skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it would help if you read the conversation again. I'll paste here for convenience:

>>>>>> Linus just being Linus (paraphrased).

>>>>> That may be so but I'm pretty sure that pretty much every study that's been done on this says insulting people is demotivating and generally destructive behaviour.

>>>> He has not insulted any people though. He has said bad things about the piece of software called gcc-4.9.0, but he has not once in that email adressed a person in a negative way.

>>> Uh, do you think GCC just spontaneously sprung forth into being? No, it was created by people, and Linus is indirectly insulting them.

>> As a number of people have already commented, when Linus posted the bug report to the GCC project, he was careful not to insult them.

> Do you think those people exist in some sort of vacuum where they don't have access to (or will become aware of) the kernel mailing list thread?

Did you really intend to say that a person can only be insulted if they are insulted in every place a particular issue is discussed? Or are you saying that if a person is treated kindly in at least one avenue, then it doesn't matter how many others they may be insulted in (i.e., the one kind treatment negates all the other offenses)?
From a skim of the source, this extension appears to ship every URL you visit to a third party. (It does so to fetch the comment count on the current URL.)
Hey, this brings up a good point for some more clarification.

There are two common ways CDNs do routing:

method 1) by using a customized dns server (like the one I used in the example) that responds differently to the resolvers end users use. You can use something like Maxmind (like I did in the example) to determine where you think that resolver is.

method 2) you can use anycast all the way to the TCP level for terminating traffic to ports 80 and 443. This is the most common way we do it at MaxCDN.com. We find it to be the fastest.

To do method 1 you can use the Go GeoDNS server from github (and there's one in PERL) or you can use a service like Dyn.com, DNSMadeEasy (only has broad geo), NSone.net, Verisign's DNS product or Cedexis (which can also incorporate latency data). One thing to keep in mind with doing DNS based routing is eDns for the big public DNS providers. The downside is that you can only respond by the resolver or edns subnet someone uses which can lead to a lot of inaccuracies. The big pro about method 1 is it's easy to deploy and it's easy to balance traffic if a PoP gets over loaded since it's just DNS records.

Anycast (Method 2) is great and fast, but it is high maintenance. We've spent a lot of time tweaking this over the past 4 years at MaxCDN. I've heard you can announce anycast blocks with ServerCenteral and Internap, but I haven't tried it. I've done it with Softlayer for testing. You need to have your own /24 to do it with them. We have our own infrastructure and several upstream providers. The biggest challenges with anycast are dealing with Asia (to make sure routes don't trombone) and traffic management since you can't control where traffic goes.

One of our guys did a blog post on this a while ago: http://blog.maxcdn.com/anycast-ip-routing-used-maxcdn/

Hope this is useful for some!
The experiments data was the most interesting thing I found. I am in the treatment of an experiment involving driver referral emails
Decreases in investment have no impact on increase in profit

Yes they do. Imagine I have a business which has steady gross margin of 100 dollars per year, but to keep it going so far I have been investing 50 dollars per year (capex). Assume my capex is depreciated over 5 years. So, in a single year, my profit is 50 dollars:

- 100 dollars gross margin
- Less 50 dollars depreciation (1/5th of my last 5 years' capex: 1/5 * (50 * 5))

Now, let's say I decide to decrease investment. My next profit will be 60 dollars:

- 100 dollars gross margin
- Less 1/5 * (50*4)

So, by decreasing investment I have increased profit.
Thats not a fair argument.
It appears soundtrack has less than 1K downloads where Game has around Million downloads (Approximation based on number of ratings).

So it appears to me Soundtrack generated 10K where as Game Generated 3M.
Is Copra available in the US? So far the best I've had is Vita. Unfortunately sometimes it tastes great and sometimes it tastes pretty bad. For some strange reason, the smaller bottles of vita always taste bad.
For those people able to see colours.
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This is a common pattern when you want to batch requests. We used to use it at Zynga for games. Facebook also supports it for their APIs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multip...
It can depend a bit on geography. Facebook.jp has a suspiciously high number of attractive young ladies in Ogaki (as in, literally, more than the number of 18 to 22 year old young ladies in Ogaki) who send friend requests for, I assume, the purpose of developing marks for scams.

I'm also one degree of separation from two countries in Southeast Asia and this causes me to get a lot of friend requests of dubious provenance.
If, as another commenter mentioned, they want every request to update all the data in an app, this is quite an elegant pattern.

They don't have to modify any of their restful APIs to fetch or serialize more data than intended. Instead, the / endpoint might act as a wrapper, which does three things:

1. gets the entire app state

2. makes an internal API call of its own (proxies the one from the request)

3. merges the two results and returns them
I have seen "Open Source" licenses which do not permit modification nor re-distribution. It's certainly not equivalent to the principle of Free Software.
I agree that there are users who would pay for that. Indeed, there are successful business models based on this idea already. Those models see nothing like the traffic that Reddit gets, so they are not as interesting to advertisers.

