skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're getting single digit click-to-trial conversion rates in a low-touch model with no card required, you're doing things wrong. 25% is a benchmark and people who are really good with ad targeting and squeeze page design can get 40%+.

(This is a major reason why, if you actually have a high-touch model or your software isn't of the kind that someone clicking an ad can reasonably buy on the spot, you will attempt to sell them on "Give me your email and I'll give you something you want" rather than "Give me five minutes and I'll persuade you to try this software.")

I have a lot of data on landing page performance but, unfortunately, most of it is confidential. Bingo Card Creator is the easiest one for me to talk about, and that's almost locked at 25% squeeze page to trial signup for several years running.
1984.01.01 wouldn't be good in Germany either. It'd be 01.01.1984 or (more sane, albeit less used) 1984-01-01 there.

And the US is about the only country in the world where MDY order for date parts is used exclusively. I wouldn't call the US and Belize »many countries« ;-)
Sounds interesting. I thought most of FPGA is logic blocks, then there's some MCU that would handle loading the design, maybe some ADC and/or DACs, and then there isn't much more than this. The MCU, theoretically, could try to analyze your design and modify it, but that would require either a targeted adversary that knows the design or a good amount of computational power and fancy algorithms to analyze what's going on.

Maybe you have any links with a good further reading on that topic?
Hoe can you fix this in VS where there is no way to finely target a.CPU?
Would it be possible to have an external monitor that detects what assumptions is holding? (and either recomputate the algorithm or change to one that is working)?
NSA Observer – Things the NSA doesn't want you to know
most of the country roads i ride have one car for an hour riding with the speed of around 40 km/h.
It would be good if that was the only difference, but unfortunately NAS boxes usually lack the competent security updates and the automated delivery mechanism for them.
Lets take the case of a ThinkPad T510 vs a 2010 MBP, the thinkpad is going for 250-350+ (low of 100 for parts and a high of 600 for a refurb system), the MBP 450-600+ (250 for a low, and 1000 or so for a refurb system) - the Apple clearly has the better resale value - that said, I think anyone buying a piece of consumer electronics for resale value is a fool - I recently bought a rMBP, simply because power for performance was better bar none than anything else I could find in the same class (read ThinkPad) - plus I wanted to give OSX a try, I wanted a Unix workstation that could run MS Office (I need Excel - and LO/OO Calc is not a suitable replacement) so that basically left MacOS - and I'm supremely impressed.
Common, dramatized problem. Hiring can be only occasionally perfect.

"Will burns the proof. Lambeau tries to save it.

LAMBEAU: You're right, Will. I can't do this proof. But you can, and when it comes to that it's only about ... it's just a handful of people in the world who can tell the difference between you and me. But I'm one of them.

WILL: Sorry.

LAMBEAU: Yeah, so am I. Most days I wish I never met you. Because then I could sleep at night, and I wouldn't have to walk around with the knowledge that there's someone like you out there ... . And I didn't have to watch you throw it all away ..."

http://www.qedcat.com/moviemath/GoodWill.htm
I was wondering about the need for staining. Is there potential that they could stain the blood sample and potentially get a result? I'm speaking relatively hypothetically.

This is at least more in the right direction than what I had seen previously.

I saw much worse a few months ago at a competition I was in. The winning team "created" a device (that looked like a USB key). They claimed that if you had a sore throat you could take a sample with a q-tip, insert into the device, and it would magically determine the presence of an infection. Those were their words. I was horrified and when I approached the organizers afterwards they didn't understand my explanation on why it was not possible. Indeed, after that time as I have spoken about it most people do not understand that it's not currently possible. Sci-fi blurs the realm of possibility for many and it seems reasonable to them. Back to the actual contest, mine was an "idea competition" and not a YC Hackathon.

Tanay's idea is leaps and bounds closer to the realm of possibility than the idea behind the other team I witnessed. For that, his age, and his other work on his startup clipped.me, I congratulate him and look forward to seeing him come up with something truly useful in the future.
Very cool!

