skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am just quoting another instance from around that time, besides this is all kind of moot since:

> I doubt SONY copied the competition

IIRC this wasn't decided by SONY, each game used its own variation until a standard was created organically.
>Lots of insurance has a deductible

Aw yiss! Bureaucracy is so much better when it's private bureaucracy! Nothing against you, mind, it's just that I hate that kind of stuff.
Interesting. That surprises me - I'd always assumed that the UK scene didn't have much influence on the US technology world.
When BeOS was becoming interesting, it was competing against MacOS 8 and Linux (assuming you had already ruled out Windows and you couldn't/wouldn't pay for a UNIX workstation).

MacOS had commercial apps and a good reputation in certain fields. The hardware was expensive by PC standards but high quality.

Linux was growing like a weed: adding just a little more RAM to the kind of desktop a college student could afford let you do everything that the Sun workstations in the computer lab could do, and you never had to share it.

If BeOS had been free, compatible with less-blessed hardware, and not offended Apple so much, it might have had a chance.
You talk bad about RSA and use RSA keys at the same time?
> The inefficiencies aren't inherent in privatized health care

No, but lots of them are inherent in having a nest of overlapping private and public health insurers (regular, workers compensation, and others) each of whom spend considerable resources making sure that they don't pay for something a different insurer (public or private) could instead be compelled to pay for.

> they are a result of a corrupt system.

Believing that the excess costs in the US system are a result of "corruption" rather than the structural inefficiencies of the architecture of the system requires believing that Americans are unusually, among citizens of developed countries, corrupt. This is not utterly implausible, but it is a claim that requires some support.
From what I understand, there's some federation baked into the protocol and it works with Cyanogenmod (they run a server for their users), but it's not really documented anywhere in detail.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

Doesn't mention opium, but a quick google says that it takes 10 kilos of opium to make a kilo of heroin, which admittedly is near the top of the list. There are lots of prescription drugs based on opium, no?
This is an interesting idea. Given the additive properties of bitcoin keys it would even be pretty easy to make a key that was very very unlikely to be recoverable. Three people separately generate keys, throw away the private keys, and then mine to the product of the three public keys. It would take all three of them lying about throwing away the private keys and then collaborating to recover the combined private key to get the coins back.
Even more awesome then.
My bet: a lack of a killer app, plus no compatibility with killer apps on other platforms.

OS/2 was slightly more compatible with existing apps and therefore had slightly more success for a while.
I'm still waiting for an invite to join your hiring gamification startup ;)
At that point it seems like what America needs is to hit the reset button and throw everything away. Because it's insane that the US spends more tax money on healthcare than the UK.
It certainly works, in that case, for the shareholders of the insurance company.
No worries about the digression. This is great!

We are working on getting an analytics section built for this that is just not Google Analytics but also guidance on things that you should be monitoring, why they are important and how to use that information to change your product. I see the analytics and the monetization section actually being quite tightly integrated when we can land it.
Kudos for stating the obvious. Now how do we do something about this?
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I agree, it's one of the first landing pages in a long time that explained within 30 seconds or so exactly what the product does. Very well done.
When compassion as you define it means adding multiple orders of magnitude to the potential death toll of ebola, it's time to consider that the results of your compassion may be undesirable. They are victims of a horrible disease, yes. You have compassion, and this is laudable.

This does not make it ethically or morally acceptable to create more victims.

You are expecting a perfect solution. There isn't one. We must accept and live with the least bad solution.
I think the demo on the landing page should be in the form of meeting minutes, rather than someone messaging a load of tasks to their (I assume) direct reports.

Why? Because the feeling the demo evoked for me was: "Uh oh. This looks like a micro-managers wet dream".

So rather than just have "@John please !phone client" perhaps the demo would itemise the meeting minutes with: "@John said he would !phone client and discuss requirements".

Perhaps this is simply because I have had the unpleasant experience of working for panic-driven micromanagers before. But I think you really want to make sure your landing page is resonating with "Awesome - this is going to make my life easier" vs. "What pandora's box of hell will this tool unleash in my organization and work life".

Product definitely looks useful though, and the above comments are about making sure you present it in its best light. Good luck!
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Thanks! The repo is starting to gather a lot of infrastructure cruft that we need to sort out, but we are getting there :)
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That sounds like a reasonable scheme!
If the terms of the agreement between MS and Samsung state that MS won't compete directly against Samsung in hardware, it seems like MS is the one who broke the deal first.
What went well today? got #1 on HN.
This is my point - y'all aren't even reading what Amazon is saying! They're LITERALLY going to raise the price to 2.5% - it's on the page! It's actually spelled out "we are going to raise our prices".
Didn't know about that one! What an absolutely great thing. I keep a log over the work I do and being able to look back at the work I have done and examine the thoughts I had say a year ago is incredibly valuable. I wouldn't be surprised if you can get the same benefits from this.

