skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the second link you posted when I went looking for clarification. The takeaway for me was that zero-determinant strategies do tend to win games, in that the end score of someone playing a ZD strategy is usually higher than that of someone playing a different strategy, but that both scores in such games tend to be low. Against a basic tit-for-tat player, the ZD player will win by a very small margin but the game will largely consist of mutual defections. Basic tit-for-tat, as the author points out, is never a 'winning' strategy--it always either ties or loses. Its strength isn't that it wins, but rather that it limits its losses. That characteristic of tit-for-tat is as effective against a ZD strategy as it is against any other strategy.
> I wonder if this is coming because they can't keep up with the write load.

Wouldn't an easier solution for that be to tighten the rate limiting for posting?

> The only other reason I can fathom why they would doing this is they eventually intend to heavily push ads over their network

I think that's pretty much it.
Another article I read recently said that the gains were made by people above the age of 25. This actually indicates that experience became the important factor of the recession, though the degree may have been important prior to the recession in order to build that experience.
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Growing company?

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-07/tech/31602869...
Ran it. Got a nice spinning GIF

Fakers 1%
Bad 14%
Good 85%
Try another account

No names of who the 'fakers' or 'bad' people are. This is beyond useless. Revoked access immediately.
You can do similar feats with Amazon Elastic MapReduce + Karmasphere for reasonable cost except that Amazon S3 has the annoying 5GB max file size limit, which is a pain to workaround, where Google Cloud Storage has 5TB max file size.
People who use their phones in any social situation, whether in a restaurant, or movie is annoying. It's like you're trying to subconsciously tell others you're popular and have lots of friends.
So am i supposed to sit on top of my phone and wallet for the whole meal?

My phone and my wallet sits besides me in an empty chair, possibly with my hat. And that vacant chair missing, probably on the table.

It's not like many places have means to deal with such basic human problems elegantly.
Whether or not this particular story is true, there is a structural problem with debit transactions. Neither merchants nor consumers should be penalized for electronic transactions in which credit is not involved. Perhaps this means that the infrastructure of bank cards, which was predominantly spread by credit card companies, would fall on vendors and banks, but my guess is that they would benefit enough from the increased liquidity that they would want to create such a system.

Levying a 5-7 percent tax on vendors is simply unfair, when profit margins, particularly on less expensive items are often less than that.
Hm.. maybe I need to take another look at netrw. Last time I played with it, the big thing that led me to prefer NERDTree was the difficulty in opening a file you navigated to in the pane to the right. It kept replacing the netrw pane.
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More votes indeed.

The sad reality is that you might lose even more ground to Visa.
At this stage it might be worth to get it on camera somehow or ask those merchants to go on record and take legal actions against Visa.
But you likely figured this out already :)

Boa sorte ! A outra batalha sera com a justica brasileira.
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I'm not really hip to the Brazilian legal system, but in the US this would be highly illegal.
This is the issue: charging times & price point.

To sell units beyond their first adopters they need to address key issues with electric cars (and I am all for EVs). What they need to do is license their technology to Ford and GM to get mass market appeal and to help build/develop EVs in the $20k range. As the article states, "It projects selling 20,000 cars next year, which is a relatively high number among luxury brands."

This is really what is going to happen: the will be acquired by a larger brand.
That's pretty awesome, though I wonder how they achieved that efficiency from simple compressed air (surely a pack of Li-Ion batteries of the same volume would do better?).

Regardless, you can compress air yourself all day long using solar panels and/or wind turbines, and even if you use the grid, it'll still come out a lot cheaper...
finally, you can see what's behind each website!

http://i.imgur.com/PiNtn.png
In 2012, "phone" no longer means "device primarily used to conduct voice calls". It means "pocket computer".
Yes, that's right. For example the RSPCA, a private charity, brings its own prosecutions against alleged animal abusers, something that the CPS (government prosecutors) might not want to spend time and money on.
Vacri - would you mind dropping a line? I'd like to hear more about this friend if you've got a minute.
> by selling the IPO at 4x of what it should have been priced, Zuck showed that he is a brilliant CEO

Keep telling yourself that.
"People are dying" Doesn't make dying a verb any more than "people are fish" makes fish a verb.

