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You've got it backwards. We as Muslims believe that Islam comes first and is our main identity. Nation, region, and race come second. I'm Muslim first, then Tunisian, then Arab.

I never said I'm going to mix circuit design with Islam. I will follow Islam, and I will make it my goal to further Islam and its status through my contributions to whatever field I'm working in.
depending on a security exploit in order to use a device ?

Sounds like a good plan !
I would have specced the Pro version for a server. It's not much more expensive than the EVO but it's more reliable and faster.
Not exactly an unbiased source there.

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/federal-reserve-bank-owners...

The stockholders of the US Fed Reserve are private banks. The majority of the board of governors are appointed by the president of the United States. He of course appoints the leading experts in the field... the bosses of those very same private banks.

The Fed exists because Congress created it, but it doesn’t enact policy measures with any Congressional or Presidential approval.
In Spain, the work law (Estatuto de los trabajadores) specifies a minimum of 30 natural days or 22 working days of vacation days so it is normal that you take them.
I'm confused. What do you mean $50,000 in and out of the country? Firms and individuals regularly move a lot more both in and out. (Is such behavior only quasi-legal?)
Well, you can't give the user a taste of what the full feature set is like when you have an inapp purchase.

What dev want is a way to have a full featured app that expires after a certain amount of time, not a limited version that enables all features over a paywall.
That's neat, but oughtn't the browser be respecting the proxy settings by default? If tags like <img> added an "ignoreproxy" attribute, folks would be rightfully upset, wouldn't they? So why should data channels be any different? (Video/audio is fine as the user is notified first.)
I am fully aware of that. The guy asked a question about a specific time period, and I tried to answer it.

Islam is not at all like Christianity when it comes to science. That's why Muslims were way ahead at their peak. For example, most philosophical works produced my Muslim scholars were based on that of the ancient Greeks, who were polytheists.

Do you actually think it would make sense to reject someone else's work or not work with people because of a difference of belief?
I find that software developers often try their best to stay at stage 1 by dismissing "weird" issues reported by users if they are inconvenient.
And still Germany and France are the most productive countries in the world: http://blog.pgi.com/2014/07/winding-work-week-infographic/
From https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pur...

> Apps containing content or services that expire after a limited time will be rejected, except for specific approved content (e.g. films, television programs, music, books)
What an awesome law! Thanks for the link.
Try decaf beans, if they're available in your local market (I buy them prepackaged in the supermarket here in the Netherlands). Grind them just before making the coffee and you won't taste the difference with 'real' coffee.
Are you accusing computer scientists of not being able to apply scientific methods? I'm not sure, and I don't want to setup a strawman. Of course there would have to be hypotheses, and they would be tested. Scientific methods are not exclusive to biology. In the study or citizen study I imagine here, a questionnaire would include questions like yours.

Crunching the numbers is the means to refute them, then. I don't know what you think CS folks are doing all day?
I think you're right that the appification of computers will have a significant effect on tinkers. I contest that most users never cared about what's going on under the hood, the appliance either works or it doesn't.

Even as a web developer, it boggles the mind to understand why browser context menus have "View Source" on by default, rather than a developer mode switch. This sort of stuff hits me hard. Like dead pause/break keys on laptops, wireless switches on the chassis. Nobody is actually paying attention to what they're building.
The "7-day trial period" makes me assume they have indeed passed muster, as that is the minimum-length content subscription period:

> Content subscriptions using IAP must last a minimum of 7 days and be available to the user from all of their iOS devices
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As a iOS/Mac developer for the last five years, I have seen steady decline in sales, developer quality and customer quality. Turn towards low level consumer markets that took place few years ago can't be mitigated with any amount of trickery to boost sales. Trials are needed but they won't fix the problem. Problem is that we all inflated the market way beyond its capacity and such bubble can't stay inflated for long.

I have some six Mac apps in MAS and I consider that number too high -- some of them will have to go. On the other hand any other Asian based developer has 70+ apps, all at $0.99 and not worth the cost of the web page they are on. Apple loves to brag about number of apps in any of the stores but in order to do so they let any crappy app in as long as it does not break terribly. That drives normal customers away, then sales drive normal developers away.

I don't see any solution, it is downwards spiral, unless Apple enforces 'quality police' to leave low quality apps away from App Store. And that won't happen.
Note that this is looking at 10-30 years into the future (so this might be RPi v30). Most low volume (< 1k units) hardware products are expensive due to development costs. When you need to hire 10 engineers to make a computer, but only have 100 customers, your customers foot the bill.
i fail to see how that's useful except for sites that _have_ a CDN cache. And also, couldn't the firewall block those paths to the CDN cache directly (seeing as they do deep packet inspection) just as easily?
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Ben Thompson at Stratachery has several posts on sustainable businesses on the app store, including one on F2P impact on app store revenues and mobile ads, linked in the article. In another post, he notes the historical tension between Apple and ISVs, https://stratechery.com/2013/why-doesnt-apple-enable-sustain...