Thanks for sharing!
Just downloaded and loved it. Great app. Is there a way to include quotes?
It points out the vast discrepancy between what Google recommends people do and what they actually do, suggesting that they are either ignorant of best practices, or are lying about best practices.
Strawman. Those statistics were to refute grandparents assumptions about how patents are used in the real world, not to assert that litigation is a "success".

Litigation is a failure, but a failure of negotiation, not of the system. On mobile, so can't find the Lemley study now, but something like 1% of issued patents are ever litigated, and a big fraction of even those settle out of court. The large majority are typically licensed without involving litigation -- thousands of practicing entities, including well-known firms like Qualcomm, ARM, Microsoft, etc. routinely license patents as part of their business without suing others, because lawsuits are as expensive to practicing licensors as to potential infringers. It's only when parties cannot agree on the validity or value of patents that lawsuits occur, and statistics indicate this is rare.

There's no evidence of "systemic failure" of patent litigation, unless you uncritically accept media reports without evidence or are simply biased against patents.
Samsung announces Galaxy Alpha
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That's a legitimate opinion - but it's how the game has been played for in the CC world for a while. There's huge lock in to these providers and they know they'll get'm for years at a higher rate, and the merchants won't really be able to do much about it. It sucks.
Samsung Introduces Galaxy Alpha, the evolution of Galaxy Design
there is no blog link on the about page.
They don't, but after sweating in the hot sun doing manual labor as a teenager, I had no issues working hard in college and cruising through BSEE and MSEE with A's. I sure as hell did not want to be doing back breaking, manual labor all my life. That is the lesson taught.

Also notice in the article, teenage work is positively correlated with family income. Upper middle class parents, in general, don't let their kids laze around.
And Seth Brown wrote a few useful small functions too.

http://www.drbunsen.org/explorations-in-unix/

(might have also made it to HN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security
I was a heavy BeOS user during its last days, and from what I remember, Microsoft put some serious pressure on certain OEMs to not sell BeOS on their computers. Compaq was one of those; they were told in no uncertain terms that if Compaq sold even one computer with BeOS on it, they'd never sell another computer with Windows, period.

That's certainly not the only reason the company went under, but it was a major factor.
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Hi, (to original authors of the site)

Could you guys publish square ads with dimensions that instagram images and videos have, i.e. ad units that are 612 px square, 306 px Square and 150 px square, so the 1000s of Instagram client apps that use their API can monetize their apps and sites?

These ad sizes would be really awesome because we can then blend the ads with the Instagram posts and it would all be very frictionless and seamless from the end user perspective and monetization might increase for google and the ad sense publishers.

Thank you!
> Flynn still needs to do a much better job on the documentation front. It's entirely unclear how to use Flynn.

Yes. I mean nothing bad about the people behind it in saying this, but this is kind of a red flag to me for this kind of project - ie: when you're talking about basic infrastructure I look to see that the people behind it have a culture of continuous and rigorous documentation. Features shouldn't be allowed to be released in any form unless the documentation for them is included. If the product is as far along as it claims to be (a beta available), yet there is still almost zero documentation (at least, as evidenced on their site), then it's in a seriously bad situation. I'd urge them to do some reflection about this and institute some policies that ensure that documentation is emerging as a natural part of their process and not an afterthought that they plan to address later.
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It's illegal for US corporations to do deals directly with several governments. Syria most likely bought the gear used through gray/black market channels.
The best windows UI imho was Win2000. Best UI overall would still be OSX, also imho.
Or it was a group of people smart enough to realize that behaving like a group was exactly the thing people would think a group of smart people who want to stay anonymous would be unlikely to do.
What is Flynn? I read the link and the homepage on my phone, and couldn't figure out for the life of me what the product was.
I'll speak to the ads team tomorrow. Not sure I will get an answer but I have been working with them a bit now.
My MBPr had this issue. Marched into the 5th Avenue store telling everyone they should be ashamed of themselves over and over like a broken record. New laptop in 30 minutes.
That was a thorn in the side of many a BeOS user; while GoBe Productive was an amazing office suite, Microsoft Office had a stranglehold and if you didn't have Word and Excel, you didn't have a computer in many people's minds.

The world has changed in the past 13 years; we've had OpenOffice and LibreOffice for many years, and Google Docs/Drive has forced Microsoft to focus on cloud-based productivity apps. Back when BeOS was alive, it was just as common to have a dial up modem as it was DSL or cable, and sometimes broadband simply wasn't available in certain areas. Cloud computing as we know it now was still over the horizon.

