skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still, if you look at historical attach rates, the PS3 had fewer than 10 games per console.(1) A console developer might get $20 per title. However, doesn't include the games that ship with the platform and/or other bargain bin titles, so let's just call it 8 games. Call that $160 per user lifetime, which shows just how much they were actually losing. They get additional revenue from dev kits etc, but they also lose money for advertising, spending to purchase console exclusivity, marketing, etc.

A recent analyst expects an attach rate of 3.25 games to new consoles,(2) which means just $65 per console not including the profits (if any) that they make on the unit itself. Considering the overall costs to R&D, build and maintain a console, it's a pretty frightening up front cost for a long tail game. Now you know why they want each console generation to last 10 years.

(1) http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/Tie-Ratio/G...

(2) http://wccftech.com/xbox-ps4-attach-rate-325-average-nextgen...
There's a catch 22 here though. If the company does well, the new hire equity amount will drop because the stock is more valuable, and thus the evergreen grant will pale in comparison to the employee's earlier grants. Should the evergreen grant be relative to the original grant?

If the company is doing poorly, people are going to look around regardless of equity.
NHTSA says Tesla is lying
You could spin this as safety as well as accessibility. E.g., if an older person is alone in the home and something happens. If the older person is a visitor, you might not change out the handles for them, but their safety is impacted if they can't open the doors.

Other safety/accessibility regulations cover the width of doorways and the presence and specific design elements of handrails, even in private dwellings. (E.g., the handrail must be not too skinny and not too fat, and have parts on the end that turn inward and meet the wall.)

There are a lot of such codes. Some of them I only know about because I built a home addition in California. Once you know about them, you start noticing these design elements on all the built structures around you.

I'm not disagreeing with what you wrote! (I notice that you got a downvote, which seems weird.). Just pondering the distinction between safety and accessibility, and how you'd draw that line, and trying to think of related examples of regulations that pertain to private residences.
How do these blogs build a user base given the proliferation of content curation channels like Pinterest (just save a "cupcake" search), Tumblr, and others? I recently went on cuteoverload which was huge at one point and there's barely any comment activity anymore.
Sorry Nokita, you never really had a chance
I guess I don't understand something. Everywhere I have worked has had a ranking of employees such that when finances become difficult they knew who they would make redundant first. To me this is also stacked ranking.

The problem with some implementations is that it awards people for individual contributions and only if you are above average. This drives people to avoid contributions to a team so they can focus on their own personal contribution and to not want to help colleagues because that would drive the mean up eroding the value of personal contributions.

Couldnt you have stacked ranking with a criteria that rewards all involved for collaboration?
Using the debit card system is not innovative and it's not "cash" either. But don't mind me, I just hate the credit card industry and wish it would roll over and die already.
I don't understand what you're trying to create here. Is this like a Digg (pre-v4) or a Slashdot?
I tried that. It was wildly inaccurate as far as gesture detection and even click detection. Two finger taps for right clicks would frequently be detected as a single finger click. The problems got worse the more advanced the gestures got.

In theory, I love the magic trackpad. Now I just need one that works as advertised.
So, basically a monitor attached to an HTPC?
" My co-founder, Chuck Moyes, discovered a clustering algorithm that identified friend groups in a given social graph. However, the algorithm took an hour to run parallelized across 6 computers. Then Chuck had the clever idea of coding the algorithm on a single GPU. The run time? 0.2 seconds! WHOA."

I do a lot of work with graph clustering algorithms and have done a little with GPUs and I have to say this is, at best, rather unexpected.
Sketchbook Pro is a desktop-only app; you are probably thinking of the metro version of Sketchbook Express.

Microsoft's own Fresh Paint app is another one that could benefit from this. One thing to note is that all of the Bluetooth styli released so far on iOS are exclusive to Apple's platform. An exception is Hex JaJa, which is cross-platform between iOS and Android, but it's not a Bluetooth stylus either - it utilises high-pitch sounds delivered via microphone.
funny - I don't remember posting it
I could either rebuild the package myself, (which is not always trivial if the package maintainer did a lot more than just build and install the source)

You can get all those changes by fetching the source package from which the .deb is built by running "apt-get source <package>". Then just edit the dependencies in debian/control and rebuild the package using "debuild".
He's referring to "COGS", meaning "cost of goods sold" which only includes costs directly related to the actual production and sale of the products sold. Indirect costs, such as R&D and marketing, are not usually included in COGS under US standard accounting practices (but are in some non-US accounting practices).

