skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two big differences. In-App purchases allow for smaller transactions where Apple Pay with Stripe would actually cost 33% for $1 or 18% for $2.

In-App purchases are setup beyond just handling the payment. You can restore purchases across devices and the distribution is built in. You could replicate this experience but it is nice to avoid having to sign up specifically to use a Camera app that has an in-app purchase photo filter.
from the perspective of a retailer, how much does apple take in the apple pay scenario? is it 0.15% + standard credit card fees?
I genuinely don't know, I develop in Windowsland and what I'm going on is what I read in this thread. A post above said:

if you're downloading software from outside the app store then you can't be angry that those packages aren't allowed to talk to iCloud- probably (and I'm speculating) each binary is signed when it leaves the app store so it's allowed to talk to iCloud

and

I don't expect my Linux machine to be able to access iCloud

which suggest that there is something specific about this that locks the user into Apple hardware and software.

Is getting a Linux machine to talk to it just a matter of reverse-engineering the protocol, or is there more to it?
The knights in the movie 'King Arthur' (with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley) are Sarmatian knights. Without respect to Amazons and the women, it seems the movies somewhat accurately represents the knights.
Curious, why did you limit it to just two people?

I would just want to send a playlist of three items out asynchronously to my friends, so they can listen whenever they want.
I expect Safari to communicate with the web, I just don't expect it to send my search data to apple's server when I selected Duck Duck Go as a search engine and when I disabled Spotlight suggestion in the preferences. Having to disable "Spotlight suggestion" a second time in Safari's preferences is the issue and is what I blame Apple.
Using an SSD for your database is tempting, but please be aware you must use an SSD that can flush to disk in case of power loss. You should read here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/wal-reliability.ht...

and also search the pgsql-general mailing list for the numerous discussions there about which SSDs are safe for Postgres and which aren't, e.g.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1396467425.2481.2.camel...

and

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/50A34426.5020304@strate...

Assuming DO is giving you the SSDs you need, you should include a FAQ reassuring customers about that.
Agreed. I think the intent is to provide menubar consistency. You'll notice this in the FileVault pre-boot login prompt as well, IIRC.
HTTPS Everywhere? This Email Service Gives You DANE, Too
Any data on any seized smartphones. Where could a seized smartphone, obtained completely legally, come from?

Well, for starters, let's say you've got a robbery ring of people snatching iPhones in public places. Police track them, raid their meeting point, and proclaim this glorious bust with 67 arrests related to the nefarious criminal snatcher ring. What happens to the phones present onsite during the raid? Seized.

So they now have 300 seized smartphones, acquired legally. What do you think they do with them? Open 'em up, check the data, put it on the Fusion, of course! I mean, it's intelligence on the kinds of data criminals keep with them, so it's fair game, right? (Hint: Nope. But some police officers really do think this way.)

What's more... maybe some of these phones were already "cleaned out" by the snatcher ring, and maybe some weren't. Time for a subpoena to the phone carriers to know which phones belonged to whom! And, well, while we're at it, it might be useful to know if any of these phones actually belonged to some of the snatchers themselves, maybe it'll lead us to their contacts and to more of their affiliates. This is still criminal activity intelligence, right? So let's also get all the phone records and contacts and calling history for all the previous numbers and owners of all of these phones.

See how quickly this stuff escalates? And how easy it is for any officer or investigator to get carried away and justify it to anyone who asks?

(Note: I'm not saying this happened. It's a thought experiment.)
Facebook Sues Lawyers of Discredited “Co-Founder” Paul Ceglia
Why are those conversations important?
> Certificate pinning would only help if the certificate the government is presenting matched the site's URL.

And what prevents the government from doing that? Certificate pinning will address MITM no matter what - if the certificate the browser receives is not the one it pinned, it will refuse to connect even if the cert was signed by another trusted authority.

