skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, most people do mind. That's why this stuff is so rampant. As the article says, when it comes down to paying, people will see £4.99 listed as a price and decide "nah, I have this other game I tried that I can still pay". No sale. However if the price says 'free', people click the install button and think "I'll give this a try later".

Basically, you are still in the minority, and most people do not shell out £4.99 for a phone game. They do, however, shell out 5 crystals for an extra rope so that they can "just beat this stage already"!

It's terrible and preys on human failings. The people who are most likely to fall for this are the people who are least likely to be able to afford to pay the rent. The free escape into a world where they can have positive reinforcement from daily troubles is now giving them negative reinforcement until they pay up. Capitalism is fairly cruel.
The government does kinda tax wealth, any time it creates currency ("printing money") beyond the (I'd guess very small) rate at which it vanishes, e.g. by banknotes getting shredded in the wash, weird computer errors, etc.

(Because when there's more money around, prices and wages go up, and currency-denominated assets like money in bank accounts become less valuable. It's not clear that this does much to the assets in which wealthier people are more invested -- stocks and real estate -- so I'm not arguing that it's a good way of taxing wealth.)
Ok, I'm not one for internet debates and I think this has run it's course fairly. Feel free to take the last word after this if you'd like.

Maybe we've been talking past each other or maybe you just see this differently than I do.

I see a difference between the physical mechanism of weight gain and the mental part of hunger and eating.

Your comment here is something I can totally agree with: When you eat carbs, you crave them and binge eat and over eat and gain weight.

For you, eating carbs leads you to increase your input too much. Now this could be insulin like you insist, or it could just be bad habit. Either way, it's what I consider "mental." Because even if blood sugar issues with carbs triggers the hunger, you're still choosing to satisfy it by eating.

But there's some basic science behind the thermodynamics of weight gain and weight loss that cannot be waved away IMO.

Also, worth noting that carbs do not trigger me to over eat. They are and have been a staple in my diet and I cut them from my lunch meal entirely for reasons of caloric restriction and eat them liberally at my dinner meal. I load UP on carbs at dinner. And still, I don't eat again for at least 18 hours.
> smelling the thing (mostly machine oil and steam, and a hint of ozone near the transformers)

Possibly just metal oxides or dimethylsulphide, as ozone is odourless.
A set of other tools that also do the same thing :

http://www.webflow.com/
https://jetstrap.com/
http://www.divshot.com/
http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/
https://www.easel.io
Mos Def force fed according to Guantanamo procedure [video]
It happens a lot in lower income white and hispanic communities as well... I don't think this is so much a racial issue as it is one of multi-generation poverty.
That sounds more like DLC than pay to win. I'm totally okay with it in games. There's a number of games (the most notable is GTA IV in my eyes) that have DLC content that adds a LOT of extra time and fun to the game.

But it can be done wrong to. That's the reason I won't buy BF4. They are intent on releasing DLC before the game. That's just shady and it doesn't add anything to the game.
Could it be a sliding scale? So, if you're not working you get $20k, but if you can earn $5k you get $19k, etc? That way getting a job is financially incentivized, but the government doesn't need to support people who are perfectly capable of earning $70k on their own.
What does it provide more/better than, let's say, Flickr or Imgur ?
The main difference with the US is that the public image and repeated, vehement rhetoric is freedom and peace and equality for all humankind. Yet dig a little deeper and the double standard about citizens and non citizens and how they are treated becomes very apparent, far more so than in (say) some of the european countries.
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I had a friend who was id hacked. not nice, and citibank was really bad at helping him. Don't expect them to be on your side, any of the big nasties.

and don't put your damn personal information on facebook!
It really is a shame and it's a symptom of the whole 'race to the bottom' that goes on in the app store. In a way, I see why people put these practices in place. You can't charge over a certain amount (as you said) without bombing in sales. In reality some of these games need a lot of work to get the out the door. I'm aware of a few app store games that took months of a full studio's time to release. Yet still, people see it's over £0.69 and say 'Nah, that little game isn't worth it.'
Maybe I misinterpreted.