Georgia Tech offers a class where you code a VM for the LC3b instruction set (http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~moin/s13a/hw.html).

It was a great learning experience, and pretty fun too.
There are multiple problems with Xbox One sales. Prominent being as the article mentions the DRM backlash.

After June, when MS started to sell kinect less XBone, the playing field was on level for MS and PS4. Unfortunately PS4 has a runway lead.

The only thing now decides, which console to buy, is what exclusive are on and which console are your friends on. The exlusive part is looking more blurry, while with the early lead most probably, your friends will be on ps4.

Interesting what steps MS will take in coming months, but expect some exclusive and price cutting are in the offering.
Think VM as in JVM.
Things that keep up the first world at night :-P

Maybe because everyone deserves a baseline non-zero level of respect by virtue of being a person?
Not to mention this gives you free chronological sorting easily, in addition to being a standard.
That's why I use a firewall in front of it.
Yeah I did start it but due to the twitter account being brand new it got suspended. Need to warm it up when I get it back.
> By the way the french translation of "Your son is dead" as "Votre fils est mort" is very dry and tasteless

That's exactly the point. You wouldn't really say it like this in English either, but in a Soviet style totalitarian state, it's easy to see.
I haven't tried any of the 'full' IDE's listed yet. I have Eclipse set up for C/C++, maybe I will give it a shot at some point. I've heard of the XCode version as well, but again, haven't tried it.

That said, I have found ST + the Stino plugin[1] to be great for my arduino projects. A good linter setup and gdb gives most of what I am looking for. The convenience of debugging with an IDE that auto-populates watches based on context is nice, but rarely are these projects sizeable enough (for me) to need serious debugging.

Using Stino + ST (and turning off the Arduino code munging) gives a typical GCC compilation which requires everything you'd expect of a GCC compilation (proper declarations, prototypes, scoping, etc).

I can understand why forsaking function prototypes and adding type aliases (such as 'boolean' usable for declarations in addition to 'bool') might make it easier for newcomers to learn to write 'sketches. But I am not sure it's great in the long run. So much of the Arduino code out there is poorly written, including some of the libraries I commonly see floating around. And coming from me (who is far from part of the greybeard C/C++ master engineer cohort), that says a lot.

I think that the Arduino platform would likely benefit from a more natively supported 'second step' development environment that encouraged better program organization and DRYness. I can't even count the number of arduino 'sketches' I have seen out there that are a mess of static global const variables declared in 2000+ lines of completely spaghetti'd code.

Of course, I think it's great Arduino is becoming so popular, I just wouldn't mind seeing some nicer tools/educational resources for those new to it.

[1]https://github.com/Robot-Will/Stino
It's similar to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or the .NET CLR VM if you're familiar with either of those.
Perhaps it is was written that way accidentally because it matches how comments and submissions start with a karma of 1. (Comments/submissions likely start with 1 karma because you are essentially giving an upvote to yourself when you provide content.)
What I meant was, the cost, including amortization of fixed costs, is still legitimately high (and thus would be expensive for very different reasons from the typical "health care WTF" -- and most health care spending isn't in the form of pharmaceuticals). And expecting high-fixed-cost goods to be priced based on the marginal unit ... is the wrong heuristic to begin with.
I find it a bit unfair to request free help from users to localize the game, given that the game is proprietary...
Ask HN: How do you get paid for remote freelance work?
Are there any better alternatives to ol' Paypal?
Ah, that's neat! I am not headed off to Georgia Tech though :)
> The original motivation for SFXR is the number of games produced that were simply silent. SFXR changed that to not silent.

Sure, it lowers the barrier of entry when it comes to sound design. I think it has worked well for a few games, and as I said it makes perfect sense for something like ludum dare or just prototyping.

But when you want to polish your game and have a vision and/or a budget of any sort, I don't see how the sfxr sound effects aren't the first thing to go. Sfxr makes it all a lot simpler, but it sometimes strikes me as arrogant to use it for an otherwise polished product, since in my mind it means that these game developers don't recognize that it isn't trivial to create a good set of sound effects.

