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The top paid chart is irrelevant on the Mac App Store, because it's mostly filled with $.99 super-niche or throwaway apps. The bread and butter of the Mac App Store is low volume, higher cost apps. The dynamics are totally different compared to iOS/Android. At higher price points, say $19.99 or $29.99, 94 units per day is more than enough to make a living.

The problem is no-one is going to pay that much money for an app that lets you add black boxes to an image. You have to deliver real value worth paying for. Think apps like Day One, Transmit, DaisyDisk, 1Password, Reeder.

Moreover, your numbers are off, you don't need to be anywhere near the top 10 to make over $120,000/year. In fact, you can be well outside the top 100 if your per-unit price is high enough.
100% agree. I just tried Docker Hub for a separate open-source project, and I'll probably just move it back to Quay.io instead.
I rather like the discussion that branched off my response.

I got a bunch of down votes. But HN downvotes (and upvotes) behavior never have any correlation to the comment itself. My most throw away comments get a bunch of upvotes. My more thoughtful, respectful comments get downvoted.

I will be willing to bet that this particular comment gets downvoted a lot just... because.

So I ignore random number after my login id.
It looks like you're not quite as naive as you'd sounded at first...

Remember, Stalin didn't go in for executions; he preferred slave labor. Deaths in the GULAG -- which could be as high as in the non-death-camp Nazi concentration camps, or higher -- should be counted as well as executions. (Remember how part of Stalin's price for peace with Japan was 300,000 Japanese slaves, none of whom ever returned to Japan after the war.)

Also, some deaths in the war should be attributed to Stalin -- at the very least, deaths in the punishment brigades. If you force someone to march through a minefield, and he hits a mine and dies, it's your fault.
I know. :(
I found it valuable to know that my friends and family in Paris are safe, so I'm grateful to FB for doing that. OTH It saddens me and make me wonder what kind of world we live in for FB to release such a feature.
>As soon as people start believing in utopias there's a danger that they will cross a line.

More people have been killed in pragmatic endeavours, like colonialism, and land grab/turf wars, than from "utopias".

This includes smaller scale utopias -- far less innocent people have been killed by ...hippies than by policemen.
Because they hate our "freedoms" man! Our enemies, they all a mob of crooks. We're the good guys.

At least, that's what the sorta person who bunches together ISIS, Nazis, and Communists has in mind. He fails to realize that Capitalism is just another utopian philosophy that will fail just like the others. It is also as violent as the others, even if its violence is covert.
Ok. Someone posed a scenario where an attacker uses the User-Agent to differentiate between a victim vetting the URL via a regular browser and someone using curl/wget to pipe it to the shell. I suggested a simple solution to this specific scenario.

There are any number of scenarios where any given solution could be broken. Why not point out that you OS might be compromised and the wget/curl binary that you're using is patched to present the wrong information to you?
I may be in the middle of an argument about Communism (which is the last thing I was expecting here!), but you and everyone in France are in my prayers.
Pan-Americanism and Capitalism are both utopian ideas.
Nice project. I'm thinking I could do the same with a tracked robot at home. Good way to try out the new TX1s from nvidia
Didn't you get the memo? They were bad, but now that they make loads of plastic crap for us which we then rebrand and resell to them, they're mostly ok.
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Being a muslim in a foreign country, I confirm. I don't know why but I feel scared/guilty when something like this happens. It's sad they have to use Islam's name to do this when my interpretation (of Islam) is exactly the opposite.
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It's a guess. Can you back up the idea that rights are anything other than a human-made concept, at all? That they're somehow intrinsic to the universe?
I think our significantly decreasing reliance on foreign energy has put the writing on the wall. Middle East countries used to pushing hundreds of billions in oil welfare and running surpluses will be in serious deficit and facing a decimated budget which will tank their economies. Perhaps the thinking is to revolt now before the money is all gone? With such a strikingly oil-centric economy, oil crashed from its high, steady technological progress making their fields increasingly irrelevant over time... Cities built on $140 oil will sink back into the sand. Seems to me massacring innocent French civilians only makes it happen faster.

We meddle a lot less overall in the Middle East the last 8 years than the prior 8, right? If we don't then Russia steps up to do it themselves (for better or worse US has no leadership there anymore so maybe why not Russia give it a shot?)

In the end I personally don't believe the massacre is in any way "caused" by US or other foreign involvement in the Middle East. This is not the first caliphate, nor will it be the last, and it's not about righting wrongs or a struggle for independence, it's literally about inflicting mass casualties on the infidels in as an atrocious and terrifying (i.e beheadings) manor as possible.

