skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case where a friend subscribes, the subscriber would know that they missed a shipment though and it would be tricky to justify that to them. I think I need to just eat the cost and convince myself via some kind of analysis that it makes sense to pay.

I didn't mention it in the blog, but giving Dropbox-style incentives to signing up your friends is something I am thinking of, so people being aware of what others are receiving would happen more in the future.
There is a number of frameworks to encourage ratings, and they range from honest requests "you've been using this app for a while, would you like to rate it now?" which Appirater does, to a number of shadier ones like the one in this post.
I liked the twist on partnering with PaaS instead of shunning them as a threat. Can't want to read the next post with other providers, thanks mist.io.
I think that's something that could certainly be accommodated by an algorithm developed to give an aggregate 'score' for apps. Certainly the fact that the app is used every single day, regardless of how long, would be a very big plus for its rating.
The internet is decentralized, the web has never been. HTTP protocol doesn't support it. But it's time to do that. What we need is the possibility of peer-to-peer connections between browsers.
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You need to free heap-allocated objects, but stack allocated objects are important and useful (particularly with RAII) and cleanly reversing such allocations eliminates a class of bugs.
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Well, what do the stars actually mean? Is it a measure of whether or not the app is useful? Or some subjective measure of how "good" it is?

I shudder when I think of the ways you could game a system like this. If longer time-in-app is a positive signal, I could easily make my app slower.
Do you not care to use (or perhaps not have the capacity to use) an adblocker?
Selling the iPhone means someone else is getting it. The point of this "protest" is to get Apple to have fewer users.
There's a similar phenomenon I noticed when dealing with employees of companies that use follow-up customer surveys to gather feedback on their employees.

When you are finished with your tech support call, or car rental, or whatever they will ask you something like 'were you completely satisfied with my service today'? Completely satisfied is then the label for the highest rating on the follow up survey. The benefit to the company is that it gives you an opportunity to express any unhappiness and get it fixed, and the benefit to the employee is that you are more likely to put down completely satisfied if you've already said you were (because of priming).

However, this case is a bit more shady because the probability of the follow up survey is being effected by how you respond.
The only downside I see to this approach in the context of this post is that then you'd essentially need to dedicated daemon sending releases to the semaphore for #1.

I suppose you could use a long running celery task for that purpose. You wouldn't want to fire of (1.0 / cps) celery tasks just for releasing semaphores unless the value of cps was very small -- as it would congest your queues with a bunch of small cleanup tasks. Which aren't guaranteed to run precisely that often.
> Would prospective purchasers realize this, though, by the nature of the app?

So what you're saying is, we should burden the users with a ton of metrics, then let them figure out which of those metrics are useful for each particular app, and whether you want a higher or lower score on each of those metrics on a case-by-case basis?
You're welcome! I talked with my dad last night and he's flabbergasted the book is now online (in blog form, at least). He still has all the original illustrations sitting in a flat file in our garage. We discussed what to do with them, if anything, and I suggested the Computer History Museum might be interested. He liked the idea, so we're going to reach out soon. If anyone knows someone there, please drop a line to jackson.solway at gmail. Thanks!
I guess we just disagree. If someone came up to you in person and said they loved your app, would you not perhaps ask them to rate it? And if they say it sucks and crashed, would you not ask them to provide more detail so you can try to fix it?
2-in-1 PCs are great, Windows 8 notwithstanding. I just got a Thinkpad Yoga and being able to work in tablet mode when I'm stuck in cramped seat on a train or plane is fantastic. I'm also encouraged by the return of pen-based digitizers. I know it's a small niche, but for designers and artists, it's quite nice.
Maybe it's just me but after watching the video I don't understand what the game play is.

I saw what I think was a combining and separating spheres mechanic but past that it wasn't clear to me.

On a positive note, I did like the music.
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I routinely uninstall apps that do this, and give them a worst review than what they would have gotten otherwise. If they're tricking me, making it less apparent is not a plus.
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>Agencies go after anon because of the actual criminal activity.

