skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument was by analogy, but you've taken the analogy beyond its breaking point into another domain.

A single fact about a person at a particular place is not much more useful than knowing the placement of a single letter in a word. But if you know the placement of several letters in a word, you can guess the word - and that has a whole bunch more information [1]. Similarly, know several facts about a person's path, more information comes to light that is not evident from single facts alone, in a way that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; place of work, school of children, likely friends, relatives, partners, potential medical issues, possible infidelity.

The issue you're getting at is a philosophical issue related to the sorites paradox on one hand, and the zero marginal cost of duplicating information on the other. The former is somewhat related to the issue at hand, but the latter definitely isn't.

[1] Semantically, not by Shannon, for the autistic nitpickers out there.
I'm not even sure the premise is accurate. I'm pretty sure developers have been setting pricing on Steam for a while; we have control over the price of the game we're about to release.
If recurring vs not is important to how Remember Me is perceived, and you've been a/b testing it, you could probably test this particular hypothesis easily.
This works really well with a couple of exceptions:

1. It slows down your initial connection while it does another connection to check the key

2. You must convince everyone to use it, which is hard since gpg is hard.

I'd love to see more discussion of Monkeysphere on here. Every time I post something about it it gets no votes.
I did exactly the same thing. I had to use Stripe.js and a custom form.

I'm doing a monthly subscription, so it feels too weird to have a "Remember Me" button. If my customers are trying to sign up for an ongoing thing, why wouldn't I remember them?

Incindentally, this is a good article that tells how to do the credit card logo, just like they do in Checkout. So I don't look too bad....

https://yoast.com/checkout-field-validation/

But still I would like to have that time back again.
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FWIW, I don’t see any particular problem with using a Checkout-style process for subscriptions. We used it for that from the start, and looking through this discussion it seems we’re far from the only ones.

For us, the big win was having a reasonably polished and ready-made form to get from zero to having a card token, which meant one fewer thing for us to worry about during integration (and building the rest of our site, of course). That seems just as valuable whether you’re accepting single payments or signing people up for a subscription.
Better reviews and player feedback would help; Valve recently started showing user reviews on game pages, which might be useful. Previously all you had was a metacritic score (nearly useless) and the utterly meaningless 'friends who own this game' UI, which has been broken and displaying incorrect data for years.

Steam also has virtually zero discovery features, which makes it hard to find games that actually fit your interests. The new tagging feature might solve this eventually, once it stops being complete noise.
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I thought you were joking. This is terrible.

Seriously, though, it sounds a lot like Meteor. What is the compelling difference?
Why aren't post such as parent comment simply killed by the moderators?

There are a BSD vs GPL discussion about once every week on HN. Out of those several hundred threads and thousands comments, has a single users been convinced about the preference of either license type? Has a single person said "o, sorry, I will now change my opinion and use your license of choice because your arguments is so good".

Hate or love RMS, but can you keep it in your pants and do it elsewhere?
I'm not sure, but I think I do recall a rumor (from the recent Gabe Newell AMA on Reddit) that Valve are intending on phasing out the Greenlight system in favor of an all-inclusive model, similar to Desura.

This might just be the beginning.

I think it's a shame, because quite honestly, I've always seen Steam as a badge of honor for game developers. To get on Steam means you have a well polished end product ready for major distribution. Of course, with the advent of Greenlight, crap did start getting past the radar from time to time, but overall there was still an equilibrium maintained.

I'd hate to see Steam head the same direction as Google Play. There's plenty of other distribution platforms to pick from if one wants to instantly submit their games for sale.
http://www.hn-sentiment.com I wrote this for a hackathon over Christmas. Does sentiment analysis on an entered topic against hacker news posts and comments.
> Nelson Mandela was an extraordinary man

Apartheid should have ended without violence.

Mandela was a radical communist who committed 156 acts of terrorism and never denounced violence. The economy and currency of South Africa crashed under Mandela. Unemployment went up and income went down. Apartheid was a terrible system but more people have been murdered every year since Mandela's presidency than before. There's more but you get the idea.
I did decently the last time I took that analogies test. For me, it was all about analyzing the sub-word component meanings (i.e. each syllable and the relations of the syllables,) not just analyzing the vocabulary at the word level. Maybe I'm just strange.
Thanks, I manage the front-end design and development so hearing that warms my heart!
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The only people who would need such a service are people who are completely technologically illiterate and only know of the Firefox brand, and those people may not be informed enough to know that it's free.