Although it's unclear from the article as to what really is happening - is it that Apple trusts whatever Chinese CA is used to forge the certificate for iCloud.com but others like Mozilla and Google don't? In any case I don't see how pinning won't help here.
You could have an extremely nice, _real_ brewing setup for less than $1800, including separate refrigeration for fermenting and serving. Not sure what demographic this serves.
The levitating superconductor
I wouldn't be surprised if the good news has somehow missed the ears of many a police department.
Show HN: Socks, a super-light WebSocket wrapper
I am using Nokia 1100. No government can possibly extract any of my key information like emails, photos as so on.
The problem is, there doesn't seem to be much elasticity in the size of the market. Books are rivalrous goods: an hour spent reading book A is an hour you can't spend reading book B, or watching a movie. And a lot of people prefer to watch movies -- or play computer games, or kick a ball around -- to reading books for recreation. Unless we can work out how to convince more people that reading for pleasure is fun then we're in danger of disappearing into a zero-sum or negative-sum game: it's a gradually dwindling recreation, in the very long term, simply because of the increasing number of competing recreational activities. (NB: This is not a bad thing per se, it's only bad in the context of declining book consumption.)

Put it another way: posit that there is a constant number X readers out there who want to buy the next Charlie Stross novel. Is it a better strategy for me to pursue sales at a higher price point, or lower? Now posit that I might acquire more readers by lowering my price point ... but is it a linear relationship? Will I get my hypothetical profits back by deep discounting?

Answers on the back of a postcard, please. (Bearing in mind that actually doing the experiment is highly dangerous, because that's an entire year's income stream you're jeopardizing if you get it wrong.)
Most broadly, write heavy and read heavy, and then OLTP vs. OLAP.

Implement them as sliders, people will think it's great that they can have custom tuning based on what percent read/write and OLTP/OLAP they think their workload is.
Find meta tags of any YouTube channel or video
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Is There a 'Modern Perl' for Python?
I am a big fan of chromatic's Modern Perl. Is there a similar modern treatment of how to learn and write idiomatic Python?
>That said, you still should encrypt your phone. //

Is there a generic guide for Android phones, please?
The retailer would only pay the Stripe fee. If I understand correctly, Apple collects some fees from the bank (that they take from the interchange fee)
don't quit your day job...
My first (and only) home brew experience was with a "bag o beer". You put everything in a bag and let it sit for a few weeks.

Well, the bag had a plastic cap on the end. I had it set on the floor of the garage, kinda out of the way.

About a week in, I discovered that it was not REALLY out of the way because I clipped that cap with my shoe as I waked by.

The cap broke off and beer proceeded to spray ALL OVER MY GARAGE. Ceiling, walls, everywhere. We never got the smell of beer out of the garage...I wonder if the people living there can still smell it.
> They didn't even bother intercepting his email at the network or service provider level.

Is this a known fact? If I wanted to spy on a prominent dissident [1], I would use a variety of methods. Some would be intentionally crude, so that the target feels safer after noticing and defeating them, making the more sophisticated approaches that much more effective.

[1] I recommend visiting the current Ai Weiwei exhibit in San Francisco. It's quite good.
Depending in the laws of your locale, an employer may be required to pay for an employee's vacation balance. PTO was formulated primarily to evade this restriction and to provide the means to reduce the company's accounting liabilities. While it was sold to you on the basis of flexibility, it really is a significant reduction in your benefits.

Think about how salary works. If you work as an exempt salaried employee even one minute during any given week, you are supposed to be paid for the whole week. That is why vacation time used to be granted as an integral number of weeks. Converting weeks of vacation into hours of paid time off is simply another step on the slippery slope to treating some salaried workers like wage workers, without any of the additional rights or protections.

Also, anecdotally speaking, every time I have experienced the conversion (3 times), new PTO total has been less than old vacation + sick, and it has always resulted in fewer actual days spent on vacation. The PTO conversion is always the company trying to cut benefit costs quietly without triggering a mass exodus.
If I were a Google multi-millionaire living in San Francisco, here’s what I’d do
The appeal to authority is "I'm older, therefore wiser regarding subject matter X".

