skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you cite some of these nonapproved productivity apps please?
No, but omitting a return type for a non-private or implicit member is definitely a style violation.
Go on ebay and search for "vintage sci fi book lot". You can usually get a box of 'em for a buck each, and if you're patient, even $.50 each.

Your local thrift shop often has a pile of books for sale, and if you take a load of them off their hands, they'll usually give you a deal. I sometimes fill a couple shopping bags with sci fi books that way.

The fun thing about buying them by the bushel is poking through them, and discovering great sci fi you never knew existed. I enjoy the lurid artwork on the older ones, too.
$0.99 for an App is not sustainable pricing unless your product is mass-marketed in order to make up the numbers. My company have several products in iOS and Mac App Stores and none of them are near this price. In fact, one of our products (Websecurify for iOS) is $16 which you may say is an expensive app for iOS but this is a more realistic pricing. I doubt we would have achieved any effect if we had priced it $0.99. Btw, the next version of our app will probably cost twice as much because even $16 is barely sustainable.

I think it is time for iOS developers get their strategy checked up. I know a lot of people want to get their app/game to a lot of people but unless you have evidence that you app is reaching millions of people, it is not going to work.
The warning is already there: -Xfuture -deprecation.
We decided to delay making it a plain deprecation until we have said tool to do help you stay deprecation-warning-free. You are addressing deprecation warnings in a timely fashion, yes? :-)
Well, sample size of one but I ride bikes to new locations. However, I have my phone's GPS in case I get lost. It helps a lot that the city I live in has a good bike share system and is fairly compact, so cycling is often the fastest option. I don't own a car, either, so I might not be the ideal respondent to your question.
> In 1960, the computer at... NORAD... warned, with 99.9-per-cent certainty, that the Soviets had just launched a full-scale missile attack against North America... They later discovered that the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at Thule Airbase, in Greenland, had interpreted the moon rising over Norway as a missile attack from Siberia.

This is why numbers shouldn't be reported with too many significant figures. I doubt the engineers thought the reports could be %99.9 certain, given that they're extrapolated from noisy sensors, networked across huge distances and that the opponent is adversarial (actively trying to avoid detection).

Percentages can cause a false sense of certainty too; as Leonard Mlodinow points out in The Drunkard's Walk about changing wine ratings from out-of-10 to percentages. We might be quite sure that an 8/10 compares favourably to a 7/10 but not to a 9/10; we can't say the same about an %82 with an %83 and an %81.

If you're forced to report percentages, or tenths of a percent, write the estimated error alongside. Raw numbers like "%99.9" have an implied "+/- %0.05" afterwards.

And that, ladies and gentlement, is why Die Hard 4.0 contains too many many significant figures.
I think this is one of those points where a lot of people on HN will think in terms of COGS, but because Amazon is effectively offering your products at such a large market, the 70% of revenue you'll get through amazon is worth a lot more than the 100% you'd get without going through them (and by definition, more than the 30% they're getting).
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No, you'll have to review the patch yourself. We also don't indemnify you when we introduce a regression. We do have support contracts for those who want the fastest turnaround in fixing those...
If by "wipe out" the author meant create a lot of casualties and do immense property damage and by "most of the state" the author was talking about population and infrastructure value and not surface area, it's a very defensible statement. The central part of the state is pretty densely populated and that bomb is large.

edit: for starters consider that in a state of three million people, 725k are in Little Rock, which is only 116 square miles. Then read the specs on that bomb you linked to again.
Do you have any numbers to back that up though?

I mean, I know that with e-readers book piracy is now potentially practical but is it really a concern for publisher? I'm really curious to know how mainstream it is.

I wouldn't be surprised if the main cause of piracy for ebooks was not the price but rather that the book is not available on a particular platform or only in paperback. Besides the demographics for book readers owning an e-reader is probably older and more wealthy than the average movie pirate.

The only numbers we have are those given by amazon, but we don't know exactly which books they used to make their statistics. We also don't know what the people who didn't buy the 15$ ebooks ended up doing, maybe they didn't buy anything at all, maybe they just bought the paperback...
Is much the same now, the UK doesn't have launch codes and operates the whole thing as a sort of dead-man's switch, apparently partly based on if the Today program has been broadcast on Radio 4.

