skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with you, I'm with Benjamin on this one. A purchasing decision is weighing pleasure against the pain of parting with funds. These ads generally don't do anything to invoke pleasure. They assume you've already decided how much pleasure you'll get from Netflix, or whatever the product is, and now are grappling to wrap your head around how much it will hurt to part with the funds.

They choose a compulsory, daily purchase that many people make for a reason and I think Benjamin's arguments are totally valid. I think the psychology here is clearly "It's not enough money for you to think hard about dear, don't hurt your head with the math and just go for it".

Absolutely it's telling the target that this is cheap enough to be an impulse buy that they don't need to think hard about.

[Disclosure: Ridiculously happy Netflix customer since '98 or so.]
You're right. It was totally rude and unnecessarily abrasive, and I do genuinely apologize. But I still feel strongly about the use of this argument.

> And nobody is suggesting putting the latte analogy as advertisement on the front page of services.

But that's exactly what soooo many people do.

It's a well-supported fact that in the absence of other indicators people will use price to estimate the quality or value of a good. That means that if I don't know much about your product offering, your price is one of the biggest things I take into account when deciding how good it is and whether or not to buy.

If you put a cup of coffee in my mind as something with which I should compare your product in such a way as to suggest that my coffee is insignificant, I immediately think of your product as insignificant. If you then go on to tell me that your price is lower than the price of my insignificant coffee, I think of your good/service as lesser.
As a New Zealander I was very disappointed that we appeared to be cooperating with US legal requests with no consideration of whether those requests were reasonable or even legal. I feel a cautious pride to see that there is an effective pushback from our courts against what is an unjust extradition attempt.
Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids (1953, Watson & Crick) [pdf]
I've requested access for the service a few times, any tips on getting in?
I'd much prefer having higher-ppi 24" screens.
The late, missed, Washington book store Chapters (not related to the Canadian chain) used to have stickers that quoted John Ruskin: How long will people look at the best book before they will pay the price of a turbot for it.

So the pattern has been around for a while.
I've asked this before but does anyone know (or has anyone bothered to calculate) the median valuation of YC companies?
Unpacking the Jobs To Be Done Timeline: A Purse Interview
History of computer music at Bletchley Park
This.

Note that Java main methods start with
public static void main(String[] args){}

The main method takes an array of String objects from the command line as an argument. You can't pass a boolean or anything other than a String in args any more easily in Java than you can in Ruby.

But Ruby and other dynamic languages give you eval which, although dangerous, can have the effect of coercing your string into a boolean.

irb(main):001:0> a = "true"

=> "true"

irb(main):002:0> b = eval a

=> true

irb(main):003:0> b

=> true

irb(main):004:0> !b

=> false
I agree that paying for email does not increase privacy. I have a domain and pay for hosting and email on it, and the staff there can just as easily read it as Google staff could read gmail.

However, there is a difference from an organizational pressure perspective: with gmail, I'm not really Google's customer. With hosting, I am the host provider's customer. As a result, the nature of the business relationship is more clearly defined and they have less incentive to play fast-and-loose with the "rules". (Excluding legal mandates, unethical employees, etc. which are an equal exposure either way)
Natural User Interfaces and multi-sensor arrays. The next Kinect will revolutionize NUI in the home.
Like most articles whose headlines end in a question mark, the answer here is "No."

Frequent stressor? Sure. But I'd be willing to wager that people struggling with employment and medical bills are more genuinely stressed than people kvetching about their Facebook app.
Wake up
Glass of luke warm water with a splash of lemon juice in it. 20 slow pushups
Shower.
Coffee.
Wake up daughter and chat to her about the dreams she had last night :)
Palaver - Open speech recognition for Linux
The origin of Crystal Meth can be found in Nazi Germany
It certainly seems unlikely, but I guess it depends on how fast asm.js can get.
I have been waiting for this for years [1]. I am salivating at the thought and I'm eager to know the price. Will I be able to afford to retire my 30" monitors that were first manufactured eight years ago?

ASUS, if you're reading this: I'd say add an option to drop the integrated speakers because I still want a very thin bezel so that I can orient two or three side-by-side.

Edit: Ars has a photo of the PQ321 [2].

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/displays-are-the-key

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/asus-brings-4k-to-you...
If I ever get fu money I'm going to start double-blind testing everything - screen refresh rates; mouse rates; coffee preparation methods; speaker cables[1]; bitrates for media; compression for media; everything I can.
Five Things to Keep In Mind Before You Start Your Own Business
I'd love to see somebody put together a book like what most of us expected this would be: an ABC book for kids that introduces some basic programming concepts in a cute and clever way. Nice effort by the authors but definitely geared towards an older audience (teenage?).
Thanks for the quick response, much appreciated!
We're actually very far along in implementing what you saw in those screenshots.

