skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The important point isn't so much how fast Trigger is moving, but how fast they let developers move. The html/css/js -> mobile app shift is letting build build things really fast. This A/B testing stuff is helping those developers that have built fast iterate quickly. It's pretty incredible what a team can do in a weekend these days.
i suspect it renders the model twice, in different colours, and what you end up with is the "diff" (one reason i think this is that there seem to be artifacts due to rounding error where the two meet).

this has the advantage of requiring little processing on the server and, on the client, you can use a generic renderer. i imagine calculating actual 3d diffs is quite complex (and so cpu expensive).

the diffs that are being suggested to reduce file size are, i think, just textual diffs on the source. they won't have valid syntax as graphical deltas in their own right.

someone please correct if wrong, just guessing here...
Why is it "simply impossible" to provide healthcare for all? I can name many counter examples of countries that can and do. Have you made the calculation based on finite resources in the world and the size of the world population that it's simply impossible? Even if it would be impossible by today's technological standards to provide care to all, that doesn't mean it's true for the future when there might be additional productivity gains, preventing disease etc.
I really recommend you read the source/upstream material before making claims like that. First of all, the women have not accused him of rape. At worst, of having intercourse without a condom, against someone's momentary preference. With women who otherwise already willingly went to bed with him and became sexual partners with him. Neither woman wants charges against him. The documented reason why they approached the police originally was just to learn if he could be compelled to have an STD test performed. That's it. Also the original prosecutor who looked at it decided there wasn't anything to pursue, and not enough evidence to convict on anything. If you look at all the details of the case, and I mean ALL the details and context, I think there is only one of a few things that probably happened: either (1) it was a frame-up that the women were in on, or (2) it was not a frame-up by the women, not intentionally, they were honest, but some particular party in the Swedish government or law enforcement decided to "make hay" out of this as much as they could to hurt or impede Assange. Either of those scenarios seem to be the most consistent with everything known and observed to date.

Also I'm sure there have been millions if not billions of incidents of sex across the world, to date, if not happening again every day, where one or both participants preferred, either beforehand, or during, or afterward, that a condom was used, even though it wasn't, and in 99.99% of those cases nobody considers it "rape". At most, a non-ideal incident, a risky event, or something to get angry about with one's partner, in private. But I'm sure it's a very common occurrence, both between singles and married couples, and in the vast majority of cases it doesn't turn into claims of rape or major international diplomatic incidents. It's just one of those life oopsies. I bet a lot of children were brought into this world because of this kind of oopsie, however non-ideal. Regardless, it's a fact that they went to bed with him willingly. It's a fact that neither appeared distraught or made any complaints about it to friends afterward. It's a fact that there were no signs of violence or physical harm. Also it's a fact that a large percentage of women fantasize about dominant men, sexually. Is it possible that in this case Assange was too aggressive and insensitive? Absolutely! And who's business should that be? At most, Assange and these two other individuals. Period. End of story. And ultimately, those are the only people who really know, for sure, what really happened, and how it happened. The rest is spectacle and fodder for speculation and diplomatic warfare.
That works, but I prefer the HN list interface to the hnsearch results page.
Genetically engineering 'ethical' babies is a moral obligation
People have also done the lower receivers for the same rifle (an AR-15): http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11770
Time to market sensitivity does not always mean "loser".

An example that comes to mind (because a story about it was on HN in the last day) is that the first edition of Warcraft was aimed for the 1994 Christmas season. If it had arrived 2 months late, they would have missed that season, and technology improves quickly enough that they would have been unlikely to be as successful if they delivered the same product in the 1995 Christmas season.

Do you think that Warcraft is a product that is a loser and should have been canned immediately because they had a schedule that they really needed to deliver it on?
This almost feels like it's burying the lede:

(The gofmt command has a -r flag that provides a syntax-aware search and replace, making large-scale refactoring easier.)

I've been writing Go on some toy projects off and on, and I'm not an expert by any means, but I had no idea this flag existed. I must've missed when reading about gofmt. :(

Anyway, it sounds like it could be pretty useful for refactoring.
That's somewhat encouraging, I think. At least it seems that some of the behavior could be changed, if the right references are invoked and if people's expectations can be changed (which they can, it would seem, as free was not the expectation, even 10yrs ago).
Why doesn't the App Store just let people get a free 24-hour trial of any software? Or at least for any software where the developer didn't specifically opt out of offering free trials?
My mistake! I've updated it and my email is my username at gmail.com.
Not having a job generally means you won't have health insurance, nor an income, and thus won't have access to non-emergency health care. Recent estimates are that there are about 45,000 excess deaths annually due to lack of health insurance (source: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-find...).

