skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you pay with your EC card (Germany's own debit card system), the merchant pays at least 0,3% with a minimum of 0,08€ for the transaction. The payment is guaranteed and thus similar to US debit cards.

The merchant can also use direct debit, which is almost free (0,05€ for fraud prevention), but leaves him open to chargebacks.
Are you talking about economists or corporations? They aren't the same thing.
Well it's more of an insight gained mostly from reading former-spooks books and similar. The fact is that the resources, both monetary and physical, are much larger than the company (CIA). It employs many more people as well, and a lot of people don't realize that the agency (NSA) has paramilitary divisions as well.

The main reason I say though is because NSA has the upstream under their thumb. Pretty much anything the company does is going to be visible to the agency but not the other way around, which creates an information power disparity that is inevitable with the current organizational structures.
I see MS becoming like hp or yahoo; a bet against innovation.
Most new computers come with a warranty that is 90 days.

Where? In the UK, consumer protection laws would probably force a minimum of two years in most cases. Even after that, if an expensive device mysteriously failed on day 2x365+1 in a way that wasn't reasonably expected, the purchaser would still have some relevant rights.

Why should software support be 5x longer?

It is all about reasonable expectations. No-one paying for basic system software would reasonably expect it to stop working after three months.

Of course if we're talking about Open Source software that you're getting for free then it's your own responsibility to make sure it does the job you need and no-one owes you anything. This is part of the reason that selling support for otherwise free software is a viable, and sometimes highly lucrative, business model.
Are there any Yahoo acquisitions that haven't been complete disasters?
It says retailers, not consumers
Depends on the country. In most places in Europe that would be 2y minimum.
You don't remember the "Apple Software Update" programs on windows that you couldn't get rid of?

C'mon man.
excuse the ignorance but could this effect OSX Macs that have GCC installed or is this strictly limited to what it can effect?
I'd like to add that in a state of nature, man is in a state of injustice. Social justice is by definition a byproduct of conscious thinking against a natural state of disrepair.
I really hate these "Tweet your selection" widget things.
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> Funny, i just went to Google.com with Firefox.

It shows on old Opera (Presto), new Opera (Blink) and IE 11, so it's not just old versions of IE.
In my building we have FiOS and Comcast. In Baltimore, Verizon doesn't have a video license, just internet. But it's 50/15 for $50/month, and I always get 50/20.

One day, the ONT on my floor went out and nobody noticed but me. Apparently, I was the only person on the floor (of dozens of apartments) to subscribe since the building was built 5 years ago. People on HN like to believe that what the market really wants is a fast dumb pipe for watching Netflix/Youtube, but it's a fantasy world.

The reality is that there's little money in the dumb pipes. The money is in content: in Comcast's case video content, and in Google's case, web apps and ads. Existing cable networks are plenty fast enough for video, so Comcast doesn't bother upgrading. They're not fast enough to enable the future Google envisions, where you store all your content "in the cloud" (and they datamine it to sell you ads), so they're building fiber. It's that easy to understand.
NDT sounds completely smashed when at half speed -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=danYFxGnFxQ
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I also think spyscope would be a good inclusion FWIW.
They don't live and die by one product. Its just that one product is ridiculously more successful than the rest. This makes their stock value more volatile, but as a company changes not much. The iPod was once the crown jewel, then its sales dwindled and now its been absorbed into a new form factor.
Dumping a product on the market at below-cost in order to force your competitors out of business is classic anti-competitive conduct.
> Meaning that $74.6 billion[2] is enough to buy Apple 12 nuclear carriers

You can't buy a single operational carrier for that price.
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>> "It shows that margin on Apple products is too high."

