skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's start, I don't think this list is exhaustive.

Consumers:

- Unless you carry two mobile devices, you can't use several apps that are iOS-only or Android-only. This is because Apple refuses to support Android apps, and Android cannot easily support iOS apps because iOS is tied to iPhone/iPad hardware (and other tech/legal issues caused by Apple)

- If you decide to only carry an iOS device, your freedom is restricted and you can only run software according to Apple's permission. Also, it's not obvious to the average consumer which categories of software they have been prevented from using by Apple (this includes or included things like a faithful port of Firefox or Chrome, BitCoin wallets, BitTorrent software, games including the confederate flag and so on).

- If you want to run iOS software, you have to pay Apple several hundred dollars more than you would in a competitive market for iOS devices, and can only choose between devices Apple makes

Software developers:

- Reaching a large majority of mobile users requires writing the software twice, due to existence of iOS and the fact that Android cannot support iOS apps and Apple refuses to support Android apps

- Reaching the large market share of iOS users forces you to support Apple's practices, buy and manage Mac hardware, warp your software at additional cost to fit Apple whims, wait days to get updates delivered (if Apple decides to accept them) and pay 30% of your revenue for a service that has at most 5% marginal cost to Apple

- Some software cannot be written for iOS because Apple doesn't allow it, reducing the market for it and potentially making it not viable to develop it

Phone/tablet makers:

- Lots of people only want to carry one device and want/need to use iOS apps (due to lock-in and exclusive software), so the market for new mobile devices is reduced even if they are better in all aspects than existing ones

Society:

- Less innovation happens due to Apple's restrictions on software and the reduced market for non-iOS devices

- Freedom is being curtailed by Apple while offering users benefits for accepting that curtailed freedom, contributing to change cultural norms to a state where it is acceptable for such a company to decide which software and hardware is allowed in the marketplace, and in general what businesses and customers are allowed to do and publish

If Apple were split into three truly independent companies, one selling hardware, one selling iOS and OSX, and one offering the App Store and other online services, most of these issues would no longer be present.

Google is also guilty of several things similar to what Apple is doing, although they are generally less restrictive and it's possible to opt out, and thus less of an issue.
> FTC officials have met with technology company representatives who say Google gives priority to its own services on the Android platform, while restricting others

AOSP is Open Source. Starting from that, Google hasn't restricted anything. Going forward from there, Google (with Play, Play Services) has gradually started tightening things up because of harm to consumers. Is your Android phone running the latest security patches. No? Google needed a way to push out critical updates and their behind-the-scenes position means they have more limited control than Apple does. It obviously doesn't solve everything but I'd argue that they're doing their best to protect consumers.
The vast majority of non-technical users have no idea you can do this, and I've even heard many say that didn't know you could do it with any site - e.g. they thought they could only do it if the site had a popup that said they could do it.
I literally have no money to have a social life, I could get more money but that would require less time. Around work, caring for family and other duties there's no time left and no energy left to make the huge effort of finding someone to kickback with.

But yes, making a conscious effort not to shrink back at an opportunity is good - the general feel however is that they're addressing people who socialise, who have a cadre of friends but who feel lonely. Perhaps this group exists(?) but it seems it would be a thin sliver compared to the group who feel lonely because they haven't friends and don't have a social life at all.

Per the last point "two new studies by the husband and wife research team John and Stephanie Cacioppo, psychologists at the University of Chicago". Perhaps she's a professor or other title but when referencing in subsequent paras I think it's necessary to specify Dr John Cacioppo (or whatever)?
Well, on iOS it's a LOT more than 7: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast...
This is the first I've heard of Puri.sm. It seems like a very ambitious company. I'm not sure features like this are important enough to me to persuade my buying decision. However I love the idea of having another choice besides apple when it comes to hardware. I've just been really unhappy with everything else. I'm excited for another choice when looking for a high-end laptop!
Yes! I grew up playing Snake & Ladder[1], Ludo, Carrom among other board games. They're all very popular in India. One more indoor game that's quite popular in southern India is Channe Mane[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders

[2] http://nivedithatm.blogspot.in/2012/11/long-lost-childhood-g...
Wasn't that the premise of the most recent Captain America movie? Use the computers to determine where threats were, then have the flying aircraft carriers eliminate those threats.

We can't outsource our moral imperative to computers, no matter how much we don't want to have the conversation about actual causes of crime and incarceration in the US...
I think you can try solve the "rails no longer excites me" problem by finding a more exciting language than Ruby. There are more than plenty of them out there.
Agreed for large study populations.

