skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very hard-pressed to believe iOS has a monopoly by most arguments.

Market share argument:

Android has 71% market share in the EU, as of February 2019 - compared to iOS's 21%. [1]

Ease of customer switching argument:

If Apple pressed too much in a way that harmed consumers, there are many other cheaper alternative Android phones vs. iOS to which they can easily port their number over (say what you want about ISPs and Telecoms, I find this to be pretty easy in the US - unless you signed an unreasonably stifling contract. Admittedly I'm unsure how difficult this would be in most of the EU.)

Supply-Side Price elasticity argument:

In theory, if the 30% cut was too high, developers wouldn't want to develop on the iOS platform, and would instead focus resources on developing on Android; the specific cut would be at an equilibrium point that enough developers would find profitable, and would still provide choice in the app marketplace for customers.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
Ask HN: Programming languages designed for autocorrecting mobile keyboards?
Programming on iOS devices is a pain if the language’s reserved words run afoul of autocorrect, or require special symbols which take 3 taps to insert.

Autocorrect is basically a dumb intellisense, are there any languages that take advantage of this fact?

If so, this language would probably be a great introduction to programming for younger folks, many of whom have a mobile device way before a dedicated personal computer.
This idea of a world with chinese and russian trolls with no mention of other state actors seems to be missing a rather big part of the picture.
It didn't sound reasonable to me before, but you really gave me some perspective here. What the the hell are they doing? So much geo processing?
Why would the sub for it be relevant to discussions of any kind of politics? What am I missing?

The show has been pointed at by conservatives as an example of gender/identity politics. However, the ethos of the show is that we really should accept people no matter how they were born, and judge them on the quality of their relationships. What's more, this isn't transmitted by saying it, rather by showing it. IMO, more careful observation shows that it's actually the opposite of identitarian media, despite surface appearances.

Occasionally, some identitarian rah-rah comes up there, and I feel the need to point out that we're all in this together, and isn't that what the characters show us?

from adverts it seemed pretty banal rather than political.

It transcends the political, like all good, honest art should.
How did Albert Einstein become the poster child for genius?
A few questions:

* What's the ATM network that you're using with no fees? Since I have good rewards credit cards that I can pay off every month, my debit card is essentially just for accessing cash and paying the very few bills I have that won't take a credit card, my debit card choice is entirely related to "no ATM fees, anywhere in the US."

* I'm a little confused about "All-in-one" including checking, savings, etc. Does that mean I'd get multiple accounts by default? Or does the debit card just pay HYS-competitive APY?
Isn't the article just about anger? I was talking about anger
Threatening to reveal information is not really forcing someone to pay, either.
Heres a TextFile listing his old BBS number if it is TacoLand:

http://www.textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0080.txt

Also whats up with textfiles.com having so many broken links on Google? So much for that whole "Archive Team" angle.
You mean the book by Jim Collins?

https://www.jimcollins.com/books.html#good-to-great
When a court determine someone to be sane it just means that he fully knew what he was doing.

You can absolutely be sure that you want to kill people, knowing the implications of your acts and going though with it, that makes you sane for a court.

Now is someone showing so much hate and violence mentally ill in a way? I guess it depends on who you ask. Imho these kinds of views/acts are not very compatible with my definition of mental sanity.
> I would challenge the idea that being a “hacker” polls well for a presidential candidate

He’s a candidate in a primary. Big difference in the audiences.
I think the assumption that static typing means things take more time requires justification. Usually I see the assertion given from people who naturally take longer getting things to pass compilation just because they're not used to using it. When I use dynamically typed languages I find footguns in undefineds and empty strings where others wouldn't. I also have to write tests - which themselves may have bugs - for things that static analysis could do on its own. Why use expensive dev time for this instead of cheap CPU time?

>Underlying that model seems to be a concept of software like a sort of renaissance master's marble statue, error free and perfect at time of production.

Most of the time I'm writing code isn't for the first implementation of a green-field feature and, really, most programming problems aren't that hard in terms of logic flow. If I refactor and the type system and static checking don't complain, I can be reasonably sure it's going to work. And I've seen too many 'temporary hacks' that became forgotten and leaked to review or production.
Very cool by the way. I've definitely looked for rewards debit cards in the past.
The U.S. Now Has More Millionaires Than Sweden Has People
Immutable Records will be added in C# 8.x
Just noticed r/watchpeopledie was banned about an hour ago: https://reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/b1hjtn/rwatchpe...

Which makes sense, if Reddit wants to ban the Christchurch video. Banning just that video and not the many others posted and discussed daily would be a difficult needle to thread as a coherent policy.
Seems ambiguous - delivered where? My e-mail?
Just to clarify, I would agree that 14 cents is an accurate figure even if a single ride didn't translate to 14 cents, but doubling the rides increased the spend by an average of 14 cents.

