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I make a regulatory compliance software. Apple refused to list my App until I removed functionality at their request. Functionality that is required for compliance.

Apple's arrogance in running their store may eventually cause it's decline.
Interesting flagging behavior :)

The #3 item on the front page has (Longest humans can live) had 44 points and was posted more than 1 hour ago. The #4 item (Typora) has 42 points and was posted more than 1 hour ago.

However, this post on the App Store is at #8 even though it has 172 points and was submitted 47 minutes ago.
I'd love to write an app client for it eventually.
Amusingly the oldest living person happens to be tied for 7th today, but as long as she makes it to tomorrow, she'll move into 6th place.
This would be the breakthrough of all breakthroughs to move the tail end of the curve.
Gandi security vulnerability: two factor authentication bypass
The flybys and panoramic views of geometrically lain forced-feeding enclosures, warehouse-scale chicken coups and plantation-scale cattle pens are certainly quite striking, both visually (and on the ground, we must imagine) in olfactory terms.

But somehow, as a means of describing this needless suffering (and the caustic arrogance on the part of the the perpetrating over-species responsible for these grotesque images), "grandeur" isn't quite the word that springs to mind.
> If these are attitudes typical of psychology, then I cannot say I consider psychology to be a proper social science.

is a proposition. He/she's not concluding psychology is not a proper social science; he/she's stating

> If these are attitudes typical of psychology, then I cannot say I consider psychology to be a proper social science.
Yes they do. This is why Spotify is more expensive if you subscribe through the app -- because they cannot take payment details through the app for digital goods/services.

So any music streaming service that wants to try to compete with Apple music has to pay a tithe to Apple of 30% or miss out on half of America (or make customers jump through hoops).

The 'you dont have to use it' comment is moot -- iOS accounts for millions upon millions of people; you generally need to use it.
There's some logic too it.

On one hand you have outright banning competition.

On the other hand you have allowing but discriminating against competition.

You can argue that outright banning isn't as bad as creating a marketplace and then punishing participants that aren't you.

The outright banning is wrong too, but it's a really complex issue that doesn't necessarily have a clear correct path.
What type and size memory can the Epiphany-V support?

Also congrats! This is brilliant engineering to get a chip like this into production silicon as a small team.

How much did the prototype MPW(?) silicon cost?
Database concurrency in Django the right way
> Heck just don't use it.

That really is not a viable option when you want to access content which happens to (now) be behind Cloudflare.
So, 40 in 7 billion. I don't think this refutes the article's analysis of the averages.
Yup that's it! (You'd need to sign up to access the app, but that's free to do.)
FoldingText.app on OSX and "usecanvas.com" on the web work similarly.

I really like that editing model for markdown. (Hiding all the markup except that which is surrounding or adjacent to the cursor.) I'd love to see someone implement it on top of draft.js or something. (I haven't gotten around to yet myself yet - too many projects, too little time.)
While not a monopoly, there position is large enough that any serious software or service is forced to comply.
Yes, from Shippo here. Will shoot you an email. :)

edit: if anyone else would like to chat, sales@goshippo.com is the best place to get to us. That goes directly to a few of our inboxes, so we're get back to you in no time.
Run setxkbmap in your .xinitrc if applicable:

setxkbmap -option caps:escape

Linux desktop environments’ keyboard configuration tools should also let you do this.
A new way to manage IIS
If you are allergic to vaccine ingredients, you should be able to get a medical exemption.
Renewing the Revolution