Are you sure you're not confusing that with nuclear submarine commanders checking that BBC Radio 4's still broadcasting as part of their "is the country still there" checks?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort :

According to Peter Hennessy's book The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War, 1945 to 1970, the process by which a Trident submarine commander would determine if the British government continues to function includes... establishing whether BBC Radio 4 continues broadcasting
It's also important to understand that e-books are highly price-elastic. This means that when the price goes up, customers buy much less.

But what is the alternative for those customers: do they maybe buy the paperback
version instead? If that's the case, Hachette might miss out on revenue, but
they also keep their paper-based business running and stay somewhat independent
of Amazon.
Agreed, although the blame then still lies with the device the secure kernel is running on, or the company that produces it, or the client for choosing to buy it.

I guess you can say that proven software is power, and power can be misused.
I never thought about Game of Life as a game (great job, thanks for sharing!). If it can be made "multiplayer" then "strip" does not sound ridiculous anymore (http://xkcd.com/696/, http://konstochvanligasaker.se/stripgameoflife/).
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It would be really nice to add the option to select metric units.
I think this is a great way to gain motivation, especially when your seeing slow weight loss running 30+ kilometers a week etc..
This is pretty cool. Maybe add the total pounds lost for each entry? Also, it's not clear that "weight range" refers to "before", not after.
There is pretty much zero evidence that ingested cholesterol is in any way linked to cardio-vascular problems: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/eggs-and-atherosclerosis...

So feel free to eat as many eggs as you wish (but as with all things diet, moderation is generally a good idea, 2 dozen eggs a day is probably not going to do great things for your health).
More specifically: the interior of the probe is 2000F, the surrounding rock melts at 1000F. That's a pretty good temperature gradient right there.
Thanks for pointing this out. I went back in and checked and I was using the -progressive option on the jpegtran command and so the comparison was done with -progressive.

However, when I generated the image in the blog post I didn't do that and so I have rerun it. Updating the blog post now.
> Maybe they have automatic theorem prover running on Jenkins and they just refuse to merge changes which would be proven to be wrong?

Yes, that's the plan.

Internally this is how we have been operating since 2009, when the proof was first completed: You don't push a change to the verified kernel branch unless you are willing (or are able to convince someone else) to do the proof updates.

We don't yet have a regression website publicly available, but it's on the short-term roadmap.
Working at home has been the next big sustainability thing for about 30 years now. Why does 90+% of working population still congregate together in offices? Why does YCombinator insist on having everyone in one geographical area and meeting in person often?
My read is that the rock would re-fuse above the probe, so no:

"Heat generated from the decay of radioactive cobalt-60 allows the probe to melt its way into the Earth. The probe is estimated to melt down to a depth of 20 km in ~1 year. As the probe descents deeper, the rate of descent will gradually slow until the probe reaches a depth of 100 km after ~30 years. By melting its way into the Earth, the probe will leave behind a wake of molten material. Subsequent re-crystallisation of the molten material will generate intense acoustic signals."
Yes, first thing i thought about. I sadly never learn to have a simple conversion baseline between these two, even if i travel a lot between the different continents.
You may be interested in my Python-on-ZeroVM-On-Docker Dockerfile[1]. This adds the security and isolation of ZeroVM on top of the connivence of Docker.

Note that ZeroVM isn't an x86 VM, so you need a custom Python (which that Dockerfile downloads). There are also no network sockets, so some things are difficult to make work, but you can work around that by using network code in the Docker container, and riskier code in ZeroVM.

I'd be pretty confident in that security model.

However, it's six months old now, and likely to need some updating. ZeroVM was changing pretty quickly when I was working on it.

[1] https://github.com/nlothian/Acuitra/tree/master/infrastructu...
I hate in-game ads. But if paired with an in-game ad-buyout option, they do tend to remind me that, if I'm going to be playing the game repeatedly, I should do the buy-out.

So even if ads earn a negligible amount... are they ever worth trying as a mechanism to boost in-game purchases?
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Isn't this why you get the warning in every paperback book about covers being ripped off?
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The point is, they get 0 security and we should not pretend that they are getting more. We are ripping off consumers if we do, what we think they want is a poor excuse, unless we're just in it for the money/fame/other benefits.
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This.

I hope by carbon drive you mean a belt instead of chain.

And don't forget brakes in hub, a la Gazelle style. Utility frame, obviously.

Forget the carbon as for this to be remotely successfully, the prices must be as low as possible. Currently the majority of the price is the battery. Add carbon frame and it will cost as much as a reasonably new car.