Furthermore, homelessness and malnutrition also increase the death rate. There are lots of homeless and hungry people in the US.

So while you might not immediately die due to being unemployed, as there are a variety of safety nets, being without a job will, statistically decrease your expected lifespan. Food assistance does not prevent people from going hungry. Homeless shelters are packed to the brim, and in some cases quite unsafe. You can't get non-emergency care if you are unemployed and broke, at least until Obamacare kicks in (or if you are covered by Romneycare).
Good point, although, an experienced Objective-C developer can already write iOS apps - learning Ruby in the context of backend development would probably be more beneficial. It'd be like asking Michael Jordan to play basketball left-handed instead of playing baseball.
Great question and thanks for linking to the snopes article de-bunking this myth.

Most Americans have shared rides in some form, whether as a carpool or a campus ride board. We incorporate a number of identity & safety features and are bringing far more transparency and accountability to ridesharing.

Like any form of public transit, there is some risk involved, but ultimately we empower our users to make informed decisions. In line with the success of Couchsurfing, Meetup and other services, we see more and more people interested in rideshare as a fun and affordable form of transportation and every week thousands of people are making the decision to share rides on Ridejoy.
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I'd like an App Store with a "if you delete it within X days you get an automatic refund" model. That would make buying apps risk free and refunding them hassle free, without the annoyance of having "Lite" vs "Full" versions.
People in Toronto know what GTA stands for.
I worked with the guys who built this (we're a DC design studio) and can tell you that it doesn't gracefully degrade simply because it's not supposed to. As some people grasped, this was for a frontend conference where everyone would be expected to be running the latest and greatest browser. There's no guarantee it will work on your setup but when it does, it's a cool experience.

Followup on how it was built here: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/17/beercamp-an-ex...

Full repo here:
https://github.com/nclud/2012.beercamp.com
I agree that may have been a good strategy (and may have been their original strategy) but with $100m in cash from VISA, it's very unlikely they will launch a competing network.

Also, all of Square's payments including digital ones still get processed over VISA/MC/AMEX and still have interchange. Getting rid of the card itself does no good to lower fees.

Prepaid accounts would definitely work though. Again, Square probably isn't interested (and may be prohibited) from competing with VISA/MC though.
Looks to be the dark solarized theme: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
"For many companies it matters a lot if you can announce something in time for Christmas."

It will be done by xmas or it won't. I don't recommend "no estimation", but intense estimating won't make you hit xmas. Not estimating may give you several weeks that you could be coding.

Either way you're takin a mighty big risk when you publicly commit to that. Welcome to hell, population: Dev Team. I've known of no major software project that has a public date that hasn't resulted in major delays, feature cuts, or massive overtime to try and hit that date.

"Or you might have to hit a deadline for compliance with a legal contract."

That is also a suitably terrible position to be in. I recommend you don't take such contracts. Again, your estimates will be wrong. Even if you spend months doing them. Then you're in the same spot.

"Or you may be trying to prioritize two different possible products - without a sense of the effort involved you're lacking one of the parameters you need for such an estimation."

Which delivers most business value? I find it farfetched that both are of equal importance.
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I'll quote one of Berkshire Hathaway's early Insurance CEOs

> There are no such things as bad risks; just bad rates

The problem I perceive with most people and finance is that they simply do not think about it sensibly at all.

An example:

I love Coca Cola (the soft drink). But it costs $3 a can right now. I will wait until it is $1 and buy up as much as I possibly can. I'll get more value that way.

Now a stock market example:

Coca Cola (the stock) just fell 75% to $1 a share, I won't buy it because the market is clearly telling me something (during a economic crisis). Oh wait it just went up to $3 - I will now buy.

That's insane. But that's how it works. Think of stocks like computers, tablets, food and clothes. Just buy good quality ones cheap and know that they money you put in is never coming back out.