1) you connect to server A

2) you want to encrypt sensitive informations. You send them to (localhost) B

3) you receive encrypted data

4) you use them through server A

Aren't you sending sensitive informations though javascript served by server A? Didn't you just loose the security that you wanted by encrypting on localhost?
FISA theoretically had restraints as well (50 U.S.C. § 1803, Pub.L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1788, enacted October 25, 1978), but it did not stop the process from being corrupted and automated. When the capability is there, there is nothing stopping it from being abused similarly. The Western country and alleged safeguards that happen to be in charge of said apparatus is really irrelevant.
I used to work at ARM and ever since then have been invited to all sorts of weapons and defence conferences.
You're just adding more points of failure.
Ace with Vim keybindings:

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Base64 (works in Firefox):

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Ace with Emacs keybindings:

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Base64 (works in Firefox):

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EDIT: formatting

EDIT 2: Base64
This seems just like something I was looking for, just registered few moments ago!
This seems to be well built for a 1st Android App.
2 things I feel could be improved though :
- The concept of logging to develop healthy habits should be emphasized, or completed with some kind of planning instead of only logging
- The design, even if not bad because it uses native elements, lack some kind of personal touch
Well how many social networks do you need? How many cat photos and videos? How many i-fart applications? Humor is nice. Laughing is nice. How much do you need to laugh? 100% of your waking time?

How many real problems have we solved for every ifart application? Somehow I don't think that the numbers add up.
tl;dr : Whenever you click on 'Upgrade Now' button just click it and go to sleep. Once you wake you everything should be fine.

Author was awake and saw some horrible things.
> Most of the 96% of "investors" locked out of startup financing because of accreditation rules would be very poorly served by startup investing.

I basically agree, but will make the following observation anyway: the figure that matters isn't what fraction of that 96% would be very poorly served, but what fraction of the ones who would invest in startups if they could would be very poorly served.

Imagine a university that targets exceptionally smart students, and also is only prepared to educate the very rich. (Or people whose surname begins with the letter A. Or almost any other small group that isn't basically equivalent to "very clever people".)

Then it will be true that (1) most of the people "locked out" by its rich-people-only policy would be poorly served by studying there, but also that (2) removing that policy would be a public benefit. (Assuming there weren't other adverse effects, e.g. running out of money because they could no longer charge such high fees.)

Going back to startup investing, it's at least plausible that most of the 96% wouldn't choose to do it because of the high perceived risks, and that those who would will be those who (1) are more risk-tolerant because they have more money and/or (2) think they understand the market particularly well. Both of these are probably correlated with being not so poorly served by startup investing.

(They may well not be correlated enough with that to make it a good idea, which is why I basically agree with your point despite the quibbling. But the quibble seems like a generally important distinction whether or not it makes a difference in this particular case.)
Some of the tricks in the article are unbelievable.

>At this point the user must choose to either spend about $1 or lose their rewards, lose their stamina (which they could get back for another $1), and lose their progress.

I can't imagine playing a game that threatened to take away my items if I didn't give them money.
Mavericks, but behaviour has stayed consistent since OS X Public Beta (pre-Cheetah) for me and was probably the same on Classic.

Physical keyboards I've used have always been en_GB, internal or external.
I used it a few times.

You could draw a frontend easily. You could glue together fairly high level components trivially. You could connect window/component/widget clicks and actions to code trivially. Want a thing that sits in the systray, scans a directory for new files, reads lines out of them and spews them out somewhere over the network? Easy. Make a test frontend that calls a bunch of scripts and dumps the results in a grid? Done.

It had a bad rep because in a lot of ways it felt like a toy, and because a lot of bad software was written in it by people that didn't really know what they were doing. OTOH that also made it a really accessible first step for some folks.
I skimmed the article, but read the web app's title: "Rap Genius: Discover the Meaning of Rap Lyrics"

Glad to know it isn't just rap, but then the name is very misleading.
I don't know about that.