You can download a Nightly build of it (that auto-updates) at http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/
erlang is not a difficult language to learn IMO. What I, as a beginner to erlang from other languages, would like to see is a lot more solid libraries and sample code for strings rather than bytes.
Just Launch
Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable?
We've seen some $400 2560x1600 monitors, and also a $1,300 4k TV. That Dell one sounds like it's from the "old era" of high resolution monitors. I could see it go under $1,000, if Asus really wanted to turn it into a mass market product, and doesn't just want to sell 1,000 of them.
My understanding is that these "valuations" are calculated by taking the price per share of the most senior tranche of preferred stock and multiplying that by the total number of shares outstanding (+ the option pool) of all classes.

This kind of "valuation" may be useful and the way business is done, so if everybody is wise to the game, it's not clear anybody who matters is being deceived. But as far as an outsider or accounting geek is concerned, this is not an appropriate way to value the equity in a company with multiple share classes. Common shares and less-senior preferred shares are simply not as valuable as the most senior preferred stock. You can't apply the same per-share value to everything.

These same companies are not claiming $11.5 billion of "valuation" when they set a per-share value for 409(a) purposes. In broad strokes, these companies claim to have low valuations to the IRS (which helps their employees when they grant options) and high valuations to the press (which helps them look good and attract employees) at the same time.

Which may all be fine, but the press (and prospective employees) should be as wise to the game as the investors and company are.
Am I the only one who feels like locking into a standard for something like this without first developing and testing an implementation would be a mistake?
I do not agree with the hyperbole of the OP, but there are a disproportionate amount of black people in prison, black people get on average longer sentences for the same crimes, and drugs forms more commonly used by blacks carry longer sentences than the same drug in other forms (crack vs. cocaine). Are black people singled out to be tortured? No. Is the US prison system racist? The evidence points in that direction.
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What is this talk in the article about pg leaving YC? Oh God, please don't let that happen before I get in!

I think it would be bad for YC (and to a lesser extent HN), if not disastrous.
It's missing DustJS, which is IMO a strong contender that does well in benchmarks

http://linkedin.github.io/dustjs/

* Works in the browser and on the server

* Pretty fast

* logic-less but with a helpers API for when you need more power

* pre-compiles templates

* has template partials
If Stripe was thinking about moving into the Australian market, Pin would provide them a ready-made solution. All things equal, this startup has a high chance of getting acquired/ merged.
In my company (7 of us), every new hire gets an unassembled chair and an uninstalled computer and are expected to take care of it themselves on their first day (I guess you could say it's part of our company culture).

Heh that sounds awesome. A very real demonstration to a new hire what's expected of them - "Stuff needs doing? roll up your sleeves and get it done."
> This didn't render in chrome, I had to look at the source of the page to read it.

This is a classical example of doing css+js wrong.

Loading the page with js disabled, shows a blank page.
Disabling css, shows the content in a nearly non readable way, with extremely long lines.
Looking at the source tells me, that its not even HTML.
The word "operator" need not imply "a built-in construct"; instead it's often used to describe a name made up of symbols, which is how it appears to be used here. In F#, for instance, where |> is used frequently because it improves type inference, it is defined in the standard library as `let (|>) x f = f x` (note that the definition you give is actually for the related (>>) operator). Would you claim that someone is "doing it wrong" because they call (+) the "addition operator"?
Because it isn't a free world but a mere illusion. Through deception you have been taught that this is what freedom is when its quite the contrary in most cases.
If you take a look at the Foundation source, the Interchange event responsible for swapping in/out images is setup with a 50 millisecond throttle. That's probably why you're seeing a slight delay. Additionally, they seem to also cache previously-loaded images to speed up future replacements.

From a practical standpoint, this is designed to address device-specific uses where the screen-width is less-likely to experience size-adjustments than a desktop browser, so you'll probably see the initial HTTP request for the small-resolution image, followed by the HTTP request for the appropriately-sized image for whatever device/screen you're using, and you're less-likely to see the same number of requests made while wildly resizing a demo page.
It's interesting that you can take virtually any business and turn it into a "Bitcoin-only" startup with very low fees. I wonder how many existing businesses will be disrupted by such small shops accepting Bitcoin (provided they deliver what they promise).
Occupy Gezi
Photos from protest against Turkish Government to show, people have the right to protest.

http://fakfukfon.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/atencionatencioattentionattention/
My only problem is that it's marked "fixed." I'd rather the bug be OBSOLETE or WONTFIX (I guess LP's closest status to those is "Invalid" which is fine, too). That would short circuit most of the arguments about the fact that the desired action isn't verifiable, and anyone that disagrees would have to argue at a higher level: is owning the desktop/laptop market a worthy goal, especially now that OS X is a serious contender? Is it sufficient that Android is Linux-based in the mobile/tablet market?
LinkedIn App downloaded all my contacts and used for their benefit
So this morning LinkedIn App was updated on my phone and they started recommending people I have never looked at or considered - Then I realized they had some contacts from a very old yahoo account - including my test linked in account and was recommending I linkin. Only one way that could have happened - they DL all my contacts for their use. I am sure it is in their terms but I guess I should read.