How does this show that in any way whatsoever? If their margins were too high they'd be leaving money on the table. Short term they probably are but lowering prices would also dilute the brand.
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Click to play now doesn't work in Chrome, anyone have a workaround or a known-working extensions for click-to-play for html5 youtube?
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I have the opposite impression. Regardless of the bug aspect, I find that Windows 8 looks much more advanced, polished and sophisticated than Mac OS, which has been stagnating for several years now and is still riddled with mindboggling inconsistencies (e.g. why can I rename a file in the Finder but not in an open file dialog, which looks exactly like a Finder?).
Honestly, most of that stuff is not isolated to Dev teams specifically, and for that intranet style approach, we've found Podio very useful - believe me, we evaluated a lot of products in this area.

Between Podio, Trello and Slack, along with Mural.ly (honestly, check it out) we have a pretty slick system. That doesn't even touch on the more dev specific continuous integration tools of choice.

Otherwise I think you're look at a custom web app to serve all your specific needs, sounds like a startup idea...
Reads like an advertisement for Bitcoin....
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Davos on Twitter: who do the attendees follow?
Apple Just Had the Biggest Quarterly Earnings of Any Company Ever
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I'm in the US and I don't pay anything for my bank accounts, checking or savings. I also don't pay anything for a debit / check card. I never have in fact. It varies by the bank.
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That reasoning has been tried and the outcome wasn't good. See: France, Japan.
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It would be hard for another company to imitate Apple's hardware/software integration. One of the reasons I've bought Macbooks for my last two laptops was that I knew that the OS and most of its software was designed with my hardware in mind.
I'd say that getting away with building a huge navy would be the hard part.
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Bigger phone sales are definitely eating iPad sales. And people upgrade tablet devices less often anyway, I'm still on an iPad 2 for example. Should be interesting with the rumored iPad pro, which will be much larger (12" retina possibly w/ stylus).
More than Windows sucking, the OEM laptop industry has largely fumbled hardware. For a while it looked like Dell and/or Samsung might actually give Apple a run for its money in terms of design and quality, but that fell flat on its face.

I'm a pretty biased sample, but honestly I know more people running non-OSX on Apple laptops than I know people running non-OSX on non-Apple laptops. Apple's laptops beat the rest of the industry even without the OS.
iPads are mature, no compelling reason to buy one every 2 years like a phone. It's not like the other tablet manufacturers are doing much better (or good at all). Apple still makes a lot on iPads, many companies would kill for that business (including large ones...).
Thanks for the clarification, I would never have guessed you're an Apple fan.
Tim Cook Says Apple Watch Should Ship in April
Thoughtbot is also working on something Discuss-like:

https://github.com/thoughtbot/carnival

Made in Haskell, so it compiles to a binary for you deploying pleasure and performance needs :)
Of course you can't actually get an operational navy, you'll just have 12 empty carrier shaped hunks of steel. Hence why I noted that it's a silly comparison.
Now I have to figure out how to fix HTML5 audio. For some reason it always uses the wrong alsa sound device, even though Flash and all my other apps use the right one. This is how I fixed it for all the other media:

~$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
}

Also, I just checked the site and it's still using Flash for me in Firefox 35.0 (???) edit Ah, they do it for Beta versions of Firefox.
I should have been clearer, it is a UI issue, rather than just a speed issue. Sure, bank to bank is slower, but the UI to send out of your own bank is designed to be as hard to do as they can get away with (e.g. I have to "pay a bill" and then instead of searching for the "company" I have to search and let it fail, and only then will it let me manually enter the other party's bank account info in raw text boxes).
Their costs are controlled at the scale at which they operate at.

A competitor may be able to offer something similar, but without the scale, their prices will likely be equal to or greater than apple's.
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The article states what browsers default to HTML5: "YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and in beta versions of Firefox."
Do you mean that they're not for sale, which is obvious, or are you saying the true price is different? How different?
This is the only outcome that made sense.

- Yahoo already has 7B in after-tax cash from the sale of a 7% share in Alibaba.

- Yahoo could not just sell more BABA shares, incur a 35% tax just to complete some large acquisition while they already have 10B in cash which is more than the value of their core business.