My suspicion is that a bulk of those costs aren't things that scale with more rides coming in.
This is such a shitty product. (/s)

Edit: okay, clearly someone didn't get the pun.
There is also the tendency of mentally unstable people not getting the joke and more or less taking over the meme. Then the profit-seekers and cult leader types emerge, and suddenly what was a joke is a movement. On a much smaller scale the same thing happens with satirist news outlets, and the process is:

Outlet makes a joke (for a real example “Joe Biden is refusing to leave the White House and has armed and barricaded himself.”)

Joke is spread devoid of context, still as a joke.

Trolls get a chuckle by posting it to some extremist group.

Extremist group doesn’t get the joke and adopts the narrative, fitting it into existing ideology.

Pizzagate and QAnon are great examples of this process. The other process is that schizophrenics dig up old ideas to fit their current delusions, such as “Orgone” and “Chemtrails.” Some of these ideas fit into the delusional ideation of non-mentally ill groups and it becomes a widespread conspiracy theory.

Note that this can all be very profitable, if you look at people like Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, and David Icke.
Could JavaScript get a standard library?
Every problem you cite is caused by forced westernization and urbanization.

Alcoholism is not an Inuit cultural problem because Inuit culture predates the introduction of alcohol by thousands of years.

Unemployment is not cultural because people living off the land are not unemployed.

And hitting kids is something picked up from forcible re-education in Indian Schools where every aspect of the original culture was forbidden by generous use of beatings.

There is a tendency to quickly believe anything that treats our culture as innocent by blaming the victim, to easily believe anything contrary to what "rubs us the wrong way". I believe this is a dangerous fallacy we should resist.
steam gets 30% of sales from within the steam storefront, but O from sales of steam keys from other channels

epic is not the saviour here, they're dumping cash to bring shitty console practices to the pc ecosystem, namely storefront exclusives
Nobody rages on HN about Sony’s monopoly over games development for the PlayStation

Might be because the App Store is the sole channel. Also, apps are easier to substitute than games, making anti-competitive behavior possible.
Of course he's going to get what he wants, just like all the Islamic terrorist groups who've explicitly stated that their goal is to get the US right to go after Muslims as a whole in order to push them over to their side have in the past. That's what makes this such an evil and effective tactic.
I worked at a small startup that used it, and I didn't see the point. It was clever in how it provided an alternative interface to GitHub Issues, but to someone who was already familiar with GitHub, it didn't really make anything easier than just using the normal interface. There are things I hate about GitHub Issues, but this didn't solve any of them.

Plus, an add-on service like that was just begging for GitHub to add the feature themselves, so the company always had an end-of-life looming.

One possible exit was GitHub buying them, but I'm sure GitHub would rather build the feature natively (as they did, right?) for technical reasons. Another is expanding to a standalone service, but GitHub and Trello already owned each side of that space.

It always looked like a technically interesting product but one that I wouldn't use myself and which had no future.
Possibly, but I wonder if it has more to do with prioritizing drag over everything else including unique design.

Don't all jet's pretty much have the same external design?

How many different ways can you design a car if you goal is to lessen drag as much as possible? I'm asking honestly. I have no idea.
The scientists team from Italy deliberately let other people try and reproduce results before publishing and they actually refused to mwke claims. They found problem with the equipment.
I have made some of the exact same points in another thread hours ago where someone claimed that Apple could easily run the App Store for a 1% commission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19398315

So I am fully aware of everything you're saying and I agree with most of it in principle. I do disagree on the numbers you're using. But we are both inevitably ill-informed in the sense that neither of us has the hard numbers required to work out the true cost of running the App Store.

We do know a couple of things though:

1) The App Store is profitable. Apple has said so. Most analysts reckon that it has high and growing margins. Everything Apple says about its services business makes me believe that these analysts are correct.

2) There are only two relevant mobile app stores (perhaps 2 1/2 if you count Amazon).

3) Both charge exactly 30%

This is not a well functioning market by any definition. Dysfunctional markets like these rarely charge too little. So the assumption that they charge too much seems not too far fetched.

To me, charging 30% for every app, irrespective of its price, seems completely implausible, not just the percentage but also the structure. Any plausible pricing structure would include a fixed fee plus a percentage.

I'm not using the word "greed" in a moral sense (as is often the case). I'm using it because it is clearly an act of self harm to extract high margins in an obviously oligopolistic and dysfunctional market.