Yes, i see point b) having a scope of creeping in poop.

I'm pretty sure that point b) was a large part of the reason for the downfall of Digg.
A fairly vacuous article, but here's the takeaway:

> The company is taking losses to invest in the future, and Amazon’s 10 percent stock drop today shows that some investors are uncomfortable with that.

While its tough to be sure exactly what motivated that drop, the reasoning sounds accurate. More importantly, it shows a huge part of why public corporations in the US are so broken and may actually be hurting the US's competitiveness.

In a recent study (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959125) entitled "The Dark Side of Analyst Coverage: The Case of Innovation", the researchers found that publicly traded companies who attract the attention of financial analysts are less innovative. Why? Share prices.

For many in upper management of these companies, their compensation is tied to share prices. Management works hard to keep their share prices high. Further, if share prices drop too much, the Board might decide it's time to start firing their "inefficient" managers. In a worst-case scenario, if a company has value but their share prices continue to drop, they leave themselves vulnerable to a hostile takeover, thus risking everyone's job.

In a publicly traded company, everyone is working together to prop share prices up. How do they do that? Amongst other things, they're much more risk-averse. Taking a risk is a strong signal to the market that you might fail and they reward you with lower share prices. That's why the above paper found that public companies produce fewer patents and of lower value: everyone is so focused on short-term goals that long-term opportunities are at odds with their mandate of maintaining shareholder value.

Curiously, it looks like public corporations can share the same defect that democracy does: people can vote. Sadly, democracies produce mediocre politicians because average voters have average intellect (duh) and can't evaluate brilliant candidates (http://www.livescience.com/18706-people-smart-democracy.html). Rhetoric takes the place of thoughtfulness and we see this with corporations, too.

Frankly, I have no idea how to avoid these dilemmas but pretending they don't exist is surely not good.
100TB.com specifically forbids using their service to create a CDN in their ToS[0].

9. Acceptable Use/Illegal Activity

d. We strive to maintain a high level of service, and a lot of
customers depend on our high standards of quality. As such, we
will not provide Services to those that are using our Services
for:

vii Using the Services for a content delivery network or content
distribution network (CDN). An authorized CDN network offered
through 100TB is accepted. Special requests to use the Services
to run an unauthorized CDN network may be approved on a case-
by-case basis. Failure to comply with this policy will result
in termination of this TOS, and you will not receive a refund
of the Fees.

[0]: http://www.100tb.com/tos.php
"Wind power is not generated on a calm day, nor solar power at night, so conventional power plants must be kept on standby—but are not included in the levelised cost of renewables."

Solar not generating power at night is a good thing. Demand for electricity is lower at night, and turning on and off conventional power stations is not ideal. Solar helps level things out, meaning you need fewer conventional power stations to be built and kept in standby.
See Our Beautiful World from a Bird’s Eye
Solver and solutions:

https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/39f43cf25dac0534f8a9

The solver uses BFS with delayed duplicate detection for pruning visited states (instead of, say, hash tables).

The DDD part can be summed up in two lines of code:

prevStates = (prevStates ~ states).sort.uniq.array();
states = nextStates.sort.uniq.setDifference(prevStates).array();
// ... expand states into nextStates ...

These were part of the solver's code at one point, although now I've expanded them a bit to improve memory efficiency.

I love D.
The short answer is "no".

The longer answer is "well, kinda, but not really". There have been a couple of convictions, but these were guilty pleas - people who have either been advised incorrectly by their solicitors (most probably because they were not experts in copyright law) or just really did not want to go through a trial.

The copyright industry has tried to completely side-step copyright law entirely and use the offence of "conspiracy to defraud" with very dubious legal basis.

It's been far from common, though. There have only been a handful of attempted prosecutions, and usually only because the copyright industry (via FACT[0]) has leant on the police.

Most recently they've c̶o̶r̶r̶u̶p̶t̶e̶d̶ err, co-opted the City of London Police. This is the force that polices the square-mile City of London in the heart of London (See CGP Grey's excellent video[1] for more about the City of London vs the city called London).

[0] The 'Federation Against Copyright Theft' - an absurd name for an absurd organisation - http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
IMHO skirting the rules is legal. If you care about Amazon's behavior because of the law you should have no problem here. If you care about local presence for some other reason you should be talking about that instead.

You can't blame companies for operating within the four corners of the law. Perhaps you would prefer that they break the law.
Useit
In addition, I suspect that once they had a match, they could now try to corroborate with other pieces of evidence.

