skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And still the audience here find it interesting.

Happily this isn't Stack Overflow and this discussion hasn't been closed yet just because a few admins didn't think think it would fit within "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

Edit: to clarify - there are a number of reasons why this topic is interesting to quite a few of us[1]. Here are two:

* the usability issue of what we experience as someone someone destroying a good resource.

* reputation systems: a facinating thing in itself.

[1]: as can be seen by the simple fact that this post is still on the frontpage despite - I guess - having been flagged multiple times : )
Those look a lot like political rap battles.
I'm talking about people like [Schindler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler) who was a Nazi but obviously not following orders. In a corporation with tens of thousands of employees, not all of them will have conspired to break the law. Those are the people that shouldn't be subject to putative measures.
No but it degrades Firefox user experience and that's bad for Mozilla.
Blue, underlined text is the convention for hyperlinks on the web
Stop listening to podcasts at 1.5x
Taiwan has a citizen digital certificate process - cool !

I mean that's a seriously big advance over anything I imagined a govt capable of. Estonia was the only other place I heard even close.

And is 183 out of 2 million so bad? Just sign the next round of certificates with this lot and move on.
Is there any equivalent in the US of Private Eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye?

Here's a recent cover: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1383 and another: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1378
When people complain about bloat, get them to load a blank document in Google Docs and compare the resources used ;-)
There are some places early in the kernel boot where "random" numbers are needed but they don't need to be truly unpredictable. A similar approach is used for time: If part of the kernel boot process looks at the clock but we don't have a real clock running yet, just return the values "0", "1", "2", etc. as the time since what really matters is that they are monotonically increasing.
Not only that but you'll get shorts interested in criminal companies because they can profit by exposing wrong-doing. And, on the other side, the market will discount a company's stock if it is criminal which kills the executives incentives to take these actions.
This would be a great win for the top developers, a little extra rope for the borderline-sustainable developers, and nothing for everybody else. I'd rather they do something to lift the average.
Isn't that a UI problem? Punish people who do noise answers and bad edits, and see to it that garbage isn't featured prominently. Closing pages down is a desperate, blunt measure and in the long run it decays the value of your content instead of protecting it.

If it's gotten so bad that this is preventing legitimate edits and answers from improving your content, you have a very serious problem - both culturally and technologically.
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> iPhone users are more likely to pay for things. There's all sorts of crap in the Android ecosystem, a lot of it is free, but the users are largely the sorts of people who will take what kind of freebies they can get and don't want to pay for a premium product.

I hear this argument a lot. I'm an Android user and as somebody that received an iPhone 6 as a gift and sold it to buy an Android, plus I also own an iPad, let me give you a counterpoint.

1) I feel the need to block ads. On Android I have Firefox which has add-ons, on iOS I don't have it. Well, you can usually find a shitty shell to iOS's webview that does. And even if the cost is non-zero, it's still shitty, not to mention untrustworthy.

2) I feel the need to view videos in any format. On Android I have VLC, the leading open-source player, OK? On iOS I don't have it (even though an implementation of VLC exists for iOS, a month ago it was pulled from the iTunes Store). Welcome to the dozens and dozens of shitty alternatives from the iTunes Store, many of which demand money for it.

3) I feel the need to listen to streaming radio. On Android I have VLC. Need I say more?

4) I feel the need to block spammy phone numbers, blocking calls, automatically deleting SMSs, plus I want regular backups, like for my SMS messages and so on and so forth. Oh wait, on iOS that's not allowed, whereas on Android I'm a paying customer. Dropbox on iOS is freaking broken, because in order to stay active in the background and sync, it needs to detect movement.

5) On Android I bought Tasker, because it's so useful at times, whereas on iOS such a thing will never be allowed.

6) I have about 8 games that I bought installed on my Android right now, even though I'm not a gamer, but it just so happens that Google Play keeps suggesting me tower defense games - whereas this doesn't happen on iOS because iTunes is restricting reviews to locals and I'm not living in the US, so all I get are suggestions for, you guessed it, shit - to search for iOS apps, I'm actually doing searches on Google.

7) Android's apps for maps are much better in my experience - besides Google Maps, I have about 3 others installed, all of them good, I only keep them around because while in roaming I don't want to be caught with poor area coverage.

You're talking about iOS having "premium products", whereas the way I see it, my basic necessities are not satisfied and if I am to pay for something for iOS, it's usually in the hope that it works. And this happens primarily because of Apple's restrictions. iPhone 6 seemed to me like a really sexy phone, but I sold it anyway because of the ecosystem.
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/02/random-seeds-in-ubunt...
Aren't the vast majority of apps on iOS free, too?
This. Is what I do, exactly!

most of the times, I work _with_ the client's in house dev teams so that they can take over when we are done. I _love_ this model as everybody wins.

