skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, there are exceptions its true. and really, if an app is very good and already successful then they will feature it - the problem is that the success of an app can depend on early features. angry birds will be featured because its already successful - if they don't feature it something is obviously amiss.

i don't really have any great concrete sources i'm afraid, its not documented and aside from the web articles i assume you already easily found with google from my prior comment, it comes from hearsay at the pub from talking to other gamedevs and from at least one meeting with apple employees where everything discussed was NDA although i'm sure i can say that such a meeting took place. although the idea that they suggested not shipping on android for at least a few weeks after launch on ios shouldn't be too far fetched...

the fact that not mentioning other platforms in metadata is a submission requirement is a very strong hint too. its an unreasonable request however you cut it.

i despise legal gagging of this kind - i consider it thoroughly despicable and cowardly - only necessary when you know you are in the wrong and don't want anyone to find out, or are deluded into thinking that your corporate secret isn't better off in the wild where it can benefit all of humanity - i.e that you are more important than everyone else and somehow deserve a reward for acquiring knowledge or keeping secrets.

there is also a bit of 'i am going to ship something in the near future'. i've already said more than enough to do damage to myself here. :)

as i hinted at in my initial response this 'idea' is easy to uncover if you do the usual research anyone would do before shipping. (google)

EDIT: okay so not sure how i forgot this because /i worked there/ but when apple ran their 'stargazing app' promotions about a year ago they only featured ios exclusive apps - they also were regularly featuring starwalk aside from that promotion (which is ios exclusive). the app i worked on 'star chart' was not featured - it has been featured recently because it early adopted the iOS 7 UI style - but before that it got missed despite outranking most of those other apps and being a higher quality product more consistent with apple's design guidelines and ethos. now i don't think that necessarily the app was worthy of feature, but a lot of much less polished or worthy apps got a lot of screenspace on the store and the only thing they had in common was not having shipped on other platforms. as much as i dislike those guys for their disgusting attitude towards customers and employees - frankly they deserved better treatment than they got from apple in that regard. not being featured is fine, but featuring vastly inferior competitiors because they are exclusive is utterly despicable.
I find it curious that the "laptop" rendered is basically a macbook air of sorts. Is there no originality these days?
I am impressed with the diversity of this thread! Both in age and area interest!
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The customer left their bag with AA. AA was now responsible for the bag, until they gave it back to the customer. The fact that TSA or similar people are thieves, or there are thieves at the carousel does not remove responsibility from AA.
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it's not too bad in git. you just look at the merge conflict markers in each of the files specified, delete or merge what you want in each of the files, then add the changes to the staging area, and commit again to complete the merge.

this might help: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7589612

and this: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and...
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I had a guy like that working for me after I was given a team of 16 network designers and engineers to manage. The guy in question was leading a team of 4 network engineers. A couple of the engineers came into my office and complained that this team leader did not actually appear to know anything about network design. I contacted HR and asked for his hiring resume and also wanted to know who interviewed him. Four of the five interviewers were still with the company and all 5 were non-technical people. Alarm bells. I read the resume and it was all kind of vague. I brought him into my office and gave him a kind of technical interview. He was evasive and vague about things. If he had been a jobseeker I would have sent him a polite letter saying no. But he had been on payroll for over a year, was widely considered to be a technical rockstar, and made 20k pounds more than me. One thing that this guy claimed was a CCIE. I checked with Cisco and they had no record of the guy.

I went to my boss, and laid out what I knew. He mentioned that the guy had already been to him complaining about me. I pointed out that the guy had ordered the new style company business cards and put CCIE on it. This means that he was defrauding our customers when he handed out the cards. I explained that every CCIE has a CCIE number and that if he gave us a number, we could check it with Cisco. My boss said that because it was now a sensitive HR situation he wanted to handle it. He advised me to go out for a long lunch that day.

When I got back, the guy's desk had been cleared which was very unusual because in the UK people normally work out their notice period, even if they take a job with a competitor or are laid off. My boss called me in at the end of the day, and thanked me for my investigation and then said that he managed to convince HR to raise my salary by 20k pounds.

Working in large corporate environments in more than one country, I have seen this kind of thing again and again. One particular case was the CEO in New York of a multinational technical company that I had joined. He only lasted two years though because the company was spending too fast.

