skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Here's yesterday's blog post he was inspired by:

http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/93118460565/a-candid-look...

Here's an infographic with the sales for a much larger indie game [Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP]:

http://www.capybaragames.com/2013/07/a-sworcery-infographic/
From the perspective of someone who was pushed to the burbs due to better schools and facilities for kids, one thing I notice is that urban apartment complexes here in the states don't have the playground facilities that you find in big cities in developing countries. For example, when I visited the city of Sao Paolo Brazil, I stayed in an upper middle class apartment complex which had land at the base of the building walled off into a private park which had a hybrid soccer/basketball court, playground facilities, pool, and plenty of space for kids to run wild. Don't see that here in the states ( except pool ).
This seems like a pretty great deal, what's the catch?

I'm guessing that the games will only be available for a limited period of time, then if you still want to play them you'll have to purchase them, which would be very different from Netflix.

I doubt these games have any of the DLC. You might be able to purchase the DLC, but then when the game is no longer offered on the service you'll be left with worthless DLC until you buy the full game.

Some people also purchase all services of this type, even if they already have the full games, because it's also offering exclusive content and betas, so it's basically a free $30 for each of those people to EA, millions of people times $30.
As madoc mentioned, sure the strawman you've constructed is a terrible thing.

But most suburbs are entirely unlike that.

Most aren't gated. Only in very wealthy areas are lawns "huge", and most are minutes with an electric mower. There are sidewalks, and indeed most modern suburbs intermix commercial space such that, at my old suburban house, a giant grocery store was a five minute walk.

And where does this "discouraged from knowing about your neighbours" argument keep coming from? In the suburb I knew everyone within several hundred feet of my house. We had street parties, many friendly conversations, and so on. Downtown, in contrast, I knew a couple of people from nodding at them in the lobby.

It's interesting to read that many suburbs may also be logistically unsustainable.

With working at home patterns, suburbs may just be the most sustainable. Heck, I actually live in a rural location now given that I work in my home office 90%+ of the time. The most Earth-friendly commute you can make is no commute at all.
You're right on about Manhattan.

But MexAmerica was not all of Mexico. In Mexico, it was measured by US influence, just as in the US, it was measured by Mexican influence. (IIRC, one measure he gave for the southern border of MexAmerica was where you stopped being able to receive Spanish-language radio stations that were broadcast from the US.)
As someone who has generally bought 2 or 3 sports titles a year from EA, this seems like an awesome deal. But since it is EA afterall, I have to ask "What is the catch?" I just don't see what exactly they get from this type of system. At $30 per year it is the cost of one game every two years. I have to imagine most of EA's customers who would be interested in this type of program make a lot more frequent purchases than that.
That's well and good, but quite a lot of business value can be created using sub-elite programmers.

The problem with not having a good common vocabulary is that it makes it harder and harder to ever have proper engineering in software.

That said, your example of not being able to use trig is flat out unacceptable--that's things taken much, much too far. Even an average programmer shouldn't be afraid of basic trig.
You can see the model's fit (when using only the 1st variable, relative salary) in this graph https://plot.ly/~elliotk/17 - there were more variables in the regression but only those 5 had significant coefficients. You can see the error bars on the chart (eg, "made by engineer / founder" is not really significant).
Dear blackvclub, go piss up a rope.

We're busy doing stuff far more important than preening on a runway.
Ask HN: Competitor wants to license components of our technology
Competitor is the company with the most funding in our space.

An acquisition is out of the question as they can't pay what we would sell for.

But they are interested in licensing some components of our technology/product.

While our initial inclination is saying no - under what circumstances do you think it would make sense?
Thanks, you are of course right. I should have written network operator. The operator can turn on/off OFM on the SIM.
This is scary - a prolific programmer acquires nearly 30,000 downloads and can't even create a profit based on the price of his advertising. What hope is there for newcomers other than to focus more on marketing than on the product itself?
> I enjoy the malls, the big box stores, and the clones. Why? I know that pretty much anywhere I go I can get a consistent experience. I can go the local mall and almost anything I can want or imagine is available, which is some level is fascinating. What's more, as cliche as all these places ares, there is a bit of a shared experience for almost everyone.

I don't understand this. That is not because you're not lucidly explaining it. It simply does not fit into my head how this is desirable. :) But that's ok. I think Different places should look and feel and act different. I think that making a consistent experience absolutely destroys the unique culture and history of places, replaced by "the style from headquarters", and "the history of Walgreenmartsafewayco". It really repels me.

For really getting away from people/cars, I believe that the forests are appropriate. Ideally, no paths, no trails, just.... away.