As for the controls - I believe there shouldn't be any so it feels as natural as possible. Forget the smartphone control bullshit. You could pair it once via BLE so you'd get some statistics at most. Tech shouldn't be intrusive!
Or you could shoot the money in a mirror...
It's been changed twice since then.

First it was changed to include one capital letter, one numerical digit and an asterisk.

Now it's correcthorsebatterystaple.
>> suggesting that the hundreds of weapons the Soviets had pointing at the UK were complete overkill...

As Schlosser says in his book - because of the lack of coordination between the Air Force, Army, US Navy and Missile Forces, at one point there was something like 400(sorry if I remembered the number wrong,but it was in hundreds) nuclear rockets aimed at Moscow, many of them with multi-megaton payload. If they were launched, Moscow wouldn't be just destroyed - the entire area would be turned into the biggest crater on earth.
Actually you could. They are called "deterministic builds".

But this would require some kind of effort from project maintainers.
Could do with some explanation, e.g.:

Set the sliders to a range around your own height and weight. You will be shown pictures of people who are within the height range, and have (at least at one time) had a weight within the weight range.
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It sees they actually dropped some on Spain rather that off the coast. From Wikipedia: "Of the four Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried, three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares"
Could we please change that to metric units? I have absolutely no idea what my weight and height are in feet and pounds.
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I wouldn't have thought how trumped up and ludicrous this all was. I was born in 1984, so I really started becoming aware in the bubble that existed after the wall fell and before 9/11. Sure, I read 1984 and Farenhiet 451 but the seemed like commentary about the future, what could become. Apparently they were just as relevant when they were written. Constant war with the "enemy". The threat of attack at any time. Constant fear. All so people could build their little empires inside the military and intelligence communities. Build their bombs. Spend that sweet tax-payer money. Feel important. Lie to the government. The past seemed so legit and so ancient when I was growing up. After 9/11 I had no idea history was repeating itself. Now we have the ever present(statistically ridiculous) threat of "terrorism". The NSA needs more powers, more money; to protect us of course. They WOULD say that because that's how they get more money, more employees, more power. Still lying to the government of course(weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?). Now we have an ex-NSA head launching a venture charging companies 1 million a month to protect them! Of course they'll contract back to government. And the NSA will tell use all about how we don't need to worry about what they are doing, we just need to pay up.

sigh
I would agree that successful apps must shine on adding value to their end user. That's why some apps can cost more than $10 and still have some orders of magnitude more downloads from similar free apps.
But you're much more likely to be born into a world where this event didn't happen.

The history of nuclear accidents is not a good indicator for the risk of nuclear war due to survivorship bias.

The fact that we haven't observed a nuclear war in history might have less to do with the likelihood of nuclear war and more with the fact that fewer people would be able to observe that history.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
That would likely spell the end of indie app development as well.
As a non-expert reading this thread with some objective distance, the repeated recommendations that stand out are the importance of a distinctive (& searchable) name, and a graphical look/description that fights 'copycat' impressions. (Otherwise, the game never even gets a look from players or reviewers.) So maybe fresh eyes & new language/visual brainstorming would be more relevant than a financier?

You've already got one possible alternate name – "The Letters Game" – in your domain/twitter-handle, but I suspect something even more distinctive is possible. You might also tweak the icon and color scheme to convey more novelty compared to the famous category-leaders...
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First of all, ebooks still make up only a fraction of the book market (especially outside the US). Most big publishers will have to support hardcover, paperback, and ebook version in parallel and price them so that they make a profit for everything combined. Hardcover and paperback versions are not going to go away anytime soon, either.

Second, publishers also make losses on books that don't sell and that they have to recover. The majority of books don't actually sell a whole lot of copies, so the fixed costs associated with producing a book can be a pretty high percentage of revenues for the average book.

Finally, publishers provide editing, translation into foreign languages or negotiation with foreign publishers (assuming your agent didn't retain translation/foreign publication rights), production, marketing, accounting and sales services, distribution, and warehousing (for dead tree books).