Dell needs to weigh the gain of a small amount of money with the price of losing their integrity and consumer trust.
The point of contention:

> ...the Mozilla product must be without cost and its distribution (whether by download or other media) may not be ... tied to subscribing to or purchasing a service
A sequel injection? Isn't that patented by Hollywood?
I don't understand why they don't correlate EPOS, door and aisle counters, put it in their data warehouse, and have precise close rate based on
1) visits
2) store departments

I'd have thought this was totally standard practice!

Still though, really cool that they have confidence that satellite imagery is a good proxy for this.
nice :)

rsync --rsync-path='sudo rsync' ...

ssh remote sudo passwd -l root (note diffs between rhel and deb/ubu)
This is cool.. congratulation
If you put $0.00 as the amount it changes the button text to say "add card"
Isn't this an abstraction problem that you solve by simply providing an "interface" or equivalent concept or access specifiers in oop like private/protected? All other modules that use the number module for applied math will just see an "interface" (let's call it GeneralNumber - as far as I know there are a few other alternate ways of defining numbers besides sets, right?), and the particular "implementation of numbers as sets".

For more abstract algebras or who knows what, the "numbers module" might also implement another more advanced interface that exposes more of the implementation, a "SetsNumber" interface. If you know have a proof that uses this interpretation of number that is tied to one particular "implementation", then there is nothing incorrect about it leading to weird or "meaningless" results, they would be correct for SetsNumber but not for GeneralNumber (or someone might need to take a good look and see if they can be made to work for GeneralNumber too).

(I know, the words are all wrong, it probably sounds either "all wrong" or like a gibberish to mathematicians that don't also happen to be programmers ...someone should figure out more appropriate terms :) )

And about leaky abstractions, I think they happen a lot in software because of the tradeoffs we make, like 'but we also need access to those low level stuff to tweak performance', 'but we need it done yesterday so it's no time to think it through and find the right mode' or 'our model has contradictions and inconsistencies but it's good enough at delivering usable tools to the end-user, so we'll leave "wrong" because we want to focus on something that brings more business value right now' etc. Also, there's a biggie: for some problems using no abstraction is not good enough (initial developing/prototyping speed is just to small), but if you figure out the right abstraction it will end up being understandable only by people with 'iq over n' or 'advanced knowledge of hairy theoretical topic x', and you can't hire just these kinds of people to maintain the product, so you knowingly choose something that's leaky but works and can be maintained by mediocre programmers, hopefully even outsourced :)
I disagree. Checking your work and realizing you forgot a semi colon or that you made an addition mistake is a very different skill than being able to eliminate an answer since you know it is incorrect. Further, it's an even more distinct skill to know when you have eliminated enough answers for your expected correct answer value >= your expected wrong answer value.

That's not saying that they are not valuable skills on their own, but at age 16, they are far more associated with test prep than what the SAT purports to measure.
The Softcover sales platform includes a marketing page with slots for author bio, testimonials, FAQs, etc. (See, for example, Mark Bates's marketing page at http://conqueringthecommandline.com/) Softcover also supports an optional free HTML version of your book, which can be a great marketing tool. Finally, we are planning to develop a step-by-step "Marketing Wizard" to give authors detailed advice and guidance in their marketing efforts.
Hm, could you email me? patrick@stripe.com. I suspect that this is an anomaly, as you say (almost all small samples will randomly skew in one direction or another), and our data strongly suggests and testing suggests that this increases sales -- but if you're right, not only will we add the option to hide it, but we'll proactively do it ourselves.
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Remember, the screen reader reads the entire screen. If you don't provide some thought to the user experience, people using screen readers can still use your site full of menus and sidebars and advertisements and article pagination, but they will probably be very frustrated by it, trying to find the content that they actually want to hear.

Imagine the person who essentially has to look at the world through a drinking straw, and try not to be a dick to him by adding clutter. Copying your content into pages with simple navigation--without frames or scripts, possibly with tree-hierarchy outlines and prev-next links--is not required, but is definitely a nice gesture.
True, the developers/publisher has always been the one to set the discount during steam sales too.
Ellipses can be functions, if plotted using polar coordinates :)
It's a basic tenet of consensual transactions, which you allude to:

> people have voted with their wallets and have said that Legos are worth greater than the sum of their parts

Also,

> Legos are priced at what they sell at"

If you're taking issue that it's not a direct iron-clad "tautology", then please insert whatever less-stringent term you please that indicates circular reasoning by which a process supposedly justifies itself.
Yeah, um, you want to clarify what you are asking people to post? Because I have two webcomics I could use feedback on and I seriously doubt anyone would think that fits here, on HN. But your question is broad enough to toss it out there as a reply. However, I mean, this is HN, so I assume you don't mean that.