Under standard accounting practices (GAAP), COGS is the only common above-the-line expense item used to determine gross revenue (aka gross income). Essentially all other expenses are deducted from gross income to determine net income (i.e., profit or loss).
Unfortunately, there are still areas where a good TV will beat a computer-style monitor, such as availability in sizes above 30" or so, and coming with a remote that can at least select between input sources and control basics like power/volume/brightness. But I agree with you, a good and dumb screen is what I really want.
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The jump from PS to PS2 was like VHS to DVD. The PS2 to PS3 transition was like going from DVD to Blu-ray (no coincidence that those machines played those respective formats).

But where do you go from "Blu-ray" level gaming? It sure isn't 3D, and 4K console gaming won't be here for a while...
> Steve Jobs' famous quote "If you see a stylus they blew it" might apply for UI navigation

I don't even think it's all that true in that case either. Jobs' stylus ban did serve as a useful forcing device: with a stylus available, pre-iPhone developers of touch UIs tended to fall back to producing bad ports of the WIMP concept, complete with buttons of minute size. But at the same time it would certainly have been possible to produce a good smartphone/tablet UI that was stylus-enabled. In fact I think you could, for example, port the original iPhone's UI to a stylus-only basis fairly smoothly. You'd need a couple of extra physical buttons for call accept/reject and other instant-response actions, and you'd need some alternatives for the few places where two-finger pinch/spread gestures are really important, but otherwise it would be a pretty straightforward port with, I think, a very usable result: only slightly less appealing than the finger-touch original. Overall it seems pretty similar to Jobs' ban on cursor keys on the original Macintosh, which probably helped make early Macintosh software more Mac-native but was rolled back without difficulty later.

Agreed that the lack of proper stylus support is an increasingly glaring lack in the iPhone/iPad line, the largest iPads in particular.
I'm not sure that's the distinction -- there is no shortage of general-purpose programming code written in R, as well as statistics done in Python.

It's more about use cases -- is it all about statistics, or is actual statistics only a small part? Is the focus primarily on research and exploration, or on implementation and deployment?
Workaround:

if ($request_uri ~ " ") {
return 403;
}

The issue is the handling of unescaped spaces. These are illegal but nginx accepts them. The workaround is to throw an error any time someone sends the invalid space.
They also lack Photoshop, though, correct?
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Good point. Here are the expiration dates for the 21 certs:

Not After : Jan 14 16:29:17 2007 GMT
Not After : Aug 13 23:59:00 2018 GMT
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Not After : Dec 9 19:47:26 2018 GMT
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Not After : Jun 21 04:00:00 2020 GMT
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Not After : Aug 1 23:59:59 2028 GMT
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It's somewhat surprising that one of the certificates has already expired, but is still in ca-certificates.
How many people have pets or children? How many people are incapable of operating a door knob?

It seems to me that having the first group all buy $10 adapters per door will almost certainly be more expensive than having the few people who cannot operate door knobs buy lever handles.
I mostly agree with your argument, except:

> You're right; IDEs encourage lazy programming habits.

Nonsense. You know what's lazy? Working on a project with millions of lines of code and deciding that digging through it to find the routine you need is more work than just coding it again.

My conspiracy theory is that editors that allow you to enter code real fast encourage a personal not-invented-here syndrome. Coding it yourself is faster than looking up how to use someone else's code (be it code by a team member or an open-source library). If the only way to use a lib is to read bad reference docs on the internet, or, god forbid, the source, and you're on vim/emacs/sublime, then sure, hack it together yourself. It's faster, more fun, and all the trouble caused by code duplication and added complexity is for your successors anyway. Not your problem! This why all PHP, Ruby and Python programmers build their own HTTP request router at some point in their career (I sure did).

On the other side, editors that make it very easy for you to discover and navigate code will encourage you to use existing code. Typing `someObject.` and getting a precise, documented and navigable list of exactly what you can do with that object. That causes you to use that object the way it was intended. Maybe refactor one of its methods so that it's more flexible or general. You wouldn't refactor a method that you don't know existed, right? Direct, at-your-fingertips insight in the code you use, and the code you wrote last month, encourages appropriate use of said code.

(Sidenote: of course there's absolutely no reason why an IDE can't have great text-editing keybindings. I suspect that the only reason most fakevim plugins for IDEs are mediocre is because the user group is so small. After all, the average vim/emacs user looks down on IDEs)
You didn't understand his comment.

There are different versions of Islam just like there are different versions of most other religions (e.g. Catholic vs Orthodox Christianity).

Saudi Arabia has a majority of Wahhabi followers. The Wahhabi sect of Islam promote extreme Islam, Shariah, etc..

These Wahhabi followers terrorize fellow Muslims who follow a different sect of Islam... their goal is to purge the world of infidel Islam and to put in Wahhabi Islam which they believe is the true version.