Being unsure is excellent. Relying on maxims such as "simple solutions are wrong" is not.

Simple or complex, the only way to prove something wrong is by refuting it. For that you need reason. Maxims are not refutations.
During the industrial revolution, the goal of progress in technology (and machines to be more specific) was always to, one day, have no humans working to survive, but living lives and do whatever they want.

Progress in technology is now fueled by capitalism and better productivity rather that original goal and it's sad that people have forgotten that goal.... Society needs to continue push the chnage and accept to progressively give up their jobs to machines.
Om No! Trouble in paradise with ClojureScript and React.js
As an "asian person" I have never faced any discrimination in the US. Thank you world!

BUT, my wife and her female engineer friends face discrimination every single day at their jobs. The issues they face are just sad. So from my viewpoint, gender discrimination could not be more real and a very serious issue.
Of course they are viable. The ones I bought from were set up because the author didn't want to deal with Amazon.

It's never been easier for an author who wants to sell his own books to do so. It also isn't hard for like-minded authors to pool their resources and set up their own sales site.
iPhone 6 bent and caught fire
What happens when they get dirty?
From the perspective of the retailer, the merchant is charged the standard Stripe fee (2.9% + $0.30).
The URL is CitYbank, not CitIbank, so maybe it's a phishing site.
Too bad it isn't around dec 29 - jan 2. A lot of people have company shutdowns during that time, and don't necessarily want to do christmas stuff that long ;).

But I understand that everyone else also has time off then, so the cost of everything is very expensive.
Hello, Database Labs founder here.

Thanks for the feedback. I will be revising the features list shortly to (hopefully) make the unique value proposition clearer based on this and other feedback from this thread.

I wrote of some key advantages over RDS at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8483711 , which I'll soon be incorporating into the website.

Heroku suffers from all of the same technical shortcomings listed there since it is also hosted on Amazon EC2 and also runs on EBS network drives. Beyond that, while I like Heroku's simplicity and tooling, Heroku is frankly insanely expensive for what you get at all but the lowest pricing tiers. They use this as part of a vendor lock-in based user retention strategy. That is, they make it rather painful to ever get your data out of their system once it's on. At the free / low tiers, it seems like a great deal. Then, when your app actually takes off, they ramp up the price very quickly, betting that most people will just pay (because it means their app is becoming successful) rather than bother with jumping through the hoops they set up to get your data out of their system.

We believe that the superior long-term business strategy is to build customer trust and develop a reputation for superior customer treatment: your data is yours, and you can take it anywhere you like. We aren't going to try to lock you in, we won't threaten to incur downtime for your app if you leave, and we believe our prices are much fairer.

As for running your own Postgres instance, the non-trivial burden of conducting and testing reliable offsite backups, upgrading Postgres, patching the operating system for security holes and monitoring it for intrusions, and doing other general sysadmin work is then entirely on you. Some people want that level of control, which is fine, but it's not free. Our feedback so far indicates that a significant number of Postgres users would much rather pay for that and focus their time and energy on their core app.
It's kind of like twitch meets soundcloud. I like it. Give us a demo with more than 2 users.
Types don't substitute for tests
Two key points from this article:

- "We hire everyone who we believe is a fit after interviews for a 45 day full-time contract period" (which is obviously more informative than a 1 day technical interview)

- "We hire remotely" (which likely opens up the recruiting pipeline to people who would be willing to do a 45 contract instead of FT work)
yes, although I'm not an expert it is my understanding that it is the ease with which a food is converted to simple sugars or the glycemic index because then you get the insulin spike
It's pretty clear from the post that he's talking about web development.