Index funds get one thing right - buy cheap, don't sell and know the money you put in is untouchable. But they get another thing wrong - diversification doesn't exist.
I've been waiting so long for something like this.

The second this shows up in Boston, I can personally guarantee half a dozen users without even bothering to survey. My building has a huge stolen package problem, due to the front door facing a main road, and the UPS driver for our area being an idiot. My last building had a driver who never left anything if you weren't home. While that's better than theft, it's still annoying to take two buses and walk ten minutes to pick up a package by hand. And then walk ten more minutes and take two more buses to carry the thing home. The whole process usually took upwards of two hours.

My only concern is getting the drivers to actually use these things correctly. I've found multiple packages addressed to me left outside the front door, despite explicit instructions not to do that both given by the shipper and posted on the door. Each of these packages were apparently signed for... just not by anyone who lives here. So yeah, getting the driver to follow instructions isn't going to be easy.
Works fine on my iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1.
I don't often print photos but when I do I usually use walmart or walgreens online service (though I've found walmart easier to get through). And this is because they offer the size of pictures I want like larger frames and stuff. I looked at picplum and just don't see the point because of the limitation of cheap (quality) 4x6 prints.

Edit: I guess they have added larger photos but walmart is still cheaper and offers good quality in the mail.
While good points, these counter arguments are not strong enough.

Trustable Experience: Most people make many transactions in a week that are not trustable. The lower the price the lower the hesitation. $0.99 is as low as it gets.

Free alternative: For many transaction higher than $0.99 there are free alternatives. Newspapers, magazines all have free substitutes online. Still people spend on these.

Craftsmanship: True for Starbucks, not for majority of transactions. Maybe be not even... most people are staring at their phone anyway waiting for their coffee.
Well, at least they're giving us a long lead time until 1.1.
Most of those very high reward rate cards come along with significantly higher interchange fees (4-5% or even higher). Merchants abhor them.
I did something similar using Thingiview.js as a base: http://n0r.org/thingiview.js/examples/client_side_diff.html

Source: https://github.com/nrpatel/thingiview.js
Doesn't Google Play work like that? The rebate period might be a lot shorter though, perhaps even minutes. I think they started out with a day but it was exploited too much.
I guess it would have been nice if you just left your original text here and replied to my comment, pointing out how I misparsed a key point. Apart from that, (a) the Greece story is much more complex than how you try to frame it here (b) Greece and Spain are pretty different and shouldn't be thrown together. I also don't see a connection between communism and what has been discussed here under 'BIG' (I don't know of any communist country, actually -- mind you, 'communism' as it was/is meant!). And what 'socialist' countries grinding to halt do you think of?

As far as I understand most essays/reports from 'rather neutral' (yes, difficult to get an unbiased view) institutions here in Germany usually tell the story that nowadays a small minority lives on people's efforts, and this minority is well above welfare level.

Is there any 'proof' for your starting sentence? (countries don't last when ever more people rely on relative fewer producers). After all, automation levels increase ever more, and thus productivity, too. E.g. the number of people working in farming has shrunken dramatically (at least in first world countries), yet we have overall more than enough to eat ('overall'!). The fact that any country runs out of money is not an argument: Did Spain's productivity suddenly (or maybe also slowly) fell to zero? Did the people in Spain suddenly all lose their ability to work and think?
Stop using Starbucks vs App analogy

People try new restaurants all time spending between $10-$75 per person. They are often disappointed.

People try new foods all the time (hey look at these new nuts, this new sports drink, this new natural pasta, this new gluten free cereal)

Starbucks is a known brand. If you liked the last game made by Sid Meier you'll probably like his next one. Starbucks vs Apps is the wrong analogy.

Spending a few bucks on a movie or a meal or a drink or a snack is exactly the correct analogy. I spent $11 on several movies recently and was often disappointed. How is that different than an App? I've tried several restaurants I'll never go back to as they were mediocre at best. How is that different from an App?
Former .Net/Java developers were already able to write backend apps before Rails started growing, yet there was a fairly large exodus at some point.

Similarly, I'm making the quick bet that we will see a interesting number of experienced Obj-C developers move to RubyMotion! (well, as someone who is on the RubyMotion list, I can tell some have already started).
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This is the state saying "We value the court's time & resources over actual justice."

