skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're removing the tax then the price you want to compare to in US dollars is $350. But on top of that, I think it's unfair to act like the tax on the 'extra' part of the price is unavoidable. I only calculated tax on the US price.

Still, either way you calculate it, the extra price is somewhere between 50 dollars and 50 euros. And since it has a perfectly good warranty in the US, I doubt that's the difference. At face value it really looks like one of those ripoffs that scribble out the $ in the price and put a euro or a pound on top of it.
How is the drone going to open the door of my apartment building and bring the pizza upstairs (the most important part of the delivery)?
16-Year-Old Kid Uploads Entire 'Never Gonna Give You Up' to Vine
I think he would pay them with Zynga shares.
Ah, but internal DSLs do use the same constructs and semantics that the language provides, unless you're talking about macros.

And we aren't talking about macros here, but about monads (a quite reusable design pattern), possibly in combination with the do-notation from Haskell, or for-comprehensions from Scala, or LINQ from .NET ... basically a simple and standardized syntactic sugar to make operations on monads more pleasant to read, but not really required.

A monad is basically a container with certain functions that can operate on it that have certain properties. That's not a DSL. Those are just function calls on a freaking container implementing a design pattern.
It'd be cooler if someone launched their own drone with a grabbing arm and swiped the pizza mid-air.
Vine seems awesome, but it has a fundamental issue that I just can't get past: I can't easily add my friends from Facebook. Now that isn't Vine's (or Twitter's) fault, it's due to Facebook's new policies[1], a policy that was nearly too late and required them to buy out Instagram.

I don't know how a company can help someone find their current Facebook friends, and match that with users of their social network, but it is one of the essential cogs[2] to usurp Facebook as the dominant social network

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[1] "You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission" https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ (section I.10)

[2] Finding existing friends is only one of the essential parts to growing a vibrant social network. You also need a stable and clear platform for people to communicate/share, and a novel feature/s to give people an excuse to try it out (e.g. Facebooks was more pics and tagging, G+ was circles/hangouts, Instagram was filters, etc).
Yes, and they're also signed by both the author and the package maintainers and have to go through a public review to be included in the package repository. Even for an upgrade. The whole point of that rigmarole is to provide some extra level of guarantee that they haven't been taken over by aliens.

Gems, as an alternative example, can be updated by the author (or anyone with their authentication key) at any time. They can be signed, but even if they are there's no real way to verify the authenticity of the signer.

I'm not even saying this is a bad thing. There's validity to both approaches because they prioritize different things.
This generated some fantastic responses 2 years ago on HN as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3288671
The same way you prevent people from interfering with pizza delivery people's cars. Legal repercussions.
This was posted to HN not so long ago; lots of discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3288671
Being aware of being desperate and what that means will at least allow people to make more informed desperate choices.
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When I read that article, I certainly came away with the opinion that they were second guessing the decision. They get there by arguing about another point which is what caused the surrender.

The reason I get that impression is because its a natural consequence that if the reason for the surrender was not the dropping of the Atomic bomb, then the decision to drop the bomb was unnecessary at best and erroneous at worst.

Perhaps I've read too many foreign policy debates but that is exactly the way someone says something without actually saying it. Which makes for face saving diplomacy and protracted if ineffective debate. Had they not been second guessing the decision the dropping, they would have included that the war declaration by Stalin was insufficient in its own right to cause the surrender. Similarly they might posit that it was the combination of those things. Reading such debates is a combination of reading what they don't say, what they do say, and how they say it.
Some can be, some can't be. Many simple, common-place tools are remarkably hard to clean.

In a battle between "Lets save money" and the risk of a healthcare-associated infection, both economics and clinical ethics sides on tossing the tool.
For the same reason people still push Python 3...hope.
There are numerous problems with this article, but the one that jumps out at me the most is that it doesn't seem to have occurred to the author that maybe the Soviet Union got off the fence and declared war on Japan because of the atomic bomb. If it looked like victory was going to be achieved without an invasion, why wouldn't Stalin have jumped onto the bandwagon and declared a war he knew he'd never have to fight?
If I was homeless in that area I'd start hunting pizza drones for food. I also thought they were automating it instead.
Awesome - where's it likely to get posted?
You're really just riffing on arguments no one made. Which is the danger if you respond to an article you didn't read.
EU mandates a full 2 year warranty. Nexus 4 warranty in the US is 1 year limited.
A true "kick starter."
Thanks!! I'll check then out. Do they start basic enough though?
But the Android experience is quite a bit better, IMHO. Have you tried a 720p resolution Galaxy S III or a 1080p resolution S IV? Spectacular display and Android allows for much more customization. BTW, I use an iPad so I am comparing the experience with that since I don't use an iPhone.