Where is the due process? There isn't any. Please tell me which actual crimes that some Anons have committed whose consequences are so critical that it justifies the abandonment of longstanding principles of fair governance, and military action to sabotage IRC operations in order to halt the occurrence of said crimes.
I see that petition has already meet the required signature count. I haven't followed the state of petitions.whitehouse.gov; do we expect them to actually comment on this petition?
Yeah, the word "war" hints at competition but it literally means violent conflict. I know of no association between "war" and a metaphor for self improvement. You should make that clearer if that is what you're going for. However, with "war", "kata" and "enlist" it seems pretty obvious you were going for a martial arts/warrior theme. It's kind of patronising to pretend that theme isn't there just because someone doesn't like it.
Cause minimum wage should be $21 based on inflation - so that's our target-which isn't to say we won't have middle class people who also support the initiative because they may have college students who are @ minimum wage in the family, or a spouse.
My love affair with touch screens is over. What a coincidence.
I never really got tablets - too big to be portable and crippled by the lack of usable input devices. My 11" Macbook Air is just about as portable as an iPad, but is way easier to use, not just for streaming, but even for coding, etc. Of course, I've been wrong about things before and I'm not really a typical consumer user, but I just can't imagine a future for tablets with phones getting as good as they are, and small laptops being as slim and powerful as they are.
If you want a proprietary platform controlled by a single vendor, code for iOS or Android.
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It's a similar self-selection filter as dyslexic Nigerian scams utilize, you have to be a certain type of person to go for this. To actually submit a rating, a G+ using certain type of person...
I thought of it too. A simple solution would be to just add ids to sections and make the headers links that target them. While this scrolls the section into position, the top part becomes obstructed by the stacked headers.
There is another benefit for your last idea to send a "welcome" envelope.

Shipping delay might vary between countrys, so if you tell your customer that you have send it just after their subscription it might educate them on the normal delay for a package to arrive, a delay which you can't do anyting about.

Then the delay for the nexts packages might seem more "normal".
How doesn't it work?

The buyer buys more expensive because the seller might have a better feedback score.
Did some googling and came across mention of an interview that tells some of the story : http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/news/2014/2/5/eliss-infinit...

Unfortunately, I think the posters mis-linked the trailer video instead of the interview one. Someone have the other link?
[Edit: NM.. The first image in the post is the video embed for the interview. Just missed that it was a vimeo embed]

Trailer is awesome. Really neat music.

[Edit Again: The interview is great, and explains some of the gameplay: http://vimeo.com/86028762 Also contains a great quote that sums up software development timelines pretty well: "What I thought would take two weeks took five months, and the whole five months I thought I was two weeks from being done."]
Not sure how a nearly 30% YOY increase in tablet sales for Q4 translates to a dead market, unless they thought tablets would end up as full replacements for existing systems. Few people are replacing their other computing devices for tablets, but obviously a large number of people see, and will continue to see, tablets as good secondary devices. I suspect, however, that replacement cycles for tablets will be longer than for phones (which cycle out on contracts) or PCs (driven by corporate platforming schedules).

Anecdotally, I lug around a smartphone, laptop, iPad and Kindle, but I can collapse the last three into the iPad for a lot of daily nontechnical tasks. (Hell, I can even prototype Python on it.) It's not a necessary part of my kit, but I'll keep one around for convenience alone.
For some reason I can't keep myself from thinking this is marketing trick...
Bob Wenzel has been questioning it thoroughly:

https://encrypted.google.com/#q=bitcoin+site:economicpolicyj...
So... you're the same guy as OP?
I doubt it's a ploy. I saw people commenting about doing this early this morning, in r/Bitcoin, so this seems something that came from the community as a form of protest.

The Bitcoin community has been getting increasingly more frustrated with each Bitcoin-related app being banned by Apple. This just broke the camel's back, because Blockchain is very popular, and it was also one of the very last Bitcoin apps to remain in the store (the final line of defense, if you will).

Also, it's sad to see that people don't even question Apple's policies anymore, no matter how ridiculous they are. They just throw it as "oh, well it was Apple's policy that they didn't want a Bitcoin app (was it?!) - so it's their fault!".
An exciting email client project is in development at http://mailpile.is/ - a self hosted open-source gmail work-alike. (live demo on the site)
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Sounds like you're the one who is "offended".
Really? I always do. If you don't, it makes the variable look like a type. It's the same reason why I dislike extra parens around the value in the return statement. Don't make it look like something it isn't.
They are providing an incentive.
Google has support insofar as they still offer several really good products, but after the Reader shutdown, KitKat/Nestle branding, the NSA revelations, etc, I think they're a whole lot less geek-cool.

They're not the new Microsoft quite yet, and they may never be, but Google is a long way from their peak of hacker-ish credibility.
That's pretty cool — I had the exact same goals (help professors grade essays faster) with my bookshrink project [0]. Of course, it was the first python code I ever wrote and it uses an extremely naïve algorithm, but the results aren't too bad if you want to try it yourself [1].

[0]: https://github.com/peterldowns/bookshrink
[1]: http://www.bookshrink.com/
I don't want the government building the stadium in the first place, any plan that has the government spend money is bad.
The tool itself is hosted here: http://www.etcml.com/

The paper is here: http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/paper.php?id=279
Maybe they aren't credit cards, but stolen iTunes gift cards (or legit gift cards purchased with stolen credit cards).