Here, on HN, yes. But the population in general don't care about what the NSA get up to, don't care about Snowden, and seem to also think he is a traitor on a par with the cold war. As long as they believe that the gov are fighting the straw man of "Terror", they are happy bunnies. So, I suspect this article is more for them than the likes of us.
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Google Cars – Sheer Driverless Pleasure?
The Google cars technology’s still very much in its infancy and the route the robot-controlled vehicle will follow has to first be mapped out with a human at the wheel.
See also XMLTerm from ~2000: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/06/07/xmlterm/
35 Quick Facebook Guidelines for Brands
He joins the ranks of the Dalai Lama now, representing his people from the safety of exile.
Also reminded me of: http://xiki.org/
No not at all! I don't believe in torture. When I mentioned torture in my previous comment, I was referring to spending the rest of your life in prison, not actual torture.
there are also some unicode character differences, see: http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
Just FYI: urxvt, screen, and tmux all support reflowing. No 'hacks' necessary.
Yeah, I came to the conclusion that the USA is more like religion than country. The constitution is it's bible, its schools and malls are it's churches, the president is it's pope, Washington is it's Vatican, its military it's jihadists, the national anthem it's lords prayer, and so on. Americans believe in the USA in a way no other population believes in theirs.

BTW, I make NO moral judgement, its just my own personal observation.
The article isn't clear on whether the pilot had never landed a 777 before, or just never a 777 at SFO.
The 'cyber-attack' threat to London's Olympic ceremony
which is why you never talk to the police, or the Feds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Can't post this often enough, because it takes a lawyer to explain that even if you're "innocent" (scare quotes, ha ha), you're in danger
> * They are recording everything that goes over the internet, by tapping in at major backbones, undersea cables, etc.

This bit worries me less than PRISM or malware. We've already designed our networks to resist MITM where we believe security matters and there is a general push towards TLS for everything.
guessing its money... you can skip the winzip installer, but i stopped the install and downloaded the real installer...
OpenWatch: https://openwatch.net/
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openwatch-social-muckraking/...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.openwa...
You make a good point there. Thanks and duly noted.
Why The Future Belongs To The US In 1 Simple Chart
On OP's topic, another trick, used very effectively in League of Legends, is to mismatch the cost of store items and the premium currency (in-game cash equivalent). $15 buys 1500 credits, the intended purchase costs maybe 800 - people are more likely to repeat purchase, exploiting the sunk cost fallacy.

Intermittent reinforcement is commonly exploited in the form of thinly disguised gambling in games, it's a huge part of Valve's sales (crates) in Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2.

A few common monetization strategies for skill games:

- Selling shortcuts. Players don't really mind being given the options of spending money or additional time in game, barring extremes. Indeed, if not made available by the game vendor, this is often handled by 3rd parties - the market for in game currencies is measured in billions of dollars per year. These shortcuts to a goal can be seen in many games that merely sell additional options which have minimal effect on gameplay.

- Cosmetics and other status items. Team Fortress 2 is a good example - people will buy anything that makes them look different from everyone else in multiplayer games.

- Limited time products. Lots of games have started selling bundles (in denominations like $50 and $200) to early adopters that let them distinguish themselves from those who started playing later on or did not pay up. Path of Exile and anything by Perfect World are examples.

Games without any multiplayer elements would likely find it hard to use these.
Doesn't matter who owns the company - the engineers are British and they are solving their engineering problems in the UK. CocaCola is obviously a US company but the production plant in the UK has some very interesting manufacturing/engineering problems (as does Mars, Proctor and Gamble, Fuji (pharma division)) and if you really need examples of British companies then try Dynex, Wolfson Microelectronics, Imagination Technolgies, British Sugar and Dyson.

His dig about a Frech company was just a fashionable quip that is doing the rounds right now - yes they are better at some things than us but likewise we sell them planes etc so each nation plays to it's strengths
We're understanding our reality better. Whistleblower leaks and more...

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSKpL87_Rs

- http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-...

- http://m.democracynow.org/web_exclusives/1781

- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Pal...

Books illuminate how power works

- http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Switch-Information-Empires/...

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_Unite... (I haven't read it yet, I've heard good and bad things about the book)

- http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf (I've only skimmed a few sections, but I suspect this is good to understand anarcho-capitalism)

To combat low level surveillance, we need open hardware.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_pr...