That said, the iOS and Android ecosystems are both so very good that I think the decision should be personal preferences - that is my advice to non-tech friends.
I agree. Building a startup is a privilege. It's not something everyone gets to do. I come from a line of very hard working people. My parents were the ones that showed be that with knowledge and hard work anything can be achieved. That's why I chose to found my startup. As with any occupation there are unique challenges. Those challenges take a harder toll on some. Chatting with friends that lost marriages and have struggled with depression and/ or drugs as a direct consequence of their occupation as a startup founder was part of the reason for the post. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
It could deliver to a window.
Do you have a window? Problem solved.
The Micropublishing Explosion Has Begun
Please stop speaking in generics. There is a big difference between physical security and the traditional security against malicious code.
Yes, that's what I wrote. They wouldn't negotiate because the bombs were on the way.
It wasn't unconditional anyway, there were plenty of conditions in the potsdam declaration.
Sigh... This meme of criticizing UX instead of the article is getting old on HN.

Email jwz your suggestions. Also have you seen his homepage? http://www.jwz.org/ OMG, it's like... So horrible hurts my eyes, god who would care about what jwz says with that design!
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Many successful people love what they do. So they work "insane" hours.

For better or worse, these people choose "work" (in quotes because it doesn't feel like work) over watching TV, taking vacations, and spending time with friends.

When outsiders observe people like this, outsiders come to the conclusion that said people are successful because of the long hours. When in fact, they're successful because they're obsessed with making it successful.

In other words, the takeaway should be "do something you love," rather than "work long hours."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
Yeah, I wasn't very clear. My family has won out each time, but I still have pangs of guilt when I can't deliver in the way I think my colleagues expect.
I would have thought that the obvious advantage of this over scooter-kid is the time saving over someone in traffic. It would take potentially half the time to deliver to some areas by air. With the major side benefit that your pizza is less soggy when it arrives, which means a noticeable improvement in product quality.
This is not something that "normal" people will pick up on.
I don't know a lot about the history of Python and the GIL, but did they ever consider optionally removing the GIL or leaving it in depending upon some switch? Go has GOMAXPROCS which defaults to 1 to avoid the overhead of locking when only a single thread will be used for similar purposes.

I guess back in 1996 a system like that may have been considered overkill because multithreading was still pretty exotic.
Okay, it just took a really long time for Vine to share it to Twitter.
You said it.
what's also really annoying, is that there's no way to search just by username; in case you dont want connect via fb or twitter at all.
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There's an excellent add-on for Firefox called "No Color" that I use whenever I come across sites like these. One click makes it readable again.

I'm not affiliated with the developer in any way.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-color/
I don't think the cost of deployment is that relevant when compared to the cost (and risks) of a rewrite.

If your app is written in Java, I believe http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf is another option.
Oh, I see. So Docker is more lightweight compared to Virtualbox. Kind of like Solaris zones. Thanks!
Will the burrito bomber suffice? http://www.darwinaerospace.com/burritobomber
For anyone who is interested in this, Jeff Hawkins gave a fantastic key note speech at last year's StrangeLoop conference entitled "Computing Like The Brain" which goes into some detail about the theory behind this.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Brain-Computing
Look for work immediately. Negotiate a delay start.
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In that context, with no benefit of hindsight,
to say that the bomb was not dropped to win the war
but just to intimidate the USSR is nonsense.

Not just nonsense, but also part of a propaganda war. I cannot read it otherwise (unless the comment had offered a more profound historical analysis, which it has not).
I stated I know founders that have drug abuse and addiction problems as a result of a lack of healthy strategies to cope with stress. This is much different than comparing a founder to having a drug or alcohol addiction.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's great to hear a different perspective. Lots of luck to you and whatever you're working on.
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Is this Stallman's web 1.0 version of twitter?
The point of Stackless python is that it avoids the GIL by not using threading. It's more about asynchronous behavior.
Pet insurance. Some companies provide this benefit. One of the reasons we never got a pet, though my kids would absolutely love one.
A billionaire who basically stole money from their employees and he calls them "brothers and sisters" while laying them off, I do think its something that America should finally start worrying about, yes.
As an anesthesiologist, this is a bad idea for various different reasons. There are a numerous reasons why a physician needs the tools that he needs. The type of procedure, the type of patient and the familiarity of the equipment. I routinely intubate patients with a particular type of tool because that is what I feel most comfortable with and I have trained with. Yes, I can intubate with the myriad of other devices but there is that 1 out of a 1000 chance (slim but not unrealistically slim because I do >1000 intubations a year) that I cannot intubate you and you need to have a tracheostomy or worse, you die.