I suspect that you could get a DNA match, by itself, thrown out. However, once you use the DNA to narrow down to "these three" you can probably build up the rest of the evidence you need for a solid case.
"Withou competition" seems like the problem. Competitors are going to get the same advantages from Moore's law, and they've already demonstrated the are exerting pricing pressure on AWS.
I "like" that they used the music with AudioJungle watermark
Everything you said, plus - in the last levels I usually tried to find "the difficult thing" first. After looking at the push directions a bit, it becomes obvious that the difficult thing is going to be to position the red square, say. Then imagine possible solutions to the difficult thing, and go both forwards (after it's done the end is usually close) and backwards (how to set up the solution).
Wind and solar power are commonly thought to be very expensive -- more expensive than conventional thermal fuel sources for generating electricity.

And that's true in areas where there is little sun, or little wind. Though, in windy areas (the US great plains) or sunny areas (Atacama Desert in Chile, much of Africa, Australia (outside the coasts), and Southwestern US), these are the least expensive source of new capacity and that's reflected in the free market -- what is getting built.

Until governments quit subsidizing _all_ source of energy at _all) points in the value chain, the market can't really respond efficiently.
Regarding the drawing delay on older devices: Is there no way to start that process concurrently while the countdown is running? It looks like you could perform 50%-75% of that work before the countdown even finishes.
Didn't you do any usability testing? It seems to me that most of the problems you encountered would have been caught if you had.
Until the nuclear energy liability cap gets pushed into at LEAST the hundreds of billions range rather than the paltry $375 million per plant it is now, I'm not gonna believe all of the claims that it's completely safe either.

If the risk of disaster/need for cleanup truly is infinitesimal as the industry and its cheerleaders keep saying, why is the taxpayer still shouldering basically all of the insurance costs?
Mine is too. Not sure what to do here. I use Uber a lot...I can't not have a rating.
just hire any asshole attorney and he or she will justify the anything - including the exact opposite of what you want to hear.
Marc Andreessen: Serial Entrepreneur (2010)
you just confirmed what he said.

where do you think? you just follow the same desire to belong by being efficiently obedient. that's exactly what the post you're replying to said.

ironically, the short story starship troopers tried to highlight that same point, and it also is seen as enlistment propaganda because that whole thing is so effective in us humans that while you're reading it you fall prey.
I really haven't done auctions in years, but with the way ebay works, with the current price one bid increment above the previous bidders maximum price, what's there to gain from sniping? You wait until the last minute or so, and then _hope_ that the leading bidder has set a lower maximum price than yours? Or hope that they don't understand how ebay works, more likely.

Personally, I would put in a bid whenever I found something I was looking for, and then wait for the email telling me I'd won, if ever. No emotional investment, no getting caught up. I'd just figure out what's the most I'd pay for something, and then go.
One a really stormy day I want to be able to hide under my electric blanket, with a cup of tea, in front of the tv/computer.

That requires electricity, but those solar panels aren't going to be very effective when it is overcast and rainy.

Why not just go for getting a thorium reactor to work and then use them instead?
Ask HN: How can I succeed in a difficult university?
I'm soon going to be a freshman at a difficult uni where I'll be studying comp eng. I am still surprised that I managed to get in and am quite certain I am part of the bottom third of my class. What can I do to maximize my productivity? What short term and long term goals should I be trying to achieve?
+1 for webstorm. Very powerful IDE especially if your backend is node
> Demand for electricity is lower at night

Not really much lower as you'd like to portray it. http://www.solstats.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/chart1...

Solar only works if you can produce energy and use it locally. As distance increases the energy loss is significant.
It's affected them quite a bit especially in expensive large items like TVs which are easier to buy locally but have large sales tax burdens. The business is still growing but slower than it would have without sales tax.

Best Buy's gains over the last 2 years have been achieved in no small part due to price matching with Amazon including sales tax.
Isn't it impossible as per laws of physics to achieve less than absolute ZERO temperature?
A Moment In Labor History or STOP CALLING THAT POSTER ROSIE THE RIVETER (2013)
Fifth Elephant - https://fifthelephant.in/2014/
Ask HN: What is your worst or unusual Uber experience?
I've hailed a driver who didn't ring me to say he was on his way. Then I see that he is taking the longer routes to my place, doing U-turns and finally when he is just a few roads a way, he ends up taking a wrong turn and joins a long queue for the traffic. I couldn't ring him because his mobile ran out of battery (which I later found out when we finally met). I just kept seeing him stumble on the Uber map while we're rushing to get to a place.

After 25 minutes of wait, I gave up waiting and drove out to find him (using the Uber map to track him down). I finally bumped into him coming from opposite side and he followed my car home before we could start our journey elsewhere. So time spent before we got on the Uber car = 35 minutes.
Solar panels still generate power when it is overcast. Not as much as on sunny days, obviously, but a lot more than most people give them credit for.

On stormy days, also, wind generators will be generating a lot more power than usual. They are more than likely capable of heating your blanket.