+1 on creating a tool that makes collaboration easier. I have a friend who does this professionally, and the process usually involves manual revisioning by renaming files or timestamped folder names and moving them to dropbox. The last project I saw him work on actually had an in-house tool to manage volume levels and delay times, though.
The point is there may be an additional, secret, logic block which allows malicious access to the flops.
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Sounds implausible, given the number of European pharma companies...
This is the whole point. While in isolation, A generally translates to A' and B to B', it doesn't mean that it can always be used that way.

In translations you'll often get situations where A should be translated to B' in that context (even if in the original language B wouldn't be used there), in order to transfer the concept properly. Literal translations often end up weird, and sometimes completely wrong.
A year (or two) ago, I wrote a simple virtual machine [1] of my own. Fun time. Interesting exercise. Wish I had courage to post it here and get feedback from the HN. Anyways, yours is much cleaner and concise code. Kudos.

[1] https://github.com/swapi/z9
In fact, the documentation mentions that their operators are tested to match those of R https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/manual/datamash.html#S... which looks like a pretty neat idea.
I think this might be a matter of semantics. I call the silver gelatin black and white photo prints I make in a darkroom from negatives prints.
at 2.9% + 30 cents stripe isn't all too bad
https://stripe.com/nl/pricing
you have to build your own checkout page though
It might help to say a bit more about what you're looking for. (Are these jobs in Washington DC? Temporary or permanent? Do you require U.S. citizenship?)
I've written a lot of OCaml code and I don't recall having the compiler blow up on hand-written code. The OCaml type inference engine works well except on objects where you sometimes need to annotate variables to tell it what object type it is. (But then we rarely use OO in OCaml).

It's a different matter with generated code. For a while I had a program that generated OCaml code (from descriptions of Linux kernel structs). That would result in 100000+ line generated OCaml programs which frequently caused very long compile times (eg 20 minutes and more), with the time being spent in the type inference part of the compiler.
Too much alcohol certain can, and frequently does, kill people.

Doing 10x overdose of MDMA has a not insignificant chance of killing you.

Doing 10x overdose of Heroin will likely kill you.

Never having tried LSD, I can't comment on what the psychological effects of 10 hits of LSD will be, but given that Erowid suggests starting with a dosage of 25 ug, and that the optimal dosage is between 50 and 200 ug, it's not clear to me that 250 ug (a 10x over the base dose) will really be that big a deal (beyond how big a deal LSD normally is). Perhaps you are referring to 10x of your optimal dose (i.e. if normally you take 200 ug, suddenly taking 2000 ug)

Regardless, I think it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that, "Toxicity is meaningless in the face of losing your mind" - I had some pot brownies once, and went to a very twisted universe. At the time it was pretty scary for the better part of an hour, I just curled up into a tiny ball, but I look back fondly on the experience.

I don't know anybody who has ever done drugs, and thought that "toxicity is meaningless in the face of losing your mind." Some people do drug just to lose their mind.
Most of these appliances aren't using ZFS. They are using mdadm with ext4.
Definitely post it! I've written muuuuch worse and it's still public :D

Check out http://github.com/tekknolagi/gecho — shudder
I don't get your problem with automated testing. In my eyes this is the one feature that the shell has, but Github doesn't. That's why I'm quite confused. You can addd git hooks to automate it, or simply call the corresponding command while you are in the shell already. But GitHub neither builds nor tests your code, it simply shows you the git log, git diff, etc. as HTML.
Understand the worlds biggest problems and hack them
Derek Lowe's blog does cover that subject. You can find it at http://pipeline.corante.com/ including a sovaldi related post http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/07/21/the_hep_c_fi...
Agreed. But when i write code everyday, it become so common to use counting from zero than from 1.
Control the size of the ZFS ARC cache dynamically
Ask HN: Breaking pyramid scheme tunnel vision
Dear HN, a friend of mine has become tangled up in a pyramid scheme (namely ariix), and has become effectively brainwashed. First time experiencing the frustrations of fighting mob mentality, so here to ask for your wisdom.
Easiest for (without loss of generality) US clients: Establish a US bank account and get paid with checks, ACH (in-country electronic transfers), or wire transfers.

