skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words, Apple has a monopoly over 20% of the app customers, in the same way that Charter may have a broadband monopoly in 20% of the country even if there are other providers in the other 80%.

I can walk into any mobile store and have a choice between dozens of phones. Most people can’t choose their homes internet service provider.

Notice that this isn't the same thing as saying that Walmart has a monopoly over its own shelf space, because customers can trivially switch from Walmart to Amazon or vice versa at any time but to buy a $1 app from Amazon or Google Play instead of Apple you would first have to replace your $1000 phone. To reach the same position as Walmart, the issue isn't that they control what's in their own store, it's that there are no competing iOS app stores.

People can choose whether they want to spend money on an iPhone or an Android phone knowing the trade offs just like people can choose whether to buy an Xbox or PS4.

it's that they can reject your app for entirely opaque reasons without recourse, explicitly including because it competes with one of theirs.

Seeing that there are competing products for everything that Apple sells, this is a boogeymen that doesn’t happen anymore than it happens for the console makers.

You do realize that no software can be sold for consoles without the approval of the console makers - including physical sells.
> and are refusing refunds (Southwest/American)

Is southwest refusing refunds? Not doubting you, just asking if there has been a story about it.
They already had built it. Google Videos (was that it's name?) was a thing and I remember it being turned down not too far from the YT acquisition.
Twitter only defaults to public; you can use it in private mode if you prefer. In the Privacy & Safety section of Twitter's settings, you'll see "Protect your Tweets":

> If selected, only those you approve will receive your Tweets. Your future Tweets will not be available publicly. Tweets posted previously may still be publicly visible in some places. Learn more: https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/public-and-p...
I'd love to know more about these services and what specifically you find terrible about them. Our team is always focused on building a good user experience, part of which comes from learning from other services mistakes
The key is in the fragment and thus is not sent to any server.
As a counterpoint, similar to the user above, what about the exploitation of farm labor to harvest everything you eat?
FWIW, this describes how to make it, though I haven't tried yet.

https://www.flytraplife.com/blog/half-popped-popcorn/
As you mentioned, huge fan of Backblaze B2. No affiliation, just a satisfied customer. Can also pair it with Cloudflare for even less expensive traffic serving.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...
AT&T to revamp DirecTV Now with new plans bundling in HBO, price hikes
> The change removed regulations from the FDR era

And substituted new regulations which favored large agribusinesses. The article doesn't go into detail about that part, but it's crucial to understanding why, for example, corn overproduction has led to high fructose corn syrup, ethanol from corn, etc. in the US. The key regulatory change was that, rather than paying farms not to grow corn to keep production limited, the government started subsiziding minimum prices for corn even when the market price would be lower due to a glut in supply. This obviously favored big agribusinesses, who could overproduce corn in far larger quantities than small farms.

More discussion here:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/bushels.html
Copilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 had just 200 hours of flight experience
It’s a quip used to remind people to work backwards from the problem they’re trying to solve, not the other way around.

I think it’s an appropriate response to blanket advice on choice of tech stacks.
Relevant quotes:

What Target discovered fairly quickly is that it creeped people out that the company knew about their pregnancies in advance.

“If we send someone a catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and they’ve never told us they’re pregnant, that’s going to make some people uncomfortable,” [snip]
So Target got sneakier about sending the coupons. The company can create personalized booklets; [snip]

“Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women would never buy, so the baby ads looked random. We’d put an ad for a lawn mower next to diapers. We’d put a coupon for wineglasses next to infant clothes. That way, it looked like all the products were chosen by chance. And we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.”
> The Marriott CEO said again that investigative efforts have yet to uncover evidence to suggest that hackers gained access to the encryption key used to encrypt the payment card numbers, meaning that most of the compromised payment card numbers are still useless to attackers.

So the clearly sophisticated hacker(s) had access to the network for four years yet somehow forgot the private keys to decrypt the millions of records they went through all that effort to steal?
Show HN: Vpdate – a CLI to help keep your package.json version up to date
Connecting the Dots on Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox
Protecting Elastic Search the company and Elastic Search the open source project is not the same thing.

AWS is releasing their changes as open source software to the public and maintaining their release. As long as ES the project keeps getting released who cares if it's Amazon, Netflix, Google or whomever that pays for the work behind it?
For me: Last I checked, debian had a lot more packages which worked together (Wikipedia says it's currently ~70,000 to Fedora's ~20,000, and RHEL's "3000 + 9000 from EPEL").