Anyone else notice?
Notscripts hasn't been updated since December of 2010. ScriptSafe (used to be scriptno) is still being developed https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmn...

However, the author of noscript has said that it isn't technically possible to entirely replicate all of the features of noscript on chrome because extensions on chrome don't have the same kind of access as they do on firefox.

http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/
I bet it would be pretty quick to crowdsource that info.
Early on I recall reading a lot of comments saying there were audio playback glitches with the rpi. Are these resolved now? I have built 3 or 4 Halloween-related audio projects on Arduino using Adafruit's wav shield and the somo-14d module but they sure are a pain to work with. I would love to do my next project on the pi but was sitting on the sidelines waiting for the early glitches to work themselves out.
Genetic variants linked to educational attainment
> Saying that "APIs" are not copyrightable will render tons
> of open source projects licenses invalid, since all open
> source licenses "rest on top" eg append copyright laws.

I don't think this is true. Open source licenses dictate what you can or cannot do with the code, not with the API it implements. You're perfectly free to go ahead and, say, implement a closed source version of a GPL library - as long as it's not based on the original code.

Abolishing copyright /in general/ would render most (all?) open source licenses void, but that's an entirely different matter.
> I mean, worse than Iran? Worse than China? South Africa? Are Americans really that bad?

Your brainwashed intellect (not sure if its even intellect) has led you to believe that the US is a bastion of freedom when its quite the contrary. Stop watching Fox News for crying out loud.
Hmmm, I wonder about the reliability of the information, or perhaps reliability is not the right word, maybe completeness would be better.

I don't know who Garann is, and I don't use Javascript templating, and yet just by playing with the options on the page I was able to predict that Garann is using with dot.js. A quick Google then confirmed the hypothesis, which makes me think that the options that are available are aimed quite specifically at Garann's use case, and might not be generally applicable.
I thought you can already use Netflix using Wine?
Using the Actor Programming Model
Industrialists in the developing world are disproportionately not those with grand ideas, but political connections and ties to resource extraction industries.
Racism doesn't necessarily entail singling a group out explicitly, especially today where we have a trained smell for racism.

If your intent is to single out black people, there are many ways you can target them without spelling out "black people". Specific job categories, specific neighborhoods, specific types of crime (which are hugely lopsided racially), etc etc.

The same can be applied to any race. You can effectively create a law that only targets Asian immigrants without once mentioning the words "Asian immigrant".

In the US race and crime are inexorably linked, and highly politicized. Through a combination of factors and people (acting both maliciously and otherwise), blacks are without a doubt targeted.

Here in NYC we have a rather odious policy of stop, question, and frisk, where the police are empowered to stop anyone they deem suspicious or threatening and search them. It turns out that Blacks and Latinos are search disproportionately often, well beyond their proportional contribution to crime rate. There's nothing in the regulation that spells out that dark-skinned people should be searched more, but everyone in charge knows this is the consequence, and everyone in charge intends this to be the consequence.

Racism is complicated. The fact that you don't have a hooded guy on your lawn burning a cross, screaming "lynch him!", doesn't mean it's not in front of you.
Wow, now that I see you breaking it down like this, I can start to see how I can find business problems that I can potentially solve.

This is making me think why stop at software solutions? Why not just solve business problems in general, but use Ruby on Rails as a tool to solve them? Maybe some problems won't even need Ruby on Rails!

Another questions comes to mind: how would I sell a service with such unpredictable outcomes? If I sell software, then I can almost guarantee certain features. But if I were to promise "more customers" or "more sales", I wouldn't even be 100% sure myself if my methods will work. How would I market a service with an unpredictable success rate?
Update Galaxy S3 i9300 with Galaxy S4 Looks and Features
Here is a new update for the Galaxy S 3 ,named as XXUFME3 it comes with the goodness of Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2. Now the most interesting part it has some cool Galaxy S4 Features like multiple Widgets, Ripple and Light Unlock effects , you can also change clock size with personal message support.
Photos from the protest against Turkish Government to show people have the right to protest.
It’s a beautiful thing when free data meets free analytics
How to remove Dropbox access from a computer you no longer have?
Personally, I spend time researching $1.99 apps because I don't want to waste my time as well as my money. It usually takes less time to read up on a few apps than spend time using them all and finding their shortcomings myself.
Be very tricky. RPi isn't x86/x64.
I've been using this theme for a year now and can't live without it. The density is too high with the regular hacker news and it's hard to read.
Generalists are great hell I'm a generalist but choosing and developing one specific skill (the skill you're best at) is a must.