No doubt they were relying on previous research showing that these things would be positive|negative stimulii to a high degree of certainty for all participants.
This is incredible. Are people seriously ok with this?
Oh definitely. "Real" PoE is expensive and unhelpful but it doesn't have to be standard PoE. You can just steal some pairs from cat5 and still get some form of ethernet. There are even cheap splitters/injectors out there. You won't get the nifty auto-negotiation, filtering, or anything else but it'll work.
It is interesting that people focus so intensely on these deaths while almost not caring about the other 32K car deaths per year (plus hundreds of thousands of injuries and billions of dollars in damages) just in the U.S. alone. One month is the equivalent of a 9/11, for which the nation mobilized and waged war halfway around the world.

In my opinion all this bloviating about ignition switches, bundled browsers etc. misses the mark. We should be demanding much safer and more survivable vehicles. I sure don't want to die on the road or see my loved ones crippled by some drunk driver.

Let's legislate survivability at highway speeds. Go back to the drawing board and come up with something that works--collision avoidance, prison for DUI, explosive bumpers--anything to reduce those numbers.
I leave my phone lying around, no security on it whatsoever, leave Facebook, my email, everything logged in on my laptop. My partner of 15 years (lived together for 7) is the same. We're in our early 30s.

I certainly have never had the urge to go through her stuff and I don't believe (although to be fair it's not something we've discussed) she's ever looked at mine either. As well as being a couple we're both individuals with our own lives and dealings and interests, and to be breathing down each others' necks 24/7 would imply a massive lack of trust. I genuinely don't get why being in a relationship should mean giving up privacy and personal space - it seems incredibly unhealthy to me.
Sencha does this for enterprise apps too. For publishing, I wish RSS feeds had taken off. Would be great to visit a site and see that I could just subscribe to their RSS feed and see it in my own reader app.
The entity that owes you the money could simply die. Not that catastrophic (for the entity, yes, but I mean no global catastrophe is necessary).
Show HN: Monitor how fast your site is, compared to competitors
Competitiveness, for one thing. Then there's the play deprivation, which isn't too good for the social skills in general, and externalises your locus of control.

The topic at hand, paranoia, or at least distrustfulness, is practically defined by having an external locus of control.

While we're on the topic of trust, kids today aren't exactly treated with much trust. Are they even trusted to stay at home unattended without getting themselves in some accident? And then there's the whole system of school, which is specifically founded on not trusting children (to self-educate, which is what they're genetically programmed to do...). The implicit message they're receiving is that people are guilty until proven otherwise.
I'm curious what "market share" should actually be used? units sold, unique users, revenue or profits? If Apple is getting 90% of profit maybe it's the platform where the other software devs lose the most too.
Thanks for your detailed and helpful feedback.
Devices that function when the power has been disconnected would be wonderful energy-saving devices.
mattress sales, air travel, home remodeling, moving companies.
For those that don't remember... That is ctrl-s. XON is ctrl-q.
My mother is 70 and did it on her own once her facebook app killed itself in a botched update (bad install or something). And then she complained that she was using the web version and couldn't find how to do some stuff hehe.

Edit: btw, she's a school/music/languages teacher, so she has very little technical background. In her own words, she "touch[es] everything until it works".
I would definitely not. For many reasons, but the volatility alone is enough to put me off of it. Losing a months income to a flash crash?

Not only that, but I'd have to convert it to fiat anyway to pay for 99% of the things I spend my salary on. With the fees involved in the exchange and fluctuations, I'd end up with less money in the end most likely.

Bitcoin is a fun toy, and spending some of my disposable income on it sounds ok. But my whole salary? not on my life. I sincerely hope there is no one around that is so blindly invested in the idea of Bitcoin they are converting their whole salary to Bitcoin.
Environment influences language generation
The problem of malware being remotely added to devices like routers and hard drive firmware can be stopped utterly by having a hard switch (or jumper) that disables the "write to flash" signal.
Well...

Is curl|bash insecure? YES

Is curl|bash more insecure than most of the ways people install software they just download from the Internet? NO

So it's not ideal, but most people don't do anything else that's much better, and it's convenient, so you can expect it to continue.
They also gloss over the fact that packages in package managers are usually vetted by the maintainers which often have additional safety measures in place like e.g. repeatable builds to insure that they are not compromised.
Now if they can just figure out how to make project files that aren't completely and utterly incompatible with each other when they're only a few years apart.
Should also check out what's possible with VR tech for visualizations nowadays http://youtu.be/MWGBRsV9omw
Google Android is NOT open source. If you want to use Google Android you are restricted. You can FORK Android and build your own but that is a massive undertaking.

This isn't about software products anyway, it's about services, search in particular.

