skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this is the media playing out this story as well as possible, but this article focuses entirely on "free shipping" and never bothers to mention the fact that prime is "free 2-day shipping." The distinction is pretty major.

eg - The example used in the article is $10 + $3.99 shipping, vs $13.99 on prime. What they fail to mention is that $10 + $3.99 for 5-8 day shipping is not equivalent to $13.99 for 2 day shipping.

I'm not saying I love it, but I never once believed I was paying upfront for free shipping when I bought prime. I was paying for an upgrade to 2-day shipping. The 2-day upgrade may not seem like much now, because items ordered on Amazon often still show up in 2-3 days without it, but that was not the case a few years ago when items normally took 5+ days to show up on my doorstep.
Personal thoughts - suggest you look into organizational skills. Learn to take great notes, and have a tenacious follow up and follow through.
If you are a US citizen it doesn't make a difference. You'll still need to register it as a foreign entity within the US and US laws will still apply. If you're not a US citizen you're lucky.
"You need to press and hold Ctrl, Alt and PrtSc(SysRq) buttons, and while holding them, you need to press r, e, i, s, u, b"

I'll need three hands.
One other thing most people don't know about this: Free shipping actually costs the buyer more than actual shipping costs. The seller has to guesstimate what actual shipping costs are and add that to the margin. Most estimates will be higher than actual costs since estimating under costs will put you out of business fairly quickly. If they aren't over actual costs initially they will be adjusted to higher than actual costs over time.
You'd be surprised how many Russians speak another language... Plus google translate works pretty well.
Again, not so easy when it's a massive multi-team effort - we have a continuous integration system that builds every branch (we use a GitFlow based model) on every commit that gets pushed to GitHub.
Why presume that the context of the game is the entire war? A lot of games and other media relating to the war focus on specific points in the war, and so your last statement doesn't necessarily apply to the game given the information conveyed in the article, specifically regarding the implication of historical inaccuracy.
Banks running outdated ATMs to pay Microsoft to support old versions of Windows
Here's my big problem. Why do books, movies, and television not have to face this kind of crap? Why don't game developers get the same privileges as other media? Because its interactive? That's a load of crap. Because its immersive? Other media should be insulted by that assertion.

If you're a developer and you don't think your fellow developers should get the same protections as other media, then why? How does Apple sell "Patton" or "Midway" and not this?
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> you want to force my company to host your hate speech?

Yes I do! If you don't want to host hate speech, don't go into the hosting business. Sell groceries or something.
According to Wikipedia, Go's concurrency-model is not safe, and that's a huge problem in my opinion:

"There are no restrictions on how goroutines access shared data, making race conditions possible. Specifically, unless a program explicitly synchronizes via channels or mutexes, writes from one goroutine might be partly, entirely, or not at all visible to another, often with no guarantees about ordering of writes.[36] Furthermore, Go's internal data structures like interface values, slice headers, and string headers are not immune to race conditions, so type and memory safety can be violated in multithreaded programs that modify shared instances of those types without synchronization."
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Show HN: Welcome to the Age of Fully Realistic App Prototypes
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Someone should create a 2048/Tetris hybrid. Match the numbers into blocks as they fall to complete larger blocks. Talk about a challenge.
Very cool service, thanks for sharing.
Not every country loves freedom ;)
It's oversimplifying to say he avoids them because they're not his core competency; he avoids them because valuing them is not anybody's core competency. Their value comes from products that are too lacking in historical context to lend them the degree of reliability he's aiming for in an investment.

He also seeks out companies whose stock has a history of producing ongoing income for investors in the form of a regular dividend. Tech companies rarely offer this. Without a dividend, the value an investor derives from the stock hinges solely on its current price. Dividend income diversifies this, providing a return even if the stock remains flat and buffering losses if you need to sell short.
+1, I'm with you on this :) I'm also like OP and you: partly creative, party technical (but very broad, I'm not a hardcore developer with a speciality) and do have business and social skills too. So I'm at the end of my 20's and working as a Technical Project Manager... which I enjoy so far.
It's possible that there are people who have both the crypto background and the economics backgrounds to "fully" understand bitcoin, but even then, the market is ultimately driven by humans and is an irrational and unpredictable beast.

And if Buffet is wrong on bitcoin, so what? He's still Warren Fucking Buffet.
Would you say the same of all the tin in the world?

If not, what is special about gold? Are you confident that wouldn't change if all the gold were held by one individual?
Asynchronicity is great, but javascript doesn't provide the tools to do it properly.

> (...) try writing a function call that requires information from two separate HTTP API responses; I basically need to draw a diagram of what happens with async.waterfall for a task that, given synchronicity, would've been solved with a trivial three-liner.

