skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's rare to get a definitive confirmation from Google or its partners, but the revenue split was reportedly one of the early concessions Google made to bring carriers into the Open Handset Alliance.

This article talks about the current revenue sharing scheme and how Google is trying to re-negotiate a bigger cut of the 30% transaction fee on app sales:

"70% of every sale goes to the developer, 25% goes to the carrier, and 5% goes to Google. The new deal would cut the carrier’s share to 15%, which is what Google would also get."

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-share-play-store-andr...

This one has a statement from Google about how they share mobile ad revenue from searches with carriers but qualifies that the revenue sharing doesn't include apps like Youtube and Maps (interestingly it doesn't mention whether that's the case with mobile advertising on 3rd party apps):

"Google (NSDQ: GOOG) provided a statement today, saying that it is sharing advertising revenues with carrier and handset partners, but clarified that it is limited to search and does not extend to other applications, like YouTube or Maps. They said it was a pretty standard deal, and works across all Android devices that have Google search."

http://paidcontent.org/2010/03/26/419-androids-secret-sauce-...

From the Q1 2012 analyst call, Nikesh Arora talking about OEMs and Carriers get revenue share from Google Play and Google Search:

"Yes. I mean, again, I’m not going to talk about specific of the TAC on mobile. But as you know, we get people using our devices both organically as well as through our distribution partnerships with carriers and OEMs. And typically, the OEMs and carriers participate in some of the economics that are on the Android marketplace or Google Play and some of them participate in the economics around Google Search just the way we would do syndication on the Web platform, which you do with many partners around the world. We have similar deals on the mobile front."

- Nikesh Arora, senior vice president and chief business officer at Google

http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/13/android-economics-an-introd...
In general, I believe it will help make larger JS codebases more maintainable. Specifically it enhances the following:

- Refactoring e.g. easily globally change a class member's name

- Type safety e.g. it will bark if you pass a string where an int is expected

- General IDE handyness e.g. 'Go to definition'

A really good demo here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/3-314
It's a fair point that most libertarians aren't for the complete removal of the state. However, in my experience they seem to try to vastly simplify many issues by waving their hands and talking about the non-aggression principle as if that automatically solves everything. The truth is, while there may be laws which are unjust, unfair, or plain silly, most of them were created to meet a need or solve a problem. Sometimes it's very easy to forget that.

A good friend of mine is an anarcho-capitalist and while he is overall a very technical, very logical, and generally smart person, neither of us have managed to convince the other that their view-point is flawed. It's rather frustrating.
Common Lisp Quick Reference [booklet]
The State of Rust 0.8
Putting your ridiculous stipulations aside, writing legal software can get you in trouble.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/coder-charged-for-g...
Mechanical ergonomic keyboards?
I'm looking to replace my beloved Unicomp On-The-Ball, because the buckling springs are a bit too noisy for the open-plan office in which I'm working. The Unicomp will take pride of place on my desk at home, though :)

Can anyone on HN recommend a mechanical ergonomic keyboard? The only one I've found is this:

http://www.trulyergonomic.com/

... but the manufacturers haven't yet replied to my email, except with an automated response apologising for delays resulting from high levels of interest.

Ideally, the features I'd like would be:

- Cherry switches (pref. brown)
- ergonomic layout
- integral trackball / trackpad
- custom keycaps to swap Ctrl and Alt
- custom keycaps to replace the Windows logo with Tux, or similar

Only the first two are essential, which is why I'm so interested in the Truly Ergonomic keyboard.
I think Evernote was also intended to solve this. Unfortunately, it is also proprietary. So, there is definitely demand for this.
I hear you on the backend demo :) Our frontend is all AngularJS, however the backend isn't. We plan to have a visual drag/drop builder once we do that.

We have most networks integrated from an entry perspective, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (No API currently), SoundCloud & YouTube. We've got Tumblr coming then adding based on demand.

Our Facebook tab solution is 90% completed, we're just testing it currently. Install to Facebook will be in the free plan, on Pro you'll be able to customise the tab/gate images :)
Then you just need to know the right people. Otherwise, don't do it.
I ended up doing something like the following:

# Dont recompile assets unless they hange
task :precompile, :roles => :web, :except => { :no_release => true } do
from = source.next_revision(current_revision)
if capture("cd #{latest_release} && #{source.local.log(from)} vendor/assets/ app/assets/ | wc -l").to_i > 0
run %Q{cd #{latest_release} && #{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{asset_env} assets:precompile}
else
logger.info "Skipping asset pre-compilation because there were no asset changes"
end
end