Notably after running Debian on my servers for years, I tried getting the same setup on RHEL to see how it compared - starting with getting nginx running. On debian it was "apt install nginx". on RHEL, nginx wasn't available from the main repo so I had to use an unofficial third party. The third party binary didn't work so I tried to compile from source. Compiling from source failed because some libraries were missing. Those libraries also weren't in the rhel repo. The third party repo had some, but they were out of date. Trying to compile the libraries from source, one of them used Scons rather than Autoconf, so I tried to install that. RHEL didn't even include the basic popular (at the time) build tools, so I decided to give up rather than compile my entire stack from scratch bypassing the package manager :P
Sure, you can also find people who believe the Earth is flat... but the point is that they're not the majority.

Not many people would argue that testosterone causes men to have increased muscle mass, for example. But they might take issue if you make the claim that men are physically superior (because that concept is much more complex and it's weird to declare superiority without more specific constraints — It's akin to saying America is the best country).
Many of those countries are friendly (extremely so) to the US. For example, the US is perfectly happy to ship aircraft parts (and even fully functional military aircraft) to Afghani buyers; they just give non-binding advice to US citizens that traveling to a war zone is maaaaaybe not the safest idea.
Where are the Ricardo remixes though?
I read that 90% of all smokers stop smoking sometimes in their life and I just could not accept being in the 10% who cannot. 5 years too :) congrats
How do you vet contractors? What’s the fee per month? Is the subscription a lock in? Do you find and vet and place tenants? I’m interested: Alex at alexandarnarayan dot com

Basically if you can beat the 8% per month and 50% first months rent my current manager takes I’d jump easily. Even more importantly I’ve a tenant that pays religiously on the first of the month. But I don’t get a deposit until the 11th or the 12th. Can you guys beat that?

What are the chances I can get on the phone and talk to the person that would be overseeing my property? How do you convey trust to owners when you don’t live in the areas you serve?

Edit: the fee structure is insanely attractive.
>> If both previous crashes happened with US carriers taking off from US airports, you better believe the FAA would ground these boeing max jets.

You're not wrong. But do you think the EU banning them couldn't possibly have anything to do with who makes them or the competition between Airbus and Boeing? Even as a secondary factor?
"Why a Very Dishonest Bitcoin Shill Conceals His Name and Address From The Public"
Private universities are private as in control, not in funding. John Hopkins is a private university whose research is nearly 90% funded by the government. None of the private universities can exist without government funding.

So when Harvard professor whose salary comes from grants lectures a donor's child, who didn't get the grades to be there in the first place, it raises a question, if the arrangement makes sense.
Looks like www.send.firefox.com was a mistake. It's not a valid way to access the service. The correct url is send.firefox.com.
My point exactly! Legitimate online businesses compete for attention with nonsense and every other legitimate online business. Regardless of the viability of the idea, a new online product is a snowflake competing for attention in an avalanche.

All things considered, it is much easier to get a paying customer with a proven local business idea than an online business.
I know it'll probably never happen, but I hope this somehow leads to Apple supporting .webm in Safari.
Are there any plans to automate property management? If so, when?

I posted this request for an Uber for property management 7 months ago. After that post, I reluctantly hired a property manager and it has been a nightmare. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656752
Except that he works his bitcoin shilling scam remotely.

Read the article: section 13.
Fun with Power Series in Lucid
It's been fixed and the fix is deployed to prod. Might need to clear some cache.
I use Firefox exclusively. If a site only works in Chrome, I won't use it.

Stability and performance are about the same, in my experience. Neither are perfect. Though it's been at least a year since I really used Chrome so I can't say for sure.
I am not sure if that is a result of fuel efficiency or intense competition.
The devil's in the details, here.

Here's Medium's relevant terms of service: You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium. By posting content to Medium, you give us a nonexclusive license to publish it on Medium Services, including anything reasonably related to publishing it (like storing, displaying, reformatting, and distributing it). In consideration for Medium granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Medium may enable advertising on the Services, including in connection with the display of your content or other information. We may also use your content to promote Medium, including its products and content. We will never sell your content to third parties without your explicit permission. https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e...

Contrast that with https://terms.hackernoon.com/ : We may use Your Content in a number of different ways, including by publicly displaying it, reformatting it, incorporating it into advertisements and other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, distributing it, and. As such, you confirm and warrant that you own or control all rights to Your Content and hereby irrevocably grant us world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, assignable, sub-licensable, transferable rights to use Your Content for any purpose. Please note that you also irrevocably grant the Users of the Site the right to access Your Content in connection with their use of the Site. Finally, you irrevocably waive, and cause to be waived, against Company and its Users any claims and assertions of moral right or attribution with respect to Your Content.

