skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exclusive licenses do indeed keep them ahead of competitors, but why would content owners give them an exclusive license?

In exchange for money?

> EBay's trick is that they connect (big number) buyers with (big number) sellers, and take advantage of network effects to stay ahead of the competition. In Netflix's line of business, the number of sellers is very small and well-known (a handful of large studios own almost all the valuable content).

> My wife and I have a few subscriptions (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime), and if say Paramount started their own service, it wouldn't be a big deal to add another one to the list.

For Paramount to release their own service, they would have to pull their content from Hulu, Netflix and Amazon or no one would have any reason to use it. So they would have to spend big money on marketing only to regain the revenue lost by pulling their content from the existing distributors. Then they would have to build their own distribution infrastructure, code and maintain apps for different brands of smartphone and smart TV, etc. Why would they want to incur all that expense instead of just trading content for cash with the entities that have already done it?
Before all the comments come flying in (or not, but just in case), here are some answers to questions some may have:

This is my very first iOS app. I found it useful and so did enough people I worked with that I decided to charge a buck for it...

- The point is to check out the idea and design and give some feedback, I don't expect anyone to buy, this is not my way of making a buck off HN.

- For those who are interested in playing with it, I do have a few extra promo codes I can give out. Just send me a message.
We realize that the text layer is sometimes a performance problem. We pushed already a lot of improvements to it and there is more too come.
For e-learning, there's Google Helpouts. https://helpouts.google.com/
I'm waiting for the Github repo. I will definitely track the code. My only wish is that Github had digests instead of email for every issue.
I think the implication was being restricted to English words containing only 4 given letters.
Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
Standalone Visual C++ Compiler
Loving the recent moves by Epic. Very interesting stuff.
> When the game is playable, it will be free. Not free to play, just free.

> We’ll eventually create a marketplace where developers, modders, artists and gamers can give away, buy and sell mods and content. Earnings from the marketplace will be split between the mod/content developer, and Epic. That’s how we plan to pay for the game.

What distinction are they trying to make between "free to play" and "free"? To my understanding, "free to play" means the game is largely free, but with the implication that there is additional content that can optionally be purchased. "Free" means the game is free, with no implication either way of whether optional purchases exist.
In 2014, how many of us are doing backend/service development in java and not deploying to Linux machines?

Among silicon valley webstartups? Not many. But there still are a lot of Windows based installs large megacorps and small offices all over. For a lot of them, switching away is not an option so you might want to support them.
I'm not sure its supposed to be "new, modern and minimalist", just responsive.

Almost all of Lyfts customers have only ever interacted with Lyft via mobile.
If this drove itself that would be amazing.
It really seats 3 passengers plus the driver. A Town Car is an easier option for 4 adult passengers. I don't think adults are going to want to be in the middle seat in the middle row, or in the third row. I guess drunk people would, or children.
C++03, sure, but not C++11.

If any C++11 course begins with using raw pointers or arrays, they're doing the students a disservice. There are safe and unsafe parts of the language, the trick is when to use which.

Go, Erlang, etc are all designed to be used for particular purposes. Go may break out of its box because it is a general purpose language, but its core use case is concurrency just like Erlang. I honestly doubt it will because its syntax is ugly, though not as fugly as C++ can be.

I feel like the majority of C++ programmers would support gun ownership, which might say a lot.
The real problem with many chromebooks is how they use firmware blobs Intel provides as injectors in Coreboot. They aren't really open firmware at all.

AMD is pretty much the only company doing anything in this regard. Many of their recent chipsets are supported, like fm1 and fm2.
I think you can already get to it once you get a UE4 subscription going.

https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github
If that is the case, then what's the big deal about net neutrality? If a cable company throttles Netflix, then according to you they are killing themselves because they are risking losing customers over the bad connection to content.
Nick D'Aloisio announces new versions of Yahoo News Digest
I think they mean that there won't be "pay-to-win" content.
Quill's WYSIWYG + HTML<->MD bidirectional support (e.g. leeoniya's example) + ShareJS' operational transformation [1] == awesome collaborative JS-ish web editor stack

Throw in a ShareJS script to autosave [2], an it's even more awesome!

[1] http://sharejs.org/

[2] https://gist.github.com/josephg/1341527

Relevant Githubs:

- https://github.com/quilljs/quill

- https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS

Edited: to account for leeoniya's explanation that follows
I migrated from delicious to pinboard.in two years ago and I can wholeheartedly recommend it.
Super PACs: Digital Publishing, Aggregation and Curation Drive Engagement
1. Friendliness is always important in customer interaction.
2. Chick-fil-A is an example of "friendliness" scaling up to x0,000 employees.
3. No, being nice is not a straightjacket in the making.
There are plenty of them but it seems all of them are broken -one way or the other.
Alluding to Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America.' Americans have a tendency to discount the notions of expertise and mastery, instead trusting in the 'common person' to make sensible decisions, and for there to be special virtue in commonness.

