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Ask HN: How does WhatsApp charging work?
As far as I can tell, WhatsApp (for iOS) lets you have one year free, and every year after that for $.99... I thought Apple didn't allow for free trials, but isn't that technically what WhatsApp is doing? I'd like to know how they get away with doing that, and could any app do that?
thanks!
He answered in the story. You should read it.
Is that not allowed? People post their own articles and blog posts here all the time.
The study talks about other pollutants (like Sulfur Oxide and other particulates), but not CO2. The amount of CO2 emited by these ships is not stated in the article, but can be estimated from their rate of fuel consumption. That said, in general ships are more efficient than cars, especially at this scale. It's entirely likely that the CO2 per mass of freight per distance covered by container ship is of the order of magnitude, or lower than in a car.
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I like the 'go against the grain' mentality, but if you're the author, could you please re-phrase "And so we returned to the inspiration of our founder". I find that a bit insulting for Woz. It's founders, plural, let's not forget that Steve Jobs didn't act alone.

I always question statements like "Apple’s products are shockingly not obvious until they are'. The iPod was non-obvious for Apple, but of course, other companies were making mp3 players, just none as good as the iPod. But the rest of the product line, though great products, are to me, an obvious extension of the iPod. Phones were becoming more like computers, Blackberry and high-end Nokia devices had web-browsers (though of poor quality), the iPhone was not a non-obvious product. It was an extension of the iPod, the iPad was again, not a non-obvious extension of the iPhone, when people wanted a larger screen.

So, unless their are massive market segments that I'm forgetting, what were these non-obvious products?
Basic thermodynamics can provide a lower limit : at least 9x more energy than was gained by burning it (except for oil burned in power plants, where it'd be 6-7x, but that's not much).

That seems to mean that without massive expansions in nuclear power it's just not in the cards.
He means that out off all people, you would think the author of the article in question would know best what to title his submission.
> Let's bikeshed some more.

Bikeshedding is about things that really don't matter.

However, something being timed or async do matter. Describing something as async when it's not destroys the meaning of async and confuses what it really does. At the very least, describe it as "blocking async" so it's clear what it is.

Basically, call it what you will, but if you describe it as async, I expect it will be non-blocking because that's what async is by default.
If this gets voted to the top I won't sleep well.
Reading about Jeffrey Dahmer left me similarly shaken. One of his victims -- Konerak Sinthasomphone -- managed to escape out onto the street and contact some women who called the police.

When the police officers (John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish) arrived, Dahmer managed to convince the them that it was a gay lovers' quarrel and the officers let Dahmer take Sinthasomphone home again.

Can you imagine the horror of escaping torment and certain death, only to be handed right back to your tormenter by the police?
What do you mean when you say there's something wrong with all three?
Never used Mechanical Turk, 11,000 HITS at 2 to 3 cents(a guess) doesn't seem that pricey. Its the cost of a couple text books. :)
Only that steal is such a strong word for that..
i dont think digital goods can be stealed, cause steal is to subtract somebody of something.. if i get your watch without your consent, you will be without it.. thats steal..

With a digital good you can copy over and over, and never subtract the original author of its own copy..

The industry itself tried to implant this wrong concept on the peoples mind so they would think its the same.. only its not..

i think the best approach from them would be to accept that new reality in the digital age.. and try to collect money from good customers, the buyers, and try to collect from the people that have made copies of the work by stating they have obligations, and expenses to do that work, and ask for the users the support..

i think thats pretty much what microsoft did with windows..
trying to fight with a possible customer treating him as the enemy, will only hurt them in the long term..

They need to think with a new perspective, not with the same ideas as the XX century.. it will only cause them more damage than good.. people will see them as the enemy, much like we are seeing now
If adaptability (without simplicity) is the key component, that sounds like somewhat good news for humanity, us being a versatile type, and we can eat a lot of things for food. It's not quite clear to me that survival necessarily implies smallness.