They are begging to be regulated and why would they do such a stupid thing?
Personally I don't do dairy products, but this is going to be great news for fertilizers containing manure.
Ambulances are absolutely not for non-urgent, non-critical situations and being able to auto-schedule a ride at time of appointment creation is a positive addition.
This is very important to note.
hes from texas, oil and gas represent a large amount of jobs and they pay well. a good chunk of the american economy runs on oil and gas jobs. why is this a bad thing?
We need authorship attribution plugins for Firefox/Chrome. Identify propaganda and submarine advertisements/shilling.
Apple isn't doing anything to Spotify that they don't do to all apps - both the app store rejections and the fees. It seems wrong to call that anti-competitive in favor of Apple Music.
Huh... well I live and learn, thanks for the detailed answer.
Ask HN: Enhancement Proposals for Engineering Teams?
I'm currently evolving my team's process and wearing half a product management hat until our startup gets its own organization for that.

We have two PM boards. One for high-level product roadmap with goal and feature-level card titles and checklists for business requirements, and target delivery dates. Another board for technical work that follows a different Kanban-ish flow to limit work in progress (todo, research, prototype, test, deploy, monitor, release etc.).

In trying to capture the rationale for various designs, tooling, and architecture choices, I've mostly been writing comments and notes in the cards directly, or just making decisions behind the scenes and implementing straight away.

I'd like to have some more durable reference for design decisions to make sure we are always considering alternatives, tradeoffs, and utilizing skills and experience, rather than rushing under pressure from the business or adopting over-complicated abstractions that future selves/colleagues will pay the price for.

Has anyone used a PEP-like process for technical designs outside of community projects?
Point.com is in the business of financial services. Sounds like you chose a terrible name.
Or a market emerging of companies offering jobs to near-graduates with the understanding that dropping out wouldn't result in revocation of the offer. Actually, that might not be the worst outcome if it encourages a focus on abilities over credentials.
http://2ality.com/2019/01/future-js.html#standard-library
Yes. That actually makes me wonder about the Pulitzer Prize, if what you're saying is true.

From https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/buzzfeed/: "overall, we rate Buzzfeed Left-Center Biased due to story selection that tends to favor the left and Mixed for factual reporting based on poor sourcing and a few failed fact checks.".

They're also selling their own brand of kitchenware if you're not aware of it (see https://www.buzzfeed.com/samanthawieder/tasty-kitchenware-wa...), which is a perfect indication that not even them believe their journalism will get them anywhere.

They're a biased, failing enterprise that spins news to cause outrage and get a few clicks.

Someone at BuzzFeed won a Pulitzer Prize..? That doesn't mean that BuzzFeed's journalists don't generally spend the whole day writing listicles or biased articles to try to avoid bankruptcy.

The author--Jane Lytvynenko--has bright red hair and might identify herself with news reporter, but has no track record and not even a LinkedIn profile. Her tweets read like "Hello happy Thursday here's a selection of memes from a pro-Bernier channel plz enjoy". I mean, "plz"? Give me a break.
Well, that is interesting. For some colors (e.g. ff6666) I get the same value but for some others, it seems to depend on the application. For example, the ffcc66 color appears as ffcd66 in Firefox and Chrome but as ffcc66 in Gwenview and Gimp. And it doesn't seem to make a difference which color picker I use (tried Gimp, Plasma color picker, and the Firefox dev-tools).

It looks like the browsers interpret the images differently.
Keep dreaming.

The people tasked with spying on people daily -- the people who should know better and be more tolerant -- simply believe everyone is a hypocrite or some kind of monster.

In practice, no secrets means everyone will hate each other, not be more tolerant. People can't live with knowing certain things, and if everyone's secrets are in the open, what actually happens is that people can't live each other. It's stupid, they're stupid, but that's how they act.
Bank records aren't anonymous, and people are allowed to challenge their individual results, up to and including suing in court.

The US requires that once you leave the polling station you must not be able to prove to anyone how you voted.
He was shopping for lawsuit and he used shady laboratories IIRC. So he knew he wasn't doing proper science.
My Chase debit card has had rewards for over a decade. How is this going to be better?
The corpses of adults is probably fine to show.

But corpses of minors is almost certainly against the law to show. I know there are a bunch of American laws regarding privacy protection of minors that don't apply to adults (but IANAL so...). That's something I remember from my journalism class: you can almost do any reporting you like on adults, but if children are involved its way, way more legally difficult to stay in the clear.

For example: if a minor commits a crime and is charged as a child, you are NOT allowed to publish the name of the child. This is to protect their permanent record, so that they have a better chance of reform as they grow up. If they're charged as an adult, I think the rules are different.

This also happened outside of the USA. The US has its own laws, while other countries have their laws. I'm sure details are different.
It's almost an exact copy-paste of the "spy / secret agent" mythos of the cold war.

They don't use their real names, they have gadgets and mysterious power, not from magic but from skill. They operate outside traditional power structures and governments, you don't know who's working for whom, and they never seem far from a trenchcoat.
> This place sucks a lot of the time with all of the congestion and traffic, heat, smog, high cost of living etc... but times like this really make you stop and appreciate how beautiful it is.