And I don't think your 'all eggs in one basket' argument makes much sense. JavaScript will always be the (or, a) scripting language for the browser, and if something new emerges, we will all have plenty of time to prepare.

As for backend trends, they evolve slowly. One needn't worry about being caught unprepared for some sudden change.
Awesome, reminds me of Antichamber, especially the little hints given.
I think the point of the experience is to be in sync while listening, rather than just sharing a playlist with friends.
Product Managers: Is Your MVP Truly Compelling?
It's an interesting question, first of all it varies by country and I guess even by state (or whatever equivalent your country has).

I found the following links:

https://www.cspcpa.com/2012/07/17/overview-of-tax-rules-for-...

http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2002/0402/features/f044602...

Edit: Stanford link

http://web.stanford.edu/group/fms/fingate/staff/capitalequip...

"The IRS says the costs of developing computer so closely resembles research and experimental expenses that it warrants similar accounting treatment. As a result, a taxpayer may use any of the following three methods for costs paid or incurred in developing software for a particular project, either for the taxpayer’s own use, or to be held by the taxpayer for sale or lease to others:

The costs may be consistently treated as current expenses and deducted in full.

The costs may be consistently treated as capital expenses that are amortized ratably over 60 months from the date of completion of the software development.

The costs may be consistently treated as capital expenses and amortized ratably over 36 months from the date the software is placed in service.

Under this method, the cost may also be eligible for a bonus first-year depreciation allowance."

ERPs merit their own chapter.
My claim is that the above terms and concepts, in a legal courtroom, are not automatically equal, and a judge may or may not rule completely differently on a case whenever any one of those factors change.

Notice, if you read correctly, that I didn't make any particular judgment as to whether or not I think it's legal or not, or whether I think it should be legal or not.

My intent was simply in pointing out that the commenter's assumptions and logical deductions were unsound as far as a judge looking at a court case might be concerned.
Amazon doesn't require exclusive contracts.

> your new startup can't get any of the authors people want to read.

If Amazon is not serving the needs of those authors, they'll be interested in switching horses.
the biggest downside is probably that if you tend to forget passwords, then if you do forget that one, you will not be able to recover your data.
A Tribute to Lisp: Jedi Masters
People who have more money to trade than time.
Cristina from Stripe here. The merchant/retailer only pays the Stripe fee (https://stripe.com/pricing) for Apple Pay transactions.
The Email That Got Me Hired at Google
Thanks, that seems like a good starting point.
I use witopia and I'm very pleased.
Details Dumped from Tear Gas Manufacturers
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2844831?hl=en

This help guide works best on stock Android phones but should also work on all generic Android phones such as Samsung,HTC,etc.
for i in $(seq 50) ; do
eesh warp rel 0 -8
sleep 0.1
done

// yes, I still use e16
Nietzsche quotes that help find a unique writing voice
It might help to read Levy's thesis, which is source on CBPV. Also read the literature on Conor McBride's Frank, which is based on a variant of CBPV.
> Yet the oddly amusing part is how systemd isn't difficult to learn. The only valid complaint against systemd IMO is its departure from Unix philosophy, but for some parts of the \*nix ecosystem, I can't help but think that boat sailed long ago.

This is what I say when people complain that systemd "isn't Unix". Neither are package managers, but I don't see anybody saying we should revert to passing around tarballs that unpack onto root (other than Patrick Volkerding).

> [...] the easiest way to use the distribution isn't to fret over change but to embrace it. Otherwise you'll be implementing fragile workarounds that break every time you update.

I'm thinking about putting together a talk about exactly this, tentatively titled "MacGyver-Driven Development". It's my response to people who respond to any criticism with "Yeah, but then you can just put some tools on top of it": relying on tools only adds another dependency that makes your system more fragile and resistant to change.