Though I would imagine that a lot of humans would die in the process. It would make the black plague look like child's play.
Yeah, I thought what I titled it was clear and informative and as author of the article, the Orange Coast title was literary rather than descriptive.

FWIW, I originally titled this "The Crack Of A Twig" and we were rolling w/that title, but at the last minute, the editors at OC Mag asked if they could change it.

I'm not a pro writer by any means, and going through the process of editing a feature article w/a print mag was pretty interesting.
This is definitely a benefit to the readers, and potentially (though not definitely) to the community as a whole. However, it's much worse for the reviewers.

I hear so much about how researchers provide papers to journals for free, and review papers for journals for free, and then the journals (are presumably evil to) charge high fees to anyone who wants to read the papers. How much can we pile on the reviewers before they stop doing it?
Actually since ocean acidification provides a chemical power source for protozoa, we probably only have a year or two before one of the species adapts and brings it back to it's previous level by harvesting the energy in it. That will allow one of those species to rapidly spread, which is exactly what we want in this case.

Trying to fix it using any kind of non-self-replicating technology is, imho, a non-starter.
Not sure how else to put it: There is too much of the killer in all three.
How a CSS Triangle is Made
The web changed. Once again.

Now, the web is responsive. You no longer have to take into account one state for your website, but up to 4 or 5 (if not more). Mobile, tablet, desktop, large desktop.

The reason we changed from table to semantic driven HTML is that tables were not suited for its task anymore. Right now, semantic driven websites, while completely valid, are the the right tool for task anymore.

Sure, you can name all your classed to be 100% semantic and have the whole thing fall down like a waterfall when you turn off the CSS. It's so easy to change the layout of the website!

The problem is, that's not the main issue anymore. Most of the energy is put into making a website... 4 time during development. You can't simply style your blocs all over again and again. The need for a framework get felt, a lot.

Then, if you really need to move your website around during a redesign... why, it's easy! Simply change "large-4" to be "large-8". You want to move it around? No problem, simple copy it into another row. As long as your rows are semantic, you shouldn't have any issue restyling the whole thing.
So - you can get leads for software development consultants? That could easily be worth $800/mo.
If they're unpaid, does that still count?
I read the paper when this first showed up on HN[1]. The most important thing they did was to create a training set with higher granularity in the data than much of anything previously seen. Based on their training set, their algorithm was able to achieve 85% positive/negative accuracy on sentences, but previously state-of-the-art algorithms moved from 80% accuracy up to 83% accuracy when adapted to their training set. While their algorithm appears to be better than anything they tested against, this is fundamentally an incremental improvement, not groundbreaking research. The real win here came from using a better dataset.

[1] http://nlp.stanford.edu/~socherr/EMNLP2013_RNTN.pdf

Edit: formatting
Most of them (the tech ones, anyhow). The infusion itself will not drive it towards possibility. The current plans mainly revolve around growing rapidly. As revenues increase and/or growth slows, the company will spend more energy on profits.
What a silly claim. There's no question that the last decade at Microsoft is full of faulty assumptions and bad execution. But these memos as visionary? Feh!

1) 2005 is four years after Hailstorm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HailStorm) and already pretty late for a "services focus" to be forward-looking.

2) October 2010 is right about when Windows Phone 7 shipped, and therefore a year after the "reset" of the previous phone effort. At this point, "devices" is obvious to the point of "duh".

3) There's a world of difference between saying "X is important" and "X is important, therefore we should do Y".
Are you disturbed that he was a Republican? Because if you'd read the very next section of the Wikipedia article you'd have seen that it said:

"Shortly after his enrollment as a freshman at Claremont Men's College, Kraft enrolled in the Claremont Reserve Officers Training Corps[16] and he regularly attended demonstrations in favor of the Vietnam War and — in 1964 — for the election of conservative presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Kraft later declared these actions were merely a mimic of his parents' political views and not his own, describing his second year at Claremont as being when he abandoned "last gasp" of conservative ideology.[16] The same year, Kraft entered his first known homosexual relationship."
> typeof ["a", "b"]

"object"

Of course, since you're told you'll only get numbers, arrays, and strings, that is enough to solve the problem narrowly.
They increased their top-line revenues by ~10x over the last three years, but they also increased their sales and marketing expense by ~10x over the same time period. Call me crazy, but I'm guessing that "sales & marketing" spend is mostly sales, and they're essentially buying revenue right now.