- They still own 35% of Yahoo Japan and that share is worth another 7B in itself. Yahoo still has tons of assets.

What's interesting is that the market values Yahoo at around 50B at the moment. The BABA spinoff is worth 40B. They have 10B in cash. Their share of Yahoo Japan is 7B. Even before accounting for Yahoo's core business, they should be worth 57B. We're probably looking at an adjustment in their market cap if no legal obstacles to the spinoff are met.
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This is too true. It's more regulatory moats than regulatory capture. At any rate, it's not profitable after, probably, the first time.

It's strange how cities force companies to wire this way. It's as if they forced a luxury brand, Hermès, say, to open a store in the most shit-hole, criminal part of town in order to gain the right to open a store in the yuppie part of town.
Congratulations for you.

I don't see your point? I didn't say it was hard to get a free checking account, I said they make you jump through hoops and open a bunch of related products so they'll waive the $10-15/month fee.
- At most sizeof(char *) bytes can be overwritten (ie, 4 bytes on 32-bit
machines, and 8 bytes on 64-bit machines). Bytes can be overwritten
only with digits ('0'...'9'), dots ('.'), and a terminating null
character ('\0').

- Despite these limitations, arbitrary code execution can be achieved.
As a proof of concept, we developed a full-fledged remote exploit
against the Exim mail server, bypassing all existing protections
(ASLR, PIE, and NX) on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. We will
publish our exploit as a Metasploit module in the near future.

Wow, that's actually amazing! I never would have thought it possible. As tonyhb says, it will be really interesting 'in the near future' to see how they managed to do it.
It's not just "regulatory capture" stopping competition in the broadband market.

Let's say I launch a startup fiber ISP that serves a small area, planning to use the profit from that area to expand to cover the entire country, and to show investors there's money to be made so they'll loan me money for the expansion. I invest a bunch of cash digging up the roads to lay new cables.

All the national incumbents have to do is drop their prices and increase their performance - which they can easily subsidize with profits from the vast majority of the country where my startup isn't operating, and economies of scale.

Now I've spent a load of money digging up the roads to launch a service that is lower performance and more expensive than my subsidized competitors. My planned expansion never goes ahead, and my initial investors lose their capital.

Far better to spend my time on a photo sharing app, where you only need nine employees to start a company you can sell to facebook for a billion dollars :)
> Funny, i just went to Google.com with Firefox. I see no messages.

I see it often on Firefox, I have the latest Firefox on linux (35.0.1). It's a blue bar along the top of many Google properties that are decently cross browser. Go to Inbox without chrome and you'll see the "only works with chrome" crap.

The biggest difference is probably NaCl in Chrome right now.
Even their profit is enough for 3 Nimitz class super carriers.

Then they can REALLY sink their competitions ;)
You don't have to assume nefarious motives and evil bank lords (But have fun with that if you like. I'm sure some are bad, some are good, but let's be charitable and assume other folks are intelligent and well-meaning, at least for the duration of this comment).

The reason is very simple: banks are established entities by the government. Banks have very complex, old, and unwieldy ways of doing business. There's a huge chunk of infrastructure feeding and maintaining the existing system: COBOL programs, call centers, technicians, offshore IT, and so forth. All of this was funded assuming that the current status quo would continue. Worse, nobody can really afford to replace all of that crap in-place. Some banks are lucky to get basic UI changes done to their website under any kind of cost control.

Usually, when some new way of doing business comes along, the new guys start from scratch. All their stuff is new and cheap. Customers get more cool stuff for way less money. But that's not how it is with banks. New guys are not allowed. They own the game.

So they're stuck, and we're stuck. Voters can get angrier and angrier and get more laws passed to "stick it to the bankers", but at the end of the day, unless you want to destroy your banking system? Customers have to eat any costs of change. Meanwhile all these neat startups around banking are paying out the ass and taking on huge risks just trying to tinker around the edges. This is what a non-competitive market looks like.