Note also that you can equally ask what Amazon provides with regards to ebook distribution: In the end, it's just another middleman that got a head start because it was first to market with the Kindle, but is otherwise unnecessary. In some markets, publishers selling directly to readers (on non-Kindle platforms) makes up a significant part of sales.
Jesus Christ...what a thing to read if you needed to not fall asleep for awhile. I think this is a perfect real-life example of Hanlon's Razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"...the whole world has nearly been annihilated, several times over, due to most inexplicably benign human errors...and that's not even counting the errors of bureaucracy (such as the misreporting of Russian nuke capability, which let military officials press the need for an absurd number of excess warheads).

Also, this is the first time I can remember that I've ever seen a correction in a New Yorker article.
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And immediately after this, Amazon invests $2B in India.

http://www.amazon.in/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_182486107_...
At 100km, the gravitational acceleration is actually higher than at the surface.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gravitational+accelerat...

In fact, it increases until 3500km below the surface (2800km radius).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#mediaviewer/Fi...
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I "found" this on reddit and think it's pretty neat. The creator spoke up in that thread and I try to point him to this thread so he can see the suggestions.
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Seriously, IMPERIAL UNITS ?
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The encode project maybe had the right idea with this. The data was made public, but researchers who did not contribute to the data production could not use it for a period of 6 months or a year for their own publications.
Is there something similar online that I might have missed?

The answer to this one is almost always yes. First-to-market isn't necessarily essential. If you fall within your target demographic and you aren't aware of a similar, successful concept then that means there is categorically room for one more.
Not really a confusion: if the letter of last resort (sealed orders to be opened in the event the Government is destroyed) says "launch the nukes", you do have a sort of dead man's switch, assuming the sub's captain follows the orders.
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Threema also has group chat functionality
Pretty sure what Dutch are buying is these: http://www.gazelle.nl/collectie/elektrische-fietsen/2014/ora...

Yours seems to have advantage (?) of having battery in the middle, but steering wheel is too far to the front. I hate cycling with my back bent. Both bikes are missing hub brakes.
Great explanation! Very easy. It could be perfect if you added some easy to understand real life examples to play with.
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Cessnas do come in a variety of sizes.
Google isn't so difficult to use.
Mind giving us proof that Flipkart makes losses every year. I just find it too hard to believe considering the fact that prices on flipkart are most times higher than any other online retail chain.
Software like this is about making mass surveillance more expensive. If you have a backdoor or a remote exploit for a phone, you might still be able to wiretap somebody, but at least all data on the network is encrypted.
My understanding was they still do: I read somewhere (can't find the link now, sorry) that when the system was explained to Tony Blair on his second day in office, he went white.
Run

go build -x

There's no need for strace.
Your first transform example (name, dob) seems to have the wrong output underneath.

Might also be useful to have a "Why you should use this instead of jq, json(1), etc."
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That was precisely what I was looking for!!!!
Even worse, the C parts of the Go runtime are being rewritten in Go. The Plan 9 C compiler is going away along with all the other C bits as the compilers themselves are being translated to Go.

In short, this will go away very soon. Possibly even Go 1.4. Definitely Go 1.5.
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I've done some limited tests myself, and I'm not convinced by mozjpeg (yet). While savings can be quite significant, up to 10% for large images, there is definitely quality loss, albeit minor. Trellis seems to lay a faint blurriness over the whole image. I admit it's difficult to notice at 1:1 resolution and objectively a good trade, but I'm still wary and will wait for further improvements.
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What is the Goodwill line for (up from 363M in 2013 to 514M in 2014) under the current asset section? What does it mean?
Agreed, and filter by pounds lost.. also calculated BMI before and after would be great!
An HMM is exactly what you have in both predictive typing and speech recognition, since in both cases you've got some form of sensor noise to deal with.
Using SI units also isn't.
Neither are metric units.
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(Fantastic to see you back on HN, BTW)
The announcement here says that Signal will support text messaging compatible with TextSecure later in the summer.

I've been using TextSecure on android for some time, group chat is part of it.
It's an amazing book. Apparently, the author had to stop writing it for a few years, since he needed to reach another level of "enlightenment" before he could accurately describe the last part of the book.
Sorry that was meant to comment on the top, not yourself.

Edit: And was barely worth commenting at all, let alone this comment only drawing attention to the information-free nature of my opinions.

Oh dear ...

But the OP has shamed me into realising I do need to upgrade my financial controls - "worrying" does not seem to count as a system!
Nuclear waste is waste because it doesn't produce enough heat anymore to be useful in production of electricity. So I doubt that spent nuclear fuel would be able to produce 1000C+ temperatures for 30 years to bury itself deep enough.
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