Some may argue that we should all train with the same equipment, but even then, what about inherent differences in the physician or the patients. Maybe where I trained, all my patients had large tongues and I need a particular blade more often so I became better skilled with that or maybe my hands are just better with a particular blade.
Kids don't use facebook anymore, mainly because their entire family is on it.

Most kids I know just use whatsap and instagram/twitter they won't go near fb
Agreed. Being able to try out new services without any extra work is a massive win.
FTA: "I recommend that you do what you love because you love doing it. If that means long hours, fantastic. If that means leaving the office by 6pm every day for your underwater basket-weaving class, also fantastic."
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Recruiter here. They still contact me all the time to ask me to work there. Good god I can't even imagine.
unless they were doing longevity research
Japanese or Russians? The answer might differ.
I can't confirm the fact that it is TT. Right now, i'm seeing:

#AFestaVaiComecar
#askselena
#Evedönüyoruz
#EnElMundoDelRevés
Abdullah Cömert
#EnClasesSiempreEstá
Perro Pablo
OTAN
Navas
We Can't Stop
Totally agree. I view startup as a marathon rather than short run. The most important thing for an engineer is productivity. I dont think any engineer would be productive after 8 hours of working. If this happens frequently, something's wrong with that company.
PonyDebugger is good also, but I definitely appreciate debugging apps that have had some extra love put into them.

Debugging GUI code can be a huge pain, and visualising an interface's structure really benefits from a UI that goes beyond just showing the information. View hierarchy is a good example, but I'm sure there are others too.

It'd also be cool if these apps could show more than just the GUI. Being able to introspect view controller state and model objects would be really useful sometimes. Like, when that intermittent glitch shows up again, being able to see aspects of the program state change over time and interactively setting properties to try and replicate it.
This is exactly what my startup, Vinecteogram, does. Check us out on the App Store!
> I'm pretty sure I can upgrade to a service pack. Changing versions, OTOH, probably requires approval from management.

Two things are apparent:
1) The problem you are addressing is a management problem in your organization, not a problem with Microsoft releasing a new version of VS.
2) You aren't the decision-making customer for Microsoft VS at your organization, so even the problem you had was with VS, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem MS would have much incentive to address.
If this is relevant to HN, the link should be to https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%22How%20To%20Lose%202... (or click "All" on the current URL).

Alternatively, instead of scrolling through RTs, people complaining, etc to discover the spam, add "weightpower" to the search -- https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%22How%20To%20Lose%202....
I'm actually quite happy with the app parody we're reaching. Most, if not all, of the apps on my Galaxy Nexus home-screen are available on both platforms.
Honestly, I don't care about karma at all. I was just curious when I saw the duplicate post. But now that I learned something can be reposted by adding # at the end of it, I think it needs to be fixed.
Ewww!!!
>"Think for a minute about what this essay is asking "What if action X did not end the war in the Pacific?"

I think it was addressing the overall idea of speculation in historical events.
What does "FUD" mean in this context?
I have seen this over the past few days and on some verified accounts too. Probably a large 3rd party app was hacked or a phishing app was setup and is now using the permissions to tweet links. Make sure you clean out apps that you give permissions to.
Come on, the only way you could tell it wasn't a traditional bomb was it being smaller. Magic? Ridiculous.
For every Windows ISV there are a hundred companies where the software development toolchain is chosen by someone with nothing more than a thin grasp of the concepts involved.

They read in magazines the new shiny IDE has better team support and integrates seamlessly with Exchange and the SharePoint intranet deployed last year.

But let's be realistic here. Most of those shops will never hire someone to write C++ code. In all likelihood, they are still porting VB3 apps to VB.net.
Are you serious? That's a medium size project, just get a fast machine (e.g. i7 4770) and you'll be perfectly fine.
Libertarians have been complaining about the USA's complicated health bureaucracy for decades. Hell, they've written dozens of books about it. It doesn't take a genius to find perverse incentives in US medical pricing schemes.