I don't think it would work very well for a long time at a large volume. But so what? Set up a new seller account and start over.
Mine has never begun.

I don't feel lonely, though. I have a keyboard.
I'm actually not sure who the OP is... I'm the author of the article. Came here to post it myself and saw that it was already here. (You can see that my username matches the username the article links to on twitter, @entreprenewer)
Well, they trick you in a way.. if they ask you for a review or not. But how is it different from asking only when you win a level and not when you lose? I don't see anything wrong with asking for "internal" rating and feedback as long as it does not pose as official Play rating.
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Lots of sales people use it for presentations, since it weighs less than a laptop, but has a bigger screen than a phone.

Also makes a great e-book reader.

Definitely not a laptop replacement.
Just to add a reference to the parent: http://www.johndcook.com/cplusplus_strings.html

(The article is mildly interesting by itself)
I too have no idea what the game is, but think it looks pretty cool.
I was thinking of using a faster shipping method for the welcome package though.

Yet another benefit would be that I get to advertise a faster shipping time on the home page. Time for an A/B test perhaps :)
Not to mention it would reassure customers that it's a legitimate website who intends to honor it's promise not a shady one that attracted a new victim with a cute idea.

I'm quite certain the customers get nervous the first month when their package doesn't arrive because they start questioning the websites validity not because their in any hurry to get it.
In the first 380,000 years it expanded 1000 times its size and dropped to 4000K, much too hot for life. Reionization occurred from 150M to 1B years after the big bang, by the time that was done the universe was around 50K (-233C). During reionization it is likely the universe would have had too much ionizing radiation for life.
"A plugin is needed to display this content." is all i see ;)
Very cool. Congrats on making that yourself. What's the gameplay like?
Excellent point, and well phrased.

Still, I find the whole stack exchange system to be incredibly useful, including the original post.

(Edit: And it looks like you do, too, since you point out the information is factual.)
> Legally

Only when getting fined for antitrust or monopolistic behavior, which doesn't mean it is a monopoly - only that a regulating body is trying to prevent it from eventually becoming one.

Definitively, mono-poly means one entity in the market.
It's a shame this link is being overlooked.

Susan's article answers many of the questions I have regarding the current culture war.
I know funny comments are frowned upon, and comments about funny comments are even more frowned upon, but this made me laugh - perhaps because it is such a ridiculous but apt description. Bravo!
In case you haven't heard of it, http://www.jetpens.com is a great site for Japanese stationary.
Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to?

New free image hosting services pop up every few months to try to take imgur down as the king of Reddit. So far, they've been unable to maintain any leads gained, but if imgur screws with Reddit they will be replaced in a heartbeat.
This is neat, but please add a pointer to deallocation function to sds header and use it in sdsfree. This will allow to return sds strings from functions in shared libraries. A common problem it that the user of the library might use a different version of libc than the shared library (this is especially typical on Windows), and when it calls sdsfree on an sds string allocated with a different libc, something awful will happen (in the best case, it will just leak memory). By storing a pointer to the deallocation function in the code which allocated the string you can make sure that it is always released by the same libc version that allocated it.
Many people are correctly citing the usage of goto in the Linux kernel. One thing I would like to add is what Greg Kroah-Hartman says about goto in one of his talks: only jump forward, never backwards. This is precisely what you do when you goto cleanup.

I, personally, think the pattern is clean. A labelled break is basically a goto anyway, yet not always available in your language. I never liked needing a flag to exit some nested structure early. I don't find reading that clean at all.

Also, a minor rant here: Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" is often mentioned, sometime wordlessly, when goto is brought up, but it seems many of those people misunderstood what was actually being argued. Although he mentions being "convinced that the go to statement should be abolished from all 'higher level' programming languages," his main gripe was that the "unbridled use of the go to statement has an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress." He felt it was "as it stands is just too primitive; it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one's program." So, as others have pointed out already, his main issue was with goto being used in a way that resulted in unstructured, hard to understand programs.
I think the battery life is the one thing tablets are still great for, if I traveled a lot I'd consider owning one for long media playback sessions a necessity
Active installs (as in people who have the app installed on device that is being used) would cover most of these while still being relevant across different app types.

Of course some people leave their apps installed even if they don't use them, but my guess would be it's not that many (any data on this?).
Have you ever seen a child use a tablet?

It's mind-blowing to see a 3 year old use one better than their parents.

