skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt they have the money to do anything about it. Furthermore, I doubt they have a trademark on the name because it costs $10k to get one.

The worst they could do is to blog about it and if they're lucky and get coverage with their article, it could be settled in the court of public opinion.
This quote stands out the most, "One key to Apple’s profit dominance: higher prices. Apple’s iPhone last year sold for a global average of $624, compared with $185 for smartphones running Android"

Literally Apple can command a 3x price premium in the same product category. I'd like to see Android flagships broken out from this number, however.

The issue of Apple profit dominance is pretty complex and I'm sure there are really smart people looking to understand and attack it.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204172
The banks and the politicians on both sides have a responsibility. The ordinary young Greeks who will be forced to pay back the debt don't.
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Some screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/4sDuA

Once you create a poll, you can share the URL to get more votes.

edited: for formatting
I see Nokia got around 2/3 the profits in 2007 when the iPhone started. I guess the profits tend to flow to those who have the best designed phones. I wonder if it'll still be Apple in another 8 years.

(http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/13/apple-smartphone-profit-share/)
I have wanted to do a more general learning concept for my kid with my site http://nextlesson.com its just been a little busy. My idea was to build curated list of videos/tutorials by category/ topic / users age populated by social likes sort of like how ranker does it with for movies etc.
I wish Go had a proper way to do graphics and GUI. It would be great to make Go desktop and mobile apps without all the messy interop or launching a web browser locally.
Simple solution: move to OVH. Although they don't have servers in SE Asia, perhaps 100% uptime is more important than shaving 100ms off the ping time. (As far as I can tell they don't have real-time audio or video anyway).
So don't use Pocket. The web browser itself, including its integration with Pocket's public API, is all open source.
Top commenter on that article:

First of all... If you're getting paged on disk alerts at 3 in the morning,
you're doing it wrong. Write a script that checks every file system and
makes sure that X amount of free space is always present, adding free space
as-needed, and emailing you on the backend during business hours whenever
the volume group is nearing depletion.

I'm sorry, but no -- I'm not going to automate adding more disk to a VM, extending a volume group, and growing a filesystem. Not now, not ever. No way in hell.

That needs to be done by a human after a backup has been tested and writes have been quiesced.

This is what grown-ups do. Storage is cheap. Downtime is not.

Then I don't want to grow up like you. Have fun recovering your corrupted filesystem.
I'm going to suggest why Apple are successful at phones:

1) Timing/Being First (remeber before apple when everything had a hardware keyboard?)

2) Branding and Advertising

3) Product Hardware (features are all just right - camera, battery, performance, screen etc.)

4) iOS + App Store (no-one wants to change their apps)

5) New features first (consistently first with new features - iphone, retina, gorilla glass, siri, touch id)

6) Android + whatever seems inferior (and largely is)

7) They charge lots more money

8) They have fewer products and so can drive down the cost of manufacturing.

9) They are run by smarter people not marketing departments.

10) They do all of the above TOGETHER and all of the above support each other. If they start missing one the others start to be less desirable/possible too.
Q: "... why aren't you using youtube-dl?"

A: "holy crap that is convuluted"

I do not use Python nor a Javascript-enabled web browser to download video.

Both are big, convoluted, slow(!) and unnecessary.

But I do agree with using mplayer for playback.
Apart from Apple, the other company that was doing well at capturing profit from Android phones was Samsung -- e.g. this link from 2012 when the S2/S3 were selling well [1].

I believe the rise of Apple's profit share correlates with the rise of cheaper Chinese phone manufacturers like Xiaomi who operate on much thinner margins than Samsung.

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-apple-and-samsung-co...

Post-Xiaomi, a potential Samsung buyer could think about a cheaper replacement -- functionally Xiaomi is still Android, after all. Sure, an Apple owner can "go Android" too, but imho p(Samsung to Cheaper Android) > p(Apple to Android).
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Defense of Greece
> in an efficient and seamless way

Because no one has come close to pulling that off yet.
A non-technical cofounder of a tech company should (in my mind) be set on a path to being technical (whatever that means - there are always people that know more, and always people that know less).

You can spend your entire career labelling yourself as non-technical, but that is not a reflection of your skill, it's a reflection of your attitude.

Have a willingness to learn and be humble with what you do know. Stop being a something or a non-something. Just be the best you can be with every challenge that crosses your path.
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I need java support in the Browser. Have you ever tried to use it? You have to do no less then 10 clicks with lots of warnings and restart the browser in order to activate it, and that's only for one site. And you have to repeat that for every website that uses java-applets.