That strategy can work, but it remains to be seen if revenue growth will continue once the sales spending slows (i.e. if the sales operation will become more efficient). If they can't make the revenue graph separate from the costs graph, they're cooked.
The visa guide is available at

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.749cabd81f5f...

B1 visa may be enough. Check it out.
I have no idea why I feel the need to share this.

Squatting is the best way to crap. At work, I can't squat. Trust me, I feel it.

I have a lot of friends that can easily spend up to 5 ot 10 minutes at the toilet. Let me simply say that this never happens to me.

I won't say any more.
I really like this. It's simple, but work so well. I could see a website making tutorials this way.
Rizvi Traverse, backed by Chris Sacca, owns over 15% of Twitter
I know past years have been recoded, but I'm just looking for confirmation. I know a lot of people who got an invite but are on the fence because of this question (not because the event isn't great, but because travel is expensive).
Wed, Oct 2nd, the National Park Service (NPS) had more guards at the WWII memorial than at Benghazi. But yeah, it's for your own good.
Yeah, web development is certainly in high demand, but I think the experience in other domains would make a better programmer overall.
NASDAQ no longer "owns" the tech world. I'd say it still has the edge but it's much more balanced now than it used to be. Some notable recent tech IPOs on NYSE: LinkedIn, Pandora, Trulia, RingCentral, Violin Memory, Fusion IO.
> I hope it will stay the way it is.

...this is the Internet we're talking about. It's almost completely unrecognizable from the way it was 5 years ago.
School apologises to student over harassment for wearing NRA tshirt
F2P game publishing is a tricky thing
Feds Take Down Online Fraud Bazaar ‘Silk Road’, Arrest Alleged Mastermind
The power of temporary social media
>Are you disturbed that he was a Republican?

Not in the slightest. If that paragraph had said "democrat", but every other word was the same, I'd have pointed it out.

I'm disturbed that in an alternate universe we could be reading about Kraft's reelection campaign.
Ironically, on HN, that kind of title will get people interested in cosmology to click and they'll start out irritated at the misleading title.
Checkout http://builtwith.com. If the css is not renamed, merged or minified it will be listed in the technologies used. Else, you have to do the one of the other suggestions here.
Wouldn't the FBI have the technical capability to use optical character recognition to digitise the keys to actual text? Or maybe it's too small to be legible to a high DPI scanner? I really admire Lavabit here, they're not dealing with your average Joe, they're dealing with the American Government and that costs money. Everyone has the chance to help potentially make history by supporting Lavabit and donate to its legal fund.

Many would have just given up the moment things escalated, but Ladar Levison never gave in and fought for the privacy of his users at the cost of his profitable business and life. The cards are stacked against him, but he didn't let it get in the way of trying to fight the case and have it made publicly.

How many other companies have secretly complied with similar requests we don't know about? United States of America, the land of the free, right?
I broadly meant that as in not controlled by any single state, entity or corporation.

I for one welcome the new holographic internet cats shared by our minds and made entirely of pastas that are shaped into code. So long as those pastas are open.
Unfortunately URLs are not encrypted when using HTTPS. There are cases when a GET request will have potentially sensitive information such as a filter with an email address or unique identifier in it. In this case it is best to use one of the other verbs that can have body like POST and put the filter in the body. I like the standard definition of a REST API but sometimes it does not match the real world.
So true! The health of scientific literature is not in the articles that claim things, but in the follow-up articles that verify and/or disprove.

Skepticism is at the very core of science.

