skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone would make this kind of gamble. The 10% you ay gain would most certainly not compensate for the amount of users you'd loose.

Plus, it could easily be countered by another article in apple's tos to check at validation.
>But I think in the end, American audiences want to see the good in people, especially the main characters. If not good, at least some humanity.

What's more human than trying and failing (or being beaten by the system)?
I don't disagree.

But most of it boils down to MS Office was there first (and made by the same company as the OS).

Each of your bullet points assumes a migration from Office to LO, and that there isn't already an infrastructure that supports it.
From a aspiring indie developer perspective, I've never worried about the 70/30 split.

I've been much more concerned with getting my apps visible to anyone. The app store is so flawed when it comes to discoverability (even as a user it is frustrating to find apps that solve a need) I would give up even more share if people could find my app to begin with.
Is Apple necessarily the only marketing channel? Ie is there no way to deep link into the app store? I've seen links to iTunes app pages online - and while last I heard you can't download to your device from that page, will it not open in the app store if you open it on an iOS device? Also on Android Facebook for instance advertise apps a lot with a link to the store, is that not possible on iOS? Or do you have to use an Apple ad network on iOS for all advertising?

Sorry for the confused reply, I'm just curious whether they've actually taken steps to force themselves as your only marketing channel or why that would be the case.
Coase's theorem doesn't apply when the parties can't transact with each other to shift the burden. Customers can choose to use properly insured drivers but someone who gets hit or has her property damaged by a driver doesn't get to choose one that has the requisite commercial insurance.
Getting to the top few results for local services can be extraordinarily difficult. And CPC to advertise for those keywords can be >$15.

Small business don't have a unified marketplace and reputation tracking system. In fact nothing is unified. People like these marketplaces because of the single meta layer above the individual workers.
> "hyper" systemic but "hypo" empathic

A society is a system.
Problem is it is the mods who do it, isn't it.

New users cannot edit questions?
Sometimes. Sometimes a database hierarchy (if we're doing an API to a data source). Sometimes a UI concept.

It really depends on the project and where the main complexity occurs.
$ value per user makes sense but with viral growths there can be a viral decline in user base as well. To make it sustainable you need more than just an app which Facebook has. FB along with being an app is a site and a platform to log into any site you want and Snapchat is not.
More independent developers more excited about their platform results in increased app quality and quantity, as well as increased platform migration and retention resulting from a stronger ecosystem. All of which results in increased sales of both apps and hardware which means increased profit.

Plus the good PR and generosity you mentioned.

I actually think it's harder to find the downside to the proposal than it is to find upside. This is a good letter and a good suggestion.
The barrier to entry is the annual $100 developer fee, not the percentage of sales. I honestly wouldn't mind this fee being much much higher if the eliminated a lot of the crummy apps from the store.
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You could try, but getting traction on the new app probably wouldn't be worth the hassle. It's not trivial to earn $100k from an app, doing it twice would be extremely difficult.
Sorry, meant my key, the one I use to connect with and have added the public part of to numerous servers.
More devs, more and new kind of apps, higher quality, and have devs rely less on ads for low income apps ( which means less people in google/admob's long tail).
Bias against women? Seriously?
Wow another privileged woman speaking about her "feels".

I take a bus with Mexican woman whose husband beats her but she is too scared to go to law enforcement( her being an illegal immigrant and all).

The contrast between two women is insane. Yet we talk everyday endlessly about the former not the latter. I am disgusted by this whole thing. Seriously WTF.
I'm on a MBP with OS X, and I was almost distracted by how much I liked the design of the page. The way links worked (on desktop, at least) was really interesting, even though it seems so obvious once it's done.
I don't know the exact figures I've seen before but definitely similar - Apple and Samsung between them make more than 100% of the profit under that measurement - everyone else totalled is at a loss.

Agreed about Google though, I highly doubt these figures consider their profits as a result of their position in mobile - though I guess that'd be difficult to accurately calculate.
What is writing? Is it getting all the words down before you forget your point? Or is it polishing and formatting your content to appeal to the readers? It's easy to throw the term around, brand your software for writers, the best writing tool, etc.

I can't say I agree 100% with either author. On the one hand, Wichary shows some 'gorgeous' LaserDisc snippet and lauds it as some return to the good old pre-typewriter days. I don't think that automatic drop caps, mandatory line widths, 'smart' quoting, etc help any authors express anything at all. Sure, the typewriter example is bad, but was the fake image grain necessary? Did it show how striking the keys harder slightly bolds the text? The LaserDisc example is not at all like writing with an italic pen, where you can express stylistic choice. Cramming everyone's text into some StandardPrettyPrintNFormatter [1] so your website looks pleasing to readers is pretty much the complete opposite of fostering creativity. It's a website for readers, not writers. Can I upload a scan of calligraphy? Maybe draw a title in bubbly block letters? Use a red pen? Of course not. Everything looks the same, and Butterick points out why

The goal is to cre­ate the il­lu­sion that every­thing on Medium be­longs
to one ed­i­to­r­ial ecosys­tem, as if it’s the New York Times.

