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Do you want a global monopoly? Because this is how you get a monopoly.

Expect a taxi market similar to the current US ISP market soon.
Fortunately we seem to be moving away from that now-days :)

And I have talked with our guys and I can sort of see it from their view-point. from their point of view it often is the hunt for the last `checkbox`, the last necessary tick somewhere on the customers requirements page.

In their mind it often seems as a simple calculation, on one hand potentially so much $/year from big-corp vs 2xManxMonth to get a new feature over the line? No brainer.

An I am struggling to somehow explain that you need to add much more to those two developer months, because with every feature there are bugs and regressions and customer tickets, e.t.c. and suddenly it takes one developer in perpetuity.
> I know what the textbook says; I'm talking about the political realities of pursuing a policy that would cause a precipitous value in people's homes.

The political reality is that the Fed has fairly consistently -- and reasonably predictably by experts looking at the same signals that the Fed overtly claims to watch -- made rate decisions as one would expect considering the combination of employment-related and inflation-related considerations they consider under the "textbook" case. So, conspiracy theories about home prices are unnecessary.

> True, the Fed is nominally Independent, and Immune to Political Influences, not in practice it's not.

I won't argue that the Fed is someone subject to political influences, OTOH, those strongly militate both for working to promote employment and working to constrain inflation, which are also the Feds overt mandates.

> The bankers that contribute to its policies also have to worry about mortgages going underwater from a return to historically normal rates.

After the 2009 crisis, the wave of defaults that occurred then, and the tighter lending policies that banks have taken since, there's not a huge risk there.
I don't understand why people think this is a huge friction point. Installing apps is comfortable, familiar, and easy for people. By comparison, finding a mobile web application in the browser on a phone has significantly more friction.
> technology was not a significant factor in the economy of the City of San Francisco at that time

So was the 80's tech boom in Silicon Valley limited to the valley proper?
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That last parenthetical bit really hit home for me. My first 'real' job was at a 'startup' exactly like that. The product, and its market, was really just about good enough for a small lifestyle business, but in lots of other ways we acted as if we were destined for the Fortune 500.
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Your definition of "device functionality" is pretty different from mine then - consider local storage on a device. Many enterprise applications can end up storing massive amounts of data on devices; that data often needs to be encrypted. Not gonna fly with a web app.

Web apps don't support push notifications on devices. Again, a hugely important example of extremely common device functionality.

Web apps require constant connectivity. Device goes into a tunnel, app quickly stops working. Or even more realistic, user drives 20km to the middle of nowhere, has no cell service, but still needs to do their job without worrying about web site connectivity.

And those are just the extremely common use cases. Again, I'm not hating on mobile-optimized web. There are many use cases where it makes perfect sense. But you really can't make a blanket statement like "So for a majority of native apps a web app makes more sense"; it's just not the case.
Has he looked at mixed tech like React? Get web tech with native controls!
If we had started with a binary HTML format to start with, many of the progressive enhancements that made the web possible could not have happened.
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This is also what I took from the article. Everything they're wanting to accomplish is certainly possible, but instead of just knowing the ins and outs of each platform, you have to know the ins and outs of each browser AND how each can affect the other browsers.

Beyond this, it is clear to me when an iOS-minded developer creates a web app that ends up on Android. Each have their own specific styles, and this gets lost with web apps.
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And the alternative would be what? Like the US, everyone working 60h work weeks and still earning not more than unemployment benefits? (looking at Walmart, Uber, etc... yup)
And simple apps are absolutely trivial to build native.
Potentially, although I think that there are cases when it's fine. For example when I lived in San Francisco, my LTE speeds were insanely fast so it wasn't as big of a deal. Now that I'm in Pittsburgh, the LTE speeds here aren't as good so mobile web isn't as good.

Also on a desktop or laptop where you've got a good Wi-Fi connection most websites are really good. That being said, I still things like Tweetbot, Flume, and Airmail over twitter.com, instagram.com or gmail.com.
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Very cherry picked data. +crime seems to be supressed by Google, won't autocomplete for other First Name Last Name +crime searches.

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> This is just plain incorrect.

Did you somehow manage to read my comment and interpret it as "Sikuli scripts are written in java"? Because that's not at all what I said (or meant) :P

Sikuli itself was (and still is) written in java - which I find a pain to work with when I want to modify the internals of the library; and then scripts are written in jython, which means I don't have access to my cpython-specific tools and extensions.
Link(s)?

