skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With the release of the next seven books we assumed most users would drop off purchasing around the fifth book resulting in a max purchase of $14.95 for less than 20% of our purchasing clients."

Did they?

I must be reading this wrong but it seems you added new contents AND a unlock all button and that increased the revenue.

Did you have a period where you had the new content but no unlock all button? How were sales at that period?
As an introvert myself, I strongly disagree. Just because we can zone out, it doesn't mean we should. I find it extremely rude when someone pulls out their phone in the middle of a conversation (even in groups) for no good reason.

Frankly it made me appreciate more the friends I know from the cultural and social areas, as opposed to tech; they're less likely to have smartphones with Internet access.
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Further to that, even "free" users make money for Google by reading ads published on their platform.
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I was extremely surprised to hear on the radio yesterday that the Shebab (the group responsible for the mass killing and ostage situation in the kenyan mall) does its public communications through... Twitter, of all things.

A silicon valley webapp used by somalian terrorists. The modern, "connected" world is weird sometimes.

To answer your question, and although I don't use it myself, some of my friends tell me they use it a bit like IRC: when you want to discuss of a particular topic, instead of joining a particular channel you ask your question with a specific hashtag (hey, IRC channel names are hashtags after all!) and it starts a discussion. It's like a more fluid IRC where chatrooms are created, deleted, merge and fork all the time. It sound good in principle, but I like the open and distributed IRC more.
>> so that customers can confirm who they are downloading from

This would seem that he was in fact looking to provide "some sprinkles [to] make his customers feel better."

Perhaps not a waste of money, then, if it provided what he was looking for?
If you can't see the difference, you are not the target audience for the library.
Troll description from From D&D:

"Trolls are infamous for their regenerative abilities, able to recover from the most grievous of wounds or regenerate entire limbs given time.

Severing a troll's head results merely in temporary incapacitation, rather than death. After cutting off a troll's head or other limbs, one must seal the wounds with fire or acid to prevent regeneration.

Because of this, most adventurers will typically carry some sort of implement capable of creating fire."

IMPORTANT NOTE: So not take this literaly.

Diping a Lodsys exec in acid sounds like fun, but you will get in serious trouble!
I desperately need to fix this.

Since I was a kid I was known to quickly get bored, and then read something, annoying teachers. But back then I could sit still at home and make levels for my favourite games hours at end

Now since I got this goddmn.smartphone for professional reasons ( got phone in 2011, but work making smartphone games since 2008) I am getting more and more easily distracted and anxious, there was even a day recently that I spent the whole day looking at Facebook, Wikipedia, Wikis, tvtropes, hn, newspapers, and other random shit, and when it was time to go home, I noticed that I never even opened my IDE :(
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So much sexist stereotyping - I feel like posting pictures on Twitter.
Are you sure they only use one domain? Perhaps for analytics, but there is also adsense, doubleclick and who knows what else.
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Not necessarily, some people might finish a degree and get access to broadband and smartphones after it for example.
Lets wait for a fuller set of independent benchmarks. There is a lot of speculation on RWT and my conclusion is that nobody really knows what's causing the difference. Also note that a lot of these benchmarks use JS, which puts the quality of the JS engine into the equation.
For those who don't see why they should route their communication through a company known to partner with the NSA, try one of the server-less/decentralized/encrypted communication platforms like http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
I'm afraid all reputable providers have chargeback fees.

That's something banks charge from the merchant [1] so it doesn't make sense for the provider to take that risk. Provider does add a bit of extra to cover their side of the work, no idea how much.

[1] https://support.braintreepayments.com/customer/portal/articl...
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Use straight jabber/xmpp ? Sign up for a jabber.org account (or hell run your own ejabberd). I think there are some decent mobile clients.
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I have almost the exact same story as you. VLC is simply a fantastic piece of work and had been for years.
Incidentally that is also my thought on for instance Gnome-Shell vs. Metro, OSS has so much unique potential.
We will have to agree to disagree. CCCP and madVR configuration is not a five-ten minutes of effort. Especially for most people. Not to mention the non-free licences...

Last version, the matrix colors were wrong, as clearly explained on the release page, so it's soooo great to compare with it.

And maybe, if you were not an asshole to us, we might be interested in listening to what you have to say. Until then, not so much.
> And I'm not even talking about things like online-status 'missing'

Can someone tell me what the green underline beneath an avatar meant then?
I'm not convinced this is new. How would one go about showing that it is?
Having to write an own abstraction layer as a perl script that often stops working certainly is more likely to introduce bugs than having a reliable dbus api.
Spending the time needed instead for working on bugs that are actually reported by users is more useful. The developers only have a finite amount of time, either they use it to move forward or they use it to try to support every obscure system.
You're right. That's what leads me to guess that they have significantly more than 2-3 layouts in mind.