Over 100 murdered is a mind boggling atrocity but also a terrible security failure. Not just in failing to catch and prevent it, but failure to take out the shooters at the concert sooner. (I haven't read a detailed account of how the shooters were stopped if there is one)
> So you think Stalin was as bad as ISIS and Nazis?

The general consensus is that Germany under Hitler killed around 11 million noncombatants. The USSR under Stalin killed at least 20 million, with some estimates ranging much higher.

Many people in the west still say that Hitler was worse because he tried to exterminate entire ethnic groups, where Stalin mostly killed anyone that he thought might get in his way. I think they were both monsters, and there's no profit in trying to measure which one was worse.

Stalin did help defeat the Nazis. Don't make the mistake of thinking that makes him the good guy. In stories, the villain's enemy is always a hero, but in real life, villains fight other villains all the time.
Sure, be we could name the famous exponents of non-communist states too, and amass a huge blood toll that rivals and surpasses these people.

Heck, there were 2 world wars in which communists countries were only involved in the second, and only on the allies side. How many people were killed there, including civilians?

And let's not get started in the 18th-19th century history, before marxism was even invented...

War, murder and dictatorship are what they are -- they don't just belong to one single side of the political spectrum.

In Indonesia, for one example, nearly a million communist sympathizers were executed by right wingers (as were in Pinochet's Chile and elsewhere). This is an interesting watch:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/
Nat. Gas may or may not be just methane. You are absolutely correct for what's called "dry gas".
I suppose I could have been clearer. People are already making those arguments in the comments of practically every news story on the subject.

It is the central dynamic that perpetuates all this violence. Someone from Group A kills dozens or hundreds of Group B, which uses the violence as an excuse to oppress thousands of Group A, which uses the oppression as an excuse to kill more of Group B, and this goes on and on for decades long after everyone's forgotten who "started" it or why, because both sides have convinced themselves, against all logic and evidence of history, that if they just hurt the other guys enough they'll give up and be nice.

It is never going to end until we find a way to break the cycle. The only way I can think of to contribute is to be a voice condemning the violent bigots on both sides, and trying to separate them from the millions of innocents that they claim to represent. It's not much. It probably isn't anything at all. But what else can I do?
And I used Lucene as the data backend for an inference engine recently :) If there is one library that keeps me in the Java world, it's Lucene. No other open source comes close to Lucene in its category.
Yeah so actually the IMF puts out some great economic research that is pretty highly regarded across the econ community, further, your pet theory for what happened is really only accepted in maybe some media outlets, but not really the academic community. "A large part of the cash withdrawn from Zero Interest Rate Policy"? Like what? That doesn't even make sense. Are you talking about how low interest rates and a dearth of profitable investment projects causes CFO's to see that the best immediate use for their cash is to return money to shareholders and shore up their balance sheets, after this huge balance sheet recession we had?

The generally accepted theory is that there has been a worldwide demographic slowdown combined with a large number of countries accumulating huge current account surpluses, leading to "the world being awash in savings." This oversupply of capital causes the natural rate of interest to drop, and that is the rate that the Fed needs to follow (it really doesn't so much decide on a proper rate as much as it estimates it mathematically), as it will cause stagnating growth or deflation if too high compared to the natural rate (!!!!!), but will cause inflation if it's actually "too low." So there's no evidence ZIRP has been "too low," in fact all the evidence points to the fact that interest rates actually haven't been low enough.
I suspect law abiding black citizens in gangland ghettos aren't doing most of the shootings either. What you've done here is to subdivide the whole American population into a group of "not many shooters" and "Higher proportion of shooters". Of course you can always do that, and always find a more specific group that dominates the statistics for any type of crime. But there's a worrying implication that we should somehow allow non-gang members to have guns but ban them from gang members. Or allow people in rich neighborhoods to have guns but ban them from ghettos. Or even, dare I say it, ban them from black people.

Really we need to ban guns from shooters. But there's no way to identify them without catching a lot of harmless people up in the same net. Even poor black gang members can be harmless.
It wasn't equated. It was mentioned as an example of something that is practically impossible to eradicate. Accepting this is better than for example sacrificing all of our civil liberties in exchange for security theater.
Agreed. I'd love to see it myself.
So... its time to raise interest rates?
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Somehow the assumption always seems to be that terrorists are stupid. They're not stupid, they have seen some plots foiled so they adapt until they make it through the next time. Footsoldiers they can afford to lose, just like the drug trade can afford to lose shipments and mules. Getting guns and grenades is relatively easy in Europe, many ordinary criminal gangs much less well funded manage to get these. Making bombs is a bit more difficult but that's one of those things that you only really need one guy for and some basic tradecraft to get them into the hands of the people that will use them.