If you think about it, what PayPal accomplished was nothing short of a miracle. Kudos to those guys.
Korea will be happy to supply the steel bits, the rest is going to be a lot harder. Brings the snowcrash world a little closer though. Apple vs Microsoft round #3 would be interesting.
Why bother comparing iOS to Android as a measure of success? If you do, you should only compare products in the same price range. Apple products are a premium and will never have majority market share of small margin price range.

Also Samsung's phone business is doing poorly financially.
Worth pointing out for HN that Epic should soon release a significant update to UE4 so you won't need to download UE source and emscripten (like you do now) and can just export to webGL, like you were packaging for Windows / Android / iOS etc. It's in QA right now. So soon you could wander around here instead of playing the video. Source is the UE YouTube channel on Thursdays.

If you're into creating stuff on a computer and feel like a break from programming, UE4 is great fun.

If you want to do archvis lighting like this, check out koola's scenes in the forums and the Berlin Apartment which is free in the marketplace.
You're incorrect about the cost of accounts. I can have $2 in my checking or savings account, and there are no fees. I've never had a bank account that cost me money to keep. I also don't have to jump through any hoops, I merely walked into the bank and signed up for an account. Zero cost, zero hassle.

I'm also not sure what electronic payments you're referring to (transfers to others?). I deposit money and it shows up instantly. I buy something from Amazon.com via a Visa card attached to my checking account and it shows up instantly on my account.
You're not reading it correctly. Microsoft's critical vulns are nearly all of the class of errors that, say, Rust, solves. Memory safety issues. If Windows was written in, e.g. Rust, all those security issues simply would not have happened. I'm not sure how I can make this more clear.

While you can write dumb code in any language, programmers somehow end up not writing remote code execution from simple copies in other languages. Yet in C, this keeps happening.
Remember, Apple needs to target the low end to succeed in China. They need to put out the crappiest, cheapest phone they possibly can otherwise Samsung and Xiaomi will eat their lunch.

Edit: Obvious sarcasm is apparently not obvious enough.
Looks great! I'll be using this from now on.
Google. With time, it will prioritize sites you tend to click.
Agreed and agreed.

Tolstoy didn't write War & Peace with Scrivener, after all.

But what Tolstoy did have was a thick notebook filled with copious notes.

As did every other writer.

Heck, there was a picture going round a few days ago of JK Rowling's huge spreadsheet with plot information, all written on paper.

Now, you can of course get yourself a notebook and take your notes and get your writing done in a minimalist app, but since we are talking about using the computer alone to get all your writing done, I won't bring pen and paper into the equation.

Desk replaces the typewriter. It doesn't replace the notebook and endless scribbles and marginalia.

For that, you still need a tool like Scrivener.
The question to ask is, if Uber disappeared off the face of the earth one day, would these drivers be better off, or worse off? I claim they'd be worse off -- if there was a better job available, they'd already be doing that instead of driving for Uber.

In other words, Uber is a positive force in their lives, an employer who made them a better offer than any other, and they've getting shit for not making the drivers an even better offer?
I think much of that 70% number is downmarket. Apple's competition is primarily Samsung, as well as the premium devices offered by Motorola, HTC, etc. (Though to be fair, I wonder how much of Apple's 30% is from older phones costing $99 or less with contract)
Their traffic and user engagement says they have a lot of "users", and vastly more than their competition (despite the huge hype about Quora, they got absolutely wrecked by SO/SE).