Imagine selecting your weapons physically as well as in-game before going on a raid with some gamepad-plugins offering better control over in-game weapons or accessories than others.
"the new device called the phone" (Ballmer's, but still precious)
It's binary: you're there or not. You can't be idle or busy anymore, which sucks pretty hard for regular users.
This is probably a good reminder that you should never send anything in unencrypted e-mail that you wouldn't be willing to write on a postcard and send via USPS.
Unfortunately, there just cannot be a good mobile client unless it supports push notifications, which requires server support, which XMPP doesn't have. The existing clients need to keep a connection open and take too much battery, sadly...
I think driving is a less distracting experience than walking
Maybe this explains why us people that link our SIP to the PSTN via Googlo Talk haven't been able to do so for the last 18 hours or so? Maybe they are attempting to figure out what they can safely turn off/revert.

Edit: A bit of reading says that this probably is unrelated...
So you want to say that just because it's called democracy, the voters have the right to deprive the other of basic human rights? The same way as in ancient Greek/Athens democracy where we had both free elections by popular vote and slaves.
Sorry, I haven't made myself clear - I meant that question in terms of "this is too good to be true, right?".
distracting UI noise all over the place. Sometimes less is definitely more.

Depends on the goal. Right now Google wants users to click on ads so if they make everything confusing, ads seems refreshingly simple. Also a link to a non-Google site means less chances on clicking on Google ads so they stuff search with Youtube crap, Local, Images...and they stretch the ads vertically to take virtually all the screen on top resolutions etc. A lot of times Google results for expensive keywords are totally out of whack, but ads are perfect.

Google is ripe for disruption and couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. If they lose the Mozilla and iOS traffic it's a nice start. If we had a government, they wouldn't allow Google with all that market share to buy more.
Same boat here. I got PyCharm when it was on sale last year. Never looked back. I enjoyed setting up my viertualenvs, having multiple projects open, source code navigation. And then to top it off, all the Javascript/Html/css editing stuff as well. All in an easy to setup package. Rich set of plug-ins, too.

Note: I still use my other text editors for one-off file editing and such, but PyCharm is my control center for the projects...
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

Also, Louis CK on smartphones: http://gawker.com/louis-c-k-s-explanation-of-why-he-hates-sm...
It was nice while it worked, now it switches from "Error 503" to "0".
It's been a tough journey of about 200 years to eliminate most of this thinking in the west.

It's certainly hard to watch this process unfold in other countries. The process is certainly faster than it was in the west but still excruciatingly slow.
Is it because they tweet links to interesting stories? Otherwise how is it possible to learn something worthwhile from 120 char messages? It's hard for me to fathom how a text so short could be "mind blowing."
Interesting. But an odd definition of concavity. Surely a better definition would be the state whose area relative to its convex hull is smallest. I'd guess Hawaii or Florida off the top of my head.
Very Sci-Fi. The fontsize will have to be reduced once we reach >999 people in space.
If you want a fresh electron, I hear they keep a second one in Area 51.
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Ask HN: What  should I look at to broaden my programming knowledge?
I'm currently studying towards my Honours degree in Software Engineering. My course is basically a CS degree with a mandatory 12 month placement.<p>I currently develop in Ruby, JS and Java and I'm looking to broaden my knowledge (languages, techniques and concepts).<p>What books/languages would you say were important in shaping your career/made you a better engineer?
Down for me :(

I believe its circa 7 billion, if we only count those humans present on or around our own planet.
You cant be serious. I mean, it's nice that duckduckgo tries, but compared to google their "innovation" is basically non-existent. The amount of special cases and functionality google has added to their search engine the past couple years is massive[1]. They have become just fantastic at giving the user what they were searching for right away without even having to click on a link [2]. The use of space by google is so far ahead of DDG it's not even fair.

That which i have mentioned doesn't even touch the search algorithm itself, which I probably don't even have to say anything about because it's common knowledge how far ahead google is in that aspect too, not to mention all the search related settings you can configure if you have a google account, which also are quite massive.

Competition is good, but at this point there is no competition yet.

[1] - http://www.google.com/help/features.html
[2] - http://i.imgur.com/rN0Vge0.png
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well, good point - but then again, every default is a problem for someone.

I'm also OK with the Gnome maintainers removing the middle click behavior IFF they give me an extension to bring it back.

the power is "how" and not "what". If they can fix the theme manager of Gnome (I'm still stuck on Gnome 3.4 on 12.04, so I dont know), it will be great.

