skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone here talks about Apple's "30% cut" (which of course is nowhere near what Apple actually gets, as people don't take into account costs for the high transaction costs on these small purchases), but as someone who runs an App Store (and who has had to on numerous occasions here on Hacker News dispel the weirdly-pervasive myth that Apple makes meaningful money from their App Store, something trivially disprovable using Apple's earning statements), I will assert the difference is more to do with license transfer and fraud mitigation, two things users and developers alike often fail to realize are either hard or even necessary until after it is too late.

In-App purchases are tied to your Apple ID and can be recovered and reactivated by a receipt API on other devices you are logged in to: Apple wants you to use their API for this purpose to guarantee that buying new devices will not lead to the user having lost a ton of money in their software investments. Some developers in the Cydia ecosystem sell things themselves, and they have either draconian or broken device license transfer restrictions. Users still complain to me, even though I had nothing to do with their payment. For Apple, the issue is even worse, as it could keep a user from buying a new device (where Apple actually makes money: anything that stands in the way of this Apple will not tolerate).

Physical goods are also very easy to build fraud contros for, due to the requirement of a physical shipping address; the same is not true of digital goods: Apple has spent a long time building out fraud management for their digital goods sales, and I doubt they want the Apple Pay platform to suddenly be inundated with tons of "app developers" (a class of developer Apple clearly doesn't trust very much) to make people start to think Apple's app ecosystem is a massive source of credit fraud. Apple also likes separating user data from developers: you don't know your customers, only Apple does; for a physical good, that is obviously an impossible separation to maintain, but for digital goods I think they would rather continue to have all purchases gated through them so that all developers see are anonymized identifiers.
Ask HN: Possible to turn a Google Apps account into a regular Google account?
I've looked all over the past week trying to figure out if there were a viable way to turn my Google Apps admin account which is just me on the domain into a regular ol' Google account without Gmail. The search has left me more confused than anything.

I remember being able to create a Google account with an email at another domain that didn't have Gmail enabled, I'd like to turn my sole account on my Google Apps setup into one of those now that I've transitioned all my email over to a separate provider, but I'd like to maintain access to Google Docs that have been shared with me.

Tips? Advice?
>Marc gets "closest to the pin" for me when he says "if Amazon was a monopoly, it would be raising prices."

That's not really what he says, he said that if they raised prices, Krugman would take that as evidence of monopoly behavior as well. Monopolies don't always raise prices; sometimes they keep them quite low.
> just as corporate management took the lead in losing money by treating long-term, highly knowledgeable, high-skill employees as disposable parts, they are going to have to take the lead by realizing that employee turnover is enormously expensive

Maximize your short-term gains, but then you lose long-term - what a "big surprise".

I don't see how this will self-correct. Corporations are genetically predisposed to think short-term, and the tendency is only getting worse in the new reality.
The CDC's worst case, last I heard, was 1.4 total million infected with Ebola in January. At the current estimate of 70% lethality, there's your 1M million people 10-16 days after infection.

Then it all doubles in 3 weeks. And another 3 weeks.

Do the math.

If you want to be conservative, dial the starting point back, it won't matter for long. But when I did my own calculations, I found 20,000 cases as of a week or two ago (a fairly conservative guess at the true number) would get you to 1.4 million in January.
"Being as some of these are quite troubling indeed:"

It's from 18 years ago. I guess you're proud of everything you did when you were a teenager?

And yes, when you not only report on an 18 year old incident that resulted in no criminal charges, but also post the court documents for all to see, you are trying to trash the person in pursuit of a few extra clicks on your ads.
Sorry, here's the one I was thinking of: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/google/cadvisor/ However, I just broke apart that image, and it is using busybox. I swear this was standalone though. I'm going to dig through the layers to see if/when this changed.
That seems to be the case for most people I know, switching jobs is the new promotion. I've had minor raises, entirely remittance, but the few major pay increases and job title changes always have been entirely attributed from leaving an organization for another.

