skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no problem paying for quality software and I have paid for many apps from the OS X App Store but I find it highly misleading when your launch page uses the word "Download" when it really means "Buy". I've seen this tactic used on quite a few OS X/iOS apps posted it HN. No mention of price anywhere on the page and all wording is careful to say "download", "go get", "click here for X app". I don't appreciate being, at the least, kept in the dark and, at the worst, being subject to a dark pattern designed to hook me on the idea of something before showing me the price. Before I look hard into any *aaS, app, etc I look at the pricing so I don't fall in love with something that is unreasonably priced, out of my price range, or just not in line with what my needs are. I don't like having to click through to the iTunes page to see the price because your page was specifically designed to hide it from me.

Does anyone else share this sentiment?
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I'm typing Dvorak since almost ten years now and from what I remember it's damn hard to re-learn the layout (was touch typing QWERTZ before). The hard part in not even the initial memorization of the keys, but the old reflexes that kick in once you stop actively focusing on each key and let your subconscious take over.

I did not regret my decision (far from it), as Dvorak is indeed nice to type and quite readily available out of the box.

Normally you don't get much benefit from switching layouts though. Especially as developer. As an author or someone who is writing prolonged texts in plain English, yes it's definitely an advantage. Yes, it's also more fun to type. But really, QWERTY is good enough in most cases. You don't really need to bother.
I prefer the bundle style because it's more serendipitous for me, I only have to like one game for it to be worth it, and I only have to check once a week or whatever to see if there's a new one.

As just an index you'd have a harder time monetizing it but it would be shitloads easier to do - Amazon will do affiliate links but you won't get anything for Play referrals, that leaves you with just ads which only works with lots of traffic.

One thing that I thought would be quite awesome a while ago is if you could hijack a subreddit and let them power recommendations for you - get people to include "#whatever" in the submission title to nominate a game, use votes for ranking, and largely automate it. If you can get legitimate participation and interest that would be really, really interesting and you can incorporate meta-votes in comments as well, like #sale or #towerdefense or whatever.
I took the class because it was supposed to be easy and satisfied (then-core) requirements. But I still regularly consider Confucian, Mohist, and, heck, even Han Feizi(an?) philosophy and their applications to daily life.

Chinese philosophy nails the importance of the quotidian (to quote the article) in shaping one's world view. It's akin to PG arguing that what you think about in the shower matters or that living with your cofounders is optimal. I found it enriching.

In the end, isn't the point of a good education—to get you to see the world differently, even if it's more superficial lures that draw you in?
So I don't really get why you'd want to use a $2.50 chip to half-ass implement the functionality of a $3 chip.

(You can't bond, you can just advertise, and you can't do the necessary CRC.)

The code's not that much different - just buy an nRF8001.

Nordic started with the nRF24LE1 and tweaked the hardware to match the Bluetooth specs and turned it into an nRF8001.

(Or better yet, use a TI CC2540/41. The documentation is much better.)
Based on my secondhand knowledge, a "tuna" was a way to attach a wall (comments) to anything with a unique ID.
If you really need funds to scale you should be looking at business loans and financing, not venture capital. Talk to banks, show them your books, provide receipts, let them talk to a few customers, and you'll have 12 to 24 months growth money out the door no problem.

Unless you are using the word "scale" to mean prove your business model, then yeah, your hat is in the same ring as all sorts of harebrained ideas.
I'm a little late to the discussion but I'd like to second your point (3)

I've spent the last half year on extended trips to Thailand (a few weeks at a time) and other countries in SE Asia to work on side projects and just decompress a little bit.

I've been staying in slightly more rural beachside communities. On Phuket that means anywhere besides Patong, and on Koh Samui that means anywhere besides Chaweng.

In the 2-3 months (accumulated) that I've spent in Thailand I think I've seen maybe one lady of the night. Like you said, if you're seeing a lot of it, it probably means you're seeking it out.

I spent 10 years living in Japan and I honestly think you'll be exposed to far more dodgy sex-industry stuff walking around Shibuya for 1 night, than a month in Thailand if you live a normal lifestyle.

Also want to make the point that Thailand != Bangkok. Same goes for other countries in SE Asia - if you're going to bootstrap just remember you don't necessarily have to swap your western city for an Asian city :) I quite enjoy hacking by the beach!
There is an extremely simple logical construct surrounding this: consent is not the default state of the other party.

What is not easy to understand is how people don't understand this. :\
The "all books combined" distance figure for the qwerty layout seems wrong.
Giving away the box is not opening the box.
The End of Jazz (2012)
You don't need a special keyboard, or to change your keycaps. Keyboard layouts are for touch typists only.