I'm imagining "Recipe Packs" in the future - one click sharing of your customized desktops. Who cares if the default is blue or red.
Nice little bit of New Age Physics.
While this thinking can certainly be found in historic islam, it doesn't seem to be that prevalent in muslim countries...
Walking provides a potent combination of fresh air, exercise and the freedom to explore that driving never could.
CUDA has more industry support given that you can also directly target them with Fortran and C++, while OpenCL is only C based.
The upvote count for OTHER people's comments in now hidden. you still always see them on your own comments. So it still does have public validation mechanism.

I think you can't see it on other people's comments because this forces you to up vote something only if YOU like it and not based on what other users think. Eg on FB, a lot of people "like" stuff just because it already has a lot of likes (the need to conform)
Here's a new thought: Enforce the law.
Short of actually taking the first two paragraphs literally, I don't think you could have misunderstood the point of my post more.

And no, I don't put faith in science. Faith means belief without evidence. I accept science. I acknowledge that scientists are human, and that humans can be fallible, corrupt, egotistical and plain old stupid. And I admire the Scientific Method for doing an excellent job of counteracting most of our human failings.
I think this video is seriously exaggerating the problem. Probably it's to get the point across, but still, I see lot of people commenting (e.g. on my Facebook wall) that "it's an accurate description of what's happening". It's not.

Also, I'm not really worried. I see connected computers and smartphones as extensions of my mind, an exocortex if you like. I welcome them taking bigger part in my life. There's a risk of people getting too obsessive with their use of technology, but I really think this will level out with time. Right now it's novelty effect.

But I might be biased. I'm addicted to computers since being 9. ;).
I like the "where does it stop" part, but i withhold my upvote because of the chinese reference. Because I feel that's a bit racist (despite the great firewall of china). Besides, don't they have their own Facebook, google equivalents? So i think the idea isn't to stop people from using such services but to stop them from using such AMERICAN services (after the PRISM incident, it looks like they were the smart ones after all)
Arg, opening links in new windows by default! I can do that myself if I want to, thank you very much.
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Wow, the Bible app is worth apparently $1.1 billion and it's run by a church in Oklahoma. Worth more than Google and Twitter.
Surprisingly usable, I like the references syntax for links much better than browsing through them like with lynx.
I remember such a vote on the Iraq war back in Tony Blair's time in office. My MP's re-election literature said he voted against the war on Iraq, so I looked it up and sure enough there were 3 votes in total. He voted twice for the war and once against. Technically he's correct he voted against the war.

This is the kind of thing that gives me no faith in the system. I still write letters and vote, but we need greater democracy.
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Been there done that:

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Got an error 503. A refresh loaded the page fine the second time, as did subsequent refreshing. I couldn't repeat the error.
I think that a good deal of that fear/anxiety comes from the fact that people are expected to be more productive. If someone doesn't respond to an email immediately, we think the are not working or are being lazy.

I've recently noticed that I will often think about and come up with a solution to an issue at work while driving or eating dinner. I suspect this happens because I'm not being distracted by the problem. It also bothers me a little. If I worked in a factory assembling widgets, I would not be able to take my work home. You can't leave your brain at work if your job is mostly mental work.
looked interesting ... too bad it doesnt work.
I assume capacity issue .... HN must have brought it down
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For me cycling does the trick. At one point there comes a feeling of being in a zone, where puzzle pieces in the brain just start to get put together. For this reason I always have a voice recorder in my cycling gear.
It's the way Photoshop (and the rest of Adobe's suite) has done it for ages and it's intuitive in the sense that you're creating something of a copy of that ruler and its alignment.
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IPhone as standalone business would be bigger than Microsoft, McDonalds ...
Drawingboard.js: Been there done that.
Ah no, my English sucks, had no idea what "does not levy" meant :)
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And Nick from AMD: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1788711&postcount=2...

Mantle is the direct result of a number of AAA game developers asking us for something like this because of several constraints they're experiencing with existing PC graphics APIs. Those developers want to get closer to the metal and able to achieve more with the GPU(s) on their PC without the API getting in the way of this effort. "More with more" is the term used by Raja and it couldn't be more spot on.
AMD listened to developer feedback and entered this venture with Johan Andersson leading the charge. Johan has a passion for writing efficient code that can allow him to accomplish his technical vision and Mantle exists to serve this purpose.

Mantle is not for every developer. It is a low-level graphics API designed to drive the GPU in the most efficient manner. This level of access requires a bit more development effort than existing APIs to reap the rewards it provides.