And why is 10,000 year storage not good enough for us to already be doing it?
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Why does people think that software is beyond the law?

The secret services think that reading electronic communications is ok when the physical counterpart was not.

A company thinks that because they offer their services using and app they are beyond regulations, permits and other laws.

No, laws still should apply in the virtual world. And apps and the Internet have real world consequences. It's a shame that judges often are so slow to apply the law in this cases. And that so often they miss the point.

Now Uber should just do what any bricks and mortar business needs to do and get a license, operate inside the boundaries of the law and compete with taxis in a fair way to bring people good services.
Implicit in this "life after" plan is that things are going okay in San Francisco right now, which is a pretty interesting conclusion to come to.
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^His campaign videos sure had some nice things to say about her in 2008
sass+bourbon.io (or similar combos like sass+compass) can help a TON with keep front-end dev costs down.

Some apps do benefit a lot being native, but as others point out you throw in the middleman app-store model instead of just dealing with the browser, and keeping your UI simple, clean, efficient and of-course usable.
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This is an utterly stupid comment. If you read an article that slammed MongoDB's eventual consistency and encouraged people to use mysql instead would you call it a "mysql pump?

This is also not the first time someone has smacked down ZCash for being ill-conceived and dangerous: https://blog.okturtles.com/2016/03/the-zcash-catch/
> Theoretically if all the customers stood up and boycotted DRM we could have an effect, but in practice that would mean not being able to see the latest premium content for some period of time. Are people really going to give up their Game of Thrones to strong arm the industry?

Ordinary people aren't organized. They won't suddenly all stand up and sign some kind of petition. What they're going to do -- what they are doing -- is that when DRM sucks, they go watch cat videos or argue with people on the internet instead of watching your content, and that money disappears out of your pocket.
It's almost certainly correct that they use the Keychain for Touch ID. But I'd hedge that if they were bent on being insecure, they could use a different Touch ID mode that just returns a boolean. Does anyone know whether app review examines which mode they choose?
This article demonstrates better what this could be used for:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/heres-an-actual-3d-indoor-m...
> Yes, you can build 2007 websites much better now. They will be consistent across platforms and perform great.

There you have it. Using bleeding edge features will create a lot of problems. First you need to figure out what type of users you want to target, PC users with 24 inch monitors and keyboard? Or 12 year olds with iPads? But still, for your software to really work across as many units as possible, and continue to work for years, you have to look what existed 5-10 years ago, and only use those features that are still standard.

I have a mobile phone that no longer gets updates. It is HTML 5 compatible, so it should handle everything that is not bleeding edge, but still many web pages, for example medium.com does not work!

I remember being a web developer ten years ago, it was your professional duty do make sure it was pixel perfect on existing GUI based browsers and even look good on the text based ones. I think web dev's today is too quick to jump on the latest and greatest.

If you take a look at the browser features that existed 5-10 years ago, it's way behind the native phone app experience! It seems browser vendors totally missed the mobile explosion, and only lately have begun to catch up! Considering how fast the web tech moves now though, the future for web dev looks bright. I think that in in 5-10 years, the mobile browser experience will be on pair or even ahead of native, at least considering dev experience and cross device/platform support.
How can they not understand it? If the consultant does his job, the software will work. Any idiot user can tell if the software actually runs or not.

People hire mechanics to fix stuff all the time, even though they don't really understand how their cars work. They do know when their cars aren't working though.

You're trying to convince me that ordinary people are utterly incapable of hiring experts to perform services for them?
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> I'm not sure if this is a kernel or filesystem issue.

It's neither. It's a common misconception. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415366 .
None of this is true. Universal links on iOS even allow the same links to work whether you have the app installed or not.
Would that we have those problems :)
They do. Google then scroll to the bottom.
Yeah but I mean that logic works in reverse too. And altruism has a couple million years head start on 'winning money' when it comes to fundamental motivators.
Option B is also good because if (in their opinion) the superior case is A, they can use the money to implement A themselves. And if A was inferior for some reason (eg, need medicine now or die before said chickens mature) then the recipient could choose an alternate path .

IMO this is why cash is the ultimate form of aid, it allows the recipient to do your "great idea" or whatever else is optimal in their case.
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You would be surprised how many people in India (and elsewhere, for that matter), have that as their online banking password.
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And for good reason. I don't want random websites burning my battery for their "oh so important" background tasks.
Right.