>it is saying that the people are currently dying
Exactly. I'm using only the sticker "protected by well known security company" on my front door. Other suckers pay them for security systems.
Now that I think about this, I think this should be adopted by Movie Theatres. Nothing is more annoying than seeing a spot of light in dark theatre with noise of texting.
For years and years, my parents' only security system was a few ADT signs and stickers planted around the house. Never robbed once.
The people complaining here are often the same people who BOUGHT the shares at the ridiculous IPO valuation. For a few hours, the market average seemed to think the IPO prices was too low. MZ didn't force anyone to buy shares at this price.
When I click through, the Kindle Edition costs $31.30.
Given that my in-ear headphones normally last 6 weeks at most, and I'm no audiophile, I normally just buy what looks good at TK Maxx in the £5 price range.

However I have shelled out for some "Iron Buds" on KickStarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendary/earbuds-time-t...

and they are due to arrive any day. These are basically strengthened ear buds with interchangeable cords and ear pieces, making them less disposable and more rugged.
A summary is not created though a purely mechanical process, but a torrent is.

PS: If you created a random file that happened to contain a movie's hash your free and clear. If you keep generating random files and comparing them to a movie until you get the one you want your not free and clear. Same bit's, different process different result.
That would be an easy way to get your phone stolen.
Yikes, I did not expect such strong opinions when I wrote this. Of course building an OS will always require coding, my point was that more usable front ends are replacing low-level coding projects. In the case of Zapier, instead of cobbling together APIs or hiring someone to do the same, I can use a drag and drop interface. Someone has to code for that to happen, but it isn't me anymore.

"Coding is dead" is obviously hyperbole. It would have been more accurate to call the article "Front end platforms are gradually replacing some light projects that previously would have required coding" but that didn't fit, so I went with the current title instead.

Like karamazov said, I'm not affiliated with DataNitro (except as a user), IFTTT, Zapier, or FRAPI, so please don't confuse my opinions with any of theirs. We are affiliated with Monetate, as I stated in the article, but I have no idea what they think of the article (and they probably disagree as much as everyone else seems to).
+20C
Yes, it is heating up my MaBook by 20 degrees. There must be an alternative app out there? Suggestions welcome.
Also, there is very little written about this.
I don't believe this outcome is optimal from an evolutionary standpoint. It requires the other player to know what your strategy is and accept the ultimatum (I will do x% better than you). The other player still has the option to reject the ultimatum, screwing over both parties.

In other words, for this strategy to work it needs "pragmatic" other players that are (a) intelligent enough to know what the other player is doing and (b) willing to accept the unequal outcome. This strategy isn't symmetric: if you turned two of these bots against each other the total outcome would be much worse than if two TFT bots played each other.

Thus it stands to reason that TFT or some small variant is still the evolutionary winner.
Sounds like a cool publicity stunt.

Admit it you are already wondering what restaurant this is and what they serve. If that it is the case, they have done their job well.

But taken at face value, it is about the principle. It will push people who like to talk on the phone and disregard everyone around them to either not show up (or it will prompt them to assert themselves and they'll show up and pay 5% but in return will make sure to talk constantly on their phone, so, could backfire).

The apparent intended benefit is to attract many who have been around annoying customers and who would also visit the restaurant out of principle.

It would certainly be interesting. Also, wonder why they can't just ask someone to leave...?
I would pledge to support this fine and fantastic platform!!!
It's not as clear cut as that.

Advertisers expect viewers > viewers expect a good product

Why would a company, whose revenue depends on lots of users, build a crappy product that loses them those users and hence the advertising money?

Ads are not the problem. You can still build a good product based on advertising revenue.
Hahahaha!!!
> You are forgetting Tom Lord's arch, which had a really bizarre interface (even more so than Darcs)

Darcs has a terrific consistent interface. Git has taken liberally from it. "git log -p" and "git add -p" are straight from darcs. AFAIK, nothing before darcs could look at a repo as a stream of diffs and comments.
Now you mention it, i do, but i remember they rarely mentioned AOL's name. they would just say. Enter keyword *.
2 years, not 3.
Melbourne, Australia appears to be a coffee Mecca. Have the Melbournites moved over there now?
Facebook's problem is that it hit the market way over valued. It's possible that it could be worth $100bn someday but it isn't right now or within the next 12 months.
Vim is one of those tools that I shied away from because of the steep learning curve. A co-worker convinced me to give it a try, and now I use Vim everyday. I'm constantly discovering useful commands and tricks. Looking forward to learning more from this free book - thanks Amazon.
Murphy was misquoted.
No. It was quite clear in the IPO that Zack is in control and can do what he likes. Dual share classes and full control. He has no obligation to do what is in the interest of other shareholders.
His legitimate goal is to improve the fundamentals (which have not declined 50%). To ask him to put on a suit and glad-hand the Street is to expect him to groom greater fools for the speculators who want to fold after just one quarter. Not only should he not waste his time on this type of investor relations (surely there are minions for that), neither should investors pay attention to it.
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The proposed benefits seem to mainly be in the ease of deploying the recharging infrastructure, not greater efficiency. Here's a paper that's skeptical of the overall efficiency: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/4/4/044011/fulltext/
I thought it said in a single game your best strategy is to talk? This guarantees you will not take the maximum penalty.
+1 for cloud reader for programming books. It's open in one window, code in another, terminal in another. Drawbacks, however, include (1) is you can't copy-and-paste from the book; and (2) links don't work [which makes drawback (1) very annoying].
Technically 'prehistoric' could fit. The remains are from a time before written records existed there.