Partly to blame are the "non-fiction/science&nature" book category, and the journalist/writer cross-breed who chain-write in newspapers, magazines and churn out books from their articles every year.

At first, the really good ones were a welcome addition to Science literature, for bringing the science to our daily lives. But then they became part of the "where it bleeds, it leads" culture, sans proper journalism and sans scientific thought.

Scientists may make fun of how journal articles are covered in newspapers and blogs, but the negative effects of such coverage are quite real.
Tricking you into buying junk you don't need qualifies as a nefarious end in my book. But you're right; serial killers rarely have a cooling-off period or returns policy.
Range is used to mean either codomain or image. You appear to have meant image.

Mathematicians keep all three words around because each of them has its use.
How to lose a $34.5 billion fortune in 1 year
Hey Prayag,

Wasn't implying that your service doesn't provide benefits. I actually believe the exact opposite to be true.

What I'm saying is that it doesn't make sense for you guys to do a revenue split based on how many of the leads closed since you would then be 100% reliant on the lead list purchaser's ability to close the deals (and track each dollar received from the leads).
Pretty sure URLs are encrypted using HTTPS. The browsers first creates a secure connection with server before sending a single byte of request data.
Google mobile search getting faster
Hi, I'm a founder of Hiplead. To answer your question, personalization and tight targeting are our top priorities. Our platform allows us to generate emails from nearly any online source, so we can create campaigns first, then find leads fit the copy- - resulting in very high conversion rates. Leads come along with social data and we focus on leads that are in your networks first.

Shoot me an email at conor@autotrophic.org or signup at hiplead.com and I'll gladly fill you in on the details.
Woah. Been using that combo since 2006 and never once noticed this issue. You know alt/left+right moves between words? This is why I never noticed
Thanks for the clarification. Note that I'm a researcher, not a lawyer! We participate in relationships that involve money going from us to others, the nature of which I'm not very clear about but the right people are. I'll be careful about my terminology in the future.
"Thanks for linking to our sites, sideproject! As agreed, we'll get back to you later ... " Just kidding, but this list could be a Trojan horse. Probably not, but I think ANY connection should be mentioned. To NOT mention a connection is worse than the proverbial "fine print." What you didn't read the fine print?
Well, the story is about an encounter with a serial killer, so of course there is too much of the killer in it. The comment you responded to is just trolling around, and getting downvoted for it. I still don't see what you mean, sorry.
If my understanding is correct, the FBI could decrypt historical traffic if they had the keys. So, assuming the FBI/NSA has a huge archive of Lavabit's customer traffic (would not surprise me), couldn't they decrypt it all now since they have the SSL keys?
I don't see how that could go wrong at all!
So they are going to raise a war chest to do battle, hooray!

Before they spend the money, will they refund the taxpayers of San Francisco for the tax break they got?
I was as well, I'm glad they shared the process that they went through.
Can't bulk delete though. Should a super-user be able to bulk delete?

The status codes are:

/api/users:

GET 200 OK

POST 201 Created (or 205 thanks lgierth)

PUT 204 No Content

DELETE 405 Method Not Allowed

PATCH 204 No Content

/api/users/123:

GET 200 OK

POST 405 Method Not Allowed

PUT 200 OK

DELETE 204 No Content

PATCH 200 OK

return 404 if resource not found, or 410 Gone if you know it once existed

return 400 (or 422) and list of errors on invalid input.

return 401 if need to login.

return 403 if logged in but not allowed to do something.

return 409 Conflict on currency control issue.
I'm not sure I put this into the right category. It's really more than a Firefox issue, it's something for Mozilla as an organisation.
Microsoft does deliver products just because they got flak from Apple fanboy tech- press. Windows 8 is over 110 Million installs, I am not sure what other product from Microsoft you are talking about SharePoint, SQL Server, C# 5.0 .. yes, when Google is spaming Y-combinatory with daily Go post, Microsoft is actually developing a language that is 10 years and evolving.
I agree with him : your belief that it's possible for humans to keep our environment constant over significant time frames is what's ridiculous.

