skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"they're competing with Amazon et al"

The product that skymall is selling is entertainment.

The value of being able to leaf through a magazine and see some interesting products. And maybe buy something you would never think of.

Just like HN is a venue to read things you might not come across in your own browsing. Skymall pushes product into easy viewing site because they are a printed magazine right at your fingertips.

Now of course you can do that online but you are in a confined space and a captive audience and that magazine has appeal plain and simple no matter what you can take a look at online. And of course you have plenty of entertainment on your tablet or laptop. But this is in a different format and it deserves at least a look.

Let me make up an outlandish example.

You have hotel wifi and a tablet in your private hotel room.

You then spot a magazine of pornographic pictures in a drawer and that type of stuff turns you on (as it does most men, right?). Even if you can view the porn online you are still going to leaf through the magazine because it's easy to do and just "take a look" for the entertainment value. (That's quite different from actually buying the same magazine in the store in the hotel).
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When you're buying a device in which the OS and ecosystem are developed and maintained by the same company, that company being profitable and its business sustainable is a vital customer concern. If you buy an android phone and the vendor goes bust, no big deal. If you buy an iPhone and apple goes bust, bye bye iTunes, iOS updates, App Store, etc, etc. I say this as an apple customer and iPhone user. I think a lot of the discussion on this thread is just silly, but Apple being a strong going concern is a big deal to all iPhone and Mac users.
> The App Store review process is in this spirit, they don't want shitty apps screwing up the experience on their phones.

This is false. Apple has banned applications for dubious grounds, such as competing with Apple. Extremely useful apps like Swype and its alternatives have been banned.

The app store is not just about protecting users from shitty apps, it is also about total control over the iOS platform, often to the detriment of users.
> There actually are good charities out there that do good work, but separating them from this kind of self-service is hard to do

No it's not.

Charities have to report how much money they spend on things like overhead, and sites like Charity Navigator can be used to quickly and easily locate this information.

Your ignorance of it does not make it so.
Motherfuckers lying, gettin' me pissed.
"recognizes that the continued move to digital will eventually, and probably quite rapidly, decimate what is effectively a print advertising business in Skymall."

Skymall has distribution and provides entertainment. (See my comment below about finding a porn magazine in a hotel room vs. online)
the version of this I've seen before every one has blue eyes (except maybe the guru).
day one some body with blue eyes looks around and knows there's at least one other person with blue eyes, so maybe the guru was talking about that person.
day two no one has left so they know there's at least two people with blue eyes or else the blue eyed would have figured it out day one. of course they can still see at least two people with blue eyes, so no problem.
Etc...
day N hits and they come to the inescapable conclusion that they all have blue eyes and they all leave.

I'm not sure how that translates to two eye colors though. I'd guess basically the same, but I'd need to think some more.
Yup.

To be clear: encryption _needs_ to be perfect. But "let's fork the web" is a pipe dream, "let's start encrypting emails" is quite achievable.
As the owners of SkyMall, how would you cash out on this deal? As I understand it, Xhibit didn't pay cash for SkyMall. I take this to be a stock-for-stock merger. So the owners of SkyMall end up with a stake in Xhibit but not cash.

You might argue that the SkyMall people could sell their stock now. But if Xhibit is as much of s sham as the authors say, then it's going to be hard or impossible to cash out at a good price. Once you start selling the shares of an artificially inflated company, the price falls fast. You might unload a few at a high price, but just a few.
>The point here is that there is no such thing as "covertly following" if the police are disobeying traffic laws.

If the suspect is flagrantly running red lights or driving 140 in a 55, someone else doing the same thing is going to be conspicuous. If the suspect is ignoring "no turn on red" signs or driving 65 in a 55, they're doing the same thing as 80+% of other motorists and someone else doing the same thing is not going to stand out.

> In this case, many police departments will not pursue because a chase endangers too many lives (I don't have a reference handy for this, but I believe I read about here on HN some months back).

You're referring to situations where the suspect is aware of the pursuit.
This is crazy.