But when you consider that written records had already long existed elsewhere in the world and that 'prehistoric' can go as far back as ancient mammals and even dinosaurs, it becomes a rather vague term.

However, in this case it's useful to describe it as prehistoric because this is the only type of evidence we have of their culture. Since there are very few written records, archaeological remains are the best bet for learning more about them, which is why finding something this well-preserved can be particularly exciting.

Otherwise, as far as I know human the brain belonged to is pretty much anatomically and genetically the same as modern humans.
You got odds on that?
It seems like an odd interview to give; almost more like a rallying call to staff than a marketing pitch to the public. But whenever I've seen an interview with Elon Musk, he's always been extremely honest. Maybe he's not thinking this through as a marketing pitch and just being honest about the challenges ahead?
Hilarious.

Yes, you're supposed to laugh.
So Putin and the court are helpfully assisting them in this intention by providing much needed promotional support after consultation with Barbra Streisand on how to best handle the issue.
When it doesn't matter, I mostly agree - keep your mouth shut and give people the benefit of the doubt.

When it does matter, try your best to be the only one in the room.
Getting kids into programming (and what the Raspberry Pi is lacking)
Mechanical simplicity and no expensive batteries are pluses.
http://www.sofreakinannoying.com - needed this to vent
I never experienced that. Seems a little far fetched.
It looks like this is getting completely owned by HN. Does anyone have a mirror?
I've actually considered doing something like this. Considering the amount I could get as a full-time contract Rails programmer, and the living costs (and amazing quality of life) in Chengdu (western China), I often ask myself why I don't just set up a dev shop there. The best reason I can give is that building a product company is way more interesting than a consulting company, though I'm not even sure about that.

I never thought about doing it with other Western programmers, but that could work, too.
The ability to buy anything under $100 using your iPhone and the Apple Store app, without talking to anyone, should help with that a little, as people learn about it. Especially during the holidays.

I think you can also use the app to pre-order things, so that they are ready to be picked up when you get there.
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Thanks for the info, a quick google showing the rarity of private prosecutions in Scotland is definitely encouraging!
* I don't remember the acquisition disrupting their strategy much.*

I find it very interesting that the rate of growth in MySpace's membership slowed significantly with 6 months of being bought[1].

I think the quality of their code base and inability to keep up with Facebook's agility is what drove the nails in the coffin

I agree 100%. And I think News Ltd was to blame: they didn't (don't) understand the internet, and didn't know how to manage a high-growth property like MySpace.

But then again, it could all be co-incidence.

[1] http://www.petehatesmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mys...
Every time I see a paper with Web-Scale in the title I throw up in my mouth a little.

So they're using large amounts of nodes for parallel processing of complex queries with specific data segregated to individual nodes. The fuck does that have to do with the world-wide web or scaling the performance of an application on the web?
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I live on the east coast and I am staring to see a fair number of charging stations in garages. So far it's mostly for corporate cars but I have been thinking Car sharing services could be well served by going electric. They generally own the parking space, the car is moving short distances, but while plugging them in is easy refilling the tank is something of a pain. It's probably not a huge market but selling say 5k cars per year to that market seems vary doable with the added bonus that initial costs are less important.
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I tried using darcs for awhile before I ever touched git. What made me initially switch was that darcs is non-trivial to install if you can't use a package manager (say because policy doesn't allow you to). After that, what really sold me on git was that git had much nicer integration with svn. I no longer use svn, but it was important at the jobs I had while I was getting started with dvcs in general.
I'm sorry you even had to come here and point that out to people.. Jesus Christ, man. After reading your article, I clicked HN hoping for some good discussion, after all, I too have always found the coffee analogy to be a poor one, but the bulk of the comments here are people pissing over the quality of beans and who was superior taste buds.