I don't think tablets will ever replace laptops, but that's not the point of consumption is it. They'd rather you buy a laptop for "work" a tablet for "consumption" and a phone, and...
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INSEAD Singapore was a total blast. Really really fun. But in retrospect, I think I enjoyed the French campus more. Maybe it was because I went towards the end, when there wasn't as much school work and I already had built up relationships, but I felt that my quality of life was better in France (ironically). My friends and I lived in a tiny 250 year old town and drove through the forrest to class every day, our class parties were in huge Chateaus in rural France... it was just brilliant.

If you're considering going to INSEAD, I say GO FOR IT - best year of my life thus far - but make sure you spend at least 4 months on each campus, that's the best way to do it.
Arbitrage adds market making value. Just like trading desks that make it so I dont have to (physically) find a person who has apple shares in order to buy some. By making a well (or better) run market, prices can converge to their true value. The seller of the shares can potentially sell to more buyers, therefore finding the highest price possible. The buyer can potentially buy from more sellers therefore finding the lowest price possible. Between the two we get the "most agreeable" pricing .

This is why selling CDs of free things on ebay converged down to the price of a CD + Shipping . Similarly its why (at least for now) bitcoins ought to hang out around the cost of electricity + the capital cost of ASICs ... If the price is much lower, dont mine, if the price is much higher its cheaper to buy electricity and ASICs than to buy bitcoins.
Having a SquareMeters type was meant to reduce complexity. Instead of always dealing with Area<Meters, Meters> all the time, it was meant to be a shortcut.

Hrm, what about namespace aliasing? "using SquareMeters = Composite<Meters, Meters>"? Since the problem is not the composition of the type but the verbosity of the deeply composited types, then perhaps it's just about making a shortcut for the name.
I think it's interesting that, besides selecting who gets to vote, they ask for the rating very early in the game.

I assume at this point you don't need to pay anything to progress correctly in the game, so they want you to rate it before you get to see the pay2win aspects.
The creator of imgur (MrGrim on Reddit) has said on multiple occasions that hotlinking is acceptable way to use imgur:

Four years ago - "I created imgur because the other image hosting sites forced you to see their ad-ridden pages (TinyPIC). I would never do the same to you. If you want to direct link to the image, then by all means do so."[1]

Three years ago - "People linking to the page rather than the image is what keeps imgur going. If everyone linked to the direct image then imgur would have no source of revenue. However, I want people to use the service however they want, and by no means would I ever force anyone to do it one certain way. So, I like it when people link to the page because that's how imgur makes money, but you don't have to do it if you don't want to. I'm just happy that you like the service."[2]

One year ago - "No, I don't think [restricting hotlinking] will ever happen. At least not that I can foresee."[3]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eicjf/im_the_imgur_guy...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_...
IDFV would be perfect. Just need to be aware of one caveat, if the user deletes all apps from a developer (or is on another device) and reinstalls an app, the IDFV will be different. Seems like they could come up with a solution that hashes some company and user attributes to provide a consistent ID across all of a single developers apps.
So, this is an interesting approach to strings:

It's basically a malloc()/free() implementation with printf, some formatting, and strcat bolted onto it. (Strictly speaking, it may or may not use free lists or whatever, but the use of the header and returned pointer is quite similar.)

And that's awesome.
Link appears to be down... :(
Thanks, this is great! Haven't heard of this one before.
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I'm a Linux user and very much addicted to the CLI. For any kind of work, a tablet isn't really right for me. I'm getting by okay with two laptops at the office: An MBP that weighs at least 7 lbs and a 2.2 lb ThinkPad. All my work stuff is on my MBP which stays on my desk. I take my ThinkPad to meetings, and if I need to reference something off the MBP I simply ssh into it. That would be a pain without a keyboard.

So being a Linux CLI guy puts me at something like 1% of computer users. I agree that the tablet content creation interface can be fixed for most of the rest of the 99%. I expect that soon the only distinction between a tablet and a laptop is whether or not the keyboard is attached.
For me the form factor is better for any situation where I don't have a table to set a laptop on and my primary task is consuming data. In public transit, in bed, etc.

If I have to enter data tablets are pretty much always out as I hate on screen keyboards and getting an extra one means you might as well just get an ultraportable laptop and if I have a tablet to set something on the benefit to form factor doesn't come into play since I'm not holding the device.
My tablet gradually became my three-years-old daughter's tablet. I almost never miss it :)
You know, that's all people say is that "I'm not an average consumer". If everyone isn't, then who is?

Averages lie.

Show me a bell curve any day.
sizeof is a unary operator and not a function. Only types need to be enclosed in parens. Most people don't know this.
That store (daikanayama) is impressively designed. No wonder it's one of "The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World." . Thanks for linking to it :)
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It's very good for gaming. It's a good device for your home.
An MBA is easier than an iPad to use for coding? Crazytalk.