"fixed interest charge of ten percent (10%) regardless of the time of repayment"

Does that mean, as it sounds, that the interest is $37,500 whether they pay it back in ten days or ten years? I realize it's due March 31, 2014, but if it's not paid by when it's due, no more interest accrues?
His meandering string of banal platitudes and buzzwords is seriously next level:

"I personally refer to Xhibit as a multi-dimensional digital ad agency. Our gaol was to build a company with combined strengths of design, development, and distribution, to be a one stop shop for a clients digital marketing and advertising needs. Our synergistic array of software suites, tools, and offerings have been engineered from the ground up to help companies maximize results from digital strategies. I really want to emphasize results, Nick. Since we build our concepts from the ground up to help businesses maximize revenue, I always have the belief that if a client made money from a marketing campaign, they will in turn spend more money. This is why we have integrated some performance result models into our work today. The long term success any business or product relies on monetization."
What can he inform congress of that congress can't ask the NSA? I wouldn't be surprised if this were a trap.
I was only referring to your continuing lengthy, polite comments when replying to commenters' questions. :)
Cool idea, but I don't think it makes sense for there to be both a Player class and a warrior object. They seem like they are/should be one in the same. At the very least, I think behind the scenes, the Player class should look more like this such that the warrior object is always available, and I don't need to pass it around from method to method that I define. e.g.:

class Player
attr_reader :warrior

def initialize(warrior)
@warrior = warrior
end

def play_turn
# I can now access `warrior` here or in any other methods I write
end
end
"selling overpriced shiny garbage "

People are free to try to locate that "shiny garbage" and buy it cheaper but yet some people continue to purchase those things from skymall either because they are a) in a hurry b) money is no object c) product is unique enough that it can't be easily found

Here's a question. One of the problems people have is app discovery. What if there was a magazine onboard airplanes where you could advertise cost effectively and get distribution for an app? Wouldn't you see that as providing some value just like any advertising?
It can be bait to incentivize people to more closely follow a brand. Exlusive, limited time offers for people that follow on twitter and Facebook.
So the Syndicate guys are kinda like real estate brokers, and AngelList is the MLS?
This is silly, they're just making a big deal out of something obvous: Smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops are all just personal computers, and there's no reason to have a different one for each paradigm when the hardware is essentially identical in functionality.

We're just putting a desktop OS in a smaller box than ever like we have for the last decade.

The ease of this transition is reinforced by the fact that GNU/Linux systems already work really well on all of these form factors(and many more).
Of course not. But let's have a discussion--tell us why you think taking some mushrooms would be injuring oneself.

I've never used LSD or mushrooms, and I don't think I've ever been high, save for a few puffs in college, but this gets me to wondering if I've been missing out. It's the risk of having a bad trip that deters me, along with the possibility of getting some bogus garbage from an unscrupulous dealer.
Both the GPL and BSD licenses give developers that want to build on software others wrote rights that they do not have by default.

However, compared to BSD licenses, the GPL gives fewer rights to those 3rd party developers. It also gives users of the software those developers write rights. BSD licenses, on the other hand, leave it to those developers to decide what they want to give their users.

So yes, the GPL isn't about control in the way proprietary licenses are, but it is about control.
did you try to charge back?
Of course you can't trust the device, you can't do the same with intel PCs either.

You need to spend a lot of money to offer a better deal than government surveillance budgets have given hardware manufacturers.
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The player object would represent the current person playing the game, i.e. you. The warrior represents the object on the screen. The player tells the warrior to take actions, so it makes sense that they're different objects.

If there were multiple warriors then your code would no longer make sense, as the control logic would have to be changing the player_instance.warrior object.
Making it remote control could make it easier to do en masse. With only 10 incidents, that's obviously not happening at this point, but it'd be something to keep an eye on.
The title text still reads "The end."
I'm finishing learning Rails and next wish to get some JS under my belt- I wish someone would please explain the difference between Javascript, Angular, Ember, Node, and where a noob Rails dev with no JS knowledge whatsoever should begin in all of this.
In other words not providing the codes would increase the cost of replicating the experiment by $50,000 for each team of researchers who chooses to replicate it. Is that really what you want scientists spending their research funding on?
After a bad first trip from mushrooms, I couldn't shake off the feelings of terror from within, and had sporadic panic attacks for months afterwards. I'd never had such attacks before, it was most unnerving. I wouldn't risk trying it again.
Wow... I'm actually amazed I can play this without difficulty.

It takes about a second to figure out what each new piece is, though.

And I'm pretty sure my eyes would ache horribly if I played it for more than about two minutes.

But, fascinating just to see that it can be done.
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Well, to each their own.
I know, I know, I don't even consider myself a target, at all. I don't really do this to just protect myself.