It's a lot easier to handle asynchronicity in strongly-typed languages with monadic for comprehensions. In Scala, for example:

val res: Future[Foobar] = for {
a <- makeHttpRequestA()
b <- makeHttpRequestBFromA(a)
} yield new Foobar(a, b)

You can then register callback functions which operate on either a Success[Foobar] or a Failure[Throwable].

Synchronous code isn't simpler, it just hides complexity like caltrops in tall grass.

(slightly modified version of my post on Github)
Excuse me, mr. Buffett, but that is not really compelling.
A century form now, US cropland and all the Exxon Mobils in the world could be utterly devoid of value, I really wouldn't like to venture any kind of guess.
And the gold? The gold might be equally worthless. A century from now we could well be manufacturing any element at will without giving it a second thought. Conversely, of course, in some unimagined scenario, the future of humanity could depend on a practical application of huge quantities of gold - your cube of gold might outvalue all other planetary resources combined. We just don't know.
You need to discover what is important to you.

You say that none of your jobs make you feel your passion, your joy. But you haven't decided what that is. You're looking for happiness, maybe you aren't sure what happiness is.

You say you have ideas and goals of starting a company. Why? What kind of company? Starting a (generic) company is not a very focused direction.

I think your issue is that you are afraid of choosing the wrong path. Like a Hollywood romance, you're expecting the right path to be self evident, and just feel perfect. This isn't going to happen.

My advice is to choose the wrong path. Walk down the wrong path, and while you're doing it, try to work out exactly why it's the wrong path. Make little corrections. It's going to be when you're walking down the wrong path that you learn what is right. When you learn, tend toward what feels right. Don't jump right on to another path, just correct a bit, because if you switch careers you'll lose that context and feel lost again.

In the worst case scenario you'll be in a career that you didn't enjoy to start with, but one you've learned to make the best of, and have earned a lot of experience in. In the best case scenario you will have discovered what you were looking for and learned how to get there.

Pick something that pays the bills, make the best of it, and try to figure out how you can make yourself a little bit happier there.
Moreover, that kind of currency collapse is connected to balance of payments; in the case of Weimar, having to ship a substantial amount of gold continuously to France, and in the case of Zimbabwe a collapse of local agriculture due to land confiscation and redistributing to people who couldn't farm.
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A little while ago someone on here posted about their "$9 startup", and how they've grown a huge mailing list of signups without writing any code. I think you're falling in to a similar trap they had: confusing signups with users and potential customers.

The number of people who sign up from places like friends of friends, Betali.st, etc is vanity. It doesn't actually count for anything unless you can turn them in to paying users, which is incredibly unlikely given that they're a completely random bunch of "people interested in startups". It's the difference between being interested in your product and being interested in solving the pain that your product solves. People pay for the latter. People just cost you money if they're the former, albeit not much.

The two metrics that really matter are how many people use your application and how many people pay for your application. You could get a million signups and still fail.

Sorry if this sounds harsh. I learnt this particular lesson the hard way. My advice: work out who your potential users are, who decides to buy the products they use, and market directly to them. Ignore everything else.
You're completely barking up the wrong tree here.

Apple has every right to only publish material they find suitable, and that's exactly how it should be.

The problem is that Apple has set it up so that what I can install on my hardware is determined by them. I don't get to make my own choice. Apple makes it for me.

The solution is to mandate an option for jailbreaking or sideloading on users' devices. Then Apple's opinion doesn't matter anymore. They can filter however they want, and I can install whatever I want, just as it should be.

Forcing Apple to publish things they don't want to publish is going about it all wrong.
If you're not shipping your js code to the browser, then it's frankly kinda silly to write it on the server.
> Anecdotally, I've never encountered that sort of thing from a pedestrian while driving,

You must not live anywhere near Seattle. Even after fourteen years of dealing with attention-not-paying pedestrians who believe it to be their deity-given right to walk into the street at any moment without even a sideways glance at traffic conditions, I'm still amazed that more of them don't bounce off of car hoods.

> All it would take is crossing the street at the wrong time with a walk signal without checking both ways and splat.

It's called "not assuming the other person is always going to do the right thing". Look both ways? Duh. The same brilliant pedestrians I reference above have been known to occasionally drive a car, of course I look both ways whether I'm on foot, in a car, on a motorcycle, or a bicycle.
It isn't really censorship in a strict big-controlling-bigbrother-government sense.

If a government is censoring, they block completely 100%. You will not be able to freely say what you want.

Here, you can definitely say and do what you want (within the law) -- Just not on an iPhone.