Saudi Arabia, as I said earlier has a majority of Wahhabis. They send these Wahhabi missionaries to other Muslim countries who follow moderate Islam and their goal is to convert the inhabitants to become extremists and in turn try to convert their fellow countrymen into extremists as well.

And just to make it clear, their conversion tactics include bombings, killings, etc.. So it isn't just a knock on the door and asking if someone has 15 minutes to talk about our lord and savior Muhhamed.

Source: my country has these scumbags.
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The accessibility-oriented non-sliding doors I've seen fairly common to most new construction in my part of the US (and likely elsewhere) tends to be electrical button-operated doors. I'd imagine that someone who's wheelchair bound wouldn't find levers to be quite as accessible as electric doors so the accessibility argument seems a bit of a stretch.

That said, most establishments here tend to have push/pull handles or sliding doors, doing away entirely with the notion of something you "twist."
The Physics of Light and Rendering | A Talk by John Carmack
Maybe eventually but not yet.

Android on the TV is like Windows XP on your phone right now. It's cool that it's possible, but very obviously not what it was intended for. Android for TV (whether or not it is based on Android) needs to be designed for the job.

The Apple TV is problematic in that it can't come bundled with your TV. Part of what I mean by 'Android for X' is that Samsung can put it in their products and build their strategy around it.
It is possible this is to stop misrouted messages, however, they didn't add it in response to the recent problems. There are some Google hits from 2007-2008 where the field was present, for example https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3360#comment:15. Before ~2009-2010 the field seems to have been 8 hex encoded bytes (half a MD5 hash?), after that they switched to the base64 format.
Sorry this was not my intention. I actually prefer LXC to docker myself and did not wanted to shill for anything. I just wanted to point out that of the (possible) security problems that can happen when using LXC docker mitigates most by just not using them: They don't allow mounts, they drop CAP_SYS_ADMIN. I just posted the config file.

It was just a well intended warning - similiar to the warnings in the Ubuntu docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html#lxc-secur... and Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXC#MAJOR_Temporary_Problems_wi...

Here is the default configuration for Ubuntu 13.10 in comparision: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7550932
I've had a chance to see the US. From NY to LA, Mississippi and Denver to Hawaii and Alaska. And I am never going back to live there.

And I am an American. I used to be so proud of my country that I even quit working in IT for a few years to join the military (US Air Force). People would ask each other 'Why did you join?' the normal answer being healthcare or university. When they asked me I would just say 'America has been pretty good to me, I wanted to pay back the favor' Nobody quite knew what to make of this as I spent most half of my life growing up around the world (mainly Europe) and my father's side of my family is Cherokee Indian and black.

The US now (since 9/11 basically) is a shadow of what it used to be. Reading headlines about American government actions is like reading about the good ol' USSR back in the 70s and 80s. Except in the 80s Europe tore down a wall, whilst nowadays the US is building walls (both literally and policy wise)

It's a good thing your mother didnt have to try and enter the America of today to escape persecution. She'd probably be turned away at the border.
If you haven't seen this yet, "The Physics of Light and Rendering | A Talk by John Carmack" is really enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4QuTe8aUw
There is nothing wrong with that theory -- it's just the difference between asking IF a tactic worked vs WHY it worked.

If is easy to determine. Why is not.
Corollary: how many bitcoins would you have mined if you'd bought $1000 worth of the best mining GPUs on that day?
One thing I don't see mentioned frequently when articles talk about equity is the concept of trigger events in regards to vested shares. Equity is a great motivator, and is terrific for rewarding (or even keeping employees) but most strategies don't cover vesting and trigger events. I've seen several excellent employees at another job get completely screwed because they were given equity, but their shares didn't vest until a specific trigger event (such as a buyout or a VC investment). The contract stated the employee had to be working at the company during the trigger event, so the easiest way to save money was to fire those people right before it happened. Not here during the trigger event? No vested shares and therefor no money for you. It's a terrible strategy and quite immoral, but not illegal, so I encourage anyone who is contemplating taking shares in addition to (or in lieu of) pay, make them be very specific about the trigger events, and more importantly - if there's any amount of those shares that are automatically vested on Day 1.

When we formed our company, we specifically stated automatic vesting for specific employees so they knew they were guaranteed money during the trigger event - whether they were still with the company or not. Those numbers are low, but it gives them faith we're not going to screw them over.
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Here's the code: https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger

I initially wrote it as an self-tracking activity logger with no interface, but when I went to do the time-lapse video, I added the HUD UI and made it save screenshots at regular intervals. The HUD is actually showing on my screen at all times, so it gets included in the screenshots. From those screenshots, I just used ffmpeg to compile a video.

