skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't find it any more, but in some literature I was reading that actually it's not so clear as people think. In some situations -1ct works well in other situations other prices like $10.23 work much better. I don't remember the requirements, though.

In any case it's bad to do something that you haven't tested yourself for your market. So if you sell something try different prices and pricing strategies and see what works best.

What certainly works (but is illegal in many countries, I think) is price tagging something as $20 and offering 50% off.
So look. PyPy compiles bits and pieces of code generating assembler. This assembler then gets to be turned into Javascript (asm.js) which needs to be parsed and compiled. All of this happens at runtime and while you can technically call the second piece of it AOT, it's essentially a double JIT or at least you pay the cost of double jitting. The equivalent in C would be generating C at runtime and sending it through gcc/clang.
And as a bonus, the host may grin like a possum when the answer is correct, too. That happens on trivia questions, such as on winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. Contestants are supposed to be British students, know their Shakespeare and recognize 13th century music from four notes played, even if they are studying, say, analytic chemistry. You may get a snide remark "Aren't you ashamed to know that?"
I'm having one of those SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY moments.
Sorry, I had forgotten about lazy vals. Thanks for reminding me. They are cached, so proper lazy [1], see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3041253/whats-the-hidden...
>The solution isn't to push everyone into some multi-disciplinary creative class. Many people would be very happy as uber drivers, or any other menial job, if they were treated with respect by their employer.

I'm not going to use Uber if they are paying the driver $40/hr as a real employee (which translates to closer to $80/hr cost) simply because it will cost more than a cab at that point.
"This is wrong. Thinking of it as a "disease" is a misunderstanding, it makes it impossible to truly understand it."

I would classify it as a medical condition since that is how the modern society can provide attention to it. If one is clinically depressed and borderline on suicide the way to get help is to seek immediate medical attention.

I'm not sure what the philosophical difference is between a "malfunction" and "disease".
Aren't you already past the deadlines to make your enrollment deposits?
Data and source code are indeed open, see here: https://github.com/reaktor/Neliohinnat
Would you care to elaborate on that? What is the model exactly, from the visualisation I would have guessed it is just an aggregation of real estate prices?
Here's a figure of the data before and after modeling, tells a lot: http://louhos.github.io/figs/2015-05-07-asuntohintojen-muuto...
I think you underestimate the effort required to make even these tiny things to work.
Agreed with you. There are gists which people curl or wget from the servers. Github is not exactly like source forge or something like that....
What are you talking about? They build a 12x12 crossbar. The best you can do with it is to implement a single layer perceptron to classify 3x3 pixel patterns. Once they figure out how to scale it up, they will implement a larger network.
Isn't it more like: "Turns out we can manipulate people"

Many of the arguments in the article are about subconscious behaviour. After reading all of these tricks for pricing tactics, I'd say it's rather like a magician fooling people with misdirection. No one likes to be fooled but you only notice it when it's too late.
There is definitely a trend towards crapper recruiting practices.

I have been looking for jobs recently, and while nowhere near as extreme a scenario as that case, a lot of companies expect me to speak with the HR person for 20 minutes on skype, followed by a timed online coding test, despite knowing nothing about the job. You can ask the HR person, but usually they know next to nothing.

Timed coding tests are stupid. That's not how I work on a day to day basis. "Weeks of coding can save hours of planning" is something I believe, and that planning is where my 12 years of experience in the industry makes a difference.
Zynga Shrinks Its Focus and (Again) Its Payrolls
great idea! i like the hipster logo. :)
Banjo Raises $100M to Detect World Events in Real Time
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Chrome Color Enhancer
Unless the spiders start wearing spider nanotube silk weaved spider kevlar
More precise data in the new Search Analytics report
Completely agree. Yet, the number of companies using hacker rank and other timed tests is going up! I honestly prefer a whiteboard interview, where I can actually explain my thought process with the interviewer. Its far better than bash out the first solution that comes into my head, as I don't have time to think it through properly.
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A no-name executive leaving a failing startup. He knows well that the blood sea of insolvency is his responsibility.