If you own a website with a forum on it, and you don't allow certain links to dubious content in the comments, that isn't really censorship either, is it?
Now you want to limit what I can do for business because you want to be ignorant online. That is beyond arrogant.
Unfortunately, until this core issue is fixed, users can't really submit further pull requests to fix the other issues which would correct the "inflation" we all know and hate.
For the same reason he dislikes gold I suspect. He benefits tremendously from the status quo dollar fiat system. He has stated it's a critical ability for the Fed to be able to step in and do what they did eg in 2009, acting as a supposed lender of last resort. A de-centralized money system would end or severely hamper that. Buffett has also frequently stated that he strongly prefers goods that produce (using everything from farmland to owning Coke as examples, as opposed to gold which doesn't produce, but rather is properly a store of value). From everything I've read over the years, I would say Buffett strongly prefers that central banks be able to step in and inflate / devalue currencies when it's deemed necessary. In a world of dominant bitcoin-like currencies, that ability pretty much goes away.
[front matter: I worked on the Google Search Appliance and also administered Google's internal cluster of GSAs]

The GSA is actually pretty good when it comes to security.

There are a range of options (this was circa 2007, so the technology may have changed). You can configure the GSA to not show "snippets" in the search results. It's fairly easy to write a script that harvests an entire document from the index via snippets, so the GSA gives you the option to disable them.

At a higher level, even though it takes some amount of configuration to pull off, you can get a GSA to proxy a client's credentials to the top N search results, to determine whether or not the client would have access to that document.

If the client would not have access, then the result would not show up in the search results. Yes, this has a big performance impact, but it's the paranoid-level.

Again, this was how it worked in ~2007, so it may have changed since.
Their worth is not tied to the government's ability to levy taxes. The currency's advantage over others may be that the government only accepts that form of payment but that still doesn't give the currency value.

Look at any country with hyperinflation that still collected taxes and you'll see the true worth of the currency. The government's backing of a currency, even through taxes, does not inherently give it value as we've seen before.
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"Anyways, insuring against political instability is not a bad idea"

So, because A precedes B, we're assuming B causes A?
I am a victim of IDE shaming.
You mean like the other source code repository hosts do?
Interestingly, Call of Duty is available in the Mac App Store.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/call-of-duty/id416666678?mt=...
I can write about India a little -

The freedom of speech in India was never at its best to begin with. Libel and blasphemy laws in India basically allow anyone to be shut up. It is not that Indians are losing freedom-of-speech, it is that they never had most of it, to begin with.

Indian government has been pressurizing Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. to preemptively clear messages that are not in line with blasphemy laws.

A 21 year old is arrested for updating her facebook status and so the girl who "liked" it. See http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/21-year-old-girl-he...

To change anything in India for better, you have to sacrifice your family and your life. It is tough to challenge politicians with or without power in almost all cases. They are rich and have the strongest of connections.
It's a good question. I know I signed up for one of the competitors for a year for $20, but I don't use the service any more and won't resubscribe. Someone with access to the back-end should be able to identify those people pretty easily though, which would let you forecast renewals better.
If there are no other bidders, it either sells for what the founders/VCs value it at, or it doesn't sell at all. So you are right, that if Koum/Acton valued it at billions and could convince some company that it was worth billions (while not having the "proof" that anybody else valued it at billions), then it would sell for billions. Not having proof is a pretty poor negotiating position through.
I have the fondest memories of SoulSeek. I used to spend hours a day searching for rare tracks/albums (was really into obscure metal back then) and tirelessly organizing my library :D
Supply and demand is pretty sound logic to me.
Unix.org uses Comics Sans on its webpage
> I mean really people, I hate to sound condescending, but... when you do a "buy one get one free" do you really think you got something for free?

To reiterate the parent comment: No, but we are paying a non-trivial fee for Prime membership every year. Is it unreasonable to have thought that part of that fee would go to offsetting shipping fees to the original seller?

I found your post informative in that, no, in fact it does not. That was definitely news to me. But no need to be condescending about it.
Google fonts should let you filter by 'complete' fonts...
...or at least let you somehow filter to show only fonts that have at least normal, bold and italic styles.

Now that they have 600+ fonts that you have to scroll through it's fairly irritating to browse through all of them.
How Gmail Onboards New Users
That's a screenshot of githubs new editor Atom.
> Sync is great for initialization.

This is an interesting point. I've found in practice that the speed of server startup times depends on the scale of operations. For example, at a small scale, a 600 ms vs. a 1.2 sec startup makes little difference.