It's just that we should all do our best in order to erect the collective hurdle that the mass surveillance efforts now require. There's nothing lofty about democracy being attacked, it's very real. And don't forget that you can't really do encryption on your own, you depend on all your contacts doing it, too. Society needs to make that as normal as brushing their teeth.
> Your latter point is a bit of a cheap shot; of course we all know which country was "infamous" in WWII

Indeed. But your phrase was "Britain's infamous antisemitism". I was pointing out that British antisemitism during WW2 was in fact not "infamous". Indeed, if the worst thing that Britain did during WW2 wasn't harming Jews but not helping them as much as some people in the UK government would have liked, then they couldn't really have been very anti-semitic, could they?

In Britain, it is illegal to discriminate against someone because they are Jewish, and has been for several decades. Furthermore, of Britain's two largest political parties, one has a Jewish leader and the other did from 2003-2005; it is unlikely that either party would have done this if it thought a Jewish leader would be an electoral liability, or if their rank-and-file members disliked Jews. Are these the actions of a country "infamous" for antisemitism?
I make them myself.
Ask HN: Angular, Ember, Node- Where should a noob Rails dev begin?
I'm finishing learning Rails and next wish to get some JS under my belt- I wish someone would please explain the difference between Javascript, Angular, Ember, Node, and where a noob Rails dev with no JS knowledge whatsoever should begin in all of this.
I think you misunderstood; I'm saying that a substantial, if not most, people in Latin America consider American influence as the worst of the worst.
Don't take the cork off the fork.
SHA Hash and signature will be added tomorrow. In all the excitement we forgot about that.
Please file the bug report for GPGPreferences on https://support.gpgtools.org
Thanks!
Sounds like he's a living bullshit generator:

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
In a subset of people pot induces paranoia, negative feelings, and anxiety rather than the usual good stuff.

As a member of this subset, and I don't touch the stuff.

My experiences with mushrooms (and a host of other drugs) have, however, been largely positive.

Your mileage may vary, of course.
I didn't find them very profound, just hallucinations shake up your brain pathways like a snowglobe and you consider things you wouldn't have before that seemed impossible. It also gives you new insight into "reality" and how your brain is largely interpreting everything uniquely and you can't always trust your own sight.

Those people who saw the light or aliens/ghosts probably haven't done LSD or they'd realize not to trust anything their brain interprets without sober analysis. "Holy shit, that prophet ghost was a pretty sweet hallucination" instead of writing a book about it and creating a religion.
> Mac OS X/iOS: One OS, one interface, all devices

Er, have you ever _seen_ a Mac or an iPhone? Hint: Not one OS, not one interface. Two OSes, two (or arguably two-and-a-half; iOS on iPads is more different than it looks at first glance) interfaces. Fortunately. iOS on the desktop would be dreadful, and I can't even get my head around how MacOS on a phone would _work_.
Not quite the same thing, but do a google search for "fecal transplant"

Patients who have undergone antibiotic therapy will sometimes get infected with C. difficle bacteria. It's very hard to treat and can sometimes cause toxic megacolon.

If you take the feces of a healthy individual and transfer it to a C. difficle patient, the good bacteria will crowd out the bad bacteria and cure the patient.

The FDA just released some guidance on the procedure.
Yes and no. We do overuse (and mis-use) antibiotics, but as long as we use them at all, bacteria will have an evolutionary pressure to adapt to their presence. So while we can mitigate antibiotic resistance by reducing use, we'll only slow down the problem.

Antibiotics have changed the way we live, but the price of that change is that we have to invest in the arms race. We invest in all the other arms races, so why not this one?
You really should point out that you work for fitocracy when making a comment like this.
No need to get all worked up. OP is right that Apple fanbois always come up with excuses.

By the way thanks for giving us the next goal post: build quality and overall coherence ;-)
I can't see this either, however the old version works for me (but the controls doesn't work for me): http://www.lutanho.net/play/magiceyetetris5.html
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I find it very interesting how the fact that making the rules of the game "obvious" changes the way people approach. If you think about it, almost all content on the internet follows this rule: share-or-die.