- http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686

Our own mesh network for community penetration. Mesh networks sort of died off a decade ago, but there is a resurgence.

- http://karmanebula.com/chicagomeshnet/

- https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-netwo...

Bitcoin is still growing, and more people are understanding the mechanism behind it. Many altcoins are just Bitcoin ripoffs, but we'll see interesting developments going forward.

- https://cryptocointalk.com

- There are many technologies and protocols being built for distributed exchanges, etc. Discussions under bitcointalk.org etc.

Other links

- http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/

- https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

- http://www.democracynow.org/

- http://www.dailykos.com/

Those have just been on my mind recently. Reddit is actually a good source of reading material once you have an account, unfollow stupid subreddits and follow the right ones like politics, worldnews, restorethefourth, libertarian, anarcho_* etc.
WTF is wrong with hacker news SEO
Hey HN ... whats wrong with your SEO guy ... always when i type in "hacker news" in chrome omnibox i never get the result i expect ...

i don't want the job page, i don't want the twitter account, i don't want the news faq ... ... please fix it. Thanks.

Look at ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news

or ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=y+combinator+news
Definitely wanted something like that up but decided to focus on getting the core up and running instead of spending too much time on the 'bells and whistles' for now. Well its a trade off that could go either way I suppose.
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The Story of a Startup called Akosha
This is absolutely appalling.
If the NSA saves all my stuff, then why do I need my own backups? Forget Dropbox, just give me access to my stuff at NSA. This is a service I'm already paying for.
Yes of course I read the article.

Tempora isn't new news either [1].

> Trying to pass this off as nothing to be concerned about means that you are not paying attention, or don't care.

Did you even read my comment? Where did I say nothing to be concerned about?

[1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Tempora
It's because pg disables bot crawling to keep server load down.
It worked for me for the first exercise, I'm connected through Germany. After that it stopped.
Valve's 'perfect hiring' hierarchy has 'hidden management' clique
It's because the app store is an extraordinarily poor discovery mechanism for games if they aren't free - people won't pay for something they can't tell if they will enjoy, and app stores simply don't provide enough information to answer that question.
Having to sign up to begin experimenting is pretty painful, and a leading way to lose conversions in a hurry. Automatically generating an ephemeral project is lots less painful to people (like me) who want to see what it's all about.

I also found myself concerned that 'About' didn't say anything about who was behind the project, or any such. 'About' should tell me who's running the show, why I should trust them, and why they're not going to run away with my data and leave me holding the cloud -- er, bag -- in three months.
I am pretty sure that in US, he would be [classified] to [classified].
Now if only there was an annotated encyclopedia of discrete approximations to accompany this...
Boxee team joins Samsung, will shut down cloud DVR service on July 10
Heh, that's just buffering.....

(BTW that was a bad joke, for those who take tings seriously)

Tell you what this does mean though, our parliament has been lied too, which is supposed to be a big deal. But I guess all the opposition MP's are too worried that GCHQ know all the porn sites they visit. Lets face it, we all have something to hide, and chances are now that the gov knows about it, or can do with the right Db query.
This is a distressing story. If you haven't read it yet here's a link [1] to the discussion & original (and excellent) investigative article.

EDIT: In these days of PRISM and Tempora, this is all the more pertinent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230585
Laws: rules for the weak, guidance for the powerful.
I can't tell you how difficult it was to keep the tab open after I read the words "bigger than Google".
> What law of physics necessitates that such an upgrade takes 6 hours?

the one where the customer isn't paying enough money to have somebody working 24/7?

If your business depends on a particular service, you don't accept something vague - you get things signed in contract with legally enforcible SLA's. If you can't afford that, then you just have to live with shitty service.
Appreciating a system for it's strengths is somewhat different to being a fan. Rather, I would say that using the right tool for the job denotes maturity and breadth of experience.
> This striking philosophical difference between Americans and other Western nationalities tends to give Americans a trust in their system where other nationalities would have drawn the line.

Really? So other Western countries would have... revolted? Rioted? Done something? The UK is pretty much a police state and there isn't much going on there. Germany seems to be doing its own intelligence-gathering work and snooping on its citizens, too.