We're talking about software here.
So I will plan my next vacation to the Netherlands...
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With RES you can simply hover over the usernames of comments to check without loading a new page.
He certainly should be able to complain about them requesting a master key even if there are keys that open individual doors.
typical faster horses solutions.

sadly all alternative keyboard solutions are spoiled by riding the health bandwagon and are utter crap.

and the ones that aren't turn out to be so expensive they die (datahand) or get bought out and turned in non keyboard replacement products (fingerworks)
Some phones used to have infrared receivers and they sucked. The bandwith was awful and establishing a connection required multiple attempts at keeping the phones steadily next to each others with the receivers/emitters facing each other. Even the camera is way better than that. Bluetooth or nfc might be more promising though.
You're right that it doesn't tell the whole story, but one of the major findings in the last century of psychology is that the one-number summary actually contains a surprising amount of information.

"Mental tests may be designed to measure different aspects of cognition. Specific domains assessed by tests include mathematical skill, verbal fluency, spatial visualization, and memory, among others. However, individuals who excel at one type of test tend to excel at other kinds of tests, too, while those who do poorly on one test tend to do so on all tests, regardless of the tests' contents."

"[G factor] is a variable that summarizes positive correlations among different cognitive tasks, reflecting the fact that an individual's performance at one type of cognitive task tends to be comparable to his or her performance at other kinds of cognitive tasks."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics).
Poll: Are you an Introvert, Extrovert or do you have Aspergers?
Hey HNer's I am going to be doing a Poll every Sunday to see how it goes.
I am an introvert.
I am an extrovert.
I have Aspergers.
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Read carefully. I'm talking about Nexus. I've gone through several iPhone & Android phones & I have a fair amount of idea about how stable each of them are. Samsung UI is a crappy experience.
Yep, this is 100% real code, taken from the current working site. The initial commit is exactly the code that you would download every time you visited the site (and re-download, and re-download, as they failed to set caching headers).

My hope is to reorganize it into a sane set of Backbone views & rich models so it makes a lot more sense. There seems to be a lot of dead code so pruning that is the first priority. Every function is in the global scope so it's actually somewhat easy to detect what is used and what is not... not that I'd ever advocate throwing everything in the global scope.

I agree that it is much less than you'd think that amount of money would buy. I hope that by bringing attention to it, I can make it clear to taxpayers and government decision-makers that we are not getting anything close to what we are paying for. The system for winning government contracts needs to be completely revamped, at least for the technical sector. I would love to see a competition-style bidding process, where a detailed set of specs are presented and all submissions that meet the spec are paid, and the winning submission is paid more. $92M buys you a lot of runway. I think we could have seen some much better code out of this if small businesses & independent groups were allowed to tackle it.
Can you elaborate on that? My company uses Puppet, but we've configured it to determine what to set up based on the hostname of the machine. (I have no idea if that's ideal, but it's what we've got.)
It makes sense. They have dominated the culinary world by making their food ubiquitous! Now they want to dominate the philosophical world. The fiends. I knew it! Palpatine's behind it all.
100% of alternative layout users i know are developers.

100% of the layouts still treat symbols as second class citizens.

my typing would vastly improve if a keyboard simply added another row for symbols so they are one key press only.

changing layouts only help in a few cases and turns using somebodyelses computer or a phone or a tablet or a virtual keyboard or remote vim sessions, etc a royal pain in the ass, because they will be qwerty.
I came for an analysis of what the war on drugs business model is and why it is failing, but all I got was a press release for Sir Richard Branson attending some government conference.
Nifty effect! And it only maxes out one of my cores!
I definately disagree with the idea that adding private security won't remove funding from public security. If the vasy majority of wealthy townships start funding their own private security, it will be much harder to justify expensive policing budgets, and potentially even cheap police budgets.

Short term there are only upsides, but in the long run this will weaken the local governments.
^ Would love to hear what comes of this.
It's fine to think that of him, but at least have the balls to say it from your normal account.
"Yahoo acquires bread, will serve in company cafeteria?"
It's not written from scratch... iOS 7. The bugs aren't specific to iPhone 5s either. They are causing random crashes on iPad 4 too.
I'm not sure where did you learn about kernels and drivers but they don't rewrite it every with OS upgrade. Stability is directly proportional to 'field time'. If you are regressing, you can't blame the flat 2D icons.
I don't really know. It seems to me that there's a continuum between introvert and extrovert, OR that people can be one or the other at some times, and the other at other times, OR can vary between the two depending on context.

All told, I think I lean more towards "introvert" than "extrovert" most of the time, but on occasion I think I switch to a more extroverted mode.

I dunno, it's really hard to say. I don't think I have Aspergers though. But I could be wrong.
Presumably the claim is that $72 is the minimum but sometimes it can be more?