It's a way easier to download a binary and execute that.

It's dead for the end-user for every meaningful definition of "dead".

Also ActiveX was the MS answer to Java, not the other way round.
Sales. #1 with a bullet. At the beginning all marketing, investment, recruiting is sales.
I think you can only associate desirability with units if you hold other things equal: price, availability, etc.
Maybe before, but the S6 screams luxury IMO, and is very clearly attacking the iPhone head-on.
wow thanks for the link
If you WANT a "United State of Europe" then yes, common debt makes sence. But in that case all nations lose their sovereignty and absolutly no nation in the EU has voted on this, and not a single one would agree to this.

I, for one, am against a United States of Europe and theirfore Im against common debt.

If we want to attempted such a project we should start by democratically asking people if they want it, not just imposing it. That EU doing this now would essentially be taking away sovereignty in a undemocratic way, and theirfore it would be tyranny.
As a consumer, I'm glad other companies aren't extracting as much profit this way. I'm quite happy with my Moto G which I got for a small fraction of what I would have paid for an iPhone, and it's just as good for my use.
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The way I'm seeing this is that "yes, Greece can pay", they just voted not to.

If one looks at it that way, the whole argument about "lenders chose to lend to them, taking risk that they might not be able to pay, therefore they are to blame as well", falls wayside. This is because the risk they assumed to be taking was one of Greece "not being able to pay", not Greece choosing to not honour the deal.

Tl;dr: There is a difference between the risk of not being able to pay, and the risk of choosing to default/not pay at all.
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Along the same lines - how hard would it be to let Electron create more native widgets instead of just Window, Menu and BrowserWindow.
Useful indeed. But it won't help in cases like this one where the problem was that a process was consuming disk at a prodigious rate.
>A significant portion of the web using community (including myself) stopped using flash 6-12 months ago

That seems unlikely. Maybe HN users, but that's not really representative of web users overall
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If they can reform their politcal system and people belife it to be sound, they should get money again.
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The elephant in the room can not be that big since it could enter through the door. The EU project is nothing like US. This is the XIX, with all the economical and political complications. And we're talking about a bunch of very different countries and cultures. You don't just throw them together in a bowl and stir. USofE is a solution to a problem created by a solution that was not needed in the first place. It was an ideal. It still is. The ideal of a few that got to be shared by more and more people. But not by everyone, not with any cost.
That average price includes phones of low specs and high specs, while Apple only does high(ish) spec. The Samsung Galaxy is similarly priced to the iPhone.

There is plenty of price premium built in there though, that's for sure.
Likely something in I/O. Obviously this would probably be much more difficult to exploit, but the potential is there.
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Security patches don't count.
Java, C#, JavaScript, and maybe Python are probably the best chance of steady work, since they are so ubiquitous. C or C++ for some domains, like embedded systems, drivers, and other heavy-duty systems work.

Learning the more esoteric stuff can be fun and can teach some interesting approaches to programming, but they are niche. Maybe more highly-paid jobs, but the availability is orders of magnitude lower than the more widely-used languages.

Not knowing anything else about you than that you are from India, and just going on the experiences I have had working with some Indian subcontractors, doing some Rosetta Stone English would probably be a worthwhile investment. It's mostly the tempo that seems to confuddle Americans.
Yes, and many people don't think of it as native for that reason.
I had heard not to use regular water, however the Apple support link you provided stated it is safe. Thank you!
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You should report any child porn to the CyberTipline, run by NCMEC:
https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm

NCMEC has protocols around how to report the images/video, and how to delete it on your end.

I would highly recommend against calling the FBI. You should work with NCMEC, as they have experience working with this stuff and their CyberTipline is one of the major ways that Congress has mandated that online service providers should report this stuff. Plus talking to law enforcement employed by the federal government has a host of risks associated with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
One of those crufty little shops is ADP, one of the biggest payroll processors around. I hate that I have to use their applet crapstack, but it's not so simple to just turn it off.
Talking about UX studies here probably isn't relevant as the issue here is very much about inclusion of a closed source 3rd party data collection service included by default to an open source browser provided by a non-profit with a mission to protect users from, among other things, that very thing.

With that said, much of the UX research you are talking about deals with a users first use of a program. The entire program not the addition of one additional feature over time. Also, the more relevant research is that many, many users just click "no" unless they are lead to believe they will lose functionality they currently have. If we were to actually follow the current UX trends from research pocket(or pretty much any features) would never get added to Firefox at all past it's core use of browsing the web.
Why you should pity the Greeks (the real reason)
This is a fascinating product - I wrote about it a while ago over at http://www.strangecompany.org/will-your-next-cameraperson-be...