It's still a platform that someone has to live on and may be hard to switch off. My idea is to give the podcaster ownership of everything by allowing them to self-host.
>My suspicion is that podcasts are going to borrow from the music industry in the form of podcasts being something they give away in hopes of making money through merchandise, events, additional media such as books or subscriber-only episodes, or more likely, broadcaster access in the form of communities.

I primarily listen to podcasts from stand-up comedians, and this exactly what most of them do now, and I agree that it may be the best (or at least more realistic and palatable) option for everyone involved.

My favorite podcasts are the "comic hang" type. They're basically an hour or two of funny people being funny, and producing these podcasts seem to benefit the hosts and guests in a few possible ways:

1. As an avenue to gain fans who will attend live shows or buy albums and other merch (which are in turn promoted on the show)

2. As a platform to publicly work out new stand-up material in a conversational setting (giving us "civilians" a glimpse inside their creative process -- probably my favorite part)

3. As a direct revenue stream through donations/subscriptions/advertisments/sponsorships

I've been listening to comedy podcasts since probably 2007, and, unfortunately, I've seen more than a few take a nosedive in quality when point 3 becomes the priority.
> Even getting swiping and full page animation transitions
> has been relatively simple

This is telling. These things are FREE on native. Like no effort at all.
It is interesting that this got removed from HN's homepage. But I'm sure there is a good reason as the moderators seem to do a great job.

Edit: maybe I don't understand the ranking algorithm. I saw this at the bottom of the best first page. 15 minutes later and I can't find it in the first few pages. But only 24 votes so maybe it doesn't qualify for the secondary pages?
"Tip: While couriers will come in store to pick up the delivery, the most successful users of UberRUSH conduct curbside handoffs. By eliminating the time required for your courier to park and find the handoff spot, you can have your deliveries arrive to your users as fast as possible!"

As this is a service intended for people with no existing logistics infrastructure, this seems to be firmly in line with the uber policy of reminding everyone why rules are created in the first place...
Reading this was somewhat bothersome in that my browser (Chrome on Linux) doesn't render emoji. Is there a standard font that supports emoji that could be installed?
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PhoneGap? I thought the point was the original author didn't want to ship shit. PhoneGap apps are generally terrible. PhoneGap is the preferred solution for CIOs that want to save money but end up delivering a glitchy crap product. JavaScript isn't the catch all savior many JS people seem to think it is.

CSS and JS animations are children's toys compared to Metal on iOS. You can make a far more beautiful and smooth experience with native apps than anything ever done on PhoneGap.

You want access to a new iOS API on PhoneGap? You have to wait until it's public. If you want to upgrade your app for iOS 10? You have to wait until iOS 10 is publicly released.

Anyone using PhoneGap is almost certainly someone who is unwilling to learn Swift. Nobody actually thinks PhoneGap is better.. It's just a convenient crutch for those who are unwilling to invest the time to do it right.

If you have to ship a mobile app because of some executive vanity for a mobile app-- go ahead use PhoneGap. But if you actually want to write the best app possible, delivering a great user experience (as well as device experience,) then learn the real thing.

Also, you missed the point of the article -- obviously the problems are 'his fault.' The point is that all of those problems are more painful than simply building a great mobile app.
There's plenty of tests that are less contrived. X-rays are done as a matter of course after treating a sprain. What would really be the costs of deferring them and only doing them when pain persists days later? Lots of people would not choose to defer them vs minimal risk, but lots of people probably would.

I'm not a huge believer that health care should be a market but at the moment we at least are supposed to have some sort of market, so I'd like to see market mechanisms applied where it is sensible.
backdrop-filter tends to go in my not-very-nice-to-have bucket. It's certainly something you can live fairly comfortably without.

Service workers are more of an issue - realistically if you want to build a serious web-app for iPhone right now you're going to have to build a shim around it for notifications and offline, although that can be quite small.

If you are aiming to provide a worthwhile experience to the users who will never install your app, or need some serious selling first then you need something on the web, so you are going to have a mobile site. Building a lightweight service-worker shim around that for iPhone and providing a couple of browser-specific stylesheets ought to be less work than full native apps.
Ehhh.... These examples seem really amateurish to me. You'll run into lots of issues developing for the web, sure, it's not perfect. Especially web "apps" that need to work cross-browser. But the listed problems stem from not understanding your platform, not problems inherent to the web itself.

To make an analogy, it's like the equivalent writing a native app where input and UI rendering are handled by the same thread, and then complaining that input doesn't work during intensive operations, so javascript / the web is better for apps, and native is terrible.