I found it surprising when I worked for a company (more than number years ago) that was primarily a retailer preferred to hire externally for new store managers instead of hiring from its pool of mostly college educated sales staff.
Afghanistan: ‘A Shocking Indictment’ – Rory Stewart
I hate to be one of those “Great Article! very interesting post” guys but, man, it is a great and interesting one!
I’m one of those who though that your move of “doubled” your freemium plan was a competitive strategy (and I admired it that way) but now, after reading the reasons you posted in your article, I found it brilliant.
Highly appreciated,
I think that "It's what I'm used to." is the main reason - intellectual comfort zone.

Having learned BASIC, FORTRAN and Pascal, C seemed like line noise - at first. As did PERL. And then k.

Btw, COBOL seemed "too verbose".

Once I actually started writing many k programs and then reading even more of them, I was able to recalibrate for the abstraction/density. I moved my intellectual comfort zone. Ironically, I was already there with mathematics. However, programming languages were different :).

Now, as a result, every time I have to read Java, I suffer from a kind of fatigue - having to read way too much code to glean the writer's intent. I just want them to get to the F'ing point.

N.B. - Mathematical literature/writing went through this same transition during the Renaissance. Equations were described in natural language (not unlike COBOL). A simple polynomial could require a paragraph of text to describe.
This is an incredibly insightful comment that I think many, many people don't see when trying to explain certain phenomena in the business world.
I think this is too SV-centric (or even tech-centric). For instance, the major oil companies still offer pensions (and 401k's) and many employees stick around for decades. They also higher senior management internally. Marissa Mayer figures are relatively rare in the industry.
Musicthatmakesyoudumb
Thank you so much for all the information you've provided Cindy, I was not expecting this much of a response. I basically got nothing on Reddit.

I'm going to study everything in this thread and use it for my startup. I have some ideas of how human sexuality can be explored through using technology without losing our humanity. Hopefully, we can all change the perception of porn and the dynamics of the industry.

I will post again in due time. :)
One issue that I've seen raised before is that there's a bit of a Catch-22 in public perception in Africa. As you point out, withholding the experimental drug has nasty overtones of "saving the cure for the white folks". But there's also a real risk that if they gave the first experimental treatment to Dr. Khan, the narrative would be "using the black folks as guinea pigs". Both of these concerns are based on actual history, so they're not easily dismissed in the region.

I don't know how you balance that. If the treatment is new enough, you really might not know whether it would help or hurt the patient's odds of survival.
That is false: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease#Pathophysio...
So, in the new reality, how often would you have to change jobs to be characterized as a "job hopper"?
Reading biographies about Einstein, I came to the conclusion that the man wasn't really a genius in the intellectual sense, but a genius when it came to ideas, and had the passion to pursue them.
Your heart is in the same place as mine. Mileage may vary, but I found unless it is the case that I am speeding up a legacy application that has already invested in Python and the Python ecosystem, Cython is less valuable. It may be so because I can churn out C or C++ code productively enough. If I do need to add some scripting, I find adding Lua (now) or Tcl (earlier) lighter.

With Cython I have to remember which subset of Python syntax does the version I am using support, the real time-saver that is Numpy is no longer a timesaver. The reason is Cython has to call back into Numpy's C API for Numpy expressions. If you do that in a loop that is a considerable overhead. The alternative is that you have to write the array indexing code at a low level in Cython. This to me is significant, because avoiding that error prone and tedious part is one the reasons I use Python/Numpy in the first place. Then there is the question of debugging C code that a code generation tool has generated. Usually there is gobs and gobs of it. Cython does try to help you with debugging that, but I find myself better of debugging C code that I wrote myself. Not to mention mature tooling that exists around C or C++. For me, usually what happens is that I Cython'ize a small part, then I have to Cythonize the loop containing it for performance reasons and my Cython keeps swallowing the Python application bit by bit, mostly inward out. So usually comes a time for me when I say screw it, I will just write this in C or C++.