I'd love to get hold of one to do a practical test, actually... It strikes me as a much more immediately usable technology than the follow-drones, because the latter just look like they're certain to run into trees, and that's not a problem a tripod has.
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No cameraman? No problem

30 minutes later,

No camera, problem.
Socially liberal young Greeks are the main supporters of Syriza.

[ source : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18056677 ]
Bad loans very much created the situation.

But not loans to governments, but loans to individuals, industry and finance.

What then happened was that the crash of '07-08 came and spooked the private banks issuing those loans. Only then did the various governments step in and underwrite the bad loans to effectively bail out the private banking system.

This, along with the number of companies etc that shut down, has put a massive economic burden on said governments.

Thing is that before the euro, Greece could have depreciated its currency to make its exports cheaper. But with the euro the currency is set to the export situation of Germany.
I agree, but the comment I responded to suggested they wouldn't do that, they'd get loans again despite not reforming, and this crisis would happen again.

It seems to me that if anyone loans money again to an unreformed Greece, they've accepted that risk.
Unfortunately, I have no idea if it is a viable commercial venture or not.

If I wanted to research such a thing, I'd be keen to reach out to sellers on Atlassian Marketplace in a non-competing plug-in space to find out.

It would be great if anybody who sells on the Marketplace would comment here.
> It's dead for the end-user for every meaningful definition of "dead".

Unfortunately not, there are MANY institutions that still rely on Java Applets.
The impression I've gotten from various maps is that Croydon is fairly high-crime. To what degree is this really true?
As I understand it, there's no requirement to review content before submission. My understanding is that once someone has flagged or reported it to you, you're mandated to report it.
The situation would have been worse if we hadn't, by the end of last year Greece was only paying 3% of GDP to service its debts, private banks would have wanted much more.
You can't. Plenty of expensive software runs a Java UI, browser hosted. Though, they often need older JVM versions as they don't run with the latest update.

I don't think Java is enabled by default in any install, is it? So what's the risk?
I have a seen a decent answer for this question when people talk about 'immutable' hosts.
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What benefit is there, really, to Twitter or Linkedin to allow other people to leverage their resources for free?
You could bring this to a wider audience by integrating it with DuckDuckGo. You can arrange for DDG to send appropriate queries to your service with Spice [0].

If you don't want to handle the traffic, you can program an instant answer that runs on the DDG servers. Right now they have separate modules for time zone conversion [1], unit conversion [2] and uptime calculation [3]. Durat.io appears to hit a much wider set of use cases.

[0] https://duck.co/duckduckhack/spice_overview
[1] https://duck.co/ia/view/timezone_converter
[2] https://duck.co/ia/view/conversions
[3] https://duck.co/ia/view/uptime
I'm not sure if I am meant to be "people", but I certaintly don't think that design is superificial, but rather I think Linode is designed fine, and just works, and doesn't really need changes.
You are right, exept when you say that the EU needs to make itself more like the US.

If people actually want that, then we might want to do so. However not a single country will vote for this. So if you don't want to force it one people, then this will not work.
In the ham radio community, they have days to practice sending messages to other hams. Perhaps we should have something similar?
I thought Samsung signed a deal with MS to licence the patents infringed by Android. Something in the region of $10 per handset.

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/240738/microsoft_signs_androi...
Of course. Because at the high end phone where the high margins are, the case for non ios device is weaker.

I prefer Androids for 2 reasons:

1. Unlocked bootloader
2. Root
3. Screen size

But the fragmentation of the ecosystem since 2.2 still hurts (and seems like 4.2 is the new gingerbread)
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1) No.
2) Yes.
3) Battery life is not "just right" Ask ... anyone.

... this is boring...

9) Wait, what? Did you really just say that?
Yes, that's way I said "end-user". If you don't know what java is, this does not affect you.
But roymurdock's point about Android not really being a direct competitor to iPhone is pretty much true. It is EXTREMELY rare, outside of the tech/developer set, for someone who has an iPhone to consider switching to Android, especially once they have a decent app investment.
Sales. I think the non-technical founders should understand tech well enough in a general sense (what is a client, what is a server, roughly what happens where). But the value add should come from sales.
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I would still argue that Android does not compete directly with IOS. People who are purchasing the iPhone are buying into more than just a phone: they are buying into the Apple lifestyle and joining the iPhone/Macbook/Apple Store experience.