Edit: Then, feedback welcome (publicly or via email or whatever):

http://www.novemberwest.com/

http://lilnovember.blogspot.com/

When I am posting updates more regularly, I plan to post them to mefi projects but I am not ready for that yet.

Thanks.
>though it works well for the latter

"worked well". Now everyone using Checkout for subscription flow has to do work to change it. You just cost your users a lot of hours work, and my site only brings in enough to pay for the hosting costs. Err, thanks?
Mixers works well with small "typical" amounts.
When 200,000 bitcoins are stolen - mixers are useless to hide them.

Theoretically it is possible to track down criminal if physical product stores would cooperate in that.

If criminal buys something to be shipped to certain address - backtracing logic could be utilized to detect that money are coming from stolen source.

This does not guarantee that actual thief is spending bitcoins but possibility is there.

I expect some API "bitcoin theft detection" sevices will start popping up.
What is it called when hank paulson puts the members of congress in a room and tells them to write him a blank check? Somehow, I don't really think 'we the people' are running things, or ever have.

Anyway, this is a great thread on all sides.
Bing has cars in Silicon Valley?
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Can I pay Dell for the service of NOT installing McAffee?
Doesn't the purchasing a service part explicitly say Dell isn't allowed to do this? Am I reading this wrong somehow or are they just blatantly breaking the rules?
The "Asian Disease problem" is a very standard experimental psychology/economics problem. It's alternatively phrased as this: "Would you like receive 4 dollars, or would you like a 40% chance to receive 10 dollars?"

The entire article is just a layer over this showing the supposed effects of asking the question in a foreign language (other comments have explained the likely problems of the experiment), and then another layer over that wrapping it in "this is totally relevant to you because Madiba".

I mean, yeah. Mandela was right. But not because of the foreign language effect.
The point is that there was a buyer (MS) who was presumably willing to pay more than what eBay sold it for.
Huh. This software is pretty handy.
So "in progress" it doesn't have a front page that actually shows what it does...

http://precis.gopagoda.com/url/https://news.ycombinator.com/... (click the [+] and magic should happen)

also http://precis.gopagoda.com/rss/https://news.ycombinator.com/...

(will probably be very slow)

Someday I'll have time to finish it. It's not terribly awesome but it's the closest thing I have to a finished project so far.
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But you wouldn't go down to a half-inch, and there is a shortcut - '5 foot 7'. I'm not referring to accurate measurements, but the sort of day-to-day, rounded off measurements that pepper our daily speech.

If I said a decimeter to any of my friends, they would have no idea what I was talking about.
Interesting! I guess that I'm not using the lowest power mode[1], but for months now I have had a ATMega328P (running on 3-AA batteries) monitoring doors w/reed switches. I haven't had any trouble w/interrupts not firing on change.

1: I'm using Rocket Scream's LowPower.PowerDown for what it's worth.
Mozilla is investigating why Dell UK is charging £16.25 to install Firefox
Simple solution here...

To remove the contention, Dell should make the fee appear for "additional software" even though FF is the only option. This will make it clear you are paying for the installation of additional software and not FF directly. And when they add another piece of additional software, I fully expect Dell won't include a separate charge since it's for "changing the stock image".

On a side note, is this not automated? Is the installation of FF really done by a human? And if not, how is this different than a Ticketmaster-esque because-we-can fee?
>Any doubt that Microsoft sees Android as an important part of its future should be erased with a just-announced deal with an Indian handset maker to manufacture dual-boot Windows-Android phones, and with Microsoft asking HTC to include Windows Phone as a dual-boot option on its Android phones.

It sounds more like they're making a phone suited to what people in India want than completely giving up on a platform they invested so much time and money in.
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On the other hand, the only mention of trademarks in the license is:

> This License does not grant any rights in the trademarks, service marks, or logos of any Contributor

This is unfortunately worded in Dell's favour, as any trademark policy from Mozilla will stand independently from the license. Furthermore, Dell is allowed to use Mozilla's trademark in a fair way, regardless of what their own policies say.
Race to zero? Well, games are an obsolete industry then, they should find something else to make money instead of complaining. Why not play their games live for an audience? Or sell game merchandize, like t-shirts.

Sarcasm off.

Yes, I'm making a sarcastic parallel to what people say about the music industry. My real opinion is that we should structure industries such that people who create value for us can profit from it.

I don't believe in the "invisible hand" and the market adjusting itself always better than with policy intervention (which is cargo cult economics, not to mention a historical impossibility, for there was never any market observed outside of policy intervention).