Anyway. My anti-suburb rant over for the day. :)
This isn't blackmailing or extortion. This is what monopoly on a group of users looks like. Apple also charges 30% for anyone allowing in-app purchase on their devices. Is that also blackmail or extortion? Sure made Amazon drop in app purchases in a hurry (and yank them from comixology after Amazon purchased them)
I always think about all the time I wasted on IRC or playing Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem back then or building crappy sites on Geocities.

I always think if only 15 year old me had looked instead in to trying to make money off the internet back then...

I remember reading back then that you could put up an adult website with 20 images, add Adultcheck (some of you have to remember that) to it and just lay back and count the money. Of course, I was much more innocent back then...
I question the logistical challenges here. If it is truly not that dense, why bother with sewers at all. My little slice of suburbia has no sewers, instead all of it is septic (and where I grew up cesspools). It's 100% on the owner to maintain.

Also, why bother spending money to widen streets. Let the streets stay as they were when they were first built. If you're going to go off trying to bring everything up to code as of now, instead of code when it was built, there will be never ending expenses.

I wonder if really the property taxes are just too low in this particular town. I pay 2-2.5% of my homes value in taxes each year, and my town/school district have to budget prudently, but are able to pay their bills and not rack up unsustainable debt.

The only two departments I really care about are sanitation, and highway. Even sanitation can be eliminated with private garbage as many other towns have. I do however expect the town to pave and plow my street. Beyond that, everything could be accomplished with user fees.
Yes, but we'd pay the price of higher CPU.
The inaccuracies in your claims about your competitors do not bode well for honesty or professionalism, and moreover indicate a poor understanding of your market and your competitors.

In another industry, this probably wouldn't be a red flag; it would just be standard marketing practice or startup posturing. But when you're dealing with money services, you don't get to be dishonest, unprofessional, or unprepared.

You've tripped quite a few red flags with your comments on HN today. I definitely won't be doing business with your website.
Nice write-up thanks!
Thank you! I understood what Markov Chains are now. Nicely done and in a simple understandable fashion.

I am also trying to understand what they call Hidden Markov Model (specifically, I just cannot wrap my head around how it gets used in speech. They just look like entirely different things). Would be awesome to see an update with the Hidden MM.
Apple updates MacBook Pro line
I ssh-ed into some droplets, but others are completely inacessible outside DO. The internal network works fine, so it is just a several network outage. Again.
Cisco Moving Away From OpenFlow?
Sorry, you're right, that's unclear. We chose to run a logistic regression on a subset of factors that were statistically significant (i.e. every factor in the graph is significant). In other words, we chose the factors that had the largest effect size and then plugged them into the regression.
Why is Signal (the app) free? What's the business model?
That's how it looks from the perspective of lucky hard working person. There are also "The harder I work the more I get screwed" people and "The less I work the more money I have" people but those don't make for good quotes.
I remember reading somewhere that the question, 'Why are you lucky?' is used by companies during interviews. The question is supposed to say a lot about a person' attitude, self-confidence, self-worth, etc... The conclusion was why would anyone want to work with someone who perceives themselves as being unlucky. (Does anyone have a link to this article?)

Has anyone had to answer this question during an interview? Do you think it's a question worth asking?
> They're nickle and diming their customers into oblivion.

You're right. Instead of forcing customers to pay $60 for each game, they're allowing them to pay $30 for 1 year to play various games.
What do you mean? An X or S model?
> Much easier to use and faster to browse through. You can argue that if you want to, but they were adopted so much faster.

I guess it comes down to tree vs flat structures for a thread.

> Your ISP might not have carried every newsgroup, or it might update very slowly.
They're great in non-public/academic settings. Back in 2001 most of the CompSci classes had their TA - student interactions on a newsgroup.

Thing is, this is a 200 people at the most working on the same thing. There is no casual 'shooting the shit' on these groups.

> Impossible to search until things like DejaNews came along
I'll admit, centralized Search as a feature is something that was sorely missing.
FAQs were created to try and mitigate common questions, but you're still depending on one person to maintain all of it, and this is before Wiki software.

http://www.faqs.org/usenet/
I might have mis-spoke, I think there were a couple other factors we used, but Aline is right we did a dimensionality reduction before running the regression.
Technically yes, but if you're talking about a stingray then I don't think they're going to have the ability to alter your sim card without authenticating with it; which is a lot harder than just using a null cipher over the air.
That should be ".apply(Angle x)", not ".apply(double x)". It's not properly enterprise-y if you can actually see a primitive type anywhere.
That will always remain an issue: Even if someone manages to create a secure app, the software and hardware platform will never be secure.

Hijacking a smartphone by only knowing its number on the other hand does not seem realistic too me. So a source for this claim would be great …
I wonder if there could be a Kickstarter for indie iOS apps (no companies allowed). Seems like an awful lot of time invested to design and build an app without really knowing if it'll be popular or make money.