AMD remains committed to support DirectX and OpenGL and to keep optimizing our drivers for those APIs. Mantle is an option that some developers may choose, but it does not affect those that wish to keep using existing APIs.

Some technical concerns are mentioned on this thread. The Mantle API has been in design and development for more than 2 years and rest assured we've had some time to think about the best way to address those (and loads of others).

More technical details about Mantle will be revealed in due course. Johan is a keynote speaker at the AMD Developer Summit (11-14 November, San Jose).

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How do you find Owncloud, is it reliable enough? I have heard it has a lot of bugs, can be very slow and in rare instances deletes data

Good question.

I have mixed impressions of owncloud so far depending on what area of the product you are using.

The good parts: Contact and calendering managament. Just works. Integrates nicely with Android, Thunderbird, etc. Not very good synching back to Google though. I don't really care about that, but now you know.

The not so good parts: I tried running it on my NAS, because that would be the storage-backend for the file-sync service anyway. I quickly discovered that the code is not near efficient enough to be deployed on underpowered devices like this. It needs optimization, or to be put on proper hardware. I chose the latter and redeployed.

On my NAS, with enough data getting synched across clients could take days. So don't even think about putting this on a Raspberry Pi or something silly like that.

The worse: Using owncloud's files-module as a drop-in Dropbox replacement, you will be surprised by how well supported all kinds of platforms are. If you treat it as a Dropbox replacement though, you will encounter issues.

I tried putting my code/project/build-folders under owncloud and hack away, much like I've done with Dropbox. Even with a limited amount of clients, you will quickly encounter at least some bugs. The most annoying thing I encountered was probably getting conflicts when only one of the clients had updated the file.

The client updated the file, called back to owncloud with the changes, and then got a response back that this update cannot be done cleanly.

It then proceeded to the code/build/project files involved in the conflict and rename the local and the "server"-version to $file.conflict345678543 & $file.conflict1234567 or something to that effect. Needless to say that broke my code, my build and needed to be cleaned up.

If you think that sounds annoying, imagine it happening several times during a 30 minute coding session.

So yeah. The owncloud file-service currently suffers and cannot be treated as a drop-in replacement for Dropbox. Hopefully it will get there, but outside coding, I haven't experienced anything like that and it seems to chug along just fine. With a high CPU-usage though.

So yeah. There are good, not so good and directly bad things about it. If it fits your use-case is up to you.
It's contextual. If you walk or drive in a disrupting location you won't be able to wander or think. Taking the bus works sometimes when they're almost empty. One disappointing thing I learned is that the less efficient is biking, I thought I'd be able to day dream while riding but it's the fastest path to injuries.
How to configure Firefox with multiple profiles...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5oubQ4kggs

(I made this!)
"And if you screw up or forget to change it, your local modifications to the object are silently ignored. "

Since I started writing Scala I got used to immutable data and the reverse happens to me when coding in imperative style in other langs; that I pass something and it gets "locally modified" feels awkward. Preposterous even.

Regarding Go and the "also the anti-Java" part: I really don't think so.

They have made some decisions that seem to me a reaction to c++ and that at least is similar to Java. Some of them seem simplistic not simple: for example "There is no inheritance!" (one one one) but I really don't know how implicit structural subtyping will work out in the long run.

What I really envy from Go is the "compile and link to one executable" from an ops point of view.

Time will tell.

[Edited to add envy part, and rewrite a phrase]
The webfont used in the simulator renders badly in Chrome, Windows: http://i.imgur.com/jv1ltu5.png

(Firefox is fine).
Plz can you link to "that other thread" for those of us not acquainted with it? (just that it's a good practice and experiences with search for such things are not always productive)
> It really does not add anything to the equation. Just extra costs and work for you.

Of course it adds something: It makes it more difficult for someone else to go buy a SSL certificate in your name. Security isn't just about driving sales, it's also about protecting yourself and your customers.
That wouldn't help when dealing with content that goes beyond the fold though.
"How many pixels in a centimetre?"
The green underline isn't in the Android app, unfortunately.
You probably mean "Test-Driven-Development" or "TDD" for short.
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well, you edited most out, but anyway.
I often get criticized because i don't answer to stuff on my phone "instantly". Sometimes it takes me a couple of hours because i set it to alert me only on very important stuff (this happens more or less, never).

I don't like to check it very often (because it breaks concentration on whatever i'm doing and that annoys me..).

So anyway, the point is, i understand that even if you don't like, or don't want to be distracted, the social pressure makes it hard. Direct social pressure "check your phone i sent the msg FIVE minutes ago!!"
Yeah, after working it out it did feel quite natural - just my first instinct was to click a point