Now I am always suspicious of people who are considered rockstars or geniuses. If they were really so smart then maybe they would apply that intelligence to sweeping stuff under the rug and pulling the wool over management's eyes, like a certain operations manager at a multinational Internet SaaS company that I once worked at. Technically he was pure incompetence but he managed to hide it for several years by staying online 24x7 and hacking his way around issues in secret until he literally went nuts and collapsed due to lack of sleep and 24x7 stress.
I quit using Mercurial around 1.4 and was happily surprised by all the improvements in 2.8 (shelve, bookmark improvements, etc.). Martin Geisler's reply was both thoughtful and respectful, a rare sight in this debate.
I wouldn't rely on assert code for this, better say "if dataset is huge don't check".
I've had the response time vary wildly -- also try opening that up in a browser and you'll see what I mean.
The site wouldn't accept "youtube.com" as a valid URL - I had to type in the entire thing (http://www.youtube.com). You might want to fix that?
Brendan Eich posts on DRM support in Firefox
Hope they release this but seems to be an old announcement. I don't really need a faster cpu/gpu than my phone has for almost everything I do. But without a keyboard I'm lost for productivity.
It's not "in a day". It's all preorders.
One scenario of how this plays out is that everyone winds up paying the maximum rate, not the minimum (best case, everyone winds up paying the average the old rates). Passing a law like this means the poorest insured will pay more, while the richest might pay less (or the same).
This may be a misunderstanding on my part because I am by no means an R expert (I've done a fair amount of stats work in R, but no library development). Can you add a method for base class "Foo" which will automatically apply to "Bar" which is a subtype of "Foo"?
Well they must be sturdy old things to last that long... the first thing that always goes for me is the keyboard, usually from overuse!
> Martin Geisler's reply was both thoughtful and respectful, a rare sight in this debate.

I have seen this debate plenty of times but I'd hesitate to say that the overwhelming majority of times are hostile.

I think the mercurial guys know that their tool is good with some flaws and that they know that the git tool is good with some flaws and that most other tools are not quite as good. The typical reaction that I have seen is I don't care which one you use if you are using git or hg or some other equally capable revision control scheme.

I definitely agree that Mr. Geilser's response was well thought out and polite.
I do not feel qualified to determine the psychological effects of HN on readers, but the author has some valid points. HN does leave one with the impression that there's this "get rich fast" club of 20-something entrepreneurs who are getting huge valuations and 8-figure cash investments for unfinished and seemingly unimportant niche products and unfortunately, you, the reader, cannot be part of it. This might be frustrating for people who work hard on their own startups and cannot get anywhere near this VC craze because they live on some other continent. Then again, it has no real impact on their own efforts, success is not made by VC or hype, it's the product that counts.
Duh... honestly, what are you doing anywhere near Digital Ocean if you'd ever use 1234 as a password?
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Works the same way for me, a project manager. I dont want to know ghe finest details of everything that hits the front pahe here, I just want to know theif names, what they do, where their value are at and who is using it. Reading comments is also interesting when there are conflicting opinions on the topic.
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What a horrible headline in the original article!

Headline: Obesity, not old people, is making healthcare expensive

Article: contains no occurrences of the word obesity
It's getting a little stale, but you may find this paper interesting: http://simula.no/research/nd/publications/Simula.ND.8/simula...

With anything that provides stable pointers to values like LMDB it should be possible to output to the network extremely efficiently. One thing to keep in mind with LMDB is that it's performance isn't so great with purely random keys such as SHA hashes. I'm fooling around on something similar myself targeting this use, and so far critbit tries are looking good (though I have yet to implement benchmarks I'm confident of).

I haven't dug through the OP paper yet, but my guess is that while the performance numbers are interesting, the cost of the FGPA itself would make it less desirable unless you really did need the latency performance/predictability.
Thanks for the positive feed back :) I'm open to ideas -- its been a fun little project to learn Scala with.
"User experience" is often a first-world problem.
I would strongly disagree with this. Julia is a general purpose language. In fact, part of the premise is that it is a numerical computing language because it doesn't special-case numerical programming. This is in stark contrast to Matlab and R, for which numerical things are extremely special-cased.
Every single one of them will put obesity at the top of the "what's wrong with healthcare

(1) Have you actually asked them?
(2) So you're saying that they'll blame someone else, rather than blame their own bureaucracy and inflated salaries.
Cool, learning React at the mo so this is appreciated. You can remove all those autoBinds now [1] right?

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2013/07/02/react-v0-4-a...
I've long thought that the most effective action the government could take to fix health care (and a variety of other problems) would be to eliminate corn subsidies.