However, at scale such differences can matter. More so when something is going wrong that's causing erratic restarts.
What's especially interesting is how reviled the software engineer is on HN. Maybe always doing the next logical thing to improve the bottom line rubs people the wrong way - even those same types of logical people.
>Since every technical person should know their current UTC difference,

Awww, that's so optimistic.
Please take a look at https://www.mindbreeze.com/. We offer solutions for site search (hosted yet produced for the concrete site and therefore highly customizable) as well as enterprise search. See also some examples https://insite.mindbreeze.com/demotheatre.html.
Nope - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vo.threes.excl...
Stafford Beer's Chilean Cybersyn project was one of the inspirations for the Community Memory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory) project in the Bay Area in the early seventies, which, being the first public computerized bulletin board system (and flea market), helped lead to today's World Wide Web and related.
> The minimum threshold odds [to stop showing a variation] are calculated by 40% / number enabled variations

Uh... How did you choose those cutoffs? Looks like you have a significant chance of making the wrong choice.

Also:

> Once enough data is collected to start making conclusions (1000 sends per variation)

You should check out the Bayesian solution to the Multi-Armed Bandit problem. It's very close to what you are doing, but makes decisions much faster than you do because it isn't deciding to turn off a variation, merely to scale it down.
regarding term2048, it’s as simple as:

from term2048.game import Game
Game(goal=4096).loop()
I could not possibly care less how Apple is organized internally.

A company should not expose their internal bullshit to the outside world. Apple set this system up. If they are unable to run it consistently then they have only themselves to blame. They should either fix it or scrap it.
Which is the Killer, Current or Voltage?
Microsoft shit? you realize this is an open source project, right? this didn't come from microsoft, instead someone used the tools they provided to give you a way of secure communication, and you go about and bash them because of what? The tools they used are from Microsoft ?
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I was going to go from being an influential person that directly reported to the CEO, CTO, and CMO to reporting to one person with his own agenda: the CDS (Chief Data Scientist).

Here is what is going to happen next: He is going to get his own ideas about what I should work on, his own theories as to how to make the company grow faster, and his own vision as to what I should make.

Prior to that it was obvious to everyone that I was killing it. I made the company a million dollars in my first month just by writing a custom classifier for adword optimization (this was back before some of this stuff was automated or startup-ified). But when he takes over what is going to happen next? He is going to take credit for his "idea" because he set me on the "path" to solving the problem or making more money. Fuck that noise, it's parasitism and par for the course for management.
There is no unicity check anymore; I just kept the first one special because some private code at GitHub seems to rely on the primary_extension property for the Gist editor. As I can't hack this (it is private), I can't remove it entirely.
No one pay attention to this dude. Of course it isn't silly. Plenty of people build their servers with JS and put them into production.
Well, first it's financial advice, not technological advice. As other commenters have noted, BC is both a technology and a currency. Buffett is addressing the second.

Second, he runs a $300B USD financial and industrial conglomerate that he's assembled in a singular way in the span of his own lifetime. Maybe he has insights that are worth something.

Third, Kernighan is over 70. Ritchie would be, too. Knuth is 76.

I mean, I have no illusions about changing your mind, nor do I care. I just don't want anyone who is reading your comment see it go unchallenged.
Does anybody else have appalling typing skills due to coding, in that they also live on the backspace key?
This sounds like an awesome game. It might be my weekend project. I'll let you know if it happens.
> - Play offline
- Save game
- Save score

I don’t know what is Mobile Safari support for these, but you can play 2048 in your browser without Internet connection once you downloaded the page, and you can save game/scores in localStorage.
I expect that's dominated by "infant mortality", because situations that cause currencies to die aren't fixed by rolling out a new currency. If that's the case, it tells us very little about the safety of well established currencies.
Selective hearing – brain sends signal to the ear to dampen unwanted sounds
In browser content may need to be asynchronous, but HTTP is request/response - nothing asynchronous. Half the web (or more) is not about feeding the browser. Use asynchronicity where needed.
OP:

I am 20. I cold call businesses, I wait outside large corporations, just to have the opportunity to buy people coffee/talk to them. I did this a bit and got a few leads. I now have 4 clients, each on a 25k+ mobile app dev contract, and I'm managing it all while working full time.

It's not over, you just have to hustle. Know what you want to do, and do it. I know I was born to run my own company, so I do absolutely everything in my power to direct my spare time that way. My phone is ringing 4pm - 12 every day. I have meetings, all day.

Look into project management. I used to do freelance for $40/hr. Now I have devs working for me full time, and I basically make an additional 20/hr while working full time for not really doing anything.
Why the Great War still fascinates the young
That's hindsight. They were allies. They signed a pact, and they traded. True Hitler was plotting to invade Russia, but from the Russian perspective Germany was not the enemy.
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