"… Jobs’ statement was completely driven by Apple’s desperate state and the fact that Apple’s potential users cared more about Photoshop and Office than they did the Mac. For Jobs especially, it must have been humiliating … that Boston keynote was at the root of Jobs’ opposition to any 3rd-party apps on the iPhone, much less app store policies that enable sustainable businesses. Never again would Apple be held hostage to an app that was bigger than Apple."

Anyone who has invested in buying iOS apps knows the challenge of app discovery. The time to find an app costs much more than the purchase price of the app. But even worse is the short lifespan of well-maintained apps, as developers are unable to build sustainable businesses. We are left with apps from very small dev teams or from large dev teams that monetize elsewhere.
Ask HN: How do you select your ringtone?
Or select one from the default sounds?
Is there any study on this which tracked if response to a call depends somewhat on the sound or vibration of the phone?
You're basically just arguing that there's too much competition. Unless you have a truly differentiated product you should expect prices to tend to zero.
Can someone help explain how this isn't anti-competitive?

I want to use and enjoy Sling.com and Netflix, yet doing so might cause me to go over my monthly data cap and in turn be costly. Yet, my Internet provider who controls the pipes and the arbitrary cap it has placed on me is offering a OTT type service that doesn't count against my cap; won't be costly to me.

How is that not anti-competitive?

It's a bit amazing that they are trying to pull this when no one likes them and this makes them look even worse!
What a cluster.. see kay. IANAL, and find the above description of what makes a good lawyer as repulsive as it is accurate.

It's a self-fulfilling system, too, thanks to the learning of case law. Law propagates more law. This is why we have legalese. This is why we can't have nice things!
Not really. Competition is good and I don't mind competing with any company that has not-crappy-app to sell. I am arguing about general quality of the apps in the store: if 95% of them are bad there is no motive for normal paying users to even visit the store. That's something enforced (or not) by app store owner, Apple in this case.
Browsers and the web were never http-only.
Legacy aint gonna maintain itself ;)
I think subscription-based apps have always been able to offer a free trial period, but you cannot require a one-time paid upgrade to the full version after X days.
Agreed, this is also degenerating on Amazon with some consumer products, low-cost clones and paid reviews. The cost of searching/discovery becomes too high and an entire category becomes unusable for purchase.
The study is done by country (geography), not by race. From the article:

"According to the study, South Korea and Japan lead the legions of overworked...On the other side of the globe, workers in Finland, France, Germany and Spain are all given 30 days of vacation each year"
Reminded me of "8-Bit Philosophy": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLghL9V9QTN0jve4SE0fs3...
Just a note, it didn't seem to load the page at all until I disabled my adblocker (uBlock) in Chrome.
Yes, but they have created an arbitrary cap that they will market to consumers and then turn around and market streamTV to those now weary consumers.

As a previous Comcast phone rep I can see them pushing both of the above hard. Which is shockingly and grossly anti-competitive.

They are terrible and I can't imagine this standing!
Here's a quick history of the evolution of the Groupon model.

Groupon started out as one deal a day. We had a massive waiting list from merchants - 9 months, at one point.

With so much merchant demand and Groupon only running one deal a day, clones started to appear. Instead of waiting to be featured on Groupon, merchants ran with the clones.

Most customers didn't really care whether they bought from Groupon or its clones. So we realized what in effect was happening was that the model was moving to a marketplace... just one that was distributed across multiple sites.

We decided if the inventory was going to exist, it would be better on Groupon than spread across a zillion clones, so we moved to a marketplace model.

In other words it was mostly competition in a fairly commoditized space, and not scalability issues, that drove us to the marketplace.

That's not to say that scalability wouldn't have been a challenge with a daily deal model, but there are things you can do. A lot of the needs in the space actually balance out nicely. Some merchants want 20k customers, others want 20. Most merchants prefer new customers, some are indifferent. Both customers and merchants want category diversity so Groupon remains interesting and non-cannibalistic. In theory you can get all those things with smart segmentation and personalization. We experimented with that in the transition to marketplace but ultimately went ahead with moving to the "many deals" (which in the short term, is exactly what customers want) to stay ahead in the brutal competition for marketshare. Hard to say whether I'd do that part differently today... if we'd been less focused on maintaining marketshare NYTimes might have just written the obituary for Groupon instead of Livingsocial.
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"Crappy apps" is your characterization but I suspect is a red herring. In fact most of the developers I follow who complain about the App Stores seem to point to everything except the real reason, that there's more competition than there ever was before the App Stores existed.
DRM circumvention and the tools to do so are in general illegal. In various countries there are exemptions for non-copyright-infringing purposes. Jailbreaking tablets was illegal in the US before 2015, software helping with jailbreaking may still be illegal and given the climate around DRM and such, I wouldn't count on jailbreaking to remain a legal possibility in the future.