Key is to staff with the right people offshore.
SSH agent forwarding should eliminate the need to do that.
Individual versus group decisions: Female versus male honesty
For anyone who hasn't seen this story:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Apple Design Boss Jon Ive Gets Chauffeured to Work in a Bentley
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this has been known for years and it does not render your phone useless... just opens the field test app....
That 30% isn't for nothing - it's for payment processing, reach, marketing, infrastructure, testing/approval (you may or may not like this, but users probably do like it), app delivery, etc. Like it or not, those things all are more valuable to smaller developers than bigger ones. Microsoft can do a lot of that stuff themselves, if they really want to - Joe the ordinary developer can't.

Apple is already being nice to small developers by giving them the same rates as big developers - in any other business, doing 100x the sales of the little guy would get you a better rate, not the same one.
And the fact he combined "we should get drinks frequently" and "i'll invest 50K" and physical contact that you conveniently keep leaving out? You keep concentrating on one part that you have an accidental narrative for, I already granted it to you, I left it out completely and the evidence is still clear.

Anyway, this has gone on long enough you think? We aren't getting anywhere.
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Just because the Mexican woman is in a worse situation compared to the Stanford grad, it doesn't make the Stanford grad's situation any less worse. If you were not allowed to eat any food once a week, and I told you "there's starving children in Africa with NO food 3 times a week" does that make you feel better about your situation?
You also happen to be posting on a tech website, so that would explain why we talk about the former and not the latter. Outside silicon valley no one cares about the former but there are many organizations trying their best to help with the latter.
This is the opposite of what I was expecting to read. The developers with the lowest income receive the most benefit from Apple as they presumably do not have a large, existing marketing list to convert to sales and so rely on App Store discovery (what exists of it.) If anyone should pay different rates, it should be the more successful developers who convert to an expensive premium developer account subscription. This is the model used by Ebay, Etsy, Shopify, and a lot of other markets.
I can't imagine that asking a contractor not to bring 50 extra people into your home is "none of your business", as it would potentially be pretty inconvenient if you were there at the time.

Similarly, having stipulations like "don't listen to music out loud while cleaning", is also IMO a reasonable thing to require (as someone who often works from home).

For the record, I do think that it's a problem that many companies are getting around the social safety net that employers are required by labor law to provide. But I think that's a problem better solved by decoupling our social safety net from employment--which I think unfairly ties people to their employers.
This reasoning seems weak

"At $100K in net revenues per year, you may be a successful independent developer. At $70K in net revenues per year, your spouse could be telling you to get a day job.

Therefore,..."
A 128GB/Core i5 Surface Pro 3 costs 899$ (and you usually can get the bundle for 50-100% less than that) that's the same price as the MB Air which it directly competes against.
Yes there are cheaper laptops, but you won't find a decent "ultrabook"(giggles) at the price range.

OSX keeps eating market share especially amongst the more younger demographics thats true, but it has nothing to do with the OS, they could run an OS that shows a picture of a potato every 10min and freezes till you shake the laptop and it won't make a different.

Apple is cool and pretty, people buy it, they also market aggressively to students with financial assistance and student discounts. However i wonder how many students would actually use OSX if MSFT wouldn't have had Office for it. Even taking into account the fact that some uni's still require students to use TEX/LATEX for works most of them write it in word in a 2 or 3 column format and use a converter (I've done that 10 years ago).

So far from what I've seen MSFT made Windows cost almost nothing, made office very cheap for home users and almost free for students. Brought down the price of Visual Studio considerably, and releasing the new "Community Edition" which is considerably more feature rich than the Express edition of yesteryear.

And while many people found Windows 8 lackluster it still brought quite a bit of good changes, and as a free upgrade to Windows 7 for many users and at less than 50$ for all the rest.

There is very little reason for OS's to make huge jumps these days, the platforms they run don't double their RAM and CPU power every 3-4 years like they used too.
For all intents and purposes the Core i5 machine you bought in 2009 would still run Windows 8 just as fine as a new one you bought today (that's not saying that the CPU's are the same or even come close to having a comparable raw processing power).

@ Main topic, i do love articles that state MSFT lost X to Y and Z to M over and over, if they would had control over search, social media and mobile you would both hate them much more, and we most likely would've been in a worse position as consumers.

Google is bad enough, i would go as far as saying that they are worse than MSFT ever was. They control how virtually every person finds and accesses data and they are expanding their reach from not only controlling how you do it over the internet but going as far as establishing them selves as an ISP, wanting to become a wireless carrier, and funding SAT based internet access.