On the other hand, I don't really know what it is Butterick aspires to. Good tools? Empowerment? He makes great fonts but the ◊ link markers need to go. Does some rule say that's a good idea? It interrupts the flow.

[1] Much like gofmt. That kind of conformity is great for coding style (can't read your crazy indentation), but it's just like how the constraints of the typewriter lead to a style of writing that eliminates stylistic differences (can't read your handwriting) so you can focus on content. Medium just adds another layer of conformity.
A couple of short summaries:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-17/robots-cou...

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/02/17/the-robots-are-com...
For me the end-of-line word hyphenation also detracts from the readability.
it's even worse for Android:

*2767*3855#

--> This code is used for factory format. It'll remove all files and settings including the internal memory storage. It'll also reinstall the phone firmware.

PS: Once you give this code, there is no way to cancel the operation unless you remove the battery from the phone. So think twice before giving this code.
Perhaps users need a vote to reopen option? Even if you put it above 5 the questions I've run into would easily hit that based upon up votes on comments.
> should only be generated

Theoretically, WhatsApp could generate the keys and forward them to clients, and you could still plausibly call it "End to End"
Knowing how large Facebook's PHP/Hack codebase is/was, rewriting that application would have been a disaster.

Hack is a fantastic language and the work by the HHVM team benefits the PHP ecosystem as a whole.

PHP may have its problems, but many companies use it for its many benefits, mainly the ease of finding developer talent.
That PDF says an app using CTServerConnectionCellMonitorGetCellInfo() will not be accepted in the app store, not that the device itself will be excluded from the app store?
Agreed: The terrible discovery is the worse problem, it leads to a market of hits, with no long tail.

Whereas if you open the play store on an android phone, it suggests apps your friends have, and many other 'discoverable' things. It leads to a better long tail, eg supports indies.

I know more indies making a living out of android, and i know far more ios developers, being one myself.
PHP has merits relative to other web development tools, like the way the environment for every request starts "clean" and global state has to be explicitly managed. Adding typechecking to PHP with Hack and making it run fast is very useful and not sad at all.
Well, OK, fair. In that respect even the Mac versions of Office have some problems. But even setting that aside Office has more features.
I liked it, if only because it made the text look much more uniform. I imagine it was done out of objection to the "make the link bold and blue and underlined and very different" ethos that even Google was into until recently. With this, I can just read, and if I see a diamond, I know a mouseover will reveal the anchor text and point me toward whether I want to click on the thing or not.
Apparently this used to be triggerable from web pages with no user interaction by using the tel: protocol in a clever way.
Maybe it would be better to have a choice about what your marketing channels are.

I'm selling software on eBay! For just a little over 10% I get to be super lazy and not develop a marketing website. eBay queues up requests for pre and post sales help for me. And they have me at the top of google results for queries related to my products: anyone facing the problems my software products solve will easily find me with a web search. I am shipping physical media and documents, which is boring work and is a pain. I really like not having to worry about marketing because it leaves me more time for development. My market is not very large, it's a rather specialty niche, and I think that I'm close to reaching the whole universe of interested people through eBay.

eBay is probably not going to tell me my software products violate any arbitrary rules or are not fashionable. I have heard so many negs about Apple Store that I want nothing to do with it.
I was going to post basically this exact thing.

Even basic filtering like "hide all apps that haven't been updated for iOS 8", or something along those lines would help with discoverability (and in this example, reward the developers who are stay on top of their updates).

There are a bunch of other filters that would be useful too.
There's nothing wrong with adding your public key to many servers, as long as you keep the private key secure -- almost everyone does this. The article is discussing sharing of SSH host keys, which allows impersonation of an SSH server.
It is possible with Github at least - using a combination of the list repo events API & the create commit API.
I'm pretty sure this is referring to the operating profits on hardware sales, which would be a pretty silly factor in deciding what platform to write software for. Third party software devs make precisely none of that profit. Samsung also doesn't, afaik, make any of whatever Google's cut of Android software sales are, so even if it does include app store cuts that just turns it into an apples and oranges comparison.