What bothers me more is the logic of spamming HN, which I would imagine must be one of the places least likely to have people falling for that sort of shit.
As a wise philosopher (s.moz) once wrote, applicable to the issue knowledge of quantum computing:

Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to
The idea is not to slowly fly to orbit and back - it is for the stages to fall to earth and then decelerate from terminal velocity to a gentle landing. The reason for these tests is to develop the technology required to do that.

According to Musk, fuel accounts for only 0.3% of the costs of a launch, so a re-usable rocket could achieve significant cost savings even though it would require more fuel.
Usually, you are one or the other in social situations. When you go to an event alone, do you talk to people? Do you spark convo or do you look at your phone? This poll will be dominated by introverts. Should be interesting to see.
"I don't have the exact data..."

Well said. You don't. Buy if you can do ticket science on the back of the envelope, imagine what the ACTUAL rocket scientists can do. You think they went "hey, I just came up with this guesstimate that this is going to be impossible, but let's go ahead and blow the money anyway."

I can bullshit rocket science too: you overlook all kinds of stuff. Such as when coming back to Earth they don't need fuel to fight air resistance which will actually do most of the work for them. Bam! No need to double the fuel.

But what do I know. I'm not the one doing it and neither are you.
You did an admirable job of responding to piles of comments that needed Consent 101.

(Civility isn't even the main problem here - so many of people's comments were superficially civil but callous and misinformed. HN needs empathy, compassion, willingness to listen. It's not impossible to shift culture - Metafilter has improved a lot, but doing that required human effort from its leaders and not just software.)
I believe there are people with the necessary character to be economically successful, but who have never had the economic opportunity to move beyond their basic needs and are therefore poor. I also believe there are people who have had many economic opportunities, but have squandered them, and are therefore poor.

In the context of the adage "give a man a fish and he'll be fed for a day, teach him to fish and he'll be fed for life," one can expect cash given to the first group to be spent on fishing rods, while cash given to the second to be spent on fish.

I find giving cash to the first group to be morally different than giving cash to the second group, and I suspect that poor Kenyan villagers are likely to belong to the first group, while beggars in wealthy developed countries are likely to belong to the second.
So I have some experience with this - there's a lot of app stores for android, most of which have either no traffic, no English speaking traffic, or developing countries with limited purchasing power. Play is probably 95% of android customers, then Amazon is maybe 4% since they barely exist outside USA, and then you have dozens or hundreds of other stores sharing that last percent. In exchange for no customers, free or paid, most of these stores have retarded dashboards that are just painful to use.

There's also a lot of people trying to part developers with their money, as soon as you get 100s or 1000s of downloads on Play you start getting emails from people offering to do paid reviews, get you to use their ads, whatever, and there's really nothing in it for the devs. You can expect a lot of skepticism, especially on cold emails to app-listed addresses!
I've always used demonic names: belial, azazel, asmodeo, belcebu, astarot, kali, oni, behemoth, baal... (they are spanishized).
There are also good tips at http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/the-shy-connector - I like "give ppl a reason to talk to you", in the past I've given a unconf talk just to get discussion going.
I got the exact same thing on the graph PHP page. It had database credentials, but they we're canceled out and replaced by some other constants.
Back in the pre-iphone dark ages I used to use the fitaly keyboard on my handspring visor. http://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm

I think ti could still be a good keyboard for phones but they seem to have died off and the layout is patented or something and so there don't seem to be any versions of it for android.
Normally, I'd disagree, but part of starting a URL shortening company would seem to be a commitment to keep it working in the future, partially because its so easy and partially because URLs shouldn't die.

Charitably, we'll say they have a billion URLs. Each mapping is maybe 8bytes->256bytes. So they have a max of 264GB of data. That would fit on a heroku postgres dev plan, and the code to run it would take a single engineer half a day to put it on heroku.
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Without putting too much thought into the subject, the state of Office in the enterprise upsets me. Over the last six years I've gradually rolled away from Outlook and Word in favour of Google Apps / Drive. True, it's not perfect, but for the 'lay user' (students per se?) it is sufficient and the barrier to entry is low.

My real concern with Office comes from what if in the future I'm not in a position where the company I work for is still tied to the Office Suite of products. Productivity wise, switching back to Office (even Office365) is a real killer for someone that is proceeding efficient at the former.
Honestly I was expecting much worse of a restructuring for Kleiner Perkins. It also would not have surprised me if Doerr would have retired to go into clean tech politics or some related non-profit.

I'd like to see the pitch they used to still be able to raise this fund.
still not zero cost
Shameless plug: search wengu, you'll get a site with Chinese texts ands translations.
G :D
pretty sure it was acquihire
Not in my experience. My classical philosophy classes gave a little bit of mention to the pre-Socratics (with a chuckle at how crazy Pythagoras was) then it was on to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. We spent quite some time trying to suss out where Socrates ended and Plato began, and why he felt it necessary to use Socrates as his mouthpiece. We then looked at Aristotle's radical departure from Plato and tried to understand what motivated that.