I don't go in for the gamification stuff, but I like finding correct answers without the bullshit of forced logins, SEO trickery, ghosting of answers, etc. I login to SO/SE because I get value from it (I ask questions and logging in let's me get notifications when someone answers). I suspect the gamification is the least of what they got right. The core things they got right are that they respect their users, they make it easy/quick, they give you the best answer where you expect to find it (including in search engine results and without logging in), and they treat the content as thought it belongs to the community rather than the company. It's kinda like what reddit (and HN) got right. The upvotes are ancillary, but fun sometimes.
Anyone know how reliable that test is? I've got a system reporting not vulnerable but I'm not sure what glibc it has.
Those appear to be all exec/eval type bugs. Yes, if you do "eval($querystring)" you've got a problem in any language, including C.
This is oft-repeated, but how is OpenBSD's package management system "not modern"? It handles upgrades properly, modified configuration in /etc is preserved. Packages are cryptographically signed as of 5.5, files are individually checksummed..

I'd say OpenBSD still handles dependencies and upgrades better than FreeBSD's supposedly "next-generation" pkg.

OpenBSD's package system and ports tree are tightly integrated and work together, and despite the historic naming, OpenBSD's pkg_{add,delete,info,create}(1) are unrelated to the now deprecated FreeBSD equivalents.
I prefer multiples of the Apollo program when discussing Apple's finances. In 1973, NASA reported to Congress that the entire Apollo program cost $25.4 billion ($131.4 billion in 2013). It's useful when quantifying Apple's cash on hand, which is currently > 1x Apollo.

With the quarterly revenue, they could probably reenact Apollo 11, since each launch was ~$350 million pre-inflation. If you're only doing one, a lot cheaper.
Let's take public figures I can talk about: According to Wikipedia [1], Atlassian has 1148 employees and 20 products. It's 57 employees by product. BUT Atlassian also grew by 44% in 2014, [1] and recruits intensively, so we can estimate that they had 797 employees in 2013. If correct, it means the products they have now have been built by 40ppl on average, including support people, accountants and marketing. Sorry I know some products are bigger than others and I can't talk about those specifics.

And Atlassian does make world-class products which certainly compete with IBM. Please downvote if you prefer IBM ClearQuest to Atlassian JIRA.

I apologize for making an unbounded claim. It was unprecise because I didn't want to be specific about previous workplaces I've worked at. I have felt a shred of hatred from the HN community in the present situation, with the downvotes and negative comments.

Internet Explorer 3 had 100 people and IE5 a thousand [4], which is superior to the figure I was once told, which was 25 people for the development team. I had never been surprised by that low number because complexity grows exponentially and brings problems. I admit downvoters were right that Word didn't take 25 people to build, because of course everyone knows Microsoft has 128k employees [6].

GitHub is 255 employees[3] - Half of which for Enterprise [unbounded claim] and they weren't so many when they got famous. Git itself has had 100 developers over its history [5]; If they were employees, they wouldn't have been simultaneous employees.

So let's change my proposal: Who thinks world-class products are built by rather medium teams (<100 employees) in a few years (about 3 years)? Who has estimates for well-known products?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian

[2] https://www.atlassian.com/company/press/press-releases/atlas...

[3] https://github.com/about/team

[4] http://www.citeworld.com/article/2147006/consumerization/int...

[5] https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
After all the surveillance revelations it fills me with confusion and dread how instead of valuing freedom and control people run into the golden cages like there is no tomorrow. Well, maybe there won't...
if you could figure out a way to get microfibers to straighten out / curl up on command (like under a DC electric field), you could make a smart blanket. it would regulate the loft of the material by making the fibers straighter or more curled, making it more or less insulating. i dont know if this is a stupid idea or not.
That number is old, in the most recent quarter Apple just rose to be the number 1 OEM in China, and took 55% marketshare in Japan, even took 30% marketshare in S.Korea, Samsung's home turf.

Sure, globally Android will remain larger, but the trend is stabilizing if not reversing a little for now.
Parent was a bit wrong; you didn't need an account or to be signed in. IIRC, you went to youtube.com/html5 and enabled it.
It's interesting how the largest losses are far larger than the largest gains. Shows how it's easier to destroy than create.
I think the bigger iPhones just ate into iPad sales. Have you seen how big the 6 Plus is in person?
Yahoo spins off Alibaba