I haven't written this for anyone else to run it, but if you're running Mavericks, you could try! You'd probably want to cut out some of the stuff, like the part that shows the work graphs from my website.

The stats get recorded by all of the TPTracker*.m code. For keystrokes and mouse movements, you just ask to get notified of all system events (the user has to enable assistive access for Telepath). For window switches, light levels, and webcam, you have to poll. GitHub, Trello, and Gmail are polling web APIs, reading the API keys from stupid config files in Dropbox. For tracking how many builds I've done, I wrote a hacky brunch plugin: https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-brunch .

Current music comes from iTunes/Spotify distributed notifications, simple. Work hours and happiness/energy/health come from distributed notifications sent out by a Python script that parses my Emacs org mode files where I record these things whenever I save those files with Emacs after-save-hooks. So those would be unusable unless you were to modify the code to get some other way of doing happiness and mood. Same with the rightmost section: a web view showing the percentile feedback work graph from my website is not easily transferrable.
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I'm curious: has anybody here who advocates a physical keyboard tried swype? I also hate non-physical keyboards on phones, but swype makes it considerably easier than typing with two hands. I can type out long sentences quickly using just a single thumb. For me, that's a huge step up from needing two hands on the phone at all times.
Point taken, but given ACH as the alternative, I still think this is a step in the right direction.
I genuinely don't understand what "'at best' 'rather' 'unexpected'" means.
My mother bought a nice Sony smart TV in 2012, but it was a 2011 model still in stores. The TV has a bunch of apps, can display video from a bunch of sites, but Sony REFUSES to release a Netflix app for it, stating Netflix is only for 2012 models.

The hardware is there, it can run stuff and show videos just fine, but the manufacturer refuses to update it. It really pisses me off since it's a nice panel with great picture quality.
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Finally, A Way Everyone Can Keep Their Data From the NSA
> This isn't altruism

Who cares if it's altruism? It clearly benefits consumers, so why should anyone care if it also benefits the company?
Amazing what a difference capitalising two words can make..
> UPDATE: as of September 4, 2013, these will earn about 0.0019 BTC per day or about 0.057 BTC (approx $7.50) per month.

So, if you get it cheap enough, and run it off someone else's electricity, and the cost of bitcoins is high, it might just pay for itself?
Fixes, thanks!
Exactly. Everybody should learn the fundamentals of code/programming, but that doesn't mean everybody should learn to check-in production level code -- that's not a code allocation of resources.

RE content, there is a TON of material out there, it's just poorly organized.
Right, and I'm sure they use those differences in profiling; my point was that it's not simple skin color profiling as per stop-and-frisk in NYC.
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What happens at 500?
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I'm sure there are currencies with a similarly sized monetary base but which are far more stable. Bitcoin's track record as a currency is pretty laughable but just big enough to provide a nice bullet point for the Bitcoin investment vehicle/get rich quick scheme sales pitch.
This looks like a neat tool, with a nice simple solution to a common UI development problem.

What image file formats can be used as mockups?
Look, everything looks like a nail! Let's use that screwdriver over there as a hammer.
Nice find.

I also notice a few talks on corrections of statistics for instrumental/methodological biases. For example, short period orbits are easier to see than long period orbits, so our sampling of planets is skewed.

That topic has spurred lots of interest and comments on earlier HN articles.
Try Webmatrix also, it has PHP intellisense and is a really nice little PHP IDE.
Yes, it is.

It's an issue everywhere there are cops and politics. Every country has some goofy immigration thing to deal with. If you travel the world and are ignorant of the countries you visit, you'll run into trouble.

For example: Canada is probably one of the most chilled-out countries in the world. Nice place, friendly people, no kafka-factor -- Unless you're travelling with a party of people, and somebody was convicted of DWI a decade ago. That individual cannot enter Canada without a visa. Kind of sucks when you're in a car trying to cross one of the smaller St. Lawrence river crossings -- you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.
GPU acceleration sounds all great.. until anyone actually generalizes the framework, implements applications, and measures even the most trivial workload. There should be some niche applications you may get 2-10x benefit, but 1000x is either measurement error, apple-to-banana comparison, or a new marketing gimmick. Unless you have a very fitting application, it is very easy for GPU to have less performance than CPU. I would be very curious what application actually could have 1000x performance enhancement. Even memory bandwidth, the main benefit of GPU, does not differ by that amount.
Ask HN: Is there a place to buy Bitcoin almost anonymously?
So with the recent surge in bitcoin I went and wanted to buy some.

I havent yet found a market place which doesnt require me to have an email address, a phone number with SMS validation and to tell them my real name. bitcoin.de WTF? Might as well give them a blood and DNA sample?

Why is this so? Isnt bitcoin supposed to be pseudonomous?
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