You're turning around the argument. He's not suggesting anything insane, you are.

You're defending Disney reality (poor little animals ! We must help !) against the idea of evolution (adapt or die ? Can't adapt by the thousands ? Too bad). Guess which one is going to win in the real world, irrespective of what the entire human species decides to do ?
That isn't true. URLs are encrypted, otherwise logging in wouldn't work.
Twitter vs. Amazon? Seriously? C'mon!
I wonder how is the streamed audio being output to the speakers. As far as I know, non-HDMI Raspberry PI's audio capabilities just suck.
Probably, but not necessarily https://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1856
You can't bulk GET either.

I wish there was a BATCH keyword with some 10x/20x codes to enable pipelined HTTP methods. SPDY/HTTP2 should help with some of that.
Support staff and localised service centres still need to be paid for somehow. Also, sales staff, business liaisons, legal staff to deal with local laws and regulations, all the managers to manage them, etc. With a smaller potential userbase in Aus, they can't subsidise the support costs across as many people, so maybe that's why they charge more.
Not totally related:

It remind me of the case of "Free" a French ISP, they were forced like others ISP to send to the government the customer information related to IPs caught on P2P networks [0].

But the law did not specified how the data had to be sent, so to troll the government they sent everything by fax. And the volume was around multiple thousand queries a day.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
You know, you really did not have to go there.
What The EFF is on this Disk? ‘Basicga Mez’ (PC)
Apple is a better run and more profitable company than Google. Even though the optics may not look great to some Open Source nutjobs all in all Apple seem to absorb their acquisitions effectively.
Also, any startup not acquired should look very different 5 years from conception.
> They could easily be profitable if they cared to.
> They don't need to run Twitter like you run a corner store.

You know what the difference between a corner store and Twitter is?

The corner store pays it taxes and doesn't bully the city to get a tax break!

The taxpayers of San Francisco should be demanding a refund with interest on top.
From ePub to HPub - digital publishing with Ruby and nanoc
Storm, mesos, and bootstrap are some very interesting projects that have come out of twitter. If they figure out how to do ads in a way that doesn't make you roll your eyes, ignore, or feel creepy, they could be standing in front of a newish form of advertising as google did a decade ago
Thanks for clearing that up, because I assumed that by "lead" you mean a contact who is already interested and primed. Maybe I have been using the word incorrectly for a long time, but I never thought it just means "potential target who has never heard about my company and won't know what hit them if I called them up".

In that case, I see a problem with your product and pricing. You see, if I still have to do the cold calling in-house, you're just offering me email addresses. Those may or may not be mostly from my target demographic, but I don't see how that's worth 2000k a month if I still have to pay sales people to do the actual work on top of that.

My suggestion for you would be to either drastically lower your prices and be clearer about what your customers are getting, or - much better - offer them the whole sales workflow in one package.
Sentiment analysis is something the Turkers can do quickly and efficiently, so those tasks tend to go lower because you can recruit such a larger worker pool for them. Same for image classifications.
I'd rather go with 205 in cases where a resource is created/changed/deleted, it instructs the agent to reset its view of the resource which the request originated from.

http://httpstatus.es/205
You may be referring to URLs being stored in unencrypted media such as logs. Yes never put sensitive data in a URL. But as others said, HTTPS encrypts everything going over it (except the host name in sni)
I suspect the real reason it was done was so a few "typos" could be slipped in and blamed on the poor copy. A few 1's and 7's swapped would do it.
Like OCP said, it'd be plutocracy: Transforming politics into a speculative market.
This must be a troll. Twitter is destroying the web because 2 employees released some open source? Really?
Wired Magazine details the ordeal

From the HN guidelines:

'Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.'
I feel like Borat for doing this, but I entered :

"I loved this movie.. NOT!"

and it classified it as positive. :)