The proper way to develop is to keep what you do as small and environment-agnostic as possible. That way, when tides do change, you don't have to fight them or work hard to embrace them; you can just go with the flow, and just change the few parts that touched the changing dependency.
So, what is the fallback for users on non-apple-pay devices? Just normal "enter/save your billing information"?
Well, as you know, if I'm using a multi-dimensional array, it's usually super sparse! (Because NLP). So I want to define those myself, not use the numpy ones.

Maybe I just never learned numpy. But I had to go and look up what that stuff did, and it wasn't obvious to me what the data types of those arrays would be. So, I like the C-style initialization actually --- just because it's more obvious to me.
Testers Calling: $160 to Test Disper on Betalize
Bluebeam? ezPDF? Any software than allows on the fly translation (word by word)?

Thanks
I would be very cautious about saying "popularity" or "proliferation" suggest that something is good. The ML family happens to have proliferated very nicely, but this is not why it is good.
Senator John-McCain Takes Your Questions on Quora
Poster here. Sorry if the login wall crops up. I thought this would be useful to the people who use Quora sporadically.
Rare language has both .Net and JVM support, probably only Clojure now. On the upside you can build iOS and Android apps using F# plus many other gaming platforms.
Product people and management - at least at Google - are still promoted confirmationally - you get formal management responsibilities when you've been a tech lead for a year or two and have exhibited the qualities (concern for other peoples' careers, ability to delegate, humility, emotional stability, ability to see multiple perspectives, commitment to Google and its values) that Google wants to see in its managers.
Wouldn't this be illegal? He wants to buy apartment buildings, rent below cost, and refuse to rent to people with tech jobs. The government is allowed to do this sort of thing as long as they use income and not job type to determine it, but I think if private citizens did it then it would be considered discrimination and there are a lot of laws against that in the housing market.
Writing C in Cython
ATUS data is available that can provide a partial answer to this.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm

This data can answer the question "are poor people busy in general". (The answer is no.) But it can't answer the question "are poor obese people busy", since it doesn't allow you to slice by both busyness and obesity jointly.
the downward pressure on prices will dissuade people who are writing with remuneration as a primary driving source of output.

that said, that doesn't solve the problem of discovery, although it does alleviate it a bit.

that's the logic, feel free to educate me :)
Microsoft adds ‘premium storage’ and new G-series instances to its Azure cloud
Someone in Silicon Valley, a respected and very smart middle-aged CEO of a well-funded startup, once said to me that programmers over 45 either become CTOs or they probably aren't very good (and therefore not worth hiring).

A generalization, to be sure, but it fits with edw519's view of 75% of middle-aged programmers in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8481761.
Which are all very small relative to the size of the Amazon market. You can't practically compete and not sell through Amazon, hence the problem with a monopsony.
Agree & disagree.

Re this:

Even a government will only have the capabibilty to
perform meaningful surveillance on a limited number of
people not to mention act on it.

That claim is currently true, but if you understand Bayes' Theorem and Moore's Law, you know that it's just a matter of time.

But re this:

It's probably more effective to simply pretend that
you're performing surveillance as an intimidation
tactic, than to actually perform surveillance unnoticed.

iirc, former East German Stasi or KGB have said essentially the same thing.
Its an error to assume folks actually READ the books they buy. I have a tall stack of books I'll get around to reading. I paid for them all of course.
> China's surveillance is always so blatant and public, they don't bother trying to hide it like America.

I get that America means 'USA' in this context. How exactly do US government officials hide the fact that they keep data of everything possible that happens online outside the United States (and doesn't give a damn about what anyone else thinks about it)?

Given the statements of many US senators, after both Cablegate and Snowden I don't think the US tries to hide anything at all.
Are you doing full grain or malt extract? I bet this thing requires cleaning on the order of brewing from extract.

Also if you're doing full grain and want to reduce headache and clean up and equipment costs, check out brew in a bag. (Not the cheesy thing they sell at Wal-Mart around Christmas.) I haven't done it yet but from the reviews I've read and videos I've watched it seems like a greatly simplified method.