an amazing history and ongoing present.
Agreed, except... we actually don't have a UI to show. The transparent redirect approach that Core takes means that we'd just be showing you our customers' payment pages, which while spiffy, don't really tell you anything about the integration. Which is kind of the point - our goal is to be invisible.
internet usage is moving rapidly off the desktop and onto mobile devices

I don't think the current usage stats support this claim at all:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2011...

Mobile is definitely important but the truth is nobody knows if the equilibrium point is 20% of the market or 90%.
I just have this in my .vimrc which lets you toggle it whatever way you want in edit mode and it stays however you leave it when you toggle modes

" use Ctrl+L to toggle the line number counting method
function! g:ToggleNuMode()
if(&rnu == 1)
set nu
else
set rnu
endif
endfunc
nnoremap <C-L> :call g:ToggleNuMode()<cr>
The event search is not very smart. I created an event in Brighton (UK).

Search for: "Events brighton" returns my event plus many other events in other Brightons around the world.

Search for: "Events brighton uk" only returns 1 event (not mine) as they explicitly mentioned 'uk' in the location name.

So the search doesn't really understand that my event is in the UK, it is just doing a string match - even though Google knows the exact longitude and latitude of the event.
Awesome suggestions, I'll add those to the features list when I get home this evening.
Text of the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare
In addition, if you have 'set ruler' set, the absolute line number of the current line is displayed at the bottom of the screen when in insert mode.
Phoronix is currently down, but there wasn't much to this story to begin with:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.pho...

Google's Chrome web-browser reached version 20 yesterday and for Linux users this marks the point that the web company has taken over Flash Player support on Linux from Adobe using its PPAPI implementation.

As shared back in February, Adobe is abandoning support for Flash Player on Linux. However, they are allowing Google to continue the Flash Linux support via a PPAPI (Pepper) plug-in, which right now is a plug-in API only implemented by the Chrome/Chromium web-browser.

In March Adobe pushed out the last major Linux update meanwhile today with Chrome 20 we have the Google-maintained Flash by default for Linux x86 and x86_64 users.

The Google Chrome 20 release announcement can be found on their blog, but it's not too exciting. Aside from supporting the new Flash implementation for Linux users, there's bug-fixes and the usual round of other enhancements.
Fully agreed. This product sucks. They stole $120 from me and made me a bad gift giver.

I'm glad they're going under.

I'm replacing my simply warn-out SleepTracker.
I completely agree with you. For something that would use Google currents, I can see myself using a 7-inch tablet. But I think it's going to be quite a while till everyone supports reflowable PDFs.

I don't see PDFs running away anytime soon, unless someone comes with a better format that can support print and screen simultaneously.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that you can't iterate and conditionally branch in Mustache. It is just far more declarative than writing a for loop or an if statement.
Same in the US, as I understand it.
Because they don't want to make any false promises. If they were to say it works on android they have to qualify that with something like "if all the stars align and your carrier, your handset manufacturer, and any other middlemen can't find a way to stop us".

Like with so much other stuff google makes, this isn't really something google needs to market to consumers. This is the bait they are giving to handset manufacturers to incentivize them to push out an update to the latest version of android.
aka "15 Reasons Why Your Written English Sucks".

I could barely parse half of the sentences. If you're going to spam Hacker News and try to sell help desk services, at least put some effort into grammar, spelling, and formatting (some points are bold, some aren't, etc.) No way you're going anywhere near my customers.
Tasteless link bait much?
I know the spreedly guys, as well as outside devs who independently adopted spreedly. Everyone I know has said what a pleasure it has been to use the Spreedly API.

If you want a feature list, you can always go hit their site: http://spreedly.com/info/features
I think routing requires a data connection.
At least they didn't call themselves Apple ;)
Nit: It's 16:10, but I agree that 4:3 is a great aspect ratio for tablets, especially if it is being used for reading. I really wish there were more 4:3 tablets around.
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What about MU did you like better than MediaFire? I used to use MediaFire a lot and found it overall much nicer than MU...
Thanks for the positive feedback. We've been working on improving the documentation (and soon, the website). Your feedback certainly helps.
There's a difference between protecting a buggy alpha, which he probably didn't realize (or maybe wouldn't be) company property, and intentionally making an artificially weaker program in order to ensure your job security.
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They built a legitimate product that some people wanted and managed to get it manufactured and shipped. That's a lot farther that most go.

The product sales weren't able to get to enough volume to support the company and the needed lowering of costs that comes with volume manufacturing. That's not uncommon. Sometimes hardware devices do better with large corporate backing because they can afford to take a loss longer while they build up a market. For small operations, this is the perfect case for venture capital where outside money is needed because of high costs of doing real manufacturing.