However with all that, and the fact that their business model is heavily invested in having access to every peace of private and public information about you and everyone else no one gives them half the flak they gave MSFT when they tried to bundle internet explorer with Windows.

I wonder if in 15 years after some court cases and blunders we'll see articles about how Google is interesting again, sadly i doubt it will come to that.
An iPad Remote Presence Device
It is right to be disgusted with domestic violence, but that does not mean that you should not care about other problems. We should not limit ourselves to only care about the single worst problem.
I've disclosed my App Store revenues before (http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-sto... and http://www.trevormckendrick.com/My-2nd-Year-in-the-App-Store...).

Apple can absolutely afford to do this financially, but the 70/30 split is practically the only thing that hasn't changed in the App Store since it launched. So why don't they?

A few possibilities:

- They have a similar split with music labels, so giving more to developers could hurt their music industry relationships

- They have more interest in helping the big app companies like Supercell, simply because of the revenues and brands they create

- They don't want to give additional incentives to creators of crappy apps who never make much money anyway

Whatever Apple's reasons, they haven't changed iTunes music revenue splits in over a decade. So I don't expect them to update developer splits anytime soon either.
>orders were sent via motorcycle courier and signal lamps.

They weren't actually sent that way, they were gamed that way. In the sort of way someone fights a dragon in D&D.

Van Riper (what a name!) essentially glitched the simulation. We've seen how mass organization by carrier and signal lamps works in real battle, not all that well.

The tactic relied on launch massive salvos of cruise missiles at the same time to overwhelm US defenses.

I think it is important that Van Riper showed how that tactic could be used, but it is far harder to pull something like that off.

People make too much of the "rest and make them follow a script." It's not that the Navy doesn't learn from mistakes, but they wanted to test tactics against realistic enemies.
Apache Kylin, created by eBay, is a modern cubes on HBase solution. However, the overhead of HBase is likely not worth it unless you have a data size problem.

http://www.kylin.io/
The big question: who made the change that introduced this major security hole? This may be an attack, and one that's traceable.

Name?
It should also be noted that PMQs are a "pressure release valve" for British politics. If you turn on BBC Parliament at any other time outside of that 30 minute period it is all very serious, very respectful, and a lot is accomplished.

I had BBC Parliament on almost the entire day during the "Gay Marriage" debates, and to be frank it was some of the best political discourse I've ever seen. Even though some people took the topic personally (e.g. old religious conservatives) they were always extremely respectful to both gay people AND to other members.

Keep in mind that debate was not whipped. So it made for quite an interesting dynamic with conservative debating other conservatives and some labour people coming out against gay marriage.
I think there has to be some kind of massive leap before we get to that state, regardless i we'll get creative freedom to do whatever we please and excel in things we might not have been interested in earlier as they had no "economic value".

Obviously its going to be a journey before the masses will get used to not working as they have been all their lives.
Vulnerability in Group Policy could allow remote code execution
Huh? "This crashes, therefore I bet it has backdoors." Does anybody really think like that? What happens when the crashes get fixed and the not crashing backdoor turns into -release?
It's a good thought but I think adding this kind of complexity , even with good intent, is exactly the sort of thing the 70/30 split was created to avoid.

There is something nice about just knowing, this is my split. I don't have to worry about it switching and my profit formulas being altered once I hit a certain sales threshold, My take is $.70x, with x being downloads. Period.

Beyond that, I'd have to ask what happens when we take this to its logical conclusion:

Say you start with an 85% split for the first 10,000 sales or something -- what happens if the split then eventually goes below 70/30, say 65/35 or 60/40 or worse, the more copies you sell? How do people react then.

I suppose the counter-argument is that that's how the tax system works -- and that's fair -- but I still don't see developers being happy to have to give up more of their take down the road, just because they have reached "success."

I mean, if you're going to go to tiers, then the next argument becomes about what defines one tier from the next.

Again, it introduces all kinds of complexities that having a straight 70/30 system avoids. And to me, that simplicity ultimately trumps the other arguments, as sympathetic to indie developers as I might be.
Historically speaking, most of the philosophical question never got an answer by philosophy. They just tend to become obsolete as science advances -- and I consider any question regarding strong AI to be half philosophical by nature (100% unemployment can only happen with strong AI, otherwise we'd spend the last 0.0001% or whatever it is and focusing on developing strong AI)

With that in mind, there are a note: from what I've gathered from actual Machine learning and AI researchers, anything that resemble strong AI is not just far away, but ridiculously far away.