That's how I feel every day here
What's wrong with the Wikipedia definition?

> Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false, and often damaging, information about a person, to the public, family members, or associates unless certain demands are met. It may involve using threats of physical, mental or emotional harm, or of criminal prosecution, against the victim or someone close to the victim
"I once told my daughter that intelligent decisions in life are made by being dispassionate and using logic to reason the optimal course of action"

This is the 'most HN' comment of the day.

Maybe someone should start collecting these gems.

On a serious note - I think this is inherently about managing emotions, responses, triggers etc. 'in the moment'. It's ultimately a social issue, not one which can be driven with data as we would like.
You mean the movie where a quirky-but-lovable nerd garners the attention of an attractive and popular girl who is fascinated by his hacking abilities and then goes on to kiss the girl, outsmart the FBI, and save the entire world from nuclear annihilation by typing stuff into a computer terminal? That WarGames?

Yea, I've seen it.
"Traditionally, the Inuit saw yelling at a small child as demeaning. It's as if the adult is having a tantrum; it's basically stooping to the level of the child, Briggs documented."

This article is full of interesting insights, but this one stands out
> To blackmail is to threaten to do something otherwise legal (usually divulge information) unless you are paid.

So, doing research on a politician, and discovering that they were a member of the KKK, and offering to keep mum for $50,000 (Because you hate them, and want to damage their career, but you have a price) is blackmail.

But doing research on a politician, and discovering that they were a member of the KKK, and going public with it (Because you hate them, and you want to damage their career), is not blackmail.

Why is one illegal, but the other one isn't? The personal harm (To the politician) is the same. Is there a social harm that I'm missing?

Or, suppose you're a customer at a restaurant. You saw the waiter spit in your food. You ask the manager to comp you your meal, or you're going to post a nasty Yelp review. (Scale this up to any sort of business transaction that you want, including multi-million dollar disputes.) Is this blackmail?

Or, suppose you're working in unsafe conditions, and you tell your boss that unless conditions improve, you're going to call OSHA. Is this blackmail? What if you'll not call OSHA if he fixes the unsafe conditions, and also gives you next Monday off? Is that now blackmail?

Or, suppose you're doing research on a company you want to invest in. You discover that their prospects are crap, and you short them, and make money. That's not blackmail. But, apparently, threatening to tell the public that their prospects are crap, and that everyone should short them, is.

There are no straight answers to the problem... Which is why I think people only view blackmail poorly when they feel something unfair happens because of it.

Getting a promotion because you blackmailed your boss? People find this incredibly offensive. Promotions should be fair!

Getting money, because you're blackmailing a politician? People also find this incredibly offensive. Why are you getting money for 'nothing'.

Getting a safe working environment, because you threatened to report your boss to a regulator? Oh, that's perfectly fine!

The reaction people have to blackmail has little to do with the act of blackmail itself - and everything to do with the 'unfair' nature of the payoff.
As well as https://www.pointbank.com/

Rebrand in the making.
It's much more nuanced. Compare hybrid Lexus and Tesla model S. Factor in electricity that is produced from coal plant, a lot of energy and pollution that come from extracting Cobalt and other substances. Creating the battery consumes a lot of energy as well and does produce waste. Then you have to recycle it.

EVs are great and on average they are way better, BUT if you drive very little and you get electricity from fossil fuels your Tesla maybe worse for the environment.
This comment says more about you than Beto.
> "no timeouts"

Interesting that the presumption of the author is that the timeout is a punishment rather than a way to get the child to "reset" whatever overstimulation is causing a problem.
The common theory is that additional 9s for self driving are not inremental, they require more like exponential effort. Possibly and probably needing new sensors or additional compute power to handle those corner cases. So you cannot linearly extrapolate progress.
> "because NCMEC does not care about the latter."

And nor do you it seems, but tumblr now does. They've been forced to. You may not like it, but that's the reality of how tumblr is now operating. Tumblr can no longer turn a blind eye to any form of child pornography, and is no longer turning a blind eye to any form of child pornography.

Tumblr didn't ban all pornography for shits and giggles. They did it because given the current legal and social landscape it was their only economically viable option.
>> It is especially wrong to gain money by hurting someone.

No so.

With blackmail, you identify a problem that someone else has and you explain it to them (for free) and then you sell them the solution for a price. It's not so different from what big corporations are doing these days.

>> Saying embarrassing things about someone hurts them.

No, it makes them stronger and more authentic.

>> Blackmail discourages embarrassing activities, but some things just can’t be changed.

But they can be destroyed.
So? Yes, they will continue organic growth in NYC, like everywhere else.

The HQ plan would have been a massive jump and very likely an increased growth rate thereafter. That won't happen now.
A woman was arrested for letting her nine year old play in a public park alone.

Kids nowadays wait for the school bus with their parents, usually in their parents cars.