For me, your first point sums up entirely my problem with the coffee argument -- and specifically why I spend $4 a day on coffee but rarely buy an app (though I wasn't like this initially). Even if I go to [insert coffee shop here (calm down HN)] and the coffee is a bit crappy, it still gets the job done. I won't be as happy that I spent the money on it, but at the end of the drink, I've got caffeine in my system.

The state of the software in app stores, and lets be honest here, is a bit shit. There was a popular post the other day by some guy about not being able to make a living being an app developer, and it was all "boohoo"s.. until you look at what he's made. absolute crap. A concrete calculator that looks like an Intro to Android chapter one exercise? Boy, I wonder why he's not raking in the millions. Look at the top 100 right now. It the same 3 games over and over. My issue is that when I take a gamble on your app, and it turns out to be completely awful I don't get anything out of it at the end of the day, I'm simply out a dollar -- and no, that's not a large amount of money, but it is the principle. I feel robbed of that dollar because I got nothing in return for it.

I travel for work constantly, when I first got my Android phone, I would browse through the Google Market before a flight, and then dump up to $5 on whatever game seemed interesting. I had an initial expectation of quality-- I thought up to $5 was perfectly reasonable. After, I'm going to (hopefully) get a couple of hours of enjoyment out of this app. However, I only did this handful of time before realizing that reading the SkyMall magazine is more interesting alternative to most apps.

"Those of us in app development love to talk about how ridiculous it is that people will drop $4 every other day on a cup of coffee but will not “waste” 99 cents on our hot new app."

For this to be an appropriate comparison, there would have to be a coffee shop that had the massive peaks and nulls like that of an app store. Imagine a coffee shop where getting a bad cup of coffee didn't simply mean, "of less than ideal quality given the price," and instead meant getting a black, undrinkable, coffee-ground-laden sludge that can only be thrown away after the first sip. I think people would be a little less inclined to spend money on their coffee. Only under these circumstances would I view getting a cup as holding the same "risk of waste" as buying a random app from the App store.
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I think dogs are the best security / deterrent systems. However, I also understand that having a dog on premises in a strip mall is probably not feasible.
No, because it would be difficult to do without OS support. Each developer would have to write their own time bomb code, and come up with a way to protect against users just deleting and reinstalling the app over and over.

Plus the whole process would be much smoother if baked right in to the app store.
I get really annoyed when I eat with someone and they have their phone on the table. There's something about that behaviour that seems to say "I'll pay attention to you for now, but I'm really hoping for a distraction.".

I'd much rather go to a restaurant where phone use is discouraged as it seems to have become socially acceptable to fuck around with phones even during face-to-face conversation with someone.

Regarding ROI: if I were to run the restaurant, I'd have opaquely added the same charge to all the menu items and remove it for good behaviour. I guess that rewards for not being a dick are more popular than explicit punishments for being a dick?
Trust me when I say this, you don't want the kind of customer that pays $12.50 an hour for writing code. There is a large chance they will turn out to be an idiot.
Sadly, "highly illegal" is often not correlated with "goes to jail", or even "stopping the behavior".

For example: have you ever wondered about the aggressive charity street canvassers that have sprung up over the last few years? The people who would do just about anything to get you to stop on your commute, talk to them, and hand over your credit card?

The aggressive tactics they employ are often illegal, and many instances of outright lies and fabrications have been documented.

But that hasn't really curbed the behavior - the charities and canvassing contractors (yes, they are predominantly for-profit canvassing agencies that only represent the charities, they are not the charities themselves) know full well that a great deal of abuse happens, but by keeping everything at arms-length they can shift blame and diffuse responsibility up the chain.

Whenever a canvasser is caught lying to get the donation, they are a "rogue" employee, cut loose, and the behavior continues. Whenever this happens at a large enough scale to attract media attention, the canvassing agency itself is "rogue" and cut loose by the charity. So on and so forth - nobody actually gets into trouble at any point, except maybe the canvasser on the street who has nobody to redirect the blame onto.

So yeah, even in the US, if you are savvy (and evil) enough, illegality ain't got shit on you.
> the historical records in the UK doesn't go back that far - is there much before Roman times?

A bit - the Celtic period went from about 600BC to the Roman invasion, for example, and has left us lots of interesting art and metalwork, which is worth visiting if you ever find yourself at the British Museum.
Nice! Protect the fragile Visa- don't let this upstart hurt them!
I wouldn't buy a car if I expected the company might be dead in six months. Who'll service my car then? This isn't a well-known and old brand with independent service centers. Did Elon Musk just told me not to buy their cars? Thanks for the tip.