But this is irrelevant, I'm not attacking Google, I'm disputing the "Apple is the bigger anti-trust violator" idea, which is just silly.
The loss of RSS just still blows my mind. I still get my podcast with it but sad to see RSS to be relegated to obscurity when it started out so strong. The issue was the implementing it was "too much trouble" with the public.
It'd be more interesting to ask the inverse question - asking someone if they think it's ok to track their partner could result in a very different answer to asking if they believe it's ok for their partner to track them.
Nothing or everything, what is there shouldn't be a/the question.

Humans have a rare trait in being able to develop cyborg transparent interfaces with our tools. A hammer becomes your hand, as far as your brain is concerned, after you've used it long enough.

Phones and other technology do the same thing for our minds. The photos we snap but never review are memories we're trying to collect. Phone calls or IMs a better history of conversations we've had.

Someone else going through this technology w/o permission is like them having a way to psychically read your mind. Both are a violation of your self -- your identity, memories, what have you. It's a violation because just as we learn to use tools as physically indistinct appendages, so to do we use ways to capture our minds as indistinct appendages.
What about the beams killing birds? Maybe have three beams that don't converge until the plane?
Oops, right, I meant "wholesale".
I haven't had any network television - either cable or over airways - for many years. You are correct that the television is reliable and there will always be something or another playing. The thing is this: I don't value such a thing. I do not find that the internet is less reliable than the television/cable were, but the user experience is different. I treasure being able to watch something that fits my needs on my schedule. I treasure variety. These are things that the networks haven't been able to properly provide. A relaxing day of working on artwork in front of entertainment - the absorption others were speaking of - is easily obtained with John Oliver or conspiracy theories set on Youtube's autoplay.
Also, if you are belted in you are not a projectile ricocheting around the inside of the car and hitting other passengers.
gnome-terminal (based on libvte) will do frame dropping for rendering updates.

Unfortunately that means you're stuck using a terminal with the most brain dead shortcut keys in the world. Invariably I sit down at a coworker's keyboard, hit alt-F, and instead of skipping forward a word, I open the File menu.
Ah, you want the full package exports available for autocomplete? Have you found a way to do that?
Profit share is irrelevant to consumer harm. Damage to software devs is not necessarily consumer harm.

I'm not saying Apple is a blameless company, as a dev who has had years old apps suddenly rejected I have a definite love/hate relationship going. I'm saying it's not a big anti-trust problem.
Updating iOS via iTunes (for beta installs, restores, etc.) has the quirk of syncing apps to iTunes, and then syncing them back to the phone. This seems like a legacy annoying thing to me: why can't it just transparently re-download them? In fact, the new iOS 9 upgrade has the "delete and then re-download apps" feature for those with insufficient space for upgrade. Not to mention, there's the "purchased" tab on your device. So, this is possible!

Going further, even the prompt to "delete and then re-download apps due to insufficient space for OS upgrade" seems unnecessary, as if revealing an unimportant implementation detail. Why can't it just automatically do the right thing? I won't mind if the app is missing from my iPhone for a couple of minutes. If the reason is bandwidth, perhaps it could say "we'll do this on wi-fi only."

Similarly, I wish purchased iTunes media started working the "streaming" way, too. I don't want the TV show to take up Gbs of disk space, don't particularly care for the physical file present on my disk. Could still have an opt-in "use offline" option for those who need it.

Or are these all issues to appease people who want to feel like they "own" content (apps, media, etc.)?
Underworld 5: Lara Pulver au casting du film
Writing a browser extension for three browsers
Round displays look nice on a watch, but I really don't think they will work well on many other form factors... I mean I can't think of one.

Even then, how many watch users browse the web on their watch? (serious question, I don't have a smart watch) - Is it a bad experience right now because websites aren't optimised for round displays?
Agreed, they're way overstating the difficulty here. I think they just wanted to advertise that they do this, which is fair, and it's a feature I wish more laptops had.
The propositions all assume false, but don't prove it. In session 4 you've also got translations of things like contraposition, (not (not (not A))) -> (not A) (which is importantly different from double negation elimination since it holds constructively).

In session 5 you've got excluded middle, the other form of contraposition, double negation elimination which are apparently going to show how providing tertium na datur works to provide classical and not merely constructive logic.
I wonder if there would be any way to use some other component in a laptop as a microphone. Similar to the Funtenna stuff demoed by Ang Cui in several of his talks.
https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html#emanate-like-a...

I'm unsure on how that would perform practically with audible soundwaves or if any other research has been done in that area. It would however be hard to mitigate, if possible at all.
I believe that Indian/Chinese restaurants try to provide a quality over quantity. And it's difficult to scale the quality in food market.
Bitcoin is not a toy, it's a very useful tool for transferring value across borders and very good at that, especially when banks and companies such as Western Union impose unreasonable fees on their users.