Plus jailbreaking iOS devices really is hard and exposes you to risks such as bricking your device or mallware. You can also lose your warranty, because Apple says so.
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Volume != competition, if users cannot even tell the difference between apples and oranges without a prohibitive investment of time in off-appstore research.
If you look at your cable contract though that's not what you're paying for. You're paying to be part of Comcast's network in your area, which happens to be connected to other networks.

Same goes with speed, they aren't promising you 50mbps download from the internet, they're promising you that speed connection to their network.
Oh I get it, "If you try to kill me, you'll have to kill your friends first, or just let me in, your choice."
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That is a whole 'nother level of Nope.

The closest I've come to that is tinkering around with random old hardware: a specific ISA (PnP) sound card and a specific 4GB IDE HDD I have here hate each other and if both are in the same system, when Linux sends the 'IDENTIFY' IDE command, it times out and never gets a response. This "works" across two different motherboards.

Thankfully I was just messing around, I knew the system I was using had used up 7 or 8 of its 9 lives and I was being careful, and I only changed one or two pieces of system state at a time so I could easily rollback (as nonsensical as "okay let's try removing the soundcard" is :P).

If anyone wants to know, model info shouldn't be too hard to locate, and pix would be fun to grab, I'd just have to go find all the parts.
I don't understand the concerns about the iPad crushing desktop computing, or iOS eating OS X. The tablet market is shrinking, and Macs are still growing. Apple is fighting an uphill battle with the iPad Pro.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-q4-earnings-2015-10?IR=...
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Let me add

* gcc dies with internal compiler error when you try to compile with debug symbols.
So your answer is to search your vocabulary for a proper term that isn't a "nounified-verb"?

I guess I do that anyway, since it feels cleaner, though just as often there isn't one, or it's already taken (like [Input|Output]Stream in my example), and I can't say I really feel that bad about nounifying a verb.

In fact, when you nounify a verb (in other words: turn a function into an object) you can add so much to it. For instance, you could track how long it takes to execute, you can replace some of its constituent components (e.g. GOF Strategy Pattern), you could tune parameters that aren't part of its computational input (something like buffer size, or enabling caching, etc)... these are all things that would otherwise have to be communicated through a lengthy list of parameters, and turning them into object state frees up your actual method signature for the parameters that really matter.
Well "internet usage" is a limited resource, you need better/more equipment to support more usage.

"Unlimited Internet" was always a bit of a misnomer, at least now they're being honest about it
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One can simply blame it on supply but it's looking more like global trade just snapped.

November is actually a time for typical seasonal strength for freight and thus global trade around the world. This divergence from seasonality has only occurred at this scale once before, in 2008.

Supply has indeed surged, but only due to mal-investment in building ships for the renaissance of global trade, which never happened, as growth in global trade has been slowing down for some time: http://www.acting-man.com/?p=41518
> Censors tend to leave content delivery networks alone because their servers host many different sites, most of which they don’t want to block, says Houmansadr.

That has changed since last year. Many CDNs are now indeed blocked, or at least interfered with by the GFW within China.
As a developer I am a little scared from the shift of value from the software to the data...

On the other hand I don't see much success of data company outside the adtech space, is data only valuable for advertising ?

The company that use data not from ads are very few, I can think only at Palatir, which analyzes data don't own it, Netflix and Spotify, whose success I think is more related to the boom of the internet infrastructure than their recommendation engine, and maybe Amazon, which arguably sell at the lowest price on the internet.

Are there company who are extracting direct values from data ?
Haha, these multi-hundred-thousand-line-source-code SSD firmwares need to do something. In particular they detect popular filesystems and try to optimize some operations (specifically if filesystem is recoverable by check disk after crash, it's considered to be acceptable optimization; i.e. it's possible to delay actual commit of free block info for example). Seems like detection glitched on the blocks that contained data related to being domain controller.
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I have no idea how to claim a refund for a shitty app, so it certainly fails my bar for straightforward.
Can confirm, get seven holidays.

On the bright side, I'm a shift worker, so I get to take holidays whenever I want, no questions asked. It's bundled in with my PTO, except it doesn't roll over if I don't use it. As a result, your first seven days of PTO are "holidays."
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You can get refunds for iOS as well. You just need iTunes to do it. Do a Google search for "ios refund".
I suspect you are not looking at the app store. I just opened Mac App Store and found random 'developer' with 80+ apps. One app is 'add border around image'. Other app is 'crop image'. Third app is 'convert image (to jpg/png)'. And so on, 80+ of them.