I'm still a generalist and I still know a lot of things about hardware, software engineering, etc. but I have found a niche I can be a specialist in and I can say with confidence I can play with the best of them.

Still being a specialist gets boring sometimes so I like to mix it up with some of my generalist skills.
"There are different levels of accreditation as well, starting at relatively simple changes such as back covers or keypads, through to more advanced stuff like welding bits on the motherboard."

Now that would be something to see.
I had to finish the number examples on that page to prove this to myself:

000 -> 0
001 -> 1
010 -> 1
011 -> 2
100 -> 1
101 -> 2
110 -> 2
111 -> 3

0 -> 1: 12.5%
1 -> 3: 37.5%
2 -> 3: 37.5%
3 -> 1: 12.5%

0000 -> 0
0001 -> 1
0010 -> 1
0011 -> 2
0100 -> 1
0101 -> 2
0110 -> 2
0111 -> 3
1000 -> 1
1001 -> 2
1010 -> 2
1011 -> 3
1100 -> 2
1101 -> 3
1110 -> 3
1111 -> 4

0 -> 1: 6.25%
1 -> 4: 25%
2 -> 6: 37.5%
3 -> 4: 25%
4 -> 1: 6.25%
I'd be curious as to the consequences of illegal numbers working their way into the block chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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I had an interesting problem with an LG phone that froze or reset while recording or playing video. I sent it three times to the service and came back "repaired". Every time the same issue happened.

Then I found that before they were sending it to repair, the phone was stripped of everything (battery, SD card). It worked on their side, so the problem had to be one of the components that were not actually tested. So I tried a different (faster) SD card - and no more issues! The problem was the SD card - it came with the phone, but when they were sending the device to the service, they did not send also the SD card.
Norway and Sweden don't seem too bad.
The reason I pay for email is that the free services all do a poor job with their Web UIs in my opinion. Putting things like links to their other services, toolbars for their social networks, etc. in my email application is unwanted.
And you don't even need to use assignment. This works as well:

do ->
# module body
Well, I didn't post there, but I will post here what I use mine for.

- Cheap servers. Use them for a little business I own. Rather than rent a box on some datacenter, I ship out the Rpis ready to be used with my software.

- Hydroponics controller. I have a small hydroponics cilantro crop. The board controls/monitors it.

- Learning tool for my nieces. They are learning to program whilst using minecraft for the pi. Plus they are also learning a bit of Python along the way. This summer we have a 2 weeks programming "camp." The Rpi will be the center piece.
There are some rules built into the protocol (max block size of 1MB) and some rules that are default behavior in the majority of clients/miners:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Denial_of_Service_.28D...
Now only 1.3x slower than native on one large-ish benchmark (box2d): http://youtu.be/qrf9ONmtXbM (I love the comparison he makes to evolution at the end. Yes, the process may give ugly creatures sometimes but they work.)
>I'd be very interested in a citation to the supposed prohibition on patients purchasing medical care directly.

This is the whole idea of the penalty/tax. If a patient does not purchase insurance, and for example needs to go to the ER, then that patient will receive the penalty/tax from the IRS for not having a gov. approved health insurance plan and they will receive a bill for the actual government healthcare plan (premium payments and co-pays). The same will be true of walk-in clinics, or offices with membership plans - they will be required to report the uninsured, so the effect will be deterring the uninsured from availing themselves to affordable care, because it will no longer be affordable but any care will result in the government penalty and the actual bill (premium) for the government healthcare plan.

If you are sincere here is the a cite to the Supreme Court Case: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf (See page 7-8 regarding the individual mandate and IRS "penalty") here is an excerpt:

"Beginning in 2014, those who do not comply with the mandate must make a “[s]hared responsibility payment” to the Federal Government. §5000A(b)(1). That payment,which the Act describes as a “penalty,” is calculated as a percentage of household income, subject to a floor based on a specified dollar amount and a ceiling based on the average annual premium the individual would have to pay for qualifying private health insurance. §5000A(c). In 2016, for example, the penalty will be 2.5 percent of an individual’s household income..."

Do they come out and say uninsured are bared from simply paying out of pocket for medical care? No, but they do not need to say it, because on a practical level, the only way this is enforceable is requiring medical providers to report uninsured patients and disallow them to simply pay out of pocket - in my opinion this will put an end to walk-in clinics, membership based practices, and care such as CVS minute clinics. The one way these practices will stay around is if they get in bed with the insurance companies, but: 1. it will limit patient access to care (you can no longer choose your provider and pay out of pocket, but you will be mandated who you can see by your insurance plan) and 2. drive up the cost of care (the only reason we can offer $20/month $10-$20 copay is because the cost of billing insurance/medicare is removed from the equation).