He's trying to escape his failure. DO NOT TRUST
I think you need to look at it holistically and place yourself in the shoes of your audience. I imagine an example of a "rational" purchase to be something like searching for a good (eg. headphones) on Amazon and comparing prices between brands. A buyer will try to research and justify their purchase, and the cents may help push them over the edge and convince them that they've "done their homework". Meanwhile, an example of the syllable tactic is a restaurant menu. When I order from a menu, I'm time constrained and forced into a decision. I ask myself internally: "Would I get 19 dollar value from this meal?", and if the answer is "Yes", I'll order it.
Here's what dissolving a gold coin in aqua regia looks like, this is about 1/200th of the weight of the 2 Nobel prize medallions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqU1GfIOkI
If you look at the images, they look very much like stacked planes. I'm guessing - and it's a guess - that there is some largely-transparent device which can generate light on points on a plane, and that it is being rapidly moved up and down like a piston head, creating a persistence of vision display much like LEDs on a bike wheel.

The low-light conditions the pictures are taken in support that I think - it might be that the "points on a plane" are some kind of florescent plastic and there's a scanning laser underneath drawing on it, so the amount of light being generated at any given point is probably very low.
Would you get into legal trouble for naming and shaming companies with that approach, as I have encountered a fair few of them these days.
Lunar Elevator: 12/31/2019
I wish I knew enough econ math to follow that. Is there an easy English explanation?
Yes it does, but does it cost more than the CPU power used by gzip vs the memory access cost of lz4? I suspect the CPU cost is more by at least a magnitude (although I can't measure it, but I bet Google has frameworks for Android to).
it seems to be well established practice in the US that ITAR takes precedence over the 1st in the well defined by ITAR cases - for example, due to ITAR, Elon Musk just can't exercise his 1st by publishing Merlin's blueprints. The same is here - if plastic handgun falls under ITAR - qua. If not - qua for the State Department. It seems that instead of the 1st Amendment lawyer, here ITAR specialist lawyer would be more useful.

Of course, if it is a clear ITAR item, then the fight for the priority of the 1st Amendment is a noble, yet most probably destined to fail, endeavor.
Is there anyway we can view the information in English? Google translate is failing to translate it to English. I'm really interested in understanding all the information presented
He could be using an nvidia graphics card (or two, or three) for all we know, making the GPU comparison totally irrelevant.
Your phone won't require it. It will temporarily use slightly more memory (12MB is very little on modern Android phones), and it would decrease the time required to render the page (due to less CPU power required to compress then decompress over gzip -1).
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I did not know you could dissolve gold in mercury, pretty cool. After a little research, I found out that the process can also be reversed (obviously, since it's used for gold extraction), like it was with aqua regia to recover the dissolved medals' gold, by simply evaporating the mercury (since it's boiling point is much lower than gold's):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(chemistry)#Gold_extrac...

http://nevada-outback-gems.com/Reference_pages/Amalgamation....

This however, has to be done in a controlled manner due to the toxicity of mercury, which is also why mercury apparently isn't commonly used to extract gold anymore.
If this is for anything else than PR then good God...
Driving people from A to B individually would be a "perfect competition" kind of situation without regulation. Some of the motivation behind regulating this market was that some taxi drivers just started robbing their customers.

Now Uber is doing away with the regulation, and it's "perfect competition" again, the state of affairs when prices have to be so low that there is almost no profit for the suppliers. Uber will always make the most overall profit with their drivers just on the edge of survival.

Uber may actually set the fares just below the profitability point, because new drivers or those "driving for fun" actually put money on the table rather than being paid.
I have a very empty github profile, because most of my work is in house. Plus personal projects have the potential to make some money, plus, it seems a bit of a security risk dumping everything, including settings files with passwords into github.
Price data is sparse, often from a small number of sales, and censored when number of sales is smaller than six. So the local price levels, and especially trends are not at all clear from the raw data.