It's also an unfair comparison. These statements:

> We made a bet on the web. Built a responsive site for desktop and mobile and tried to avoid the native app space (still are).

And then later

> One app for iOS, one for Android, and I got over 90% consumer coverage. I can even use a framework to share work between the two.

So originally with the web, they're trying to target Desktop Chrome, Desktop Safari, Desktop Firefox, Desktop Edge, Mobile Chrome and Mobile Safari with one codebase. Then they move to only targeting Android and iOS (native mobile only) with two separate codebases? They could have just as easily targeted mobile Chrome and mobile Safari, and shared 100% of the code.

I'm not sure what they mean by a framework to share work between the two. If they're referring to something like Xamarin, I hope they've at least tried it before assuming everything works great. They're very unstable, and you still need separate codebases for your views, typically more. Ironically, the most stable ones of these I've tried have been web-dev based frameworks.

tl;dr: "It's cheaper to make an app for 2 platforms than for 8 you don't understand."
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11866868
Women are harassed endlessly on dating apps/sites. I know lots of women who won't use them at all due to multiple bad experiences.

If Bumble wants to position itself as radically protective of a woman's experience, more power to them. Every app has to differentiate itself. If it's really problematic for men, they won't use the app.

(Semi-related: the quality of women on Bumble in my area is far better than any other app. They're smarter, have better jobs, and are a lot more likely to actually interact once a match is made.)
> Stop trying to make the browser not a browser. Users hate when you hijack expected behavior.

Another point against making web apps: users have stricter expectations about them.
Ah, after actually reading, and not only using, I understand. So, will the end user looking for a chat and collaboration tool (or alternative to Slack or IRC) only see the Vector "brand" and not Matrix?
> You just don't know if they are going to let you in.

You do know.
Samba, bash, screen and autofs all predate Linux and most of the rest were either initially developed on others unixes or at least at a time when Linux was far away from its current dominance. The idea that modern OSX relies in any material way on Linux is simply obviously false to anyone with a basic understanding of the history of UNIX.

Linux succeeded due to its compatibility with this rich ecosystem of software, not the other way around.
> Nobody is arguing these things CAN'T be done, just that
> it's too much effort on the web,

They're saying it shouldn't be done, or that it's possible and if you can't do it you're a lame developer. I didn't see it as condescending at all.
Does this means that you are ok with breaking the law if some ones offers you something convenient? Don't you care about workers rights? Should that rights be removed so you can have cheaper services?

I think that Uber app can bring awesome things. But is still operates in the real world and should not break the law. And it also should respect workers rights. One think should not exclude the other.

French law doesn't forbids Uber to operate. It just asks it to have the correct licenses like any one else.
Matrix and vector look more interesting by the week. I would really like to see the Android port on F-droid. I haven't done a tonne of research, but I believe Vector uses Google Play Services, specifically GCM. This makes it impossible for me to use on my GAPPS-less phone. It also bars it from F-droid.
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Yes. But the article paints the picture that these weren't minor font size differences.
While I can't comment on the kind of insurance your business might need, in the case of UberRUSH, if a package gets crushed in transit, UberRUSH has insurance up to $250. If the package gets crushed due to our service, we will take care of it.
I might of not been clear, but my intent with the comment was to encompass the entirety of friction points involved in getting an app installed on a user's device, from discoverability on down.
> So iOs and Android are more than 90% of the market.

98.4%
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3215217

I think it's pretty reasonable to pass on the remaining 1.6%, especially as those probably aren't your target audience anyway.
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> I was on a voice chat with a friend in Shenzhen for FIVE hours without a hiccup. Imagine how much it would cost on AT&T.

This long has been possible in Skype and other applications.
I'm a fan of that book too, and definitely provides some constructive anecdotes.

This said, it's a survey of largely succesful organisations - and focuses in the main on what people did right. This talk was about anti-patterns, that in many cases often led to unsuccessful startups (or at least put unnecessary bumps in the road).

I can completely empathize that it's hard to talk safely about other people's private failures, especially as an investor.
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> He's responsible for keeping a giant portion of the Internet up and running. Sites like Netflix, Pinterest, Reddit and Airbnb all rely on Amazon's web services.

He... uh... doesn't seem to be doing that great a job. AWS has some of the longest and highest-profile outages of any services that I've ever used. Maybe he should... not be on a boat in Hawaii??
The difference is, a property right to a single parcel of land doesn't give you market power. You don't own every similar parcel of land. It isn't a monopoly in the antitrust sense. But a patent on a device does exactly that.