But here, after slapping the die part on the face, people are forcing themselves to post the link on twitter. Very cool!
How would this work though? If their secret message is a coupon code, or URL, they need to check server side the number of times it's been activated, or accessed. Otherwise, it's going to get mirrored and used 10,000 times instead of the intended 1,000 limited supply. If it's being checked server side, what's the purpose of using this site, instead of just sharing the code or URL directly with your fans?
> I'm not saying that they are there yet, but that's the goal of all of these companies

What makes you think that? Certainly Apple has shown no real signs, beyond adopting phone-like scrolling direction on the desktop by default. Windows 8 is somewhat more converged, but I doubt they're going to push that much further, and realistically, given poor user response, they'll probably quietly reduce it over the next few versions.
Could the people require those-who-write-laws' thoughts be recorded first? Imagine how much better our government would be if we knew 100% why they do what they do.
Satellite-based global coverage is becoming a reality. Lufthansa, for example, has coverage on some transatlantic flights. United is currently in the process of installing WiFi on every flight, including over-water flights.
One thing that could help with anxiety is starting with very low doses. It's possible to take so little that there are no obvious effects. This is called a "sub-threshold" dose, and is also known as a "microdose".

It's still possible for the substance to have some subtle, interesting effects at these doses. Things such as an increased creative ability, enhanced energy, and insight. Some people take microdoses of psychedelics to improve their problem-solving abilities. At these doses, your anxiety should be much lower than if you took a regular (nevermind a mindblowing) dose outright.

After a number of such microdose trips, it's possible to slowly increase the dosage. Hopefully, as you do this, you'll become more familiar with the territory and know what to expect, and there will be less fear of the unknown and of the novel effects you will likely experience.

That said, there can be some negative effects -- particularly nausea. Also, it's dangerous to pick wild mushrooms, which can be poisonous if a mistake in identification is made. There's a saying in the mycology community: There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters. But there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.

Ideally, you'd only partake of mushrooms under the guidance of an experienced mycologist (and after having done a lot of research yourself about proper mushroom identification).

Unfortunately, an experienced mycologist is not always available, and the mushrooms available on the black market are often dried, crumbled, and in a state that's virtually impossible to identify anyway. The potency and even the active ingredient in such samples is very questionable. They could easily be laced with LSD or some other drug and you may be none the wiser.

Some people advocate only ever taking synthetic compounds like LSD, which are at least less likely to be counterfeit when taken as blotter or microdots (because they are so small that no other drug would be potent enough to do anything at that dosage). However, some newer designer drugs are almost as potent as LSD, and are potentially more toxic. So it's not clear what should be recommended, if one is concerned about side-effects, identity of the compound, or toxicity. Perhaps growing or synthesizing one's own would then be the safest route. But, of course, depending on the laws in your jurisdiction and depending on your skills, these options may come with their own risks.
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Had no problem with seeing pieces, got 1720 score, but also got nauseous really quick..
European low-cost airline Norwegian currently has free wi-fi on all their European flights. I'm pretty sure this trend will continue - it's a relatively inexpensive way for airlines to differentiate themselves from their competition.
yeah I saw it, thanks so much. I like this kind of single-purpose small libraries. The only thing is, I hesitate to depend on other people's repositories since they may get moved or change the API.
Somebody must consider the work output of investment bankers to have some value, otherwise that money would never change hands.

You may personally consider their work to have no value for you, or think it is morally dubious, or whatever, but for anyone to be paid, his work must have value to somebody.
The reason the windows comparison fails is the strength of the developer platforms and markets. Windows 'won' because it had the lions share of the apps. Platforms exist to run apps. What's happening with phones isn't directly comparable though because phones primarily exist for calls, messaging, browsing and apps. Apps are only one facet of their functionality, but its the one where Apple is still very dominant. If you stop looking at the smartphone market as a phone market, and focus just of the smartphone (browser and app) functional usage Apple is so dominant it's not funny. It is still comfortably ahead in overall developer revenue, web usage share and premium app availability. So as a smartphone app platform, iOS is the Windows here. Even if Android overtakes iOS as an app platform, which is conceivable and may even be inevitable, the health of the iOS platform is strong enough it's hard to see how it could become so marginalised as to threaten its viability for a very long time to come. Certainly it's not facing the existential threat MacOS did in the 90s.
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That's really scary if the survey is to be believed. Especially considering more than half believe the government is abusing this data and collecting more than just metadata...
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Sorry, what's a bypass network in this context?
That's a nice option for bloggers who don't want to be bothered with business scale setup. I guess it would be great if you had an embeddable widget for Wordpress.
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I think OP's motivation may involve http://xkcd.com/853.