skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's next move is to compete by charging reasonable rates, instead of completely unreasonable ones. Netflix is a low chargeback risk, high volume customer and should expect to be paying 1.5-2% for an initial charge and even less for continued payments on the same card. Apple is charging 30% for the first year of payments and 15% after that.

30% is reasonable for an app from an unknown dev where the platform might have to eat a large refund after the dev disappears and the app turns out to have been a scam. charging that same rate to netflix for subscription payments is price gouging, plain and simple.

As the article says, apple was making somewhere on the order of $700k per day off Netflix's transaction fees. For doing basically nothing. Netflix is obviously willing to pay more than basic credit card processing fees for the convenience factor of having in-app billing on iOS, so all apple needs to do to keep that business is to be willing to negotiate.
I just started working through Google's free course.
Tomorrow I'm posting about my day one experience here: https://kagia.github.io/2018/12/29/learning-machine-learning...

As it says on the linked post I'm not learning just for knowledge sake but I very much intend to apply what I learn.
Let's analyse that. Suppose the frequency of the blue eye gene and the brown eye gene are the same in the general population, and suppose the prior probability of cheating is 10%. Then we can simulate this:

from random import random, randint
p_blue = 0.5
p_cheat = 0.1

def randbool(p): return random() < p
def randgenes(): return randbool(p_blue), randbool(p_blue)
def mate(mother, father): return mother[randint(0,1)], father[randint(0,1)]
def blueeyes(p): return p[0] and p[1]

n_cheat = 0
n_faithful = 0
for i in range(0,1000000):
mother = (True,False)
grandfather = randgenes()
grandmother = randgenes()
husband = mate(grandfather, grandmother)
lover = randgenes()
cheated = randbool(p_cheat)
if cheated:
kid1 = mate(mother, lover)
kid2 = mate(mother, lover)
else:
kid1 = mate(mother, husband)
kid2 = mate(mother, husband)

if blueeyes(grandmother) or blueeyes(grandfather) or blueeyes(husband) or not blueeyes(kid1) or not blueeyes(kid2): continue

if cheated: n_cheat += 1
else: n_faithful += 1

print(n_cheat)
print(n_faithful)

We get 4619 times cheated and 14226 times faithful. The probability of cheating went up substantially relative to the prior of 10%, but it's still below 30%. I'd say that the chaos wasn't justified.
By the legal definition of harassment that is not legal, harassment is not legal. Seems a bit tautological to be worth sharing.
And the US is an outlier any other democracy not getting a budget though would result in a vote of no confidence and a new election at the least a new government.
I made an account recently. The content is pretty basic and quality posts are few and far in between.

If you are looking for a growing community, it looks like a good place to post, since competition isn't that hard.
> act of random vandalism or hooliganism

I'm truly not sure if you're insidiously doing this on purpose, but that seems to be an understatement and mischaracterization of what's going on here. These are targeted acts, more akin to civil disobedience than vandalism. The way you phrase it seems like you're trying to plant a seed that distracts from the point.

I try to assume positive intent, but this really seems like a spin job. Could you perhaps elaborate?
^^This, exactly. First see how far you can push a decent relational DB, then try harder. When you really can’t push it any harder, or it becomes uneconomical to do so, _then_ look at graph solutions.
Wait -- human kills innocent people with their distracted driving and the public shouldn't be mad about it?

Where are the people with rocks and knives and guns demanding human-driven cars be forced off the road due to the overwhelming number of people they have killed?
I'm sorry, but being pushed to living in space or underground sooner rather than later doesn't sound like something we should look at as a good thing. Most people don't want to do those things.
Why would anyone assume the risk to put a gun to your head when they know you can't give them what they want just by yourself? With blockchain you can prove them that's the case. They would have to also put a gun to the head of the cosigner(s) in order to get it.

I am not aware of any other mechanism similar to BTCs multisig that doesn't require a trusted third party.
We have a strong culture, but it is widely felt by the rest of the company that the engineering team doesn't adhere to it.

This evidence indicates that you don't have a strong culture.

Also, there's something not right in the way you say "adhere", but I can't quite put my finger on it. People don't "adhere" to culture; well, they do, but the word "adhere" is simultaneously too strong and too weak for a culture. It's like saying that fish adhere to swimming.