'Chatter' is a sign of stuff not working as expected, if terrorists are half as intelligent as I give them credit for they'll know to stay off the phone and off the internet. You'd have a bigger chance locating them by the absence of traffic than by traffic assuming they are not as dumb as we'd like them to be.

Incidentally, and violating my own rule, that's why I don't believe in the whole 'snooping makes us safer' rubbish. If anything it just increases the size of the haystack for a constant number of needles.
The question posed was:

"Can Suicide Bombing of Civilian Targets
to Defend Islam be Justified?" (p. 53)

Not a lot of wiggle room in that one. Thought perhaps the question might've been a bit more vague or general. However, it states specifically "civilians". Really...? ...42%? That's astonishing.
>he killed more people than Hitler did historically

Only when counting famines and a civil war type situation among his casualties. He killed much less than Hitler otherwise (which would still be a lot).
It does if you play devil's advocate and follow the chain of reasoning.

If god is great and non-believers are bad and "god" says it's righteous and just to punish the non-believers, then naturally doing "god's work" is doing no harm?

Actually the truth is even messier... most of these young men committing atrocities are merely indoctrinated pawns who know very little of their own religion and instead defer to their "emir."

This ideological poison is being propagated by those individuals, with power/financial interests back in the middle east. I think the individual committing the act believes they are doing good, and the individual who convinced them to do it is too morally corrupted & detached to care about ideals such as "civilian life."

There are far more atrocities that occur in this world than there are psychopaths in the general population.

If we hope to make any progress toward peace, I think we need to truly understand the reasons why and how weak, impressionable minds with poor cultural integration can be manipulated to commit such atrocities.

It's easy to label these individuals as determined, unreachable psychopaths (particularly out of fear) but the sad truth is, most extremism is borne not of evil but of weakness. A select few manipulate this weakness to convince otherwise insignificant people, often with desires of grandeur to commit unthinkable acts. This power of perspective becomes increasingly obvious as you realize most problems with immigrants in European countries occur in the 2nd and 3rd generations -- those who have seen the true horrors of war first hand are not so easily fooled.

The hard truth is: if society doesn't provide susceptible minds with alternatives first, a small but steady % will be at the mercy of whomever comes along promising "answers."
I agree. When are we going to start calling for volunteers? [EDIT] Also this is from 2013. (I thought I'd read it before.)
I was writing protocol drivers, and 'C' is better for that.
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Imagine making a scoring system for domains that that takes into account flags and votes on comments that include said domain. Also, your post had a word written in ALL CAPS, arguably two. You can see other comments linking to the same domain at around the same time [1] that aren't marked as spam.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/
Wow, nobody mentioned the natural rate of interest yet?
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A recent tweet by Newt Gingrich echoes precisely that:

https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/665312487147896832

I understand that this is not the popular opinion around here, but I genuinely can't think of an alternative.
Has anyone tried giving a replica of the record, and the instructions image, to a team to see if they could reverse engineer the contents?
Tech is very effective in reducing corruption, because tech makes it possible to make for example bureaucrats and applicants unknowable to each other in simple cases, thereby making it harder to ask for, or give, money.

Online applications are a huge success, corruption-wise. So tech does really have something going on in a very meaningful amount of cases.
Commodore section, vice.js:

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> If you force someone to march through a minefield, and he hits a mine and dies, it's your fault

That's a war, Nazi Germany attacked USSR, people had to fight them, Stalin is not a field officer to force solders to march through a minefield, people die in a war, I don't think you are right here equating people who died fighting for their country with those who were executed for whatever reason.
There is immense emphasis on an afterlife and little to no value on "life on earth" in Islam.

So these indoctrinated individuals don't really see it as too horrendous of a crime to kill someone.
One quick thing I noticed is that if I have an invalid username (ex: has a dot in it) and press the arrow to continue, it tells me that its already taken. Confused me as I couldn't imagine somebody already took my fairly-unique username.
No terrorism that you'd hear of anyway. But the former USSR was anything but the solid unified entity you might think it was. There was tons of strife and occasional acts of terrorism as well as attempts by states to break away from the mothership, all of which were characterized as acts of terror by the leaders. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and the former USSR had plenty of the latter.
>You really think that the sincere belief that you will spend an eternity in heaven and secure a place in heaven for 70 family members of your choosing and earn the love of God has nothing to do with it? (...) and makes you blind to an important and maybe even the most important strategy against religious terrorism: education that sheds doubt on the literal interpretation of holy books.

That's a caricature. A lot of the perpetrators, like in 9/11, are highly educated and even westernized people, not some backwater goat herders believing such BS.