Often times this is hypocritical. Warren Buffet has a folksy demeanor, but his IQ is off the charts and he reads more than several hundred pages per day of challenging material and makes numerous critical decisions besides. But he knows that affecting a down-home-average-man persona is the way to sway Americans who distrust eggheads who show off their expertise.

The negative effect of this in the workplace is that American pretenses to egalitarianism result in a lack of respect for skill, acumen, and intelligence. It's not quite the 'tall poppy' effect you might see in other countries, but it can have some similar effects.
I think this distinction will be largely moved along by the people who contribute to their eventual content marketplace. If there's a ton of interest in commercial mods, then you'll see non-free mods, though the base game itself will be free.

It's very hard to predict how this will shake out right now, though.
Who in their right mind would invest in one of these? You're taking a serious risk that one day you might not be able to make a living with your swank, expensive luxury SUV. Or is there so much earning potential there over the top of regular Lyft rates that it's worth rolling the dice?
Cloudflare need a one click opt-in button in their client admin, to turn on such a feature for anyone to do with promoting anti-net-neutrality.

I'd enable that setting and I imagine lots of others would. I imagine Cloudflare already have a lot of sites under their control.
Yeah, but the abstractions have a penalty on your mind.
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According to the Verge article, they are selling them to drivers, with priority to current Lyft drivers by seniority and activity
>What distinction are they trying to make between "free to play" and "free"?

I think the distinction is that Android Platform is "free". The Unreal Tournament Platform is "free".

Both give you usable functionality out of the box, and free. Both give you the opportunity to purchase additional functionality in a "store".

"Free to play" generally means the developer will add more content, or cheats, or whatever to purchase, whereas "free" in this case means they will offer a platform and a store where they will take a cut.
Looks promising! Looking through the toolbar customization, I couldn't tell how easy it would be to add a toolbar element that isn't one of the existing behaviors -- for example, a toolbar element to bring up an emoticon pallette. Is that something that's currently supported?
Because it's run by greedy sumbitches who think they can do it themselves at less cost.

See also: HBO GO.
I can't believe that Apple isn't blocking the ability for the browser to auto-open the app store. It's the absolute worst advertising experience imaginable because it actually closes the browser to open the app store.

My response to leave a 1-star rating on whatever app is being advertised with a review stating that I don't like their advertising technique.
A function defined with def would work just the same there.

It would have a big ugly 'return' in it and be a few characters longer, but it would work the same, so I don't see what lambda brings to it.
Why would you need a B-tree when you only append to the end of the logs?
It's really quite ridiculous for the linked report to use a capital:user ratio as a meaningful metric -- it's a bit like building an auto factory, building the first car, then arguing that the car cost $100m to build.

Having said that, it's obvious that some states, like Hawaii, are going to fight an uphill battle to make a cost-effective case for their revenue, while states like Oregon failed spectacularly to make good on their requirements.

OR's new CIO, Alex Pettit, just recommended killing the whole Oracle-belabored mess and moving the state onto the federal exchange. Pettit doesn't have any blood on his hands from the Cover Oregon debacle (he was hired away from OK after the exchange's failure), but it's still a gutsy move to kill it, since he's the one who has to deal with the politicians. (Plus he's not making any friends at Redwood Shores, and Oracle is going to outlast all the politicians.)

I would take away from this the lesson that the political desire to use states as "laboratories of democracy" is sometimes the completely wrong move; one critical, massive, high-risk and poorly-managed rollout was enough, thanks. Adding fifteen more projects on the HHS dime to replicate functionality (leaving aside state-level Medicaid systems) ended up driving up costs and adding more failure points to the system. Ironically, the states that were most resistant to the ACA contributed the most to federalizing healthcare enrollment, a centralization that might be politically antithetical to those politicians but that will probably save time and money in the long run.
I guess they are talking about Team Fortress 2 here. In TF2 you are allowed to buy actual weapons and power packs in the marketplace, not just skins for them. You could also get them by playing, but it takes an awful amount of time.
Billion laughs attack (XML bomb)
That seems like it would be hard to enforce with an open modding system...
If you're comfortable with Chef, OpsWorks makes this pretty easy. There are several lifecycle stages, including one for deploying your latest app code. OpsWorks also lets you autoscale based on load or time of day. There is a Capistrano plugin to launch new deployments if that's what you're used to. It's all not as well documented as a lot of AWS, but it's a great tool.
This is pretty neat stuff. It suggests that you can run trusted code on an un-trusted machine, and trust the results, all while not revealing the code. Imagine "your homework is correct" without "here are the answers."