Anecdata: A coworker once got ticketed for speeding on a highway on-ramp. Upon trying to contest his fine in court using photos of the roads, he was told by the judge that he would be fined an extra $[large sum] for every photo he attempted to show to him.
They could just use their own blogs + HN instead of herding the traffic through AOL and only getting the scraps.

I'm surprised that it's still even worth startups announcing their launch on TC, especially those with YC backing.
Interesting!

This link has some rather entertaining pictures too:

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/Reinvent-the...
I like the article, but yeah, price anchoring is the real issue here. App prices on mobile devices is largely a result of the race to the bottom, hence why there's a large disparity between price for the same app on mobile and desktop. (Assume equivalent functionality and difficulty of development.)

The coffee cup analogy is about putting the price of mobile apps back into perspective, getting people to not feel ripped off because just they're paying $1.99 instead of $.99.
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I think that headline is ambiguous; just because they laid off a lot of people including designers and engineers doesn't mean that the core team doesn't consist of designers and engineers.
The most "creepy" part of this is the limitation in user tokens for an application. If you have more than 100.000 users that use your Twitter client, you have to talk with Twitter. For what? I don't know, but I imagine that it would be some kind of paying per use or maybe adding mandatory in-stream ads.
Seems like they're saying this: "If you plan on using the API like many people already use it, don't bother."

Also, what category would LinkedIn and Instagram's usage of the API fall under?
"There's only two hard problems in software engineering: Naming things, cache invalidation and off-by-one errors"
I suppose I should have said leaking at all has some quantity of courage attached to it, since you're messing with a government entity that pretty much by definition is more powerful than the individual and whose members are just as self-preserving as any other humans. A lot of people sure regard Deep Throat as courageous. Do you just consider him a criminal? It takes more courage to not even try being anonymous about it, though I think the leaker is categorically more courageous than the publisher, so I wouldn't say Assange is more courageous than Manning.

My point about Manning is that he could form an idea about what would happen to him if he got caught doing what he considered the right thing. Similarly, Assange could form an idea of what harassment and possibly jail time he'd have to go through by controlling the first distribution channel. Typically people consider taking such known risks courageous, with foolishness often tagging along.

> Different strokes for different folks............

Well yes, I could argue that participating in the US military at all within the last decade is a display of complete cowardice--character cowardice, moral cowardice, and intellectual cowardice. I could argue that courage is just foolishness, that they're not separate things but the same thing, and that medals award stupidity. There are many ways to disagree on the nature of courage, what's your point with toting out your family? Just to display one of the ways? Fair enough.
I filter them out at http://diff.biz/ -- if you change the last query param from only-show-removed=no to only-show-removed=yes then you basically get a (YC *) filter.
The truth is the that the bar was set very low for apps by Apple in order to commoditize the apps being sold. In economics if you can commoditize the complements to your product, then you can sell your own product at premium rate.

People call console themselves by talking about app experience etc, and even though app experience is important, i believe experience is not why apps are sold at shitty 99cents. Apple's strategy was to commoditize apps and guess what they succeeded.

My conclusion is that there is little or no hope for paid app or any breakthrough success for the majority of app developers. It was not meant to be, because that will affect the appeal of the iphone which will in turn lead to a drop in demand which will in turn force down the price of iphone and ipads. Do you think Apple will ever let that happen?

Wake up and smell the coffee.
I just got a coffee yesterday at Starbucks in California, the small regular coffee, for $1.65
yeah, YC should have a page on their site with a list of all the funded startups sorted by batches. Maybe a small PR blurb by each startup to describe it.
This is how I'd fix the problem, create an app that reminds one to avoid drinking a coffee. http://i.imgur.com/FkNSU.png

Then you can continue using the analogy and make sure users actually value your app.
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additionally, a large part of the problem stems from economic scarcity. digital goods are infinite while the cup of coffee at [insert your local non-starbucks coffee shop here] is a finite good.

when the average marginal cost drops to zero (due to all the usual bootstrapping-style content here on hn), so does the average price -- artificial scarcity won't alter that fact in the consumer's mind. so, it's really the value you perceive as coming from your infinite good that actually drives things like app pricing.

if the average price of an app is free and people are willing to pay $0.99 for your app, well, that's what it's worth. if you're not happy with that, push up the price and test out what the market will actually bear.

m3mnoch.