The model has three-level geographical hierarchy from zip-code prefixes, and the local population density as a (hierarchical) covariate. There are also covariances for price level, trend and trend change, and residual model takes number of sales into account and adapts to outliers.

All this helps in getting a better idea of what really happens behind the more or less random individual sales.

http://louhos.github.io/figs/2015-05-07-asuntohintojen-muuto...
Similar one in Hungarian: http://otthonterkep.hu/?s=elado&o=ertekesites2014&lat=47.205...
Possibly not bigger attack surface. lz4 is already used in a lot of mission/security critical areas, and they have audited many lz4 implementations for security and have found and fixed bugs.

For example, the Linux kernel can use LZ4, corporate VPN solutions like OpenVPN can use LZ4, and many other things can use or require LZ4.
I don't think R2D2 was projecting inside a little box.
Not yet, sorry. :) But see the Github repo and source code therein.
Yeah, valuation is nothing. But there are numbers like cash flow, cash reserve, company book value, and even relations like earnings to cost, earnings to book value which can give a good inside about how strong your company is. These numbers are much smaller than valuation, but they give a more reliable picture. Don't evaluate like an investor, but like a (long term) stock trader would.

PS: Sorry if the terms are wrong. There are actual terms for these numbers, but I never learned them in English. Hope from the descriptions you can make out which numbers I mean.
Given that we stop after the first failure technically this should be a negative binomial distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution) with p = 0.979 and r = 1. The mean is p / (1-p) = 46.62. Also there is a p ^ 75 = 0.204 chance that someone of same skill will achieve a better score.
Seems to be iOS only, unfortunately.
> This however, has to be done in a controlled manner due to the toxicity of mercury, which is also why mercury apparently isn't commonly used to extract gold anymore.

Yes, because mercury vapors can directly transfer to your brain once inhaled and cause neurotoxic damage.
Why Do Hackers Love Namecheap and Hate Name.com?
Anybody know why they don't leave the trunk behind in the first place? It seems like a waste of fuel.
It was the Nazi soldier community they were worried about.
That's great, at least those 30+ will be safe from working in your "passionate" company. I mean you just have to open-source everything you are working on these days, right? And who cares about BitBucket, only mainstream things are "cool".

PS: can you point me to Google's latest search algorithm on GitHub? Thanks.
From my experience, this usually happens with the older/cheaper Android devices that use a combined BT+WiFi radio/chipset (Nexus 4, Galaxy S3 etc.)

Fortunately, the Android hardware is getting better and better, e.g. I've noticed no such problems on Nexus 5 or Galaxy Edge.
> You could allow contestants to buzz in as soon as possible, but have the system wait until Alex has finished reading the answer

I think one of the reasons Jeopardy! is so popular is that it makes the audience feel smart. I'm not amazing at trivia, but I know most of the Jeopardy! answers and having the contestants wait to buzz in creates the illusion that I'm doing as well / better than they are. Even though I'm intellectual aware of the importance of buzzer timing, it still feels good to watch and give the answers before the contestants have a chance to demonstrate they know. Compare that to a trivia show like University Challenge in the UK, where not only are the questions remarkably hard, the contestants buzz in before I've had a chance to parse, let alone answer, the questions.

I think allowing contestants to buzz in early, even if Alex finished reading the question before they could answer, would make Jeopardy! a better trivia game but a worse TV show.
"The answer on this one depends on whether one is a proponent of statically typed languages or not, clearly an unresolved question" - I have yet to see a static-to-dynamic transpiler ;-).
I'm filing this under "No shit, Sherlock."
Reactive Streams for the JVM hits 1.0.0
I think this specific suit is valid, but it does raise questions about where the line should be drawn. With just a little creativity, it is very easy to build extremely dangerous weapons from off-the-shelf parts. I won't mention anything specific, as some HN karma is not worth the slightest chance of these weapons being used. I will mention one of my rejected ideas, as there is a straightforward countermeasure: laser blinding devices. Powerful infrared laser diodes are cheap, as are the optics and electronics to drive and focus them. Such lasers are invisible and cause permanent damage faster than one can blink. They have a range measured in kilometers, and they are small enough to be mounted on consumer drones. Combine this with face recognition/tracking, and you could permanently blind any target who dared to show themselves in public.