They are not apps by any definition. They are two lines of code each, doing simplest possible job at $0.99 cost. They don't add anything to the App Store apart from making all the other apps less visible. It is not competition by any definition. Their only real effect is that potential customer can safely assume all the other apps in the App Store are same unusable crap.

I would never confuse competition with noise. This 95% of apps are pure noise, making App Store less usable, driving customers then developers away. Their only value from Apple point of view is 'keynote value' that 'we have zillion apps in the app store'.
Ask HN: As a fresh graduate, where should I go? Corporate or startup?
I am currently doing my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and is almost completing my studies.

So I have been mulling over the question above, which is to join a corporate or a startup as my first job. Will it be better to join a startup as it provides more learning opportunities? Or a corporate which might provide more prestige on my resume. My goal is to hopefully have my own startup one day.

So I wish to hear from you guys. What would you advice?
On FreeBSD it is the other way around: /dev/random will never block once seeded. /dev/urandom as a symlink will give the same behavior.

I haven't tried OS X, but given that it also uses a PRNG (Yarrow) for /dev/random, I would expect it to behave similarly. Are you able to reproduce the described behavior?
Sure it can. It may not be a startup with a billion dollar valuation, but not every company has to be.

You could probably make a pretty good living off something like that, especially if you can scale it to several local areas.
> For whatever reason nobody wants to write code that does stuff on the devices.

Few business models can afford a 30% tax. If you monetize externally to the device, this tax can be avoided.

In addition, on-device computation generates less data for tracking, surveillance analytics and "machine learning".

If Apple cared about privacy and app innovation, they would unbundle the 30% app tax into optional developer services+fees that totaled 30%. This would support a wider range of business models.
At the programming level, we're trading constraints.

The original constraint was fitting machine code into RAM. The new constraint is finding quirks of the standard and/or implementations which allow new and interesting effects, possibly on more than one version of a given browser and/or on more than one kind of browser.

The fact the original constraint doesn't exist here is secondary to the fact there are some constraints in play. We can go back and forth on which constraints are more limiting, and there are competitions about who can do the most in the least Javascript (for example), but as far as I'm concerned, the essential spirit remains.
http://time.com/3553242/microsoft-monopoly/

This is worth a read, but tldr a judge ordered the split, that was rejected on appeal and the doj settlement was far less harsh.
(Certain) fats yes.. but sugar? I can't imagine that it's helpful in any way.
Writing material wasn't as easy to come by back then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest

Quite a bit of ancient writings survived in that form.
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"This line sums it up."

How so? We didn't wait until people started leaving Punta Arenas and other cities, because of ozone depletion, before we banned CFCs.

"Why even with the future ocean rises they might not be affected or can just work around it"

And people can just work around the higher UV level by wearing sunblock or garments with better sun protection, or walking around with umbrellas.

In any case, your NatGeo link pointed out how even if rising sea levels aren't an issue, ocean acidification, shifting rainfall, and more severe storms are still the expected consequences of a changed climate:

> Besides the damage inflicted by sea-level rise itself—coastal erosion, surface flooding, and saltwater intrusion into soil and groundwater—they will suffer from increasingly frequent and severe weather extremes (droughts and cyclones) and die-offs of their coral reefs through ocean warming and acidification, leading to potential collapse of marine ecosystems that provide food and livelihoods for island dwellers.

> ... As Kench sees it, Pacific leaders should get off their soapboxes and invest their energy in thinking strategically about how they'll confront the environmental changes taking place, changes that are causing food security issues and water shortages.

and this Hakai article brings up two of those points (more severe storms, and decreasing rainfall).

So, great. "Sinking" might not be a problem. What about the other expected problems?
> Like the people who knew Smalltalk in the 90s and were poised to take software engineering to the next level but got stomped on by Java, say.

Side-tidbit: considering the way you said that it sounds like you might already know this, but some guys working on a variant of Smalltalk called Strongtalk were temporarily whisked off of that project and commissioned by Sun to write Java.

I understand that full compiler and VM source are now under the BSD license. It was last poked in '06. It probably needs cleaning up.
It's so strange when otherwise-rigorous research/reporting makes generalizations about "Asians", which is an incredibly diverse continent that is not defined by Japan, China, and South Korea.

It's okay to be more specific - the data and conclusions would still be interesting even if they weren't trying to claim some magical cultural link among Saudi Arabia, Russia, Mongola, Singaport, Bangladesh, etc...