Easiest for you: Establish a bank account in your country and instruct your US clients to pay you with international wire transfers.

US clients are often not very experienced with international wire transfers and it causes hitches for their internal processes and banks, so the US account option will save you a lot of friction on a per-client basis in return for having more headaches up front. (The easiest way to set up a US bank account if you don't physically reside in the US is to do it through a local branch of a US-homed megabank. Despite the general impression of a lot of freelancers on this matter, international commerce is in fact fairly routine and "the Patriot Act" -- Know Your Customer and anti-moneylaundering regulations -- are not an absolute barrier to this.)

You should probably avoid using Paypal for transfers of more than a few hundred dollars. I like Paypal, don't get me wrong, but they're not well-suited to running a consultancy on top of.
Only car was recognised here: http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2014/05/lamborghini-aventa...
What's wrong with bank transfers?

Or do you mean internationally remote?
American historians strike again!
Time Magazine covers is why I subscribe to "hacker" news
What is acceptable for some companies is not for other companies.
> But even then, what action would one take based on this feedback

Activate a rear-mounted grenade launcher, of course. Well, in some of my violent daydreams regarding jerks in cars, at least.
"NOP (): Does nothing. Seriously." - I love this :)
looks fantastic. every time we run our hack4good events i'm amazed by both what gets done in 48 hours and what relationships get built that last a lifetime. hack climate change next with us here: http://bit.ly/hack4good06
IBM’s Watson Groomed as C-Suite Advisor
It's kind of funny. Not sure how badly this guy dresses. I've seen people wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and sandals that look well considered, maybe CEO of a space start-up, and others that look like a hot mess. Ostensibly both parties should find less ways to be insulted, avoid posturing, and avoid visually fatiguing fashion faux pas. No need to spend money, spend a little more time choosing wisely. But not so much time that you want people to have the impression you care but not really and end up with lululemon.
Comparison of Intel and CloudFlare zlib patches
Tinder Hacks
Greed remake for android
Beware of C++ (vidio)
3.1 million ill?

I guess that US should just buy a billion pills with huge discount and then distribute those as they please.
for EU-US payments bank transfers seems quite expensive to me
If almost 1% of your population is the 'fringe of society' then that's another problem altogether.
Frontpage talks about chat and opportunity to get wife from Asia. Maybe you should consider go down a bit with ads?
Why Android Auto could be a game changer | Android Authority
Aesthetics and Apparent Usability
Sofosbuvir (Solvadi is the brand name of the pill) acts by inhibiting the viral RNA polymerase enzyme used by the Hep C virus, so unless your liver disease has a viral cause where the virus relies on an affected RNA polymerase this drug probably isn't going to help.
Research doesn't have to be funded by investors looking for a profit. Lots of medical research is funded by governments and non-profit organisations. For some diseases that is where the vast majority of funding research comes from.
Can anyone link me to some literature on VMs? Sure, I can analyse the code, but from a design perspective, I would love to learn more about how VMs work, where they can be used, etc etc.
Thank you for your answer; would you mind expanding a bit on Paypal?
check transferwise.com. Been using them for maybe 2 years now, and am a very satisfied customer indeed.
It didn't seem like ranting to me. I think you did a great job of
expressing your opinion clearly and fairly. In a mostly failed attempt
to empathize, I brought up the vision/display issue as a possible reason
why the fading might bother you more than me. Normally, I need to use a
specialized browser to prevent headaches and it never renders the fade
effect, so as saying goes, "Out of sight, out of mind." I can only
withstand black text on a white background for a few hours, but then I'm
pretty much toast and in dire need of some aspirin.

Oddly enough, over the last two days I've been once again working out
the needed css to override handling of a few corner cases on HN, so for
a change, I've actually been seeing the fade effect. The fade is
annoying, but on the bright side, it did enable me notice a few unfairly
down-voted comments, and prompted me to give a corrective up-vote.