In today's cloud-centric Internet, Haiku could easily thrive if it got enough momentum. Unfortunately the only people who seem to even know about it are old BeOS hats like myself.
Great idea. I'll see if I can push that out shortly
I'll point out that the Bitcoin cliet was not originally a good quality product, and in fact was rather full of bugs and security issues, not to mention being rather heavily tied to Windows.
Very well put. Most experienced teams just execute very well and individuals can take on bigger roles while still seamlessly fitting into a bigger picture. I think there is a bit of a gut feeling when you have experience -- more likely your first step is in the right direction.
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For Apple, BeOS would have been a disastrous choice and NeXT knew this. BeOS and its public APIs were built on C++ which is terrible for binary (ABI) compatibility, which is a critical feature to convince 3rd party commercial (proprietary) developers to develop for your platform.

You can see that BeOS and later Haiku were stuck on an ancient version of gcc 2 because they could never upgrade without breaking all existing binary compatibility.

After NeXT did their not-so-secret reverse takeover of Apple, you can see they solved the binary compatibility problem for the most part by leveraging both C and Objective-C which both had a predictable/stable ABI, even with all the tinkering they did to extend the languages and eventually replace the compilers (Codewarrior->gcc->clang).
I just added your site to https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup

Good luck. I think that your emphasizing that it is manually submitted is important, and makes me expect that it'd be done with a higher level of quality than by an automated tool.

It has crossed my mind to automate a service like this, and then remembered back when there were competing search engines and directories. There were many automated, pay-for services that'd submit your site to them all at once, which of course never worked as well as doing it by hand.
Hear, hear. I've had way too many friends get their Adsense accounts banned to ever want to get involved with that mess.
Isn't it possible that these numbers reference the amount of data moving through the system ("handle and process") instead of raw storage capacity, which is probably significantly less and matches more realistic private-sector abilities?
Bitcoin scaling problems, solved?
It's still a long way out, but Amazon wants to do drone deliveries that come within hours of your order. One of the main ways that local stores compete for my dollar with Amazon is the immediate gratification I get from being able to get a product that same day.
I'd think Google knows more than any organization in the world how to best monetize a website. In fact uniquely positioned as the only company to know. Look at all the data they have access to. A lot of these people run g analytics too not just adsense. They give up their website data to g for free. If any organization has the hard data on what's effective and not, they do. Now, take their advice? That's a different story. I'll check industry standards if they say 3$ cpm and I'm getting 10 already, I don't need their advise necessarily.
Not only are they not as recognised as you think, even if it is commonly known there can be conflicting acronyms across different specialities.

eg. During the eurozone crisis they frequently referred to the ECB on the news. I kept translating it in my head as "The English Cricket Board has just authorised billions in loans", always took me a few seconds to remember European Central Bank...
As someone who has been blind since birth this is accurate. I know that people who go blind later in life continue to dream in color since they have the memory of color to reference while I do not. I wonder if someone who goes blind later in life experiences things differently, possibly by automatically filling in what they assume they would see based on what they know of there surroundings from there other sences.
Don't link to your twitter stream. Submit the original article.
That was just a few days ago posted on here. I don't imagine they threw all of this together that fast, probably have been working on it for a long time and knew people might say that the longer they waited to release.

I also wouldn't consider open source projects as competition, there is room for everyone to work together for a common goal and they compliment each other. Some like Bootstrap and some like Foundation. Some like Rails (Ruby) and some like Laravel (PHP). Overall it's better to have more resources than less or even none. Props to all.

For those who don't know, MailChimp also has a set of email templates available. https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints
The requirement to log in coupled with multiple Google accounts made starting a Hangout so painful every single time. I switched to http://appear.in months ago and love the simplicity it provides.
Ask HN: How would you monetize this app?
Pricing models, advertisements, selling data collected from the users etc.. any suggestions would be great. I'm not desperate to make money off of this as user growth is my number one priority but it would be nice to maximize cash output from it as well. Thanks.

Link to the app (Android) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_ViewSk8.BeerBattle
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Yeah, that would be my guess. Even still, there are things you can do to equalize the sound of two different audio streams (as in a Skype call, where each side presumably records its own input channel). It sounded to my ear as if one person had recorded in mono and the other had recorded in stereo. I could be wrong about that, but if that had been the case, you can mix both streams to mono for a relatively decent fix.
We have found a new name for our company

Since you are rebranding, you might be better off finding a name where the .com is available just to avoid the hassle of being shaken down if you get big later. Companies that just ponied up the money when they got big are dropbox (formerly getdropbox.com) and facebook (formerly thefacebook.com). It seems like recently you don't even need the .com (e.g. famo.us and socket.io), so you could go that route if your name is short and easy to remember.
Have you considered a haptic device like the one in the article?
Perhaps true, but the web hasn't been deprecated so...