That one government action has ripple effects throughout the economy and almost all of them are negative. It concentrates economic power in big agribusiness instead of farmers, because it means that chemical/bioengineering companies like Monsanto can wield huge economies of scale across the one crop that is most economically viable in the U.S. (because it's subsidized by the government). It drives local farmers out of business because they can't compete with the giant agribusinesses. It makes the U.S. agricultural system less resilient to drought and blight, and more dependent upon petrochemical fertilizers.

And then it also makes it far more economical to make food products with high fructose corn syrup, corn-fed chicken & beef, cornmeal, and corn starch, all of which are phenomenally unhealthy for you. This is why poor people eat at McDonalds; because of the subsidies, corn-fed beef & chicken and soda made from high-fructose corn syrup are much cheaper than healthier alternatives, and so that is all poor people can afford. Then they get fat, and the rest of society bears the burden for their medical and lost productivity costs.
It's as easy as searching for ">>>>" in your text editor; the conflicts will be clearly marked and you take the markers out and make the merged code look the way you want it.
Obesity (or, possibly better put, the behaviors that lead to obesity) is what makes (many) people sick.

Cost is explained by a great variety of factors, some of which you have identified, but many of which are much more subtle.
HN, like all news sources, is a mixed bag of content that has varying degrees of relevancy to its readers. Very few people have time to read all of the Wall Street Journal on a daily basis, much less benefit from absorbing that much information, and the same thing applies to HN. However, HN still provides a great source of current and emergent trends in the startup world. If one isn't able to consume this site's content in a way that's beneficial to them then the blame is squarely on their own lack of discipline. Writing blog posts extrapolating one's personal tendency to misuse this news source to some general rule of thumb is pointless.
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I'm skeptical that there's anything that innovative going on behind the veil.

I suspect if you had access you would look at a whole bunch of evolutionary improvements and probably trace them back to which papers you've seen it sort of mentioned in.

Probably not as much custom silicon as the article implies either, simply because on the scale of things Amazon is not a semiconductor company and Intel pretty unambiguously own the cutting edge there.
Doctors should cost a lot. They undergo almost a decade of (debt-incurring) training to provide extremely valuable services, often at absurd hours. You ever hear of being "on-call?" Anybody that works ER shifts doesn't have a job -- they have a life in medicine. So you're going to have to work hard to convince me doctors should be paid less. We're already facing a downturn in the number of people entering the medical career (to the extent that nurses are now being trained to handle more of the job -- good in some ways, but difficult in others).

Regarding other facets of healthcare costs, some kinds of medicine and equipment are just flat-out expensive. Figuring out what costs are largesse and what costs are justified is tough, and made somewhat more difficult by distortions to the market by insurance and medicare. I'm not saying insurance or medicare are not the best solution (I don't really know) but I do know it affects the market pricing mechanisms.

Cost-controlling is a huge topic in the healthcare industry right now. Nobody disagrees that the costs are too high, but some things are worth paying for more than others. I think there are other places to look before the docs.
As others have pointed out, there are many factors that contribute to high cost healthcare. And while I think that BMI is almost completely worthless, and I've never been really fat, I can say that exercise and losing weight are some of the best things (and best feeling things) I've ever done.

Sure, fix the costs (especially with IT/technology in general, as those on this board can probably have the biggest effect on that), fix the insurance industry, and let's have a serious look at the food industry while were at it - but on an individual level, giving exercise a try will probably reduce our health costs in the long run and make us feel better in the short run.
You should try SourceTree, it's a great Windows and Mac Git GUI client! It's free (as in beer) and also supports Mercurial.
Gee, you mean like RPM, or deb files? Why people keep reinventing these tools, but much worse, I have no idea.
It's refreshing to see someone with a level-headed response who doesn't fly off the rails defending their source control tool of choice, unlike what you usually see with developers of well-known frameworks like PHP and Ruby. I don't personally use Mercurial myself, but it doesn't seem like a bad source control choice, anything is better than SVN, right? Git and Mercurial both seem like great and sensible choices.
I find that after a shell script gets to be over 3 or so lines, it's easier to switch over to python or perl. Do others feel the same?
This is the same as blaming obese people for the rising costs of healthcare. The reason why hospitals and doctors can charge what they do is because they are not directly dealing with the consumers of health care services, but with third parties (insurance companies &/or government agencies.)

Furthermore, health insurance is used as payment system as opposed to insurance. Adding layers of bureaucracy to a system serves to only inflate the cost of that system.

There is a confluence of factors involved in why the system is the way it is. It is not simply obese people or doctors who are at fault here.
Interesting. What features of R did you particularly dislike, and what was your background before then?