There may be limitations, this is denser than I can really parse, but if this is open ended, it could lead to some interesting use cases.

On the down side, obfuscation appears to win, which I did not expect.
> What if we had a killer phone-over-wifi app, to allow this segment of the market to take off?

It's called VoIP. The carriers do everything they can to kill it (to keep you buying cellular service for voice), but it's not like the technology doesn't exist.
This will be very interesting to watch. I think I spent more time playing with skyrim mods from steam than playing the original game, which was a new experience for me, since using fan-made game mods was usually more trouble than it was worth in the past. A streamlined "app store" experience can add years of life to a game, and with the massive investments required for AAA titles these days, that has to be good for the publishers, as long as they can capture some of the revenue. It also provides a low friction platform for new game developers and artists to get their content in front of a lot of people who may not be part of the indie/casual game demographic. I really hope this model catches on, it would be a win for everybody.
I think Razor-Qt was created partially as a reaction to KDE4 launch which was less than stellar, bit similar to the Cinnamon vs Gnome3 situation.

LXDE on the other hand was specifically crafted for low-end systems. It's homepage says that it has been tested on PentiumII/266 with 192MB of RAM among others.

LXQt is the new merger of the two projects.
Treat Your API Like a Product
I've been using it for a couple months now. If your job involves any meaningful amount of HTTP-related work, it's worth a lot more than $20. If $20 is too much, you're badly underpaid. Even colleagues of mine in Taiwan, who make a fraction what US-based developers do, bought it as soon as they tried it.
Also Amazon and Google does a lot of stuff Alibaba does not do.

* Self-service warehousing and distribution (Fulfillment by Amazon)

* Package Delivery (Google Shopping Express, AmazonFresh)
TV setup box (Amazon FireTV)

* Search Engine (Google Search)
Web Browser (Chrome)

* Laptop/Desktop OS (Chrome OS)

* Wearable Tech (Android Wear, Google Glass)
etc.

Also for many offerings like Aliyun and Aliyun OS pale in comparison in the features offered by AWS or Android.

I went to an Alibaba presentation in the US awhile ago. They want to pursue the same strategy as Google and focus deep on big data and Machine Learning rather than building out huge logistic infrastructure like Amazon. This is probably a good idea since the margins are better.
And my point is that for any plausible set of numbers, you can state which will provide more taxes.
Introducing Facebook Audience Insights
Right why doesn't he move to SV and work on Serious Real Problems like how to get people to click on ads and the latest Laundry As A Service app?
Why didn't they just create a standardized open source tool? Why have 50 separate efforts?
Epic wants to emulate the success of Steam's community marketplace, especially CS:GO portion (some items are fetching north of $400+ dollars).
This is incredibly important and something all universities should look at.

When I was in the school of architecture at a Midwest university, if you took under 18 credits, you were considered part-time. Without being full-time, you'd lose your scholarships and a ton of other benefits full-time students received like free health care.

At the end of every semester I was completely burned out. My architecture classes and studio time consumed 85% of my time. My other classes were easy to shrug off and I ended up not trying very hard. As a result, my GPA suffered and my sleep habitats were horrible. Nearly every holiday my parents would tell me how lethargic and underweight I was compared to when I was in high school playing varsity hockey.

Students torture themselves every year because they have to. I just wish this type of thinking were around in the late 90's, I could've used it and probably would've stuck with architecture instead of changing majors to keep my academic scholarships.
It's not clear whether this will eventually be licensed under an open source license. Since it doesn't look like they're planning to monetize the game directly then it might seem to make sense to do so.
I always thought the mustache cars were Uber. I barely even knew about lyft ... but there's the mustache and ...

Hopefully this is useful to marketing/awareness people at either Uber or Lyft ... I can't be the only one that has this completely wrong in their head.
>I hope this article opens peoples' eyes to the fact that the US-based-or-english-speaking countries are soon going to be a relatively small portion of the world. We need news sources like this to practice the globalization sermon they all preach.

LOL. I don't get how your comment is at the top. People in technology field know about it.

Your question should be how China is blocking out other tech companies unless they are willing to share their user info or join a state-owned venture so they can learn your technology, process and know-how then push you out. You make it sound like no one from U.S. want China or other market.

The FACT TO THE MATTER is how other countries is either making it extremely difficult for U.S. tech company to enter or corrupted to hell that you have to pay out of your ass in each and every step of the way to do business with them.

This comment is the most retarded comment there is. PEOPLE IN TECH KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!
I think it was posted a while back; it was an interesting enough article that it stuck in my head and I was able to find it pretty easily by googling "why is grep so fast?".