The "pre-funding" model would be able to give indie developers 1) early fan base, 2) early revenue, 3) early validation instead of working in the dark

I remember reading how Threes was made and IIRC it was on the order of many many months and redesigns before users saw/heard anything. But they hit the lottery jackpot I guess
Pretty tough puzzle. The audio part certainly seems the hardest but it looks like there were some other clues ;) on that page to get you to that.
This is awesome, especially as someone who is new to recruiting in the tech space. Sent to a couple other HR/recruiters and they love your posts!
The Benefits of Bargaining with Your Customers
> vendor lock in.

I think this is the final goal
Privacy and Open Source can be the same thing -- the idea being that if we know how something was built, we can make sure there aren't any backdoors / "hidden" features that we don't know about. Most if not all of the open source operating systems still include a binary baseband blob, although work is progressing on a few (the best one I saw only worked on really, really old phones).

One of the main criticisms of the Blackphone was that A) PrivacyOS (I think it was called) was seemingly black box (no pun intended) -- they said they would open up the code soon, but we haven't seen anything yet B) It still would use a binary baseband. The illusion of security is sometimes worse than no security, and open source code helps with removing those barriers (Although it doesn't neccesarily -- just look at OpenSSL).
I'm similar to you. I notice potential problem situations amd opportunities way before friends and family do. I'm also lazy but also very particular.

With regards to coding it means that the lazy part of me wants to write as little code as possible, but the particular part of me is pedantic about making it both elegant and neat (I have a thing about consistent coding styles).

I am also very forgetful (terrible remembering birthdays for example) but more recently I've come to notice that I'm forgetful with regards to things that, in all honesty, I don't find important to me. Hence others are disappointed when I forget their birthdays bit it doesn't really bother me if I don't celebrate mine.
> "a neighborhood where everyone seems actively discouraged from knowing anything about their neighbors."

I like the city for exactly the opposite reason. In my experience, it is difficult to both ignore others and be ignored in the suburbs. On the other hand, finding privacy in a city is easy. There are too many people in cities to do the small-town/suburbs "everyone knows everyone, and everyone sticks their noses in everyone's business" thing.
This isn't just related to user accounts; business accounts are frequently shut down (and not approved) because of Bitcoin activity. Coinapult closed operations in the US entirely because of this.
what feature is missing from Adblock edge?
Where are you looking to rollout?
Enriched BaaS
Not all downloads are equal. There are far too many iOS games to make a profit. Had he spent the same amount of time/effort/budget making a productivity tool that catered to a niche market, he could have easily made a net profit.
I think the truth is that if you're making a free game, you have to put an incredible amount of consideration into replay value and how to keep people playing for long periods (and then how to extract money from them :/ ).

Otherwise you make a paid game and hope an Apple-featuring makes you enough.
> I'm sure there is no real end-to-end encryption.

"The audio/video contents of FaceTime calls are protected by end-to-end encryption, so no one but the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt the data."

https://ssl.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb1...

> And you can only do that between iPhone/Mac users.

Ah yeah, I thought Signal was only for iPhone, based on the title. Should have read the first paragraph more closely.
I think there needs to be more thought and research put into validating that your app idea is worthwhile. There have been traditional means of finding your market and using surveys or engagement to get a good feeling of whether or not people will actually want your product.

I make side-project apps all the time, but I'm aware that they are basically just scratching some itch I had. If you go into it expecting to make the big-bucks without doing market research and not having a marketing budget, you're going to have a bad time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103873
I can tell you right off the bat, that based on the lack of information on your website or the lack of key identifying/jurisdictional information in your ToS that you do not comply with any US-based regulations regarding money transmission services, nor with any of the European regulations with which I am familiar.

Importantly, despite claiming to be an automated platform for trading on other exchanges, your service will hold funds. This is the very definition of a money transmitter, and also makes you a financial institution under many countries' financial institution laws. As you appear to be SF-based, you're in violation of at least 2 major financial regulatory schemes--not including any state regulations.

Your website is tripping way too many red flags. You need to get these problems addressed ASAP. Bitcoin is not an excuse for amateur hour.
I use AdBlock Plus and Disconnect Me on Chrome and my first step is to whitelist the site in Disconnect Me when it fails to work correctly.
Supreme Court’s new rules on abstract patents hit Apple v. Samsung
One thing I like about GAE is that it encourages good practices. Many people cut their high-scalability teeth on it.
Not necessarily - some processors (Snapdragon, for example) implement the baseband right into the core processor -- it will have more access than just the radios. I'm pretty sure the baseband also has access to the memory as well, right?
They're sticking to lossless optimizations, so they're only benefiting from the "jpegcrush" part of mozjpeg that chooses separation of progressive scans for best compression.