This is not to say the conclusion is wrong, just that the data here is not relevant to it.
HHVM is the answer to the following conversation:

P1 - "PHP sucks, it's a terrible language with no proper design and no serious person would ever want to use it"

P2 - "But tons of large projects are built on it and people ship with it everyday"

P1 - "So? It's still terrible"

P2 - "What do you think is so terrible?"

P1 - "Oh lots and lots of things, I wouldn't even know where to begin"

P2 - "How about this: let's throw boatloads of cash on it for a while and see where we get."

P1 - "Oh gee, I dunno if..."

P2 - "Boatloads of cash it is.

[edit] After seeing how my comment could be seen as ridiculing HHVM: I'm a PHP dev and I'm loving every second of what they're doing. I think they're right on the money.
Agreed. This provides most of the functionality of GMail without the ads and snooping.

Try advertising this to lawyers, who can't use GMail because Google snoops the mail. Consider offering a premium version that understands more legal terminology about things like court dates.
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"Are there any [lang] libraries that are backings for the [service] API?"

This is explicitly listed as off-topic:

Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, "software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it."
Achieving a cultural change is simple, not easy.

Simple because the fix consists of watching patterns of behavior for a while, identifying the cliques of users who do this, and then mass-banning them, or at least mass-revoking their privileges to close stuff. For maximum cruelty, just reset and peg their reputation permanently at zero.

Not easy because then they're going to scream their entitled little heads off about it, and you'll need to recruit another generation of active moderators.
About as condescending as saying it is a waste of time to improve methods for bloodletting to cure disease.
Here are a couple of clarifying notes to the essay:

1) the United States has not declared any wars. The last war we were in was in the 1940s, over 70 years ago. Since then we've done "police actions" "limited military engagements", and all sorts of other nonsense, but no wars.

2) Yes, there's too much emphasis on the wrong things. But there's a huge problem here that the military is working through: what do you want your military to do, anyway? The general consensus is that we want these highly-sophisticated fighting units able to take a fight to other highly-sophisticated militaries, like the Russians or the Chinese. But guess what? That's not the fight we've had.

So we keep spending trillions of dollars for a military built to do one thing, and then we keep asking it to do something else. You might think the answer would be "Just re-factor!", but it's not. As it turns out, if you want B2 stealth bombers, you gotta have this huge industrial complex churning away for decades to get them. You can't just turn it off and on. If there's ever a fight requiring high-tech military versus high-tech military, all of that prep will pay off. If there isn't? It still might have been worth it -- having it in place could have prevented the fight. You don't know.

The real problem is that the Pentagon and various administrations are unable to have an honest discussion about the issues. There are too many lucrative contracts and jobs on the table. The risks are too great to boil down into slogans.

For now, my recommendation is to form a new branch of service dedicate solely to large numbers of low-tech groud-pounders who specialize in nation-building and international rescue/response. Whether we like it or not, that's what we keep ending up doing, and the existing services do not seem to be able to mentally make the trade between one bomber and, say, 100K peacekeepers. Plus the missions are vastly different.
Most of Apple's profits come from hardware. In software, you should really go by software revenues. There's an installed base (units), but the installed base isn't the market, just the potential market. The market consists only of people spending money...

Having said that, you need to account for all the revenues, ie not just the purchase price of an app in the store. That's an area where not everybody is happy with Apple.
I'm currently working my way through Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy. His writing is incredibly insightful and psychedelic. I'd also suggest the Time Ships (only authorized Time Machine sequel) and anything from the Xeelee universe. Maybe start with Vacuum Diagrams?

David Brin's Uplift series is brilliantly written, and personifies non-human characters wonderfully.

Heinlein has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, and his writing always makes me giddy.
On the subject of Prime Minister's Questions here are some clips showing how rowdy it can get;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1iL2jGZiZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUqhqsfE0YQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVs1jN85w10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUX9LvYlAps
Well, maybe Apple became that successful by also listening to their customers.
Why is this story no longer on the front page of hacker news? Did YC get pressure from Snapchat employees or VC's?
How do you solve the torrent of duplicates and low quality questions then? The review queue is backed up all the time (currently 11900 questions with 1+ close-vote).

Ignoring the problem does not make it go away. If you think one of the ways people are trying to solve it should be forbidden, that's fine. Please share an effective alternative.
It's a good idea. It would give small developers a chance to get on their feet financially. But the author assumes most of the revenues come from big-selling apps. I don't think we actually know how long a tail the app sales distribution has or what effect it would have on Apple's revenues.

And, unfortunately, it wouldn't have any effect on, e.g., Amazon being unable to sell books on Apple products because Amazon's margins are too low to allow them to eat the 30% and jacking up their prices 43% to cover the Apple tax would make them uncompetitive with Apple's book store. Apple's plan, maybe, but damned inconvenient for users.
Aleynikov definitely violated New York trade secret law.