Although less efficient, power on days when intermittency is high can also be transferred from pumped water storage and from hundreds of miles away where it might be sunny and windy.
I think giving customer emails to app developers is plain wrong. I'd be creeped out if a developer emailed me after I reviewed his or her app.

Developers shouldn't be so concerned with reviews. Reviews are for other customers, not for developers to read. I say this as a developer who has received reviews that contain misinformation about my product (lying that it's going to be pulled from the App Store, for example). I made a decision to stop reading reviews and just focus on building something I'm proud of. This has paid off for me.

I also make it easy for customers to email me directly in my apps. I get a lot of good feedback this way — and I can send a response that is actually solicited.
Zipcar tells you the color though, even if the picture is misleading. It's next to the basic car info, license plate, and name.

They should definitely not be showing an image with the wrong color, but having the information is better than nothing.
I love usemin. It is really simple and works perfect for my workflow. In development, it allows me to have all my js and css files referenced normally. In my build process, usemin concats all the js and css files, minifies them, and replaces the references to them to the minified concatenated resource. You don't have to have any script running watching your files for changes or anything like that.
Mechanical computation lookup tables with planar fabrication (2013)
The other thing Amazon has done is build a service that managed to be both extremely complex (meaning I have a lot of control over it), but relatively straightforward for a novice sysadmin to actually use. This is clearly something they are investing a ton of time in these days. The web interface is getting a lot better.
> It's driving me crazy trying to understand the rationale driving the behavior when “sniping” is pretty much always better for the buyer.

Bidding the maximum you are willing to pay early is better for the buyer in pretty much all cases. The only real benefit of sniping is that you don't spend time with potential liability hanging out.

> Any insights here? Is there a good reason for this behavior

From your description of the kinds of items -- high-price commodities with high volumes trading on eBay -- one possibility is that its people who are also selling the same products supporting the prices by making sure that there aren't auctions for the same goods open at very low prices for long (in the unlikely event that they somehow do end up winning some of the auctions because the auction slipped through everyone else's radar given the large number of similar items, they can just turn around and sell the items.)
This guy's other articles are gold too.
"On a really stormy day [..] but those solar panels [..]"

Good thing that wind turbine is going to be cranking. :-)
The justin.tv/twitch/socialcam founders sold their first startup's site (kiko - the first AJAX calendar) on ebay once it failed. The ending bid was over $250,000. Not sure if ebay is the best place for this but it is an interesting story. Flippa, as mentioned by someone else, also fills this role.
Agreed on the first point. I'm glad they removed it. But we had so few tools at our disposal, and the reviews can mean so much.

I'm the same though, completely averse when it comes to looking at reviews, good and bad. I hate it.

Your last point is really good, I've always thought there should be super easy mechanisms like this (although I'm often guilty of not providing, aside from email address or Twitter handles).

The Google Maps feedback mechanism works really well - includes a screenshot and a bunch of diagnostics info. The only thing I don't like about it is you need to shake to trigger it, meaning most people don't know about it.
>>I find it hard to take an article seriously when it includes quotes like this in a non-critical context. Advertisement is about bullshit, not about "relationships with customers".

The problem is that advertisers think of their job as "relationships with customers." It's the lie they willingly swallow in order to be able to continue looking at themselves in the mirror. I mean, let's face it, no advertiser thinks, "sweet, I suckered ten thousand people to click my ad!" Rather, they think, "I built relationships with ten thousand customers today!"
>Not really much lower as you'd like to portray it.

A LOT of the higher usage at night is due to the fact that night-time electricity is cheaper.

If you're going to run an aluminum smelting plant, for instance (uses TONS of electricity), it currently makes sense to run it full bore when electricity is cheapest - at night.

If daytime electricity were cheaper or even the same price, that graph would certainly look differently to how you're portraying it.

>Solar only works if you can produce energy and use it locally. As distance increases the energy loss is significant.

Much like with every other form of energy. Surplus solar gets exported right now - Germany sends it to France.
No. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094173
The research is provided by the Brookings institution which is more public relations agency than a research institution. The only thing you can take away from this "research" is that someone paid to get this result.
Cryptolegal – a short story
I am curious about the Apple process for a feature. Did you write to Apple pitching your game?
We did, but there were elements that weren't tested as well as they could be.

Here's an example.

Referring to the "tap an empty tile to drag around" section of the post.

This step was added because a lot of our testing revealed people wanted to move around the board but didn't know how. The problem was, we didn't test that tutorial step extensively enough.

It's hard though, we're independent developers making our first game. We have limited time and limited budgets, so compromises need to be made, otherwise instead 3.5 months of development turns into 6 or 12 months.

One mistake is we talked often with our 15-20 regular testers so most feedback was confined to regular gameplay, not on-boarding.

Really need to continually bring in new people on an ongoing basis that had never seen the game before. We did this to some extent but there's always more that can be done.
This comment is totally unbiased and objective, of course.