Typos aside, HNoon is asserting far more rights than just "we're getting the same terms that Medium got when you first posted there." Particularly, I believe (IANAL), the waiver of attribution claims against other users of HNoon means you are effectively releasing your work into the public domain, to be used without attribution by anyone who finds it through HNoon.

To the extent that HNoon was trying to "sneak this through" with their friendly message to authors, it's a scumbag move. It's good that they're updating their language, and hopefully they change enough.
It's understandable that every parent wants the best for their children and wants to give them a leg up in life and will do almost anything help their children. It's human nature that every parent appreciates and you can't fault them for that. But bribing and cheating isn't fair to other parents and their children.

But then neither is legacy preference of alumni's children. Or giving special treatment to large donors. Or a slew of other preferential admission policies.

How does one even start to fix this? It's structural and natural. The longer you live, the more you realize life isn't ideal. Meritocracy and fairness are wonderful ideals but ultimately impractical and unrealistic. Or maybe we just haven't evolved to that stage in human development?

I recently watched Forrest Gump and this story reminded me of Gump's mother trading sexual favors for school admission for her son. Was that ethical or even legal? I imagine we could argue about it forever and never come to a satisfactory conclusion.
Ask HN: If you could go back in time, what would you tell your 20 year old self?
What things do you see differently now?
Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat, having only fiddled briefly with some of the newer web APIs, rather than architecting an app around service workers. My impression comes from folks like Joreteg who do the work, and from the increasing frequency with which new native-like APIs are released into browsers (though almost invariably implemented badly).

That said, even though the way service workers are registered is sort of odd, they're pretty trivial to work with once you're there. As far as resources go, MDN is always pretty solid, and this post (https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/servi...) on Google's web dev guides is what I used to familiarize myself with them.
That has been discussed :-)
I've been Google-free for about a year now. Already posted my "clean" setup in another thread[0]:

1. Replaced my Google G-Suite with Proton Mail and a self hosted Nextcloud The process was fairly easy: Just export all your mails and import them into Proton Mail. After that I've exported Google Drive data, contacts and calendar and imported everything into Nextcloud. This all took around two hours (including the Nextcloud setup).

The only "issue" was dealing with services where I use my G-Suite account as a login, but most of them allowed you to set a password so you can log in with email.

Nextcloud has amazing one click install apps that offer the same features that Google has (video calls, docs, notes etc.).

2. Removing Google from my Android phone For that I flashed LineageOS for microG. The great thing with this is, that you can install and use all apps you normally have but without having Google Services installed. As a PlayStore alternative you can use F-Droid and Yalp Store. Anyone who installed a custom ROM before will have it running in under an hour.

3. Securing my network with a PI-Hole and Proton VPN For devices like my phone, laptop and desktop I installed Proton VPN. As a browser for mobile and desktop I use Firefox with uBlock origin. For everything else (like "smart" devices etc.) I installed a Pi-Hole (basically Easy-List on network level) to remove ads and tracking scripts.

These were only the major steps that I've taken. So far I don't have any regrets about it and I haven't faced any limitations with the alternatives I use now.

Links: https://protonmail.com/ https://nextcloud.com/ https://lineage.microg.org/ https://protonvpn.com/

Additionally I've setup a self hosted searx[1] instance as a google search replacement.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283889
[1]: https://searx.me/
Yes, compared to someone who insists on doing all of their computation from python alone, I have a unique (and in my opinion absurd) advantage.

Because I think that's insane. It's one thing if you don't care about speed and you care more about time-to-market. It's another thing if you're complaining about things being too slow but you're not willing to learn about anything that would let you do anything about it. I run into far more of the latter.
Google Files doesn't work with location services turned off. Because, you know, that's oh so critical for transferring data over the internet.
I use chrome for gmail, and Firefox for everything else. And it's quite quick on Linux. In fact, with that send.firefox.com bit that was talked about earlier, I just sent them a message and asked them to build that link directly into Firefox, so I can tell my friends who want to share files with me (I do a lot of charter sailing), 'hey, just open firefox and click Tools->Send'. No dropbox or anything else needed.

I think it could be a killer feature.
First, I apologize, I didn't word my first sentence as syntactically clear as I realized. Give in is a bit of a loose term here. Instead I would say that a person should recognize their habits changing due to the substance and they would avoid over indulging before it was too late. A period of abstinence may be necessary here to reset tolerances/ align short term and long term goals.