Do you think someone who published the specifics (parts list, blueprints, source code, etc) of such a device should be punished? I do, even though I think there's an obvious countermeasure. Likewise, while Wilson's 3D-printed gun is a toy, not everything publishable is so benign. Before we hop on the train of free-speech idealism, we should realize how fortunate we are that nobody has discovered a convenient world-ending weapon. Considering the amount of energy pent-up in ordinary matter, we've been incredibly lucky. SILEX[1] came close, but thankfully its specifics have been kept secret. And had physics turned out slightly differently, building a nuclear weapon could have been as easy as putting sand in a microwave.[2]

As much as I hate to admit it, there is such a thing as dangerous information. Until humanity becomes wiser, I think our only (terrible) option is to silence people who try to spread it. Again, this specific case clearly falls under free speech, but it's important to keep future discoveries in mind.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_lase...

2. This example was originally used by Nick Bostrom.
For a short primer: trendi = trend, hinta = price, laskee = decreases, nousee = increases. "Kannattaako kauppa" can be translated to "Is trade profitable?". So the trend view shows in red where real estate prices are expected to fall in 2016 and in cyan where they are expected to rise.
How did you get the Chromebook for that price? Hoe easy are the internal upgrades?
Forgive me if I sound ignorant of America's laws because I'm not from this country, but I'm really puzzled as to why Uber is able to continue to operating in the country. Why is Uber exempt from all the taxi laws that are currently in place in the states, able to make itself sound like a legitimate business despite breaking regulations everywhere? Feels to me as if you can justify breaking regulations by "satisfying customer demands". I'm really curious.
"I haven’t yet placed myself in a new critical role, and I’m confident that Stripe is being left in great hands" i.e., I was fired or quit, and, things are bad. Any other questions?
What tools is OS X lacking? From my experience most of the development and server tools are available natively on OS X. It lacks support for containers, but that would be a worthy addition, and I would say worth spending money and time on. The rest is already there for the most part. Developing further their server infrastructure would allow Apple to make a play for the corporate market. Any way, it's a silly argument. I thought they ran most of their backend on OS X, it looks like was wrong.
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The Shaky Moral Compass of Silicon Valley
Very cool! I got a real flash of nostalgia when the Win95 boot screen glitched for a second, just like it did on my old pc. Now that's accurate emulation!
Someone with 10 years of experience, unable to recognize the nuances one picks up by repeating those 10 years of experience with 10 years of context to make better sense of it.
Tesla didn’t invent home energy storage, has many competitors
When you can omit nil-checks for 'self' in constructor
I found it interesting that many customers were complaining about drivers with accents. I wonder if, would Uber implement per-driver pricing, those people would really pay a premium for drivers with no accent.
So, Skynet, basically?
How the Internet is changing the face of politics
I think oDesk already have a solution for this issue. When posting a job you can choose how much you are willing to pay:

- Entry Level: I am looking for freelancers with the lowest rates

- Intermediate Level: I am looking for a mix of experience and value

- Expert Level: I am willing to pay higher rates for the most experienced freelancers

You can simple target jobs which require Expert Level. You'll most likely find clients who are willing to pay you $30-$50/hr.
I was just in Guangzhou where this is also the case; they have a non-profit/subsidized tier called "People's Uber". A 20 minute ride would come out to the equivalent of $3. The weird thing to me was that there were 5 tiers of service and while there were different cars available for UberX and People's Uber, I couldn't tell the difference in the service. Not sure why anyone would choose UberX when the VC-subsidized version was available.
I bought an HP MicroServer N40L (AMD Turion II Neo N40L dual core) two years back, and added in a low-profile AMD Radeon 6450. The combination is powerful enough to host a media server, play some older games and stream more modern Steam games from my Intel desktop, but low-power and cheap enough to make me very happy with my purchase.