And you can use F#! http://funscript.info/
Ask HN: Alternatives to social-networks entertainment
I'm cutting down on my social networking time significantly. I'm looking for an alternative entertainment / infotainment but hopefully with more benefit. Any suggestions?
They haven't gone after PayPal yet right?
Chrome's certificate pinning database doesn't scale at all (i.e. it works on less than 0.01% of the internet).

As to the whois thing, what is stopping me from hijacking a domain, changing the whois and then generating keys? The webadmin might never even know. You don't even need access to their email.

Or to put it more realistically: What is stopping the NSA from pressuring a domain registrar into altering the whois for a brief period in order to generate MITM keys?
Affiliate with a retailer, of course. Also, pull some pictures/logos and pretty it up some. I realize this is the first iteration but low-quality appearances make me assume low-quality code.
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It sounds like this work is fleshing out how one of the early steps in the evolution of live took place. I'm guessing that the more we learn about the links in this chain, the more we'll know about whether or not it's plausible that there was some sort of panspermia.
Set up travisCI-like continuous integration with docker and jenkins
Flynn lets you tie GIT deployment to a system that uses heroku buildpacks and launch using Docker containers. But what if I don't want to use a buildpack but a Dockerfile?
5 Characteristics of a Great Data Modeler
Fully assembled, the devices performed far better than commercial supercapacitors in both energy density and the range of temperatures over which they can work. The hemp-based devices yielded energy densities as high as 12 Watt-hours per kilogram, two to three times higher than commercial counterparts. They also operate over an impressive temperature range, from freezing to more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

One wonders what the economic opportunity cost of the drug war has been.
Cool, thanks. We have a combination of Medela and Phillips Avent stuff, and it looks like they're all polypropeline, so we'll probably just stick with those. Glass seems like a hassle and I'm also not very worried about sterilization.
Partly they just didn't have enough money to build an OS, so every time they pivoted it put them further behind. And they pivoted a lot of times.

I think they made a lot of design decisions that were overfitted for 1995, so if they had survived they would have quite a bit of legacy cruft by now. And the brittleness of C++ may have made the cruft worse.

In some cases their idealism seems to have held back practical adoption. Their "pervasive multithreading" made it very difficult to port Java and Mozilla. (The idea of "only native apps, no ports" made perfect sense in the siloed PC market of 1993. By 1997, not so much.) Treating all developers equally meant that professional developers may have gotten shortchanged.
Learning to drive a car is hard. You have to watch the road, coordinate hands and feet, anticipate other drivers' moves and so on. No one bats an eye about this, because "it's a skill you have to learn". If you don't play by the rules of the road, you'll end up killing someone, or getting killed.

But for some reason (maybe because it's generally less life-threatening), people seem to expect deeply complex subjects, like e-mail encryption and identity management, to be easy. "Yeah, if you can just give me a fancy, easy-to-use GUI with forward secrecy, that'd be great!" Sure, it'd be great. But it's not going to happen. And that's not because PGP is broken -- of course, it does have its weak points. It's because people are too lazy to bother to learn.

What's the old addage? You can have quick, cheap and reliable. Pick two? Same here. You can have secure, easy to use, and reliable. Pick two.
Well, perhaps I was downvoted for "hating" those templates. I really, really dislike them.

As for the JS dependency, when I want to read an item published under such a template, I view the Google cache copy. It loads up just fine without JS -- or I'm forgetting that, foolish me, I have google.com whitelisted.

Not sure about one's satisfaction with this on mobile, but it would be worth a shot.
The Medicare levy in Australia is about 2%. For me this translates to about $1500pa. Contrast this to my private health insurance which costs about $2000pa. The Medicare levy scales with income and the rate is lower than 2% for people on low incomes, and higher for people who don't have private health insurance. Private health insurance does not scale to income, only to services required.

Medicare provides certainty: if you need treatment, some of it is going to be covered by Medicare. There is a schedule of how much Medicare will pay for certain procedures and medications[1].

With private health insurance you can sometimes choose to have private rooms or select a specific doctor/surgeon.

We have a national health insurance scheme because Australia has a culture of looking out for your mates.

[1] Procedures are covered by the Medical Benefits Schedule http://www.health.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.nsf/C... while medications are covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: http://pbs.gov.au/pbs/home