That's not what the court found. Otherwise the charges wouldn't have been dropped.

It sounds like you're conflating the issue of whether he violated the "spirit" of the law (or whether he was, in your view, just plain morally culpable somehow) -- versus what the law actually had to say about his actions.

Like Rayiner said, in layman's terms, he got off on a technicality.

If you want to minimize any sense of exoneration or vindication the accused might want to derive from the court's decision, by saying he "got off on a technicality", that's fine.

But to claim that he "definitely violated" the law when the courts found that he definitely did not -- I'm just not sure I see the point in that.
I agree: I was being pedantic, but I don't think inaccurate: there is surely some case: the USA declared war and didn't actually achieve their principal objectives.

Does awarding "victory" depend upon who declares war? Surely there's some case to be made that for Britain, maintaining the status quo was a victory: unlike the USA they hadn't aimed for a change from the status quo.
I was thinking a bit about this the other day. I think that it would probably be geared around the way that Git is actually used.

The thing about DVCS is that it's allowed a whole lot of experimentation around different workflows, and two in particular have come to the forefront in particular: pull requests and git-flow. A porcelain designed around these particular workflows would be quite effective IMO.

Also, I think it would have some better, less jargonistic terminology. For example, something like TFS's "get-latest" as an alias for "git pull origin master" would be a lot clearer.
oh god, hopefully not
> against bad social norms in tech hubs, denouncing anti-privacy issues at Google/Faceboo, talking against celebrities like Bill Gates, or anything about NSA tends to go quickly below the fold and mostly ignored. The ranking system is gamed.

Interesting. I usually find the mix that hits the front page about perfect.

A few times I have seen what I consider interesting topics being flagged of after an initial boost but I can live with that, I guess unlike me quite a few people are fed up after the nth discussion about open floor plans and I can live with that.
That's absolutely a valid experience.

There are plenty of others who've had positive experiences as well.

And those "caustic individuals" have a LOT to share if you're willing to engage in an open and healthy way.
Impressive demo! Within 10 seconds I created the app, made an edit and saw my slides reload in realtime.
I think you're right. That's the only consistent way to read this anyway.
How about the sub files with the same name of the video file you selected? Some players open them automatically and it's very convenient. I'm sure there are other cases like that.
How many people pay to use websites? One of my side project Android apps made over $2100 in advertising revenue last month, and my other Android apps made hundreds of dollars in ad revenue. There are a number of ways people monetize Android apps - some games are freemium, and yes, some apps are paid for. I'm not unhappy with how Android monetizes.
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I think this is common across the board. The exceptions are the HR departments that keep applicants and interested parties updated and answer your questions quickly.
For me, the key insight came from the following quote regarding Searle’s Chinese Room argument [1]:

*> And while it was true, the critics went on, that a giant lookup table wouldn’t “truly understand” its responses, that point is also irrelevant. For the giant lookup table is a philosophical fiction anyway: something that can’t even fit in the observable universe! If we instead imagine a compact, efficient computer program passing the Turing Test, then the situation changes drastically. For now, in order to explain how the program can be so compact and efficient, we’ll need to posit that the program includes representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning, and all sorts of other internal furniture that we would expect to find in a mind. Personally, I find this response to Searle extremely interesting—since if correct, it suggests that the distinction between polynomial and exponential complexity has metaphysical significance.

This captures what I had intuitively thought regarding the link between computation and consciousness: consciousness is some sort of sophisticated, elegant computation embodied in human physiology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
You don't even have to re-use a k value - if the attacker can guess your k value, one signature is enough to recover your private key.
Ask HN: Modern OLAP Cube?
What are startups using as alternatives to Oracle and Microsoft for olap data?

The only decent open source project I can find is Mondrian on top of Postgresql.

I'm investigating cubes because I believe it fits my current problem. We have a star schema that we currently just run tons of different reports on. We take advantage of Postgresql materialized views and abuse the crap out of functions.

One of the larger problems we have is dealing with non-additive metrics. E.g, we might want to see how many distinct ip addresses are in a time frame. And since "distinct" is not additive we currently keep large sets around in the rollups to make them additive. I've investigated HyperLogLog data structures to solve this problem but I couldn't get product management on board with probabilistic data structures.

I'm looking forward to hearing what other people are experimenting with.
I was able to reproduce that. In fact I witnessed THREE prices, one of the item page, another on an "add coverage" popup and a third in the basket.

That's really shady.
Not if it is signed or doesn't have write permissions.
Might be the font. He's using his own propriety font: http://practicaltypography.com/equity.html
Bloodletting is still used in modern medicine. With the leeches and everything.