Tell me again that you have a strong culture, but this time don't use the word "culture". Tell me what these behaviours are that everyone does, except engineering. Then pick one and tell me why engineering doesn't do that (and assure me that everyone else does). Do they know about it? Do they think it's a bad idea? Does it not apply to them? Is it too expensive?
This is why I love HN. You learn things you didn't even know you didn't know!
At what point is Apple forced to treat the App Store as a subscription platform, ala Shopify, with flat monthly fees to the developer and a tiny % cut on top the credit card processing fees?
I think of those guilds more as the most effective unions in the world. The reason lawyers, doctors, pilots, etc... are paid so well is because they’ve successfully limited entry into their fields. They’ve all got arduous entry requirements, and you can’t operate without the unions blessing. It’s simple supply and demand after that point.
> the number of disruptive students that prevent any learning is vastly less.

The evidence doesn't really support that, though; students in a “bad” district don't have worse performance than students with similar background in a “better” district (whether because of distraction or any other reason), “better” districts just have more students with backgrounds which are correlated with educational success, of which the strongest factor is parental education.
So, what exactly do you mean by "multiplayer" in this context?
I understand the sentiment, but I'd take the word of those who harass random Waymo drivers with a grain of salt.
Electric cars are going to have way fewer engine/transmission/brake issues. The nature of regenerative breaking means that you don't use the actual friction pads/rotors much. The nature of the electric motor means there's usually no transmission, and way fewer moving parts (and way less heat/explosive energy) than an ICE engine.

Battery issues are going to be way more expensive on an electric or hybrid car than an ICE car, which I think would be the primary downside.
> What management should have done (or needs to do ASAP) was to start trimming poor performing engineers.

Oh, we did that in 2017. The engineers are hard workers and good coders.

Thing is, there aren't really individual performance problems. The problems are mostly cultural: Isolation from the rest of the company, in-fighting, competition, lack of camaraderie between teams and between engineering and the rest of the organization.

When it comes to team performance, half the team believes we're too slow, while the other half thinks we're moving too fast. Even that is a point of disagreement.
Looks like new certifications have been developed that slot in between dental hygienist and dentist in terms of required training (independent practice dental hygienists and dental therapists). Neither can diagnose conditions themselves, though the latter can apparently drill and fill simple cavities under the supervision of an actual dentist. This hierarchy fits in pretty well with medicine, where there's nurse assistants, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, DOs, and MDs.

And of course dentist itself isn't as high as you can get; these are procedures they won't do that you have to be referred to an oral surgeon for.

Anyway, point is, it's not nearly so simple as to just say that occupational licensing is extremely overdone in dentistry.
- You can do cross-language LTO between clang and Rust

- You can cross-compile from anything to Windows. (To MSVC ABI!)
100% agree, and there are legal ramifications given that you're their manager. As always, the universal answer to everything in the workplace, "talk to HR".
I would be interested as well.

For now, it's just a bunch of things I figured out along the way.
I think the OP's point was that the National Association of Realtors is a private organization, not a democratically formed government institution.
They could:

- adjust the revenue share percentage to match the perceived value (convenience/UX mostly, but there are others such as marketing, chargeback protection, etc...)

- play hard ball by rejecting apps that "don't comply with our seamless guidelines on the user experience"

- make deals on a case by case basis (ie "if your rev is > $X millions, contact us") or have a volume discount on the revenue share percentage

It all boils down to the same "cost vs value" perception, and that isn't uniform across all apps/developers so it's not very surprising that the "one size fits all" is starting to show its limits.
> and it's not considered to imply any particular license or degree or accreditation.

Which sucks, doesn't it. It's advertising (ie. a lie) that's been repeated so much that it's become accepted.

I know many software "engineers". They aren't real engineers, they just didn't like being called software programmers or coders.
Reminds me of some tiny paintings I’ve seen in London — painted on chewing gum that got completely flattened onto the pavement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wilson_(artist)
The first sentence of the article you link:

> With iOS 8, your iPhone or iPad can now have a local file system like the one Android users have.

The evolution of file access on iOS is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. A rough feature that came out of Android's laissez faire permission model that was later tweaked and adopted by iOS after it proved useful and was demanded by users.

And I feel like this is still happening - to me the new Files app in iOS 11 is a pretty clear step towards unifying disparate storage solutions in a single interface, and opening up the Files app to third party integrations is another cautious shift towards Android's more permissive model. I would not honestly be surprised if at some point in the future Apple introduces a way to access some system files -- every desktop OS supports it, and the iPad is slowly positioning itself as a desktop replacement. But I dunno, it'll be interesting to see.

When you say, "oh, there's nothing innovative about this", you're glossing over that it took a heck of a long time to get file access at all in iOS, and that Apple is still evolving how file access works on its devices. Android served as a testing ground for that feature while Apple stood back and watched and thought about how they wanted to approach it. Which (again) is a process that's good for users on both platforms.
This advice is so shockingly bad that I'm wondering if this is a deliberate spoof.