Second, for your last point, the man seeks a coping mechanism for his stress, but does he lack agency and therefore colloquial willpower when he decides which cooping mechanism he chooses? (That's an up in the air question for a more generalized form.)
I interpret this as an indication that the United States policy and law is run by Wall street and is corrupted. Boeing didn't want to develop a new airplane, cut costs, and doesn't want to lose money, so the FAA is not allowed to ban the plane
I wasn't proposing that any of that and I'm not sure it's relevant (e.g. in this case it's a software update that can be done without moving the plane); I agree they wouldn't want to take over a dead airline, and such an agreement doesn't get the incentives right. But it's common for OEMs to take the hit for things that are their own fault, if it isn't legally required.

And the rarity of the incidents plus Boeing's asymmetric knowledge of them would favor Boeing being a guarantor. And remember, I just said the design issues. Obviously the airline would be expected to take hits from e.g. FAA groundings from their own maintenance failures.

Edit: That leaves asymmetric bargaining power in your reply, but I don't see OEM aircraft competition as being so monopolized that they wouldn't compete on "hey this company makes us bear the costs of their design problems but this one doesn't".
>I haven’t done the math, but my gut says it would point to grounding the plane.

"Guts" are notoriously good at statistical inference
It doesn’t matter.

Just think about it for a second. It’s ridiculous. Oracle has plenty of open source code. Merely suggesting that something be open source could not possibly lead to termination. There is obviously way more to that.

Whatever reason he was fired for might be unjustified, I have no idea. But it was absolutely not due to suggesting that they open source something.

If you’re basing that on this tweet, not only does it come well short of the claim you’re making, but it clearly indicates that Cantrill is going on third party hearsay.

https://mobile.twitter.com/bcantrill/status/9313425004463513...
> No company has complete pricing power.

Pricing power doesn't have to have an unlimited range to demonstrate a monopoly in the sense of interest to anti-trust law.

> Have you compared the price of a Coke to a generic cola?

Again, a price premium is not even a related concept to pricing power.

> And this is different than Apple charging a premium how?

I've never made a claim about whether Apple has pricing power or merely a premium price; I've only said the existence of other sellers in the descriptive category of “computers” is not inconsistent with he characterization others made of Apple having a monopoly, because monopoly is designed by empirical evidence of competition (e.g., whether or not pricing power exists), not by whether or not their are other players in a descriptive category.
Right but it's a such a lightning rod that it instantly derails any reasonable discussion. It's basically the Godwin's law of conversations about sex, gender, and political bias.
The opposite: the YouTube MCNs of yore made you sign a contract for redistribution rights with explicit statements of ownership, which is not the case here.
I didn’t single-out Germany for its fleet, just that it was one of the countries with a delayed closure of its airspace.
When I turn down the Alexa because of music but then I ask Alexa what is the weather, it is the same volume as down and I cant hear it. Then I have to say increase volume and then ask Alexa again.

This is small but I think defines the missing design principle of Alexa. Yes I want the music to be low when Im doing active 1, but the introduction of new action of knowing the weather I need to hear it. These are the little "smart" features that are needed for a product that Amazon is striving for needs.

Edit: I actually say Echo because I think we should stop personifying technology.
Technically, it did: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been an RFC for over a quarter of a century. To me, at least, it's an interesting question why IRC never really broke out of "only nerds need apply" status.
I don't understand what you mean and can't find the term literally on Google. Do you have a link to something explaining it?
If it's not enabled in web views, there's nothing stopping browsers from polyfilling it with native code.
If they need time shouldn't the first course of action be grounding this aircraft?
AsterixDb: Scalable, Open Source Big Data Management System
How do you suggest Boeing "prove" that there are no links between the events? You can't prove the null hypothesis.
I'm still not sure what group you're talking about. If you're talking about the Open Source Initiative, the description you're giving doesn't quite make sense: the board members of the Open Source Initiative are individuals, not organizations. Some of the individuals happen to be employed by Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc., but they don't seem to work in the cloud organizations and they're not representing their companies, anyway.

The total budget of the OSI is in the couple hundred thousand range, i.e., comparable to a single full-time software engineer. So the fact that a few companies are each giving five-digit donations that add up to a six-digit budget doesn't seem like it's a huge priority for any of these companies. Take a look at the sponsorship levels on https://opensource.org/sponsors .

In any case, I agree that the Open Source Initiative should be transparent, and my individual membership in the OSI is not an endorsement of everything the OSI does any more than having a PyCon ticket is endorsement of everything the Python Software Foundation or their corporate sponsors do. (One specific thing they haven't done is post form 990s more recently than 2016, and I do intend to ask them to post these. But if you look at the 2016 one https://opensource.org/files/2016990EZ.pdf you can see that these aren't vast sums of money, and Craigslist donated more money to the OSI than any cloud provider.)
Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal by 149 votes
I think we can be sure they won't do it because of GDPR.
If it was 2 freighters, would we have done the same?