The one unfairly down-voted comment sticking in my memory was some
person saying they didn't like Debian distribution of Linux and cited
the 2006 OpenSSL fiasco as their reasoning. Down-voting a general
opinion, and particularly one with factual support, is simply abusive
voting, but sadly, it happens quite often on HN. If you know how to stop
fanatics from doing dumb and/or mean things with their votes, then I'd
love to know the answer. The only solution I know is to up-vote against
them (when I notice the down-votes).

You said you've already solved the issue for yourself with a
"userscript" but whether that's through GreaseMonkey or through
leveraging userChrome.js is uncertain. It's actually much easier and
cleaner to fix the display with pure CSS, either through a plugin like
"Stylish" (chrome/firefox), or through your userContent.css file.

For me, I'll probably use something like the code below since I want the
down or dead comment to be displayed equally like all the other
comments, but I also want some form of feedback to let me know the
comment was down-voted.

@-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
/* down-voted comments, reset font color to black */
font[color="#5a5a5a"],
font[color="#aeaeae"] {
color: #000000 !important;
}
/* down-voted comments, add trailing indicator of down-votes */
span font[color="#5a5a5a"]:last-child::after,
span font[color="#aeaeae"]:last-child::after {
color: #aeaeae !important;
white-space:pre;
display: inline !important;
content: '\A\A [down?]' !important;
}
/* dead comment class, reset font color to black */
.dead, .dead * { color: #000000 !important; }
/* dead comment class, add trailing indicator of down-votes */
.dead:last-child::after {
color: #aeaeae !important;
white-space:pre;
display: inline !important;
content: '\A [dead?]' !important;
}
}

The above sort of turns the tables (if you pardon the HTML tag pun) by
changing the comment font color to black, and adding a subtle trailing
text indicator of "[down?]" or "[dead?]" that's mostly faded out. It
should level the playing field, but still give me some gentle feedback
so I can make a corrective up-vote when needed. As always, it's not a
perfect solution, but it seems like an improvement.
I run a similar setup, it provides VPN access for me (mostly to secure connections in public wifis) and runs a TOR node.

As you said, it is cheap, power consumption is ok and it is ready to go after you plug it in.
Full-screen page with centered navigation tutorial
Hamas’s Chances
Create A P2P Distributed Application In Under 35 Lines Of C++11 Code
Nicely done! Manu Prakash's lab at Stanford has explored this bead-lens approach quite a bit with the Foldscope project:

http://www.foldscope.com/

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

It has come up a few times on HN, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7591573
My bad, for not understanding how it works.
There are two flavors of coworking spaces, one where have a community office that allows you to work there on short notice without a lot of commitment, and the other one is basically a shared rented office space.

It may be cultural, but coworfing.com results for my country (Germany) yield only permanently shared office space. They're not places where you can just pop in every once in a while.
I wrote an open source XMPP-based chat client:
https://conversejs.org

There is a Django add-on for it as well:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-conversejs

In the latest unreleased version (0.8), you only have to load converse.min.js and converse.min.css in your HTML.

The 0.8 release should go out within the next few weeks.
You guys sound like you know a lot about these types of networking protocols. Can you recommend a decent summary of currently available approaches to relatively dynamic private link layer network topology provision suitable for cross-cabinet (or even cross-site) virtualized infrastructures and their drawbacks? For instance, I've been seeing Open vSwitch gaining popularity.
Even in Europe the difference is quite astonishing. A 32GB iPhone 5S in Ireland costs €799. In the US it is $649* or €480. In the case of a Mac, the difference will cover a return flight to the US.

*Without taxes, but as a tourist you can claim those back. Even taking into account taxes of both it's still a lot cheaper in the US.
Not sure it's legitimately that high - 3.2 million patients in the US alone times $84,000 per patient gives you a lot of amortization of fixed costs.
O(2^2^n) = O(4^n) = O(c^n) ;
O(2^3^n) = O(8^n) = O(c^n) ;
...
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They are - I'd try something like Transferwise, that's what we use to pay our international contractors. Or Stellars.