Ah, here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587

And again!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813937

And duplicate submissions are listed in those postings.
Free to play is typically monetized. While they are allowing others to publish paid mods, and profiting from it, they seem to be indicating that they will provide a quality core UT class game, for free, without charging for any of it. Which is pretty awesome.

You're definitely right that the distinction they are making isn't very clear, and they could message that part better.
I think FRP is a good idea; but it seems to expose a failing of many languages: the lack of metaprogrammability. In particular, most (non-Lisp) languages don't let you mess with control flow much.

The result is that when writing FRP code, users have to manage two control flows: the 'logical' control flow, which is expressed via whatever FRP library they're using, and the actual control flow, which is the one provided by the language they're in. Languages would need good support for source-to-source transformation, or, alternatively, allow the compiler IR to be manipulated by libraries.

From the little I've played with Haskell, it appears the monadic binding operator (>>=) lets you do this, and the user writes code in an idiomatic, imperative-like manner. It is extremely impressive that this capability can be used to arbitrarily extend the language, while being a very small concept.

Edit: not sure if I had my terms right on the operator.
It drives up subscriptions to Unreal Engine 4, so that's probably the primary monetization strategy. They won't make any money from players until the content marketplace opens, but this could do a lot to drive people to use and learn UE4.

It's a potentially smart business move, will be interesting to see how it works out for them.
Yes, but OsmAnd lets me download a map for my entire country. This is important to me because I don't have a large data plan or access to Wi-Fi when I'm on the road. I also might not necessarily know exactly where I'm going to be going when I'm away.
You know, you could have just gone the extra step and simplified to 2/3. Then you'd have had a lock on that age-old aphorism
Please do a google search to

building plan filetype:pdf

(edit: I actually don't know the search terms that would return the real architectural plans and not some texts, I guess somehow Google ranks PDFs with a lot of texts much higher than the documents with drawings -- but I want to point to these actually! If it's true that Google prefers "a lot of text" documents then attempting to googe to get the examples is a good method to miss most of the documents with the real problems!)

Then try to actually look at every page of such documents with pdf.js. The first I get is

http://www.nist.gov/el/nzertf/upload/NZERTF-Architectural-Pl...

Try it. You will want to throw your fast computer thorough the window. Then when you manage to calm down you'll try to configure your browser to never invoke pdf.js again, if you know that you need to work with such documents.

If you want a realistic benchmark, compare the speed of rendering these documents with Adobe's or some other native renderer.

I'm not a building architect but I at least don't live in "we don't draw anything significant in our documents" bubble. I know they worry for their potential customers. Forced pdf.js is a huge setback for them. If they would be able to tell the browser in the html "please don't use pdf.js for this one" they would be much happier.
I was talking about app/servlet containers (Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, etc.), vs embedded, single-app servers (Jetty, embedded Tomcat, and Dropwizard, which is essentially Jetty+Jersey+added goodies)
Pretty cool idea, too bad I was never a big fan of UT.
I've been a long time Delicious user, and I'm still a Delicious user. I used to use the Firefox browser plugin until that stopped working. But I still continue with Delicious. Why not? It does what I need it to do.

But now I feel like I just want a self-hosted version of what Delicious does. I use my bookmarks for my own sake - I really don't care about sharing them with others or discovering new links through Delicious. Should I self host or is there a better option for me?

Time to download my links before they disappear, I think.
Another important aspect that I hope they adopt from TF2 is that even if you use default items (e.g. weapons) you will not be in disadvantage when playing with users that spent money on items.
I think that was exactly OP's point.
I'd love to see FPS rise in eSports again. Here's to hoping this new game has some advanced movement techniques (bhop!).
Feature Request: Scenic Route

Sometimes I'm exploring a new area and don't necessarily want the fast route, but the path that takes me by interesting places. I'm not familiar with a service that does this though Field Trip and Foursquare give you interesting places around you as you walk.
We use it for both REST APIs on top our services and rendering templated HTML. We had to bastardize the asset bundle extension considerably for that though. Once we got things working we didn't want to go back.
And also, "When the supply of foreign nucleotides ran out, the bacteria replaced the foreign bases with natural ones."

This could have interesting implications in the theory of the origin of life; with DNA/carbon-based life shown to be adaptable to slightly different forms of the chemicals it needs in the deepest levels of genetic encoding, the set of initial conditions that could give rise to the life we see today grows.
Since Postman runs as a separate app outside the browser window, it's essentially a cross-platform desktop app.
You can do this from the JVM command line with "-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintAssembly". (it's kind of a mess, though)
By controlling for the vehicle, they can guarantee the comfort (leather seats & space for 6) and the amenities (charger, which usually Lyft drivers are always happy to let you use).