On a less tangent point: a lot of our economic system, and assumptions are based on a scarcity of resources (human labor is one of the scarcity). By the time automation could really take hold and realistically take over most of human's work, it seems to me that there are many things to be concern about rather than employment, and they depends on whether the model of economy is a scarcity or an abundance one, and whether it's actually sustainable or not etc.
Not OP, but I look at this not as trying to solve email overload and privacy, but as trying to solve email overload with the nifty side benefit of being more privacy-conscious than many of the alternatives.
I've heard of (and been through) the same horror stories with british companies in the past, as well as Brazilian and German companies. I wouldn't say that's american-specific at all. It's just "business as usual" in most places.
Open extensible dynamic programming systems (2006) [pdf]
Yes [0]. You can write a new query here [1]. Its pretty much the reason why I like SQL now being able to ask questions[2] and get answers is great.

[0] http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries

[1] http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new

[2] http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/211098/whe...
Yes, darn it, it's the philosopher's job to coerce people into their way of thinking, what was he thinking?

In all seriousness, I think philosophy has problem, it's disconnect with reality is widening.
Daily Show/John Oliver/Colbert are the closest the US comes as far as I know. Maybe South Park occasionally?

Although both the Daily Show and Colbert have now wrapped up. And John Oliver is more like 60 minutes (before they sold out) than Private Eye.
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Apple's history has a lot of successes stemming from them ignoring stated preferences from customers. Ditching the floppy, a phone without a hardware keyboard, refusing to build netbooks, etc.

As the probably apocryphal Henry Ford quote goes, "if I'd asked people what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse".
I feel you, seems like too much soup-nazi. I think maybe I've burned some friends I myself have encouraged to try to get started on the site.

But it's the nature of the site. No one else is doing it. Maybe that's because it's not easy. Maybe you should compete with them. I have a feeling there's a lot of people here who've been burned by SO. I know I have.

But you can't argue with success. So I've thickened my skin and hardened my resolve, and I'm in the top 3% of users now. I expect my current body of work on the site to put me in the top 1% within a year or so, with no further work from me.

The answer to this is to build a better StackOverflow, if you can. But I don't think you can.
No information except a set of very old (still interesting, but old) snapshots of what appears to be a catalog of their products, and an admonishment to contact a person to learn more.

This is usually understood as enterprise-speak for "we don't want to give you a price, and if you have to ask, you can't afford it."
1. Being ASD is not a carte blanche.

2. Suggesting that "simply knowing more" is sufficient ignores the way many men will discount a woman's knowledge compared to a man's knowledge simply because she's a woman.

3. Can we not resort to putting people into their place to establish dominance hierarchies? What about synergistic differences? Those are tremendously valuable.

4. Many meetups can be frustrating or downright hostile to women. Even well intentioned organizers can have a difficult time attracting women if attendance is already primarily male. Let's not forget that women make about 70¢ per $1 that men make, so they tend to have less opportunity to spend leisure time at a meetup.

This is a problem, and we can't ask women to simply try harder. They've been trying harder their whole lives. Perhaps it's time for us men to try harder for once.
Just a thought, but how about letting privileged users vote to keep a question open, which would negate some number of close votes? (As well as a delay before closing, even once the votes were obtained.) Also if someone is in the process of writing an answer, that should count against closing.

I tend to agree with the OP that sorting and filtering are a better solution to maintaining quality than unnecessarily closing marginal questions. However, some questions certainly need to be closed. The problem (or at least a problem) seems to be that with such a large number of privileged users, hitting a 5 vote threshold is not difficult, even if the question doesn't deserve to be closed. Increasing the threshold would be one solution, but would make unnecessary moderation work. A don't-close vote seems like potentially a better solution.

Edit: Unsurprisingly, looks like I'm not the first one to have this idea: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vot...
Also Iain Banks' Culture novels have this question as an occasional theme (and the main themes are also very interesting, of course).
> I think it’s safe to say that most independent developers are generating annual revenue in the tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands of dollars range.

I don't believe this is the case at all. From the linked study, most are making substantially less than that.
Burn the witch! Burn the witch!
+1, completely agree. Might as well throw complete itunes connect overhaul into this. It's an absolute nightmare working with itunes connect, managing users, working with beta and internal testers.. the whole process is completely disconnected and really demonstrates the launch of a rushed product.
There are some things I miss about a typewriter, like the visceral satisfaction of pounding on the keys and watching the text emerge.

I also miss typewriter fonts. Yes, I know I can get typewriter fonts, including the typewriter font that HD uses for its text entry boxes. I mean the unevenness of it due to mechanical variations, variations in the ribbon, etc., leading to every impression being slightly different.

Computer fonts are too perfect.