But don't let me get in the way of your 30 seconds of hate...
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A microcontroller can easily send the proper signals; check out NESBot for an example. Here's a video of NESBot playing the original NES Tetris with a series of inputs that manipulates the RNG: http://tasvideos.org/1502M.html .

You just need to emulate the game when planning out the series of moves, to figure out what timing to use to manipulate the RNG and get the pieces you want.
The company can move offices. His point is correct.
As a woman I've had friends, male and female, give their opinions of why I shouldn't build my company. Many of the conversations go back to the concept of I should be doing what most women my age do... get a great 9-5 job, meet a guy, and have a family. It's been hard and surprising to have very close friends, many who are very pro women's rights and liberal, express these view points. I would never tell any of these friends they were wrong to...get a job, meet someone, get married, and have a family. So friendships ended because of a lack of common ground.

I like the conversation you created though. It actually would have been easier if your comments were true.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I've enjoyed the Python networking libraries I've used. A lot. Could you be more specific?

Also, I'm not quite clear on your issue with packaging. Can you be more specific? Compared to C, I find importing existing code to be nearly heavenly.

Regarding backwards compatibility, maybe it's an issue, maybe it's not. On the one hand it's frustrating and some people will make it an issue. On the other hand, I can't help but think of cases like Apple, where they were the first to abandon modems, serial ports, diskette drives, and CD drives—but probably made the right decision.
But if it's tattooed on their arm, they can remember it when they are not, and prepare accordingly.
This is a good question. Let's make it more explicit: What do Japanese historians have to say about how and why Japan surrendered in 1945?
I bought this as an audiobook on iTunes for a car trip or something, back in ~2006. It made a huge impact because its theories are so simple and easy to understand that, if you are even a novice programmer, you can probably imagine how you'd go about implementing such a brain. Especially if you find the original white papers and read them too, as they practically include the source code if I recall (I've got them printed and bound on a shelf somewhere).

While I was in grad school, I spent several weekends tinkering with my own implementation of a very simple HTM to process shapes in Go (the game). It never did much in the way of playing Go, and I stopped messing with it after something else more practical got in the way, but I'd love to dust off that code and now seems like a great time to get back into it.

The narration on the audiobook is very high quality, and, for me at least, the ideas were quite accessible through audio. I highly recommend it if you're the type of person who might purchase such a book in paper and never get around to reading it (but you have time to kill in the car).
I would like to pose a question to the Hacker News community. If you had to, where would you cut costs? Do you think doctors are paid too much? Or nursing staff?
Obviously, we think these services are overbilled but the reality of it is that most of these bills are not paid at all or paid for a fraction of what is billed.
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The longer you keep information controlled, the harder it is to release it, because you have more past experiences to evaluate when deciding whether it would be harmful or not to release it. At some point with some kinds of information you get to a point where you throw up your hands and give up before concluding that it's OK to share something.
As opposed to other drones (we are assuming a future where this isn't a novelty, so lots of air traffic) and regular aircraft, flight regulations, weather and birds.. and yes, the landing and obstacles at low altitude.

Now maybe if they never had to go low but literally drop ship the packages..
Ah, but the IPO already happened so it's time to lay them off.
> In the grand scheme of things Zynga is trivial and harmless.

In the "grand scheme" those "whales" are lost in the noise, so yes. In the grand scheme they were trivial and harmless.
People bounce from one idea to the next without exploring an idea deeply.
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Hilarious slip. Think you meant parity.
Relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainat_Soomro
I usually disagree with complaints that HN is getting more unfriendly, but this is a good example of that. You could at least sugar-coat this criticism, this look to me to be nicely implemented, and there's nothing wrong with YAMNA.
A company I was at served complimentary dinners at 8pm.

You can imagine what the culture was like (loved my team though)
Great read. Very well researched and written.

As a side note, medical insurance much like construction is a 'cost-plus' industry. The insurance companies actually have incentive to make prices go up.

For example, insurance companies are required to spend 80% on medical expenses. So if cost of an ACL surgery skyrocketed $100,000 then, they would make $20,000 off of it. Instead, they only made about $14k off of Calvin's surgery.
Sheesh, downvotes! You guys must love their pizza.
Packaging is fine unless you're ignoring the current state of tooling. Not sure what you mean by networking unless you're talking about gevent/twisted/tornado/diesel which are really proxies for the problem of concurrency (GIL) rather than expressly about networking.