The new generation MicroServers are Intel Celery pieces - more powerful but far more expensive (although I can't say for sure whether the price tripling involves other factors).
Did :) Eagerly waiting for the English descriptions, still!
Well, tfa says it pretty clearly: When asked to estimate the real value of TVs priced at 4998.10, 5000 and 5012.56 the middle one was estimated nearly $500 lower than the others.

Same goes for houses and other situations where you're likely to be conceived as having rounded up.
This was helpful. Thank you! :)
Is 11 days of uptime supposed to be impressive?
Uber has "asked forgiveness rather than asking permission" - they've made themselves indispensable in the markets they serve, and it's politically risky to shut them down, because they are serving a very real need in the transportation industry, and people don't want to see them go away. I think that Uber correctly recognized that the taxi market was under regulatory capture, and that they weren't going to be able to break into the market through legal channels, so they took a ballsy risk and decided to give it a shot anyhow.

It seems to be paying off. Massachusetts, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia have all reversed decisions which banned Uber in their jurisdictions.
Great read. Nice website. Great Photos.
Objectively "BS"? What does that even mean? You need to get a grip and stop your anger towards people who are feeling terrible. If you don't recognize the kind of imagery (the manly-man imagery) that is typically associated with your choice of words, please take a moment to reflect on it. You cannot say "I empathize with you. By the way your reasons for feeling this way are total BS" in the same breath and have any semblance of actual empathy. You feel yourself a clever wordsmith, I'm afraid, who packs a gun called "tough love".
> What if Apple decides to change the Mac Pro form factor for the next iteration?

It seems as though they're prepared for this. This version 2 of their process is already moving away from an existing Apple form factor to a new one. It doesn't seem to be a leap in logic to consider that, should a new form-factor be released, they'll modify their rack cases again.
It is not irrelevant, because AMD's integrated CPU/GPUs dies still beat Intel's offering, hence my question.
Or, why we switched to the vocabulary of "in production" or "shipping"
I would take this question to reddit/r/netsec
FYI, Ken Silverman [1] is involved in this project.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman (he wrote the Build engine, which powers Duke Nukem 3D and other games)
LOL.. Perhaps they can fix the database error before the launch.
matching the toughness of state-of-the-art carbon fibers such as Kevlar

I don't think I would call kevlar a carbon fiber, is more like nylon.
Junior developers are hired because somebody has to do the shit work that nobody else wants to do.
I always say doing software beats working for a living.
Came here to say that!

And I just remembered the custom LOGO.SYS I used to have.

Oh the memories.
I'd be curious to learn more about this mentioned S-Curve and possible institutional inertia. Stripe is an inspiring company - but ultimately a kind of mixed company in that it bridges the Internet to Credit card companies.
Rant[1] seems like a better way of writing texts like these though.

[1] https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant
Moreover, those who are not superrich often live as if they are. Employees at large tech companies commute in free first-class buses...

Yup, that's exactly how the superrich live, commuting in first class buses.

Silicon valley is no less tolerant of homeless than most places, and is certainly more tolerant than New York which ran most of them out of town.
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I would be interested to hear what the bad ones are.
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I remember AMD being so good in the Pentium 4 era. Hopefully they get back to that level.
BSDPy, AutoNBI, and Imagr provides a bleeding edge OS X deployment solution that runs entirely on Linux. OS images can be generated with AutoDMG, and Munki will keep them configured and updated afterwards.

Pop into ##osx-server on freenode if you want to talk to the devs.