As I said, this is a personal take, your experience with it may vary. I still happily use Cython if its a Python code that I have to speed up, or I have to collaborate with someone in Python. I consider Cython the best tool for doing this. If, however, I were to write something from scratch, I typically just go ahead with C++ now a days, and have lately been poking and prodding at Julia. I like what I see there, a lot.
America Is Becoming Less Religious
Hopefully we corrected the docs and the comments here help, but we don't encrypt before we compress. We compress before we encrypt.
I work for a company that promotes on average every 14 mos with average raise of over 14%. If you're a software developer looking for an unparalleled career path, let me know.
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I cannot wait for the Apple Watch! I've heard about Soylent. Will have to check it out. Thanks!
KeenCon 2014 Keynote by NASA's Jeff Norris: Exploration, Vision, and Risk
I would like the cursor to change color slowly as it ages on each level. This way you can see who's been in that level for a long time and who's just arriving.
I learned quickly in a layoff how little a company actually cares about you - Sure they threw us a small severance package (attached to a nice "you won't do anything to harm the company's reputation" clause), but at the end of the day, you owe them nothing and they owe you nothing other than an exchange of services. Employment is so transactional nowadays.

Without pensions, there is not really a point in staying in one place too long anymore. Studies show that it's pretty common after two years in the same place you'll end up effectively losing money.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees...
For the people building the customer accessible stuff, yes. But they also have a need for things that aren't at the point where saving cycles will make a difference.
It is a smaller scale project, in the sense that it is not worth setting up a foundation of that scale due to the overhead.

We would like to support the developers, but it becomes complicated due to invention assignments when we take them on as contractors. We would also like to have it where more than one company can contribute, as a number of other startups are interested in participating, which makes contractor agreements complicated.

We will have a look at bounty source. It is simply because we would prefer to have these as accounting donations (not necessarily charitable), but that becomes difficult, as you have to donate to something.
> But it is usually good enough to view html documentation. Which is really something you want inside your editor.

Is it? I'd much rather have proper HTML rendering in another window than a kludge "in my editor".
I think it's also an error to assume this really has any bearing on what Charlie was talking about. This gets into the "I once dove to the bottom of the ocean and brought back a pretty shell, so that's a viable place to open a curio shop" fallacy. The fact that a subset of readers will buy a few more books than they'll read doesn't mean that books are ultimately non-rival goods. Unless there are a large number of potential consumers with effectively unlimited willingness to buy books, the pie is still very much fixed in size despite a couple of pieces being very slightly bigger than others.
Are you saying that compressed data should not be encrypted? We are trying to limit the amount of data we have to store in the backend K/V store. Can you provide links so I can read up on this. Thanks.
Is this really the assumption you operate with? I'm not trying to sound condescending because this is pretty much what I observed at a certain major tech company. The whole thing wasn't very far from a giant meat factory and it was exactly why there hadn't been any innovation in decades.

You can argue that if your business model is so good that you don't need to innovate to stay in business then by all means milk it for what it's worth but that doesn't feel like a long-term strategy. Microsoft and friends have R&D departments that rival the best research institutions in the world and they pay a premium for it. If some of that was a natural byproduct of their core business operations then maybe they wouldn't need to pay a premium for it.
On the off chance that anyone from Twitter is reading this: bring back RSS! I already have a mechanism to 'follow' things on the Internet in which I'm interested; I'd be happy to consume feeds from Twitter as well if you played ball.
on the other side Native Americans didn't adapt to the fire weapons used by colonists and used bows/arrows and horse mounted front attack tactics far too long.

One can also argue that Washington et al. did accept the reality and thus didn't insist on some new laws/rules restricting British Crown power in the colonies.
Clojure is far from the only language that supports both the JVM and CLR. I had a long reply ready, but I lost it. Off the top of my head the languages that have support on both (aside from Clojure) are; Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java (though J# is being depreciated), Scheme, Common Lisp, PHP, Perl 6, Prolog, Pascal, Ada. I might be missing some.
The case mentioned a lot in the article, that of Standard Oil, is one where prices were kept very low, and continuously lowered through improved efficiency. Even when they had 90% market share, Standard Oil kept prices low for consumers.

There's a real argument to be made about the efficiency of monopoly, particularly where a destructive pattern of competitive behavior had been the norm previously. Rockefeller made that argument, albeit unsuccessfully at the time, but I don't think it is any less compelling for that.

Even if you allow that Amazon is a monopoly, competition is not intrinsically good. Competition is generally good where it improved the options and prices available for the consumer. That wasn't really the case with big publishing companies before.
The repository is now down - here is a snapshot from the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141020203759/http://warpolrele...