People who are purchasing the S6 aren't buying into any lifestyle as far as I can tell. Maybe they'll share a common bond with some other S6 users, but I wouldn't call the Samsung ecosystem (what is the Samsung experience even?) luxurious. It takes more than just one product to build luxury and desirability.
I agree. The most important thing is to make the RULES clear for the future. But eurocrats don't seem to understand this.
You can't have your cake and eat it to. For the 20% (guess) of "young Greeks" that are getting the raw end of a stick because they didn't vote for the government/disagree with the borrowing, there are probably > 20% of Greeks that did vote for the government, and/or did agree with the unsustainable borrowing.

Or are we going to single out individuals that are responsible and saddle them with billions of debt? The alternative in this scenario to democratically-shared blame is ludicrous. Blame/consequences can't just magically disappear at this point.

Look, don't get me wrong, I'm all for politicians being accountable for their actions. As a freedom minded (Libertarian/Anarcho-capitalist), I think a simple act/rule such as that would put us straight down a path to true freedom from government. But this crisis/situation is not one of those times where I'd advocate such a course.
It raises a bunch of red flags to hiring managers myself. In every job there are parts that are somewhere between mind-numbing and straight out boring, but that doesn't mean they don't need to get done. If you're leaving jobs after a short time because you're bored, that makes people think you're lacking the stamina that's necessary to be successful longer term.

I personally have a decade on my resume where I changed jobs quite frequently. Most of them were contract or consulting work so by the very nature of them, they were short term. Some people take issue with that, others note the fact that I had no downtime between contracts and choose to ignore the frequent changes.

I don't mind junior candidates who change jobs a few times early in their careers as I see that as them getting their bearings, but once people figured out what they want to do, I expect job tenures to lengthen or at least expect people to have a good explanation as to why they kept moving on.

You prefer to do short term consulting work over long term jobs? Fine with me. You joined a bunch of startups that ran out of money after a year? OK.
> An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment

But the huge, smug grin on her face was probably telling...

I tend to have Apple devices nowadays but I have to say this is a bit concerning. One would hope that there's enough money to go around to encourage innovation and competition. If it stays this dominant for one vendor, it surely will cause things to stagnate.
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It's a good product until your camera weights more than 1kg...
From the FAQs:

Does SOLOSHOT2 work indoors?

Not yet. SOLOSHOT is currently an outdoor only product due to some of the technologies involved.

Anybody know why this is the case?
There's a typo in the CVE number. It's: CVE-2012-0158

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0...

...and how is this not a Windows vulnerability, and instead Java?
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Talking about UX studies here probably isn't relevant

Of course it is, if the question is why it was bundled by default, rather than leaving it in the add-on store.

Also, the more relevant research is that many, many users just click "no" unless they are lead to believe they will lose functionality they currently have.

That sounds like a strong argument in favor.
But 2007 was really before the whole app ecosystem took off. For anyone who has invested a significant amount in apps, there are much higher switching costs now than there were in 2007. Plus, besides just the actual monetary costs, people USE their smartphones MUCH MUCH more than in 2007, so there is a much greater cost in just having to learn a different OS.
I'm not the person who posted that comment, but let's take a step back. I have scripts which do this for me. However, I also have automation that takes back ups of the systems, restores the systems on other virtual hosts, and verifies that the restores are up and running properly. In fact if you can script one, you can generally script all of those scenarios.

For expanding database volumes, for example, I have a system which first monitors the size of my current database systems. If they get too large, it will create a new virtual which is bigger, restores a current backup of the running system to it, verify that, put it into rotation, make sure that all current data is replicated, then remove the old system.

Frankly, doing this by hand would be highly error prone and dangerous. I say, script everything.
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I can see this functionality being integrated into some cameras.
The people creating the EU were not mistaken that the only way to create security benefits was by creating the EU. They instead were well acquainted with a popular theory that said trade and economic interdependence reduces the risk of war. The architects of the EU wanted to increase this interdependence not for economic gain but to tie together the economies of Europe so closely that war would be next to impossible.
Lets not confuse a 2D game using 3D models with one that allow free(-ish) movement in 3D space.

Starfox was a rail shooter that used 3D models rather than scaled sprites.

the more complicated stuff came with third person shooters and similar. Where you either had fixed cameras, thus having the controls shift between "cuts", or the camera on its own control (tap your head and rub your tummy style).
Not sure this would cover my requirement.