The difference would be bigger if they used mozjpeg for lossy (re)compression as well, as then they'd also get trellis quantization.
I think part of the point of the article is to point out how a potential Bob Jones could also consider himself lucky. He may have failed to get that acting part, but he has met so many interesting people and had a wonderful opportunity to grow as a person. Can you believe he got to meet Bill Murray face-to-face? He also just met this lovely woman at a casting call, and is taking her out this weekend. He feels so blessed to be given so many opportunities in life. He sees himself as lucky: He's got family, friends, his youth, his health, and he's growing every day.

There's this TED talk on "manufactured happiness", where they talk about people who experienced devastating opportunity losses and considered themselves happier because of it. It then talks about the concept of the hedonic treadmill, how no matter what happens good or bad in a person's life (barring traumatic experiences that cause mental disorders), a person will, over time, return to a baseline happiness level. This is shown to be the case with people that have won the lottery, and with amputees.

The article shows how people that consider themselves lucky are empirically more observant, more focused, and more grateful. The article also explores the possibility that people considering themselves lucky could cause those individuals to be given more opportunities. For me, the answer is an obvious yes: The Secret is bullshit, but exuding a positive, loving, grateful vibe to those around you, even in the face of personal hardship, causes more good things to come your way, simply because people notice you more and want to be around you.
I look at the pricing for app store apps for either iOS or Android and I think there is just no way you can sell enough copies to make real money at the price points people are selling things at.

It seems like it would be fun to play with the sensors, but in a world where it still possible to build web sites that get 250k uniques a month, I don't see the money in apps.
Curious why this is different than RedPhone - same company, same product(?), diff't platform - why not keep app branding?
I had a routine. I would go online and start or continue a big download using some downloader tool. I don't recall when continuing a download over ftp and http became a thing, but it was a big improvement when your connection dropped out once an hour and you couldn't download more than a few megabytes in that time. The download could be a game or a new netscape or mcafee version (mcafee had a backdoor on their ftp that let me download the full version). I also remember downloading 3ds max 1.0 some time in 1996 or 1997, all 100 mb of it, at 5 kb per second. Then while the download was running i would surf the web, with images disabled ofcourse. Start from yahoo's directory and follow new links, which led to more links, which led to more links. I didn't really visit the same sites all that often, it was the newness that interested. Surfing wasn't visiting the same 5 sites in a round robin pattern, it was like tracing a path through wikipedia, but without wikipedia. There were a lot more webpages with wikipedia-like content, or so it seems in retrospect.

The first site i recall visiting on a daily basis was slashdot, to which i immediately developed an addiction. But that was 1997, not 1996. I also started university in 1997, and would hang out in the computer class to surf at megabit speeds, which felt like what happened when picard said 'engage'. Ofcourse, webpages were measured in kilobytes, not megabytes, so at the network speeds of the university I was typically gated by the speed of the web server on the other end.

I frequented usenet a lot, but just to read, not to post. Irc didn't interest me. I only started chatting when icq showed up, which led to my first online friend, a very kind south african girl, who I ended up visiting in the late 90's. I have a hard time imagining that scenario on the modern web.

I miss the old internet, but I would miss the new internet as well. If only we could have both.
The catch is that the updated (this year's) versions of these games probably won't be available right away.
Moxie also made a sailing documentary that is good called hold fast http://vimeo.com/15351476
> But I don't know any way to verify that the data is being encrypted well or sent only to the intended recipient.

Couldn't you say the same thing about Signal? Both parties claim to use end-to-end encryption.
Is anyone else having trouble registering the app? I'm not receiving a SMS validation code.
If I ran a company, I would want to hire this woman.
As a remark: Seattle has adopted a "mini-downtown" approach with desirable neighborhoods (that I hope gets copied elsewhere). Each neighborhood that starts seeing some density growth/interest has? will get pushed toward? having sort of a mini-city-center so that the neighborhood can kind of operate semi-independently within the city-umbrella. Kind of a federal/province approach within a city. I really appreciate it. I think that if a suburban town took this approach and drove towards growth in this fashion, it would be very pleasant to live.

Also - most post 1990s suburb growth doesn't use grids, so it becomes grievously difficult to easily walk/bike between areas, since it's never a straight line to achieve your goal.

/long live the grid design
And Tom Ridge, who joined the board of Savi Technologies/Lockheed Martin to push the use of RFID tracking on military shipments and port security.
can I fork these?
"The audio/video contents of FaceTime calls are protected by end-to-end encryption, so no one but the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt the data." [1]

[1] https://ssl.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb1...
"What do you think about Design Patterns ?" is actually a really interesting question to ask during an interview.