I'm asking because S-PLUS (subsequently mostly replaced by R) was one of the first statistical languages I learned, and I have learned and actively used many other languages since, but I never before (or after) had this feeling that "this is the most convenient language in existence, and it does everything precisely the way I want and expect".

I don't know Ruby (the snippets I've seen do look very nice, but it's mostly used in a very different domain), but Python does not come anywhere close (e.g. compare the treatment of defaul parameter values!), nor does Matlab (one function per file? wtf?), or C++, or Gauss, or really anything reasonably high level that I can think of. SAS and Stata might have a slight edge over R in very specific use cases, but outside of those, there is absolutely no comparison. Julia has a lot of potential, but imo it's not quite there yet. Also, R is ridiculously easy to incorporate C/C++/Fortran/etc. code into, and S3 is a really wonderful OOP/abstraction system.

It's definitely not perfect, and today R does not quite evoke the same sentiment as S+ did back ~15 years ago, as R did away with some of my favorite S features and introduced a lot of complexity (although, it's also possible that my typical use cases became more complex, so I have to deal with internals more often). Also there are features like the apply() family of functions that I've seen done better, and some R features apparently make it hard to optimize code. But there is very little in the language that I could honestly say I seriously dislike.
http://johnmurray.io/log/2013/03/13/Nothing-is-Interesting.m... How can someone answer any question in there if there's no any comments area?
Good luck. I think I answered a question you posted on Quora recently asking the same questions. I did respond with some advice, but I wouldn't feel confident with you paying me in return for expert advice as search engines and scraping aren't really my foray.
Even better, one can specify a mergetool in their config, and use a standard diff tool to resolve conflicts.
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The system is expensive for a lot of reasons, but placing the blame on doctors or obese people seems absurd to me.

It's extremely expensive to go through the medical education process in the united states (both in terms of time and money). Columbia medical school is over 70k/year and they offer no financial aid. For some specialties that's 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 4 years residency and 3 years fellowship with some extreme hours and lower pay before you actually begin work.

The higher incomes some specialties have are in response to the cost of education and the cost of time (basically your entire twenties). Without this only the obscenely wealthy would be able to even consider medical school since the up front cost would make it prohibitively expensive (it's already bad currently).

The American health care system is complex - as is the reason for its extreme listed prices (insurance companies don't actually pay what's billed). I don't think it's valuable to draw strong conclusions/blame based on a dramatic oversimplification of it.
Side note from when I was in the printing industry and handled forms and contracts..

You stand a better chance of getting something agreed to (in some contracts) if you are using a pre-printed form with fill in the blanks or a form that appears to be a "standard" form. (Like a lease etc.)

A "standard" form is more likely (once again by certain parties) to just get signed and not questioned because it appears to be "the way things are done". Presenting someone with a 10 page microsoft word document screams "shit I'd better read this".

Car dealers do this as well. They have forms where the have pre-printed in the gotcha fees (title transfer etc.) as if to say "hey this is the way it's done and everyone is charged that way".
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Google was the antithesis of Microsoft as the author writes and is now doomed to become the same. It's a monopoly that has come to dictate its terms for maximum profit and resilience against competition. By becoming "evil", it is opening opportunities for a new antithesis of itself. Perhaps Twitter will take that spot, perhaps some entirely different company from the Far East? That's the way it goes ...
Being lazy.
The higher paying people subsidize the lower paying.

If you did what you suggest then medicare would have to pay more (probably 50-100% more), which would necessarily increase taxes.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, just keep in mind all the unintended consequences.
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> I would probably therefore assume something worse than a marijuana conviction, which is what OP has.

...sigh. That just makes it worse for those of us that try to move on past our mistakes.
1. Yes. Obesity as a problem comes up often when talking candidly with doctors.

2. I can agree with you on the bureaucracy thing but when you get sick you're gonna want the best doctors working on you. I don't begrudge doctors a single penny they honorably and legitimately earn. 14 years of school and hundreds of thousands in debt? Ya, you do that and get back to me.
From the Xbox 360 to the Dreamcast to the PS2 to the PSX to the SNES to the NES to the Atari 2600, all the games required that I simply place the game into the console and the system would run the game. Now we have this odd kludge that used to be reserved only for PCs. The other features are certainly nice to have, but the PS4 bills itself as a gaming console first, and there is a degraded experience in that regard.
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I second SourceTree - if there's something missing that you need, Atlassian are surprisingly responsive to feature and bug reports.
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The rot was setting in long before Larry Page became CEO. For me, the first sign was GMail and their broken/perverted IMAP model.