I see no need to hate on them like the article does. It's sad the founders turned on each other at the end, that can't have helped things. If these guys pull out, have the right insights about what they have learned, and do another round at something else, their chances of success will be much higher than someone without their experience and ability to actually envision and execute a product that people wanted. Just not enough people this time.
Long term, we probably would have been better off if the individual mandate had been struck down but the rest left intact. That would have had a decent chance of forcing us toward a real national healthcare system.

Consider the lesson of Washington State: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017852301_i...

In 1993, Washington passed a law that guaranteed access to health insurance, and required all residents to purchase insurance. Two years later, the Republicans gained control and set about repealing this.

However, much of the law was extremely popular, such as the parts guaranteeing affordable access. The Republicans let those stand, but went ahead and repealed the mandate.

Result: people dropped insurance until they got sick, then bought it, then dropped it when they were better. Insurance companies started losing a lot of money.

That led insurance companies to pull out of the market, and it became virtually impossible as an individual to buy health insurance in Washington at any price.

Around 2000, the law was changed again, allowing insurance companies to make people with preexisting conditions wait nine months before coverage starts, and allowing them to reject the sickest applicants. The state created a state run high risk pool to cover those people.

Imagine if something like this happened nationally. The individual mandate goes, but the rest remains.

I think a similar thing would happen nationally. Polls show that when people are asked about the various major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (but are not told that they are being asked about that Act, so that they aren't prejudiced by the ridiculous claims the Tea Party spread about it, such as the "death panel" fantasy) they are overwhelming in favor of everything except the mandate.

No way would the Republicans be able to get repeal of those through without committing political suicide with the voters. That would leave us with the Washington situation--the insurance companies bearing increased costs, without the mandate to ensure that enough healthy people are paying premiums to cover this. We'd get a health care crisis similar to what happened in Washington.

Congress would HAVE to act, and I think the outcome would be some sort of true national health care system, with a mix of private and government provided services, open to everyone.
Oops, that's what I get for not watching baseball. Its too bad they weren't misaligned in the other direction. I think it would be a great way to display the information.
So we shouldn't take advantage of current laws because then they might get changed and we wouldn't be able to take advantage of current laws anymore? Hm.
Macroeconomics isn't microeconomics writ large, and a country isn't a dependent child. The "put your house in order" analogy doesn't hold.

> Alas, HN isn't the place to debate international politics.

Maybe not.
Do free/cheap work for a few non-profits. Almost every area will have some highly respected non-profits in the area that will be greatly appreciative of upgrading their web presence. You get a network, a portfolio piece, and a testimonial. The keys are:
* Craft your story from the beginning. Think about the before and after and how you can best spin this for your services, and make sure your work is based on feeding that storyline.
* Be explicit about how they can help you. Are there sponsorship opportunities? Who's connected on the board? Non-profits typically understand how this works and will be willing to work with you.
* Be explicit about scope. They'll want the world, of course. Make sure you table their wish-list to "Phase 2" and really focus on a defined deliverable you can include in your portfolio.
* Most importantly, do a damn good job.
So lets see:

- all the OS written before C ever existed, some still in use, even if in legacy deployments

- Symbian (written in C++)

- Mac OS X (is a mix of C++ and C)

- Windows is moving to C++ as the default systems language

- Native Oberon (Oberon)

- Lilitth (Modula-2)

- Spin (Modula-3)

- BeOS/Haiku (Written in C++)

- House (Haskell)

- MarteOS (Ada)

- IBM's OS/400 system (Written originally in Modula-2 and PL/MI)

- Singularity (Written in C# and C++)

- Lisp OS (Assembly and Lisp)

- Smalltalk Machines (Assembly and Smalltalk)

- Forth based OS for embedded systems

So one cannot expect that an OS will be always written in C.
I thought that Google's I/O demonstration of the Nexus Q was quite interesting. You just tap your phone on the Nexus Q and then you can use your phone to direct/stream any of your media for playback on that Nexus Q. For example anyone at a party could tap their phone on the Q and then select their own music to add to the playlist. Or if you're visiting a friend and want to watch a movie or TV show together, just tap the Q with your phone and you can then watch it on their TV without mucking with the DRM. It just works. I think it would be very interesting to get this sort of thing into hotels. Tap your phone and your Netflix queue shows up without all the login pain. Or send your own photos/videos from Picasa/YouTube. It looks very liberating and has the potential to make all the DRM pain go away.
Can we use this with normal spreedly :-) ? I have always been a little unsure of the differences between core and non-core?

(Ben from Olark)
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I would say that mobile browsing is supplementing desktop usage (not replacing it). I just don't see how you could replace the experience of a large 21" monitor, multi-core high powered processor, and a large quantity of ram on a form factor several orders of magnitude smaller.
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