I also don't believe that just because some technology exists, people should adapt to it. I believe that people, or societies, should shapewhat technology they use and how they use it according to their will, and not the reverse (each new technology presented as inevitable fatalism).
As a member of the first year of students who were required to do the writing section, I'm glad it's gone. What an absolute crock that was, and it probably screwed up the other sections as well. When you make an already ponderous test over an hour longer, it becomes less about aptitude and more about endurance.
You really should do a blog post about it, the first thing I did after admiring the animation was pull open the inspect panel to see how it was done haha. I would love to read more about it.
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With regards to initial VM's, I agree sometimes -- sometimes you just gotta get it done. But the others (db backup, remote monitor, etc) should use separate acct plus sudo. use userify or cloudadmins or something home-grown to manage those system accts, don't one-off and don't leave root on a net-connected machine for more than a few minutes. (also goes for all other generic accounts like ec2-user, ubuntu, etc).

asap, passwd -l root; sed -i "s/PermitRootLogin *yes/PermitRootLogin no/" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
I feel like anything goes. Getting feedback on something from all kinds of minds is a good thing.
> The article makes an analogy with shoes but in order for it to hold developers would have to be making identical games.

Shoes aren't identical.

Competing shoes may be closer substitutes for each other than competing games (or, maybe not for popular cookie-cutter genres of games.)
If you're going through an interface, it sounds like you have to have a specific object in mind and you just don't know its class.

In the pattern I'm talking about, you don't necessarily send the message to the object that will actually respond to the message. You send it to another object and the objects in the chain talk to each other until one agrees to handle it or the end of the chain is reached. This pattern can be used with classes that might not even implement the method. You can do something similar with C# or Java using reflection, but it is more natural in Objective-C.
No. I was also depressed about the approach of 'we're excluding arcane words!' I do really well on those tests - not because I have encountered every word that might come up, but because I do have a big enough vocabulary to draw analogies and guess at the meaning of arcane words by looking at their internal structure, eg Membranous seems to consist of membrane + ous, so I guess it's an adjective to describe something that has a membrane-like quality.

I developed a love of etymology from spending many long hours poring over dictionaries as a child, including the bits about word roots and so on. When I see that things like this are being dropped from the SAT, it's like being told that that knowledge and the effort to acquire it lacks value.
Copied. And who can say with certainty that no other data was copied? If the incident occurred due to a server breach, can you still trust the server?
Somebody please post a link to a multipart IMG, I want to see what you guys are talking about.

It must be cool for sure.
There is literally never a reason for one machine to log into another as root except for your convenience. Put stuff that needs to run as root into a shell script (or use rsync --rsync-cmd) and then use sudo.
The problem is that Mozilla's policy applies to distribution but not necessarily to installation. Since this is a legal issue, the details are very important.

In this case, the process of ensuring that a functioning version of Firefox resides on the machine involves:

1. Transferring the Firefox software to the machine

2. Explicitly preparing the machine so that the Firefox software can be run (in this case, installing Firefox)

The Policy only applies to the first item. No part of the policy refers to the second action, and it's fair game for Dell to charge a fee for the labor associated with installing the software (they cannot, of course, charge a fee for the part of the process where the software is distributed to the machine).

If this sounds like nitpicking, welcome to the world of law
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MetroTwit is/was the best windows 8 desktop client. twitter's api token policy is just sad.
As if real life never presented such challenges.
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Very true, but with the caveat that you have now increased your motor, prop, and ESC budget by 50%. And of course this will impact your battery life, as coaxial arrangements trade away some efficiency for this redundancy.
It's applying the the idea of reactive programming to the CRUD web app world. It sounds like a pretty reasonable thing to do. What is hard to understand about that?

Here is a reasonable introduction to reactive programming (albeit focusing on Cocoa): https://github.com/blog/1107-reactivecocoa-for-a-better-worl...
Yeah, I saw one a few weeks ago when I was showing my fiancee where we'll be living. She got really excited to see a google street view car, only to be flabbergasted. Normally the gast level of her flabber is pretty low, but this time it was off the charts. I didn't know Bing has street view, but if I had thought about it I guess I should have realized that if Bing doesn't have it, they're obviously planning to implement it because to do otherwise is to be totally braindead.
Agreed... a test that aims to be as broadly applicable as possible should accommodate as many variations and common problems as possible. It may be the difference between 20 million people taking it and 20.3 million, but for that .3 million it's incredibly important.
Well that was a tease. :-) Any examples?