Also, Bitcoin is not as volatile as it was once anymore, have you checked the price in the last few months? It has stayed around 200-300-ish USD.

It's fine if you don't want to use Bitcoin, but please stop spreading FUD.
I am excited about Rails API becoming an official part of the Rails ecosystem. I don't expect Rails to solve my client-side needs (templating was always slow, sprockets suboptimal), but I love to use it as an API and have a simple node server to proxy my website calls to that api. An additional benefit of this is that your client consumes the same API, as your other clients, so you don't have to worry about two api versions anymore and it improves your TDD.
The list from Quora:

Agriculture
Business intelligence
Construction
Consumer banking
Credit reporting
Data informatics
Education
Finance
Grocery
Ready to Eat Meals
Healthcare
Human Resources / Talent Management
Insurance
Intellectual property
Legal services
Mattresses
Music information
News
Packaging
Payments
Politics
Remittances
Settling Disputes-- Arbitration, mediation, court of peers
Shipping
Sports Gaming
Sports Media Rights
Travel
Waste management (human waste)
"who say Google gives priority to its own services on the Android platform" - isn't that the same across other OS. MS still has around 90% desktop share and don't they prioritize over IE and Bing search.
My partner and I are practically married and if one wants to know where the other is, we just ask. shrugs

We have friends who do the "Find My Friends" thing and we actually find the whole concept pretty creepy.
Another vote here. I've been using Safari Blocker for a couple weeks, and it's transformed sites into being actually enjoyable again. I did have to whitelist one groceries site to be able to log into my account, but that slight hiccup's a tiny matter for me, versus being able to browse without having a dozen advertisers try grabbing at my attention as I'm trying to read some article.
I was on the University of London Air Squadron (for students of London universities who were sponsored by the RAF) and this game was a huge deal. It was played exclusively in the crew room - a room where you sat, ate pot noodles and 'bantered; with other students until it was your turn to go flying.

Of course, the senior students had the luxury of introducing 'rules' as they went along - a power I guarantee I did not abuse...

- "Touchy movey": if you touch a piece, you have to move it

- No counting spaces with your piece as you move. Have to move it directly to the end position

- "Acey deucey": you get an extra turn when you roll 1-2

- "Acey deucey of no usey": chanted in amusement by the other players if there were no valid moves you could play after rolling a 1-2. The dice passed to the next person and you didn't get the extra turn
Possible breakthrough for rapid diagnostic tests
I'd really like to read about their experience with the emulators performance, profiling and how the work with that aspect.

I remember an old emulator for the DS (can't remember the name though!) that got a massive speedup going from 0.9 to 0.9.1 (the numbers might be wrong, but it was a "minor update"). The guy developing it had found some innocent looking code near the critical loop that was actually crawling like a snail and replaced it with some other innocent looking code that worked a lot faster.
The thing I don't see in this article, which I do regard as (another) drawback to curl|bash is that you're not just trusting the software developer, you're also trusting their hosting provider.

Anyone who gets access to modify that script on their server can change the content.

Now it could be that they're hosting on a dedicated system, in a datacentre that they own, with no 3rd party access, but that's very much not the norm for most companies these days, and it's impossible for a customer to verify.

This is a problem which is solved with good package signing practices, where the developer signs the content on a system they control before distribution, so at least you can verify that what you're installing is what they released.
My wife and I don't share email. We think spouses need some privacy. Our computers and phones are personal and private and only sharable if asked. Our work computers are completely off limits.
Seems like a very similar model to quandl: curated, normalized data, APIs & Excel addin, financial data. Free to start, and pay for premium access. How are you differentiated?
The police will stop forcing suspects and will start inducing cooperation.
Is there a public list of answers provided by the 'superforecasters'?

For example, I would love to know the average superforecaster's answer to "How much will China's economy grow over the next 10 years?"
Better python than bash or perl. At least the code shouldn't look like line noise. When's the last time you tried to read through a gnu ./configure file?
Yeah, one of my friends was talking about that too. It would be really cool to have an "Algorithms in the Real World" series.

At school, people sometimes complain about the seemingly esoteric stuff we learn in algorithms classes, and it would be great for people to see real-life examples where algorithms knowledge is necessary.
What I meant is that you need a certain amount of pixels just to be able to fully represent the 1080p video pixels, and if you see "extra space" in the VR world around the screen, then you need 1080p video + extra space in pixels, so it probably should be at least 4k.
10 days seems typical for starting a professional job. My company's old system would have me at 10 vacation days per year, now that I have unlimited, I usually take ~12 per year (2 week long vacations, and then 2 for emergencies).
Silicon Valley – still the capital of tech
For some great examples of Martin Gardner's puzzles it's worth looking at http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numbe... or http://martin-gardner.org/Top10MGPhysics.html