This is the kind of management behaviour that erodes trust. Destroys teams. Stops people thinking about what's best for the company and has them thinking only about how to protect themselves. Team members turn on each other. Every bug becomes a blame game. The good people look for new jobs to move on to. People write anonymous blog posts about the company and how this manager had a screaming fit and trashed some guys desk while firing him; every potential customer googling the company reads it and watches the footage on youtube if someone was fast with their phone.
It's ludicrous for Apple to state they somehow increased business for Netflix, because they allowed "sign-up" via iOS. That's like Google claiming they allowed sign-up via chrome, or AT&T claiming they allowed sign up via their Network.

Apple adds ZERO value via the app store, both for devs and for the consumers.
> If I care about convenience, why wouldn't I just use the default WM?

Because it might not have the functionality you want. Things aren't black and white, but one solution might be closer to what you need than jury rigging something yourself.

> Quality is also debatable. For a WM productivity is far more important than quality.

We'd need to agree both on "quality" and "productivity" here since those do not have well defined meaning. For me when it comes to software that helps me be productive, quality includes it helps me be productive, so there isn't a relationship where i can say that one is more important than the other since one implies the other.
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This is terrible advice, and abusive. It will bend your culture towards one of fear, blame, and finger-pointing. Presumably not what you want.

If someone did this in front of me, I would immediately start privately advocating for their removal from the company.
I said nothing about Fox News.

I have no problems with people telling us about discrimination they may face, or their difficulties on the job

... but the author projected positive and negative attributes almost arbitrarily onto groups of people, based on some of 'her experience' - which is kind of a crude, self-selective bigotry.
Minor typo -- smart "locks", not "looks".
I've seen the need for this in software during hiring. Employer states an engineering degree is needed even for CS dominant positions because, unlike accredited engineering programs, there was just too much leeway in CS programs. E.g., one may require four semesters of calculus, another only one resulting in wide ranges of rigor. Instead of inspecting transcripts, HR just specifies an ABET engineering degree.

This attitude is changing, especially as more schools get ABET CS programs, but old ways of doing things change slowly.
Definition of vandalism: willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property.

It's vandalism.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is its own thing, and yes, bright sunlight or artificial sunlight is the primary treatment.
I never had a problem using cash to pay for things, including taxis. The biggest problem with taxis is that most drivers don't carry much change, so I always make sure i have a hundred RMB in small bills on me, just in case my phone is dead.
Just to follow up on my own post, on slide 29 of http://peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/23480/la_id/1.htm there's mention that some of those types of engineers are covered by other provincial/federal regulations and are exempt as long as they're doing the type of work they're licensed to do.
Sure. I'm just trying to think what would be the negative consequence of someone calling themselves a lawyer or police in a TV interview like here, and I can't think of one, other than the fact that they are making an idiot out of themselves. Like, it shouldn't be illegal.
We don't know yet.
Apple adds a lot of value via the App Store for initial app purchase/download.

I agree they add very minimal value for recurring subscriptions, and their fee should be dialled back to be inline with what card processors charge (because they're essentially offering payment processing and not much else).
Yeah but actors can also impersonate police officers (complete with working weapons and police cars) without issue. I think the key part is if you see an actor in a parking lot outside the set still in police costume, they're not going to handcuff you and do a civil forfeiture on your property.
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Ask HN: What do DNA companies do with their data troves?
So a lot of my friends and family have been submitting their DNA to these companies for ancestry results. Unfortunately, they got nothing interesting back about their history, unlike what they saw on the commercials. Some of them are egging me on to try it out. As an old timer, I'm not used to giving out my information willy-nilly like that.

Companies portray it as peeking into the distant past of my family history, but if I submit my DNA to these companies, what exactly do they get in terms of sequencing? Do they sequence all my genes, and so they will be able to gleam into what pre-disposed health problems I have, or what at-risk cancers I fall into? Can they see what the state of my body is in right now?

On the market side, do they reserve the right to sell my data to health insurance companies so that my rates could go higher, or could I be denied coverage for some pre-existing ailment? Does this bypass HIPAA compliance since it is voluntarily given to them?

Presumably insurance companies will buy and piece together data submitted by my relatives to make educated guesses at me, and then base my premiums on the DNA submissions of my relatives' health?

Not that I'm planning on doing it, but I was curious to know if anyone knows exactly how this works, or what they do with the troves of data they own?
Bellmont Hall (https://www.utrecsports.org/facilities/facility/bellmont-hal...) was allegedly paid for out of academic building funds.

It's the set of ramps up the west side of Darrel K. Royal Memorial Stadium.
Why call it "tax" if it is a fee?

The article shows numbers based on a 30% fee when it explicitly says it is actually 15%.