We spent four months on that. Granted, it was a lower-level course, but I don't think I could say all Hellenistic philosophy gets lumped together when we spent so long just trying to pry the Socratics apart.
If they are being acquired and shut down, but the Bread employees are joining Yahoo... isn't this an "Acquihire"?
Or maybe the two faced Google is the one trying to win brownie points with the tech crowd, while applying for patents on bill splitting?
No go. Marissa wants them to eat cake.
Slightly off topic but related, iOS 7 has made iPad 4 less stable too. It reboots ~ once a day while browsing, reading flipboard...

Changing the wallpaper takes a good 10 seconds. The "set home screen" button has no visual feedback so you keep on wondering if it's busy changing the wallpaper or you didn't hit the button correctly. Granted that you don't change wallpapers everyday, but the delay in wallpaper change coupled with no visual feedback makes it an unwelcome experience.
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It's easy to stand on the sidelines and hurl brickbats at a system (global capitalism) which has raised more people out of grinding poverty in a shorter time than everything else we've ever done in all of recorded history combined.

It's harder to offer real suggestions to actually improve the lives of the poor. And I see you don't.

Your outrage may make you feel good, but it helps no one but you. And that makes it selfish.
Sure, but with 6 engineers it would be the polite thing to do.
My habit is to name machines after Star Wars planets /characters. But despite fact that I already have a established pattern it's often struggle to come up with a name.
Richard Obousy on Alcubierre and Casimir Warp Drives
One of the first things you will notice is how tall people there are. The second thing you'll notice is that food portions in restaurants and cafeterias are much smaller. Strangely, nobody starves.
"“You never worry that you will get a minivan or an orange Dodge Charger or, God forbid, a PT cruiser"

Oh my god, the PT cruiser is my exact nightmare every time I rent a car, and it's happened to me toooo many times.
also, answering the grandparent post and expanding on the parent answer... the fact that person is in Harvard already proves he/she understands how to play with grade averages to begin with.

gpa is not always directly proportional to hard work.
> Java classes like EnterpriseBusinessInterconnectInterfaceFactoryFactoryFactory are a direct result of the deliberate crippling of the Smalltalk runtime model that Java was based on. The very small and minimalist Smalltalk runtime model was another product of Xerox PARC, BTW.

Actually, they are a consequence how easy Java allows to write such type of code and how enterprise architects design software.

I have seen EnterpriseBusinessInterconnectInterfaceFactoryFactoryFactory examples in the enterprise done in lots of languages.

The same way there are developers that write FORTRAN in any language, there are those that make Skyscrapper designs in any language.
I think we should start a cult around Musk.
The $8000 is a teaser rate for this pilot program. On the Crowdtilt page[1], it says:

VMA Security Group will only continue the patrol beyond February 2014 if 250 households have entered into contract at $20 per month, renewable and paid at six-month intervals. If we sign up 250 households at $20 per month for the four month trial period ($82.05 per household x 250 households = $20,513), that will put us in position to have service continuing beyond February 2014.

$5000/month (250 x $20) would be the monthly fee after February. 12 hrs x 5 days x 4 weeks = 240 hr/month, so that comes out to $20.80/hr gross salary.

1: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/security-patrol-for-lowe...
It seems you're implying that VCs - people who invest money for a living - care more about pedigree than profit.

Now I don't mean to imply anything about yourself or your business, but is it possible there might be a different and perhaps simpler explanation for whatever you're bugged about?
Republicans seem to despise moochers more than wasting money, despite all their claims to be doing it to save money.
I can relate, having studied by myself Chinese philosophy. But too points in the article sounded untrue: Chinese thought is not abstruse, it is often flat and obvious, once you get it. Also, the things about decision and spontaneity are just a very small superficial part of it. I would add:

Founding moral rules without recurrences to a god.

The fecundity and importance of emptiness.

The non non contradiction: A and not A, yin and yang, etc.

The refusal to let words drive thoughts.
AFAIK, this is the reason for this - Plato established the academy, so his school became quite dominant. And since his works were effectively the textbook, they survived. After Plato, everyone's positions were defined relative to Plato's school, so it's easy to think that it's all based on Plato (and his teacher Socrates, and his student Aristotle).

It's like saying all Chinese philosophy is based on Confucius, (and to a lessor extent Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism). They became the official schools, so everyone thought of other philosophers as being relative to Confucius.
It's not the right solution, but URLTeam is stepping in to archive the links[0]. They estimate 121M links, and it'll be a shame that there's no easy way for a user to automatically look up the link from URLTeam when bre.ad is gone.

[0] http://archiveteam.org/?title=URLTeam