Whether this is due to pressure or force from some authority or the author simply changing his mind remains to be seen. Like another commenter said, I have a sneaking suspicion that there will not be a long-lived "more to come" section if it's down in the first 4 hours.
A Quiet Approach to Bringing Down Malaria
Does this mean Reddit is a more auspicious environment for new ideas to flourish? HN is way too confined of a place for "foolishness", that Asimov sees as conductive, to be permitted without things going haywire.
SmartAsset (YC S12) Looking for a Digital Marketing Director
Please elaborate as I am currently applying for internships in four of them. :)
Maybe this is a hint: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-20/apple-pay-is...
Probably not. If you're sophisticated and maniacal enough to create and deliver a bio weapon you probably don't need the genome source dump from GitHub. There are trillions of copies of Ebola in the meatspace after all.
As a casual reviewer, I'm skeptical of the quality of the GoPresto dataset in particular. Is it possible that this includes customers of a non-defense company with the same owner, for example?

Some googling and local knowledge turns up a number of people in there who I am quite confident are in no position to be purchasing teargas. I know they said there was some bogus data, but I'm talking >50% suspect entries.

The other dataset looks perfectly good, though. Addresses/emails almost 100% map to agencies or private security forces.
I've never seen macroscopic images as incredibly sharp as these ones
I spent a couple of years using vim before switching to emacs around 3 years ago. I'll write about my own experience with both editors.

Learning emacs won't automatically give you a huge productivity boost the way learning vim does. Vim is this blazing fast editor; it's been designed from the ground up to be good at editing text. If your goal is to increase your productivity, I'd say invest time learning vim advanced features, like jumps, macros, registers, and the plethora of other things I don't know about.

Emacs is not about speed. It's about control. It's a fully customizable environment to manipulate text. You can use it to edit prose, code, scientific formulas, but also emails, IRC/Jabber clients, clients for virtually anything with a REST API. Here are some of the use cases that make my work easier using emacs:

+ Evaluating pieces of code at once. I write a lot of Python. Most REPLs out there allow editing of one line at a time. emacs allows me to fire a python interpreter and evaluate regions (multiline function definition, or data structure) at once. Similar features exist for other "dynamic" languages.

+ Better code review workflow. I receive code review requests via email immediately inside emacs. I can play with the diff files, the source files. I can make modifs or run the code without leaving my editor. And since the code review system has an HTTP API, I can even post my comments and votes back.

+ Org-mode (http://orgmode.org/). I would use emacs for this module alone. It's a note taking system that can easily transform into an agenda, todo lists, memo, document markup, tables (oh, the org-mode tables!), ...

Basically, to answer your question: I think you'll get a lot of benefits from emacs if you enjoy customizing it and integrating it to your workflow. If you don't like spending time customizing and prefer something that will just make you write text (well, code and configuration files) faster, stick to vim and spend this time learning advanced commands.
> I suspect I'd advise her to take the Facebook job and quit 1-2 years later. But I'm not sure my advice would be correct.

No idea about the short term stay as they always have interesting challenges, but, yes, Facebook is a household name; everybody's used it. It counts for quite a bit in the self-marketing department, even if you _are_ just doing entry level work.
Don't be hyperbolic. trhway has a valid point.

A lot of things around us are out of our control, so we have to adapt. Let's be honest, the political system is not within our control. Very, very little political change will come out of our complaints. Instead of repeatedly trying and failing to bring about meaningful change, we should adapt -- because that is the reasonable thing to do. We can't change the government's behavior, so let's change ours; something has to give.
The Rising Cost of Apple Products
Sounds exactly like something a fresh college grad would say. All brilliant people jump from company to company, all people who stay at one company are dull.

I say, if you're enjoying yourself at one company, learning a lot, and moving up, why not keep it up?

Not to mention once you have a family / kids, me thinks you are much less likely to jump.

"The main thing that had struck him so far was that people seemed to get dimmer the higher they went in the organisation. I asked if he had any explanation for this and he said it was self-selection.

Really smart people don't stay at the institutions they have fought so hard to get into. The best leave within two or three years - the slightly less good stay a bit longer, and only the also-rans and the terminally unimaginative are in for the long haul."

Also, I used to work in consulting firm, so by this definition, all of the partners are also-rans and terminally unimaginative - I'd say some partners fit this definition, but many others were bright-eyed, bushy tailed, and full of interesting ideas / perspectives.