"meaning Apple was making around $700,000 by doing nothing other than allowing Netflix to offer subscriptions in its app"

It seems a bit unfair also.

I have no horse in this race, but the author seems to have
I dunno, people have been saying this about electronics in cars for longer than I've been alive, and I'm not that young.

I mean, first? finding a weird part is finding a weird part... and you are totally right that the electronics are the new weird parts and that way too much of the system is in the head unit, but... there have always been weird parts... and if you don't have a machinist (or these days an EE) friend helping you out, if you have a car with a weird part, you spend time in junkyards. (or the modern equivalents. Ebay has made finding weird parts so much easier)

My impression is that this is all as it has always been, except that it is easier to find weird parts than it was, and that if you want to make/rig a part, these days, you call up your EE friend rather than your machinist friend (and I have far more EE friends than machinist friends)

Me personally, I'm more comfy swapping out broken electronics modules than I am swapping out bolted-on metal parts, but either way, it seems like a pretty similar sort of thing.
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Slightly related: I've been looking for a distributed graph database (preferably a RDF triple-store) for weeks, and haven't been able to find anything promising.
Computing.Foundation - Start your 2019 with this.
I think moocs are usefull to jump start you but after that you need to do more. I studied CS and did find the deeplearning.ai course helpful in getting started. Without it much of the ML content was not easy to grokk. But now that I"ve gone through that I get the gist of what papers are talking about. After you do a MOOC though you have to continue with doing real work as in exercises, Kaggle competitions and just playing with things.
I invite you to apply critical thinking as to why someone's declaration of the OMG obvious evolutionary explanation for a still dimly-understood psychological phenomenon is fundamentally dubious. Tossed-off evo-psych ideas like that are the playground of laymen geeks when it comes to biology. They contribute nothing except a false sense of understanding.
What management thinks is irrelevant to morale.

What the engineers believe management thinks is relevant. Your last sentence seems to prove a point here.
He certainly loves series! I’ll see him tonight and I’m sure he will bring the topic up.
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"Why would I pay the exorbitant tuition of MIT..."

According to the article, 58% of MIT students received aid (averaging to 2/3 of tuition (?)).
Not necessarily. Have you ever tried cancelling a cable or internet service over the phone?
And if the same human driver kept zooming through our cul-de-sac nearly hitting kids, you can bet there would be a confrontation
It also depends on where you are. Texas smells like somebody shoved grass clippings straight up your nose. Much of the Middle East smells like dry cement dust.
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Do we? By how much?

Sounds like we still need to prepare for the effects.
“Rock star” engineers sometimes work at startups, but usually they work for
Organize a protest with signs. Petition the government. Like you mentioned, sue the companies. But ultimately if the government says it's legal (which it has and it is) and lawsuits and protests fail, you're going to have to accept it at some point. That's part of living in a civil society, compromises always have to be made. If everyone threatened violence for things they don't like, we wouldn't be able to call ourselves "civilized".

Pointing a gun at a person because you don't like the kind of car they're driving isn't exactly a workable solution.
Should students be required to turn 18 before enrolling at college then?
Would it be ok for a non-lawyer to hold himself out as a lawyer and accept money from “clients” who were fooled?
That's the same as going to iTunes Store -> Sroll Down to Apple ID -> Tap Apple ID -> View Apple ID -> Subscriptions on iOS... there is two ways to get to the same thing.

You can also like the parent poster said, use App Store -> Profile Picture -> Tap Apple ID -> Subscriptions.
As per the guidelines:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
It's called civil disobedience. You can fault it all you want, but there's precedent for it being there right side of history
Speaking as someone with an average vocabulary: Not that I can think of.

After a quick look it seems as though it's known that some non-English languages do include singular words for this, but in English it's called "cute aggression", "playful aggression", or similar terms.
Big pharma is super excited about buying access to this data: https://mediacenter.23andme.com/press-releases/gsk-and-23and... and https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/14/23andme-has-signed-12-oth...

I wouldn't be super surprised to see insurance companies get in on the game, though there's already laws against discrimination on the basis of genetic information, so I'd be interested to see if that would face any regulatory blowback: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/g...
I really like “The Whole-Brain Child” and “How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen”.

Full disclosure: I’m not really a believer in negative discipline and/or punishment being effective so my recommendations may be a bit skewed.
> anybody reading these plots? This is really the worst news

A significant amount of work and investment goes into making some of these plots trend that way:

https://datareport.goalkeepers.org/

You might be down-voted because you take that improvement for granted.
If someone who calls themselves a doctor or a lawyer goes on TV and gives medical or legal advice, that can cause harm and sets a bad precedent.