They could be attracted to those tactics as a mean of compensating for personal issues etc (same way weirdos shoots up a school or a cinema elsewhere), but the political element is involved too.

The fundamendalist is not someone who believes naively such things (most devout village folks are peaceful and pragmatic and could not care less), but rather someone who "goes back" into believing such things (and even has self-doubt he tries to shake by action etc).
...denying the political reality of the time.

Yes let's do that. We're anarchists after all, so we're allowed to step back and see the forest. D gets elected, the government spends more money, some oppressed group becomes slightly less so, the rest of us become slightly more so, we bomb some benighted Asian locale. R gets elected, the government spends more money, some oppressed group becomes slightly less so, the rest of us become slightly more so, we bomb some benighted "developing" locale. D gets elected...

This is literally every presidential administration in my lifetime and in my parents' lifetimes. What "dynamic" could possibly merit attention, which changes so little?
"Live updates: At least 100 dead, multiple sites attacked, France's borders closed"

--LA Times Headline
Of all the wonderful and dangerous developments that technology has granted our species, I'm saddened to think that we have yet to find a pathway to the human spirit that can help reduce hatred and the impulses that result in such terrible actions. From school shootings in the US to warlords in distant lands, there's so much yet to achieve in the name of progress, for human kind. Surely, we have much to do, and as tragedies continue to befall people of all nationalities, creeds, and colors, reaching for betterment hopefully can be a goal for us all. The sun shall rise tomorrow, and I truly hope each new day is one we can use to its fullest for the pursuit of life.
I think by "born" he meant "growing up with".
Suddenly a blackphone seems like an excellent investment...
How dare you mention refugees in the same sentence as this tragedy? Shame.
It's interesting, I religiously categorize everything in Mint, but now that I think about it, I basically never use those categories for anything.

Maybe I should just categorize everything as "spending" and get over it.

(I can imagine ways that granularity should be helpful, like if one area got out of control, or for tax reasons if I ran a business or had a HSA, but they've just never come up.)
Plenty of terrorism? USSR funded and commited plenty of terrorism, but I've yet to hear of any terrorist incidents prior to the perestroila..

Soviets did have some organized crime, but they were well, Russians.

GDR, Czechoslovakia, etc, somewhat less inept countries had very little crime and no organized crime to speak of.
Interstella 5555, an hour-long anime movie made to accompany Daft Punk's excellent album, 'Discovery', fits the bill:

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You didn't need Facebook to tell you that. You could have just assumed it was true based on the enormous population of Paris (2 million) and the small number of deaths in this incident (100-200).
A large part of the reason I avoid comments on sites like that, and read HN comments, is precisely to avoid nonsense like this.

You're just perpetuating the nonsense. Yes, you're against it, but your comment is little more than the sentiment you're against, plus a statement of opposition.
They don't care. They're swimming in money now.
The original HP LaserJets were absolute tanks. (And priced like tanks, but still.)

Like the author I'm looking at buying a new HP multifunction printer, but since HP has long since joined the stampede towards disposable junk I'm not as optimistic about its future lifespan. At least their Linux support is decent...
Most people ignore the 400,000+ people murdered every year.

What's hard, is accepting that things like this happen, but there not reason to alter policy in any meaningful way.
I am absolutely against that, but I am also against blatant lie and made up figures attributed to people died under Stalin's regime, just look at the comment list here, people saying any kinds of figures from 10 to 100 million deaths, so tomorrow somebody who reads this chat will pick the figure which is more appropriate to his point of view and bring it up in his discussion which will be complete lie and un-official data, which will result in more wrong opinions like that.
> Of course, it's also good at many things like simple filtering and aggregation against "real-time" data.

And also fulltext search at scale, which is basically its primary use case.

PostgreSQL's fulltext search isn't quite at the same level. The last time I looked into its capabilities, it didn't fully support TF-IDF. (I don't think it keeps track of corpus frequencies for terms.) Interestingly, I think SQLite's fulltext support does include TF-IDF, but I could be misremembering.

I mean, the Elasticsearch docs are pretty clear that joining doesn't work well (or really, at all). I'm not sure how being clear about the trade offs of your software is "doing a disservice." Sometimes you don't need to store relational data. Sometimes you do need to store relational data, but the other benefits of Elasticsearch outweight shoehorning relational data into what is effectively a document database.

If your only complaint is that people misuse software... Well... Yeah. It's been happening for a while now. We should help educate others. I'm not sure your approach is the most constructive.
Indeed. The moderation in this thread has been supremely disappointing. Your post contained no slurs, only an interpretation of data along with a link.