I'm not entirely happy with it and don't even know if it's something I should be doing. I rarely change my assets, so this at least allows me to do quick deploys until an asset change comes. (shrug) It feels incredibly hacky.
Maybe the first step is creating a github-like platform without an attackable central authority.
So if I have both legal and illegal income, I should use the legal income on stock and the illegal income on my mortgage? Interesting side-effect.
Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab
SQLite has had this capability for about 10 years. It's also be the default distribution, those most embedders I know choose to rebuild with the configuration options tuned the way they need them.
That would be a fun conversation to see. You with your 1.5 billion dollar bitcoin trying to haggle someone down from 0.2 bitcoins to 0.00000002 bitcoins for a pair of pants.
Why bother with staging?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum
Steve Ballmer's final shareholder letter
Cocaine is a different story as it is illegal in and of itself. As far as I know there is no momentum to outlaw Bitcoin itself. Other seized forms of property are routinely auctioned off at public auctions which is presumably a possibly avenue for Bitcoins as well.
I find it puzzling that the author always has to work with "arbitrary deadlines". Deadlines are established according to business needs and resource availability. They shouldn't be arbitrary. If they seem arbitrary to the team, maybe this is not the right team for the project.
Show HN: Futuristic Object Traversal for JavaScript
The case for the phone in the toilet
Upvoted for the lulz. This is ridiculous.
Few differences (we also have a lot of respect for RF, those guys have a great product):

- Verified actions, we verify via API's that users actually complete an entry. You can just bypass this on RF (something I'm sure they're working on).

- API, you can create completely custom entry types on Gleam. Put our API code on your shopping cart, or email signup form & activate an entry. Useful for things like "Add 5 products to your wishlist for an entry, or leave a review for an entry".

- More social network coverage (Instagram, YouTube/Soundcloud)

- More ways to install than just embedding on the page
RetroShare accepts plugins, so could that be an option?

It's open-source, decentralized, public key encrypted communication and very easy to install and use:

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
But Ghost uses node.js which almost nobody can actually host themselves, because the hosting that people already pay for doesn't (and perhaps wont) support it. Node may be hip and all, but PHP still seems like the right choice for something as simple as blogging software to me.
It's funny that both DPR and Walter White made the same amount of money ($80M [1]).

[1] https://medium.com/p/fed0d03ab4c0
Really like this, nice work. Is there a way to automatically mummify every link on an entire website or directory? Your method/service could be an interesting, easy to use way to recall a read-only version of a site after it goes down.
Booth Babes at Interop: a Modest Improvement
The Windows backwards compatibility model includes a lot more than just old binaries continuing to run. To a substantial extent you can take code written for 16-bit windows and recompile it in 64-bit mode, intermixing it with code targeted at the latest version of Windows.
I like Meteor.js because I'm lazy
Of course not.

The only thing that potentially could get the user in trouble would be the specific and illegal usage of it, i.e. the selling of illegal substances.
Gladwell is a meme-optimizer, and he's got it dialed in perfectly for his audience. Same with Ferriss, but for a different audience. Kiyosaki, same.

The techniques are amazingly well executed, even if (or especially because) the practitioners are sociopaths. That doesn't mean they are always wrong or offering bad analysis, but it does mean that meme-optimization (certainty, in-group/out-group creation, etc.) will trump the truth.
No, however using your own system would be.
Almost every shopping cart in existence right now is written in PHP, Python or Ruby, and they have much of the same "issues". Write tests, use a good bignum library, maintain code standards. Syntax is subjective, I find it pretty nice when following a certain style.

Almost nobody modifies Object.prototype, and we now have plenty of APIs to deal with that - defineProperty, seal, freeze, etc.
Nathan,

Definitely some food for thought here. Would you like to write an analysis to this effect for ProgrammableWeb?

Let me know.

David Berlind
editor-in-chief
ProgrammableWeb.com
There's no denying that Franklin was a genius, but should our society honor a slave owner by putting his face on currency?

That's a serious question. I think Franklin's legacy is clouded by some moral ambiguity: his innovations were incredible, he fought for abolition and yet he didn't walk the talk.

Is that a mistake we should overlook in remembering him?
How secure is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing ?
I think the real reason why people like this author don't like Gladwell is because he bypasses this writer's academic community to deal directly with the masses. He gives normal people what they want, makes them feel smarter and more confident analysing the world, and, most insultingly, does it without respecting the rules of conduct developed by academics. This really stings because the community itself has failed to communicate with normal people, but its members still feel like they deserve to be listened to because they know they are right. Its playground jealousy - they can't accept the fact that they don't know how to compete with Gladwell, so they sit around wagging their fingers about the hidden dangers of his writing.
Just to throw my 2 cents in, I recently switched from octopress to using silvrback at http://vivekgani.com - here's why:

- I work part-time as a contractor, and part-time on my side project. While I have a ton of blog design ideas, I lost a personal bet that I'd have them done by the end of September.

- I have had lots of posts backlogged over the past several months. I was starting to have a fear of posting due to the design of my older site.

- Octopress is wonderful, but to use it right you really need to be familiar with tagging your repos correctly / using a separate repo for your posts. I didn't want to think about all this in addition to all my usual pickiness about the front-end design.

- I really didn't want to fiddle with wordpress. This is a personal blog, not something I plan to delegate to other content writers.

- As glennf and others have mentioned, I didn't want to use medium, or any other free site. I want my own domain to be used, and occasionally look at google analytics.

So far, I'm happy with silvrback. Liking how it properly scales images when I use refer to them within a list, Markdown is the first class citizen, and psychologically I'm not thinking too hard about blog design for now. Yes, there's some UX annoyances with the initial release of silvrback, but I'm sure Damian's working on them.

Will I still be using it in couple years? Maybe not, but for a site that's only got a couple posts and already gotten a couple thousand visits and mentions from sites like hackaday & packlite.tumblr in the past week I'm happy enough with it.
Third parties in their own company...
They smell nicer too, speaking from a constant user from Australia. Just have to be careful not to iron them, otherwise they shrink to a tiny tiny postage stamp and you have to embarrassingly take it to the bank to have it replaced.
Freenet is anonymous, distributed storage and application framework.

Do we need to reinvent the wheel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

https://freenetproject.org/
Designing well-formed URIs for your REST Web API
Given that PGP keys were extensively used by vendors on Silk Road, wouldn't it be possible to use Silk Road profile and transaction data (I'm sure there exist some site dumps out there) to bootstrap a web of trust?

Then a distributed hash table or similar structure can be used to publish product listings, signed transaction data, and feedback to keep everyone updated on who's to be trusted or not. There would be no explicit escrow but lots of people trusted the feedback history and "Finalized Early" on Silk Road without getting scammed.
WildFly cluster using Docker on Fedora
Do you think Gladwell and Ferriss are sociopaths? Why?
Of any of the proponents of the "Wrong. ..." response, I wonder how many would use this phrasing face-to-face as opposed to online. Unlike my younger days, I do my best now to converse online as I do and would IRL and I find that this is one of those phrases that does not pass that test. IRL it would be considered plain rude and obnoxious.
Indeed, this isn't our only product :) But certainly we believe there's room in this space to do things better.
Is studying in the UK an option for any of you guys? Many prestigious UK universities offer so-called conversion degrees for people with a non-traditional background. You should be able to produce a solid academic track record and some familiarity with the field, though. For those with a CS background there are many specialized MSc degrees, like Computer Graphics or Machine Learning.

A good example is University College London:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/admissions/msc_computer_science/

The so-called generalist programs are for non-CS majors, while the specialist programs are for people with a CS or related background. Degrees in the natural sciences commonly involve introductory programming courses, so those may be a good fit.
>This is a system for facilitating voluntary transactions between individuals.

Should we still not be frightened (or at least concerned) if what's being transacted is child slaves, or kidnapping/murder for hire, or guns for the mafia? There are a number of very unhealthy things which can fall under "voluntary transactions between individuals"

I'm not making an argument against anonymous marketplaces by any means, just against the idea that black markets are necessarily benign by definition, because they exist outside the reach of the state.
NYC Criminalizing revenge porn a la California
A little tough to reason backwards from a win on this one. They haven't listed any judges:
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/virtual-hackathon-re...

The closest you can really find is that the prizes are from Lincoln Labs who seem more interested in politics. The about section mentions Romney, so probably republican. So if you have an education idea it should probably be more aimed toward private schools and Ivys and the like more than government programs since republicans are against government involvement in education in general.

It's important to know the judges in a hackathon. I've had judges kill project scores because they didn't know Google had announced Glass would have a GDK supporting native development, for example. Others who decided they loved games so only games could win, etc..
Email is actually a great and natural way to share things.

It's often easier to mail documents and comments to a content management/ticket system than actually go there, log in, press "create new" etc.

If the email protocols could be extended for efficient file transfer and cloud hosting somehow, a lot of people's lifes would suddenly get a lot easier.
I have the same feeling as you... I don't understand where other people's hostility is coming from. This sounds like it would be a minor change. Will Buik, who posted the decline note, said that it would affect many products and features. Besides making those changes, they also have to be rigorously tested. And then the change may not even be consistent all across the board because of third-party tools that depend on the 260 character limit assumption... In the end, Microsoft has limited resources just like every other company. They have to allocate it in a way that creates the most value for customers, I'm assuming. Bug fixing and addressing customer complaints is creating value, but it has to be weighed against other priorities, depending on the severity.
insert hypothetical hack proof perfect RFID cryptocard into a cavity of the coin and solder it up except for a small hole for RF to pass thru? Unless someone knew the secret private key they'd be unable to replicate it the crypto code?

Hey crypto card, if you actually know the correct private key, you can hash this HN article number "6511347" OH OK dude here is the signed hash "342351315215154" OK let me test that... holy cow it worked.

The real hack would probably be a legal one to embed some kind of national treasure into the coin to make it seized by .gov, so anyone that walks up with one can have it taken away or is counterfeiting. My guess is a little spec of moon dust in a glass capsule that can't be privately owned. Or a little piece chipped off the Washington Monument.
FYI - http://tesla.io/tesla/index.html
Dear HR: confession of a dev-terviewer
ya i guess i didnt really think that one through ...
If this survives until perl actually reaches version 11...
"Of course not" is probably technically the correct answer right now. But, speaking as an American, we increasingly cannot assume the legal system to be logical. There is no "of course," there is only "ask a lawyer to find out what current practice probably is."

As a side note, of course, this is the very definition of the breakdown of law. But that is what the people want: a nation, not of laws, but of men.
Cool, I look forward to the next version (17) and the one after that too (28). This is the first Fibonacci version number scheme I've seen, maybe in the spirit of how TeX keeps adding digits of pi.
Making your IDE add them when it autoformats should be as simple as one checkbox (he blindly asserts).
>> From personal experience .... I can't comment on ASP.NET MVC

>Then you don't have personal experience in the area of Scalable web-based systems based on .Net. I speak from personal experience.

Why? I've played with it and it felt kind of heavy and over-engineered, though the high-level APIs are usually what gets pushed the most. I've never needed to spend a significant amount of time scaling anything built on ASP.NET MVC, hence the comment. If there's some exceptional properties that recent versions have developed I'd love to hear about them but in general I avoid it because of the perceived heaviness.

PS I'm not suggesting that doing traditional ASP or ASP.NET dev is where it's at for scalability, my experience comes from working on frameworks that largely bypassed all of that.

(edited for clarity)
Concept - Simple Collaborative Web Pages
How was that done?*

*Hypothetically asking
If you're intent is to create a facility, whose express purpose is to break the law, albeit laws you may not agree with, I think you're going to be on the run for a long time.
Freenet gets around this by having the local data store encrypted and invisible to the local user. You may or may not be hosting illegal/terrible things, but you (and more importantly, the bad guys with guns) don't know either.
Almost nobody? A $5 virtual host can run Node.js.
The purpose of selling is that you can just build whatever you want and increase your impact by having your hands in many things.

That´s what we are all in for, right?
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They may well be doing it, but at this time, I have heard nothing to suggest it. Google, however, is getting shadier by the minute.
I use junction/hard links to alias part of my filesystem into dropbox. There is a real use case for it.
There is a number of unhealthy uses of guns, like murder. Should we ban guns?

And there also is a number of unhealthy uses of cars, like using it to transport yourself right after robbing a bank. Should we ban cars?

Anything that can be used for the good, can be used for the bad as well. That shouldn't however mean that that thing should not be produced/sold/used.
I like him. Lively writing, interesting anecdotes, bold (to say the least) explanations of described phenomena.
It's a fair point that he/his publishers often hype it as the real thing (like in real science) but that's how promotion is done these days. I don't see the case of Gladwell as especially abusive in this respect and again the guy has a lot of interesting/entartaining things to say.

Comparing it to Oprah and The Secret hype (as some other commenters did) which is snake oil in the purest form is not fair imo.
Yea. That's what I'm thinking too. If you receive bitcoins from those address you're effectively doing the same as if you were collecting cash from watched boxes in a bank vault, and the cash was radio-actively tagged. (And therefore easily tracked.) Anyone handling a large quantity of those coins is suspect

But if someone got their hands on them and performed a huge laundry so that everyone has tainted coin history, then you might be ok.
> If you cascade the two ciphers,

That assumes that f(g(x)) is harder to invert than either f(x) or g(x) individually, which is not true in the general case for encryption schemes.

It is quite possible that (f∘g) can be cracked in a way that neither f or g can individually.
Edward Snowden: Leaker, Saviour, Traitor, Spy? (bbc radio 4)
Ask HN: Software to send bulk email to customers from a hosted email?
This is the same country that put "in god we trust" on a coin honoring Jefferson of all people, I don't think mere shame is sufficient to force logical thinking.

When fundies tell me our highly religious founding fathers (LOL) would want bibles in our classrooms, I always suggest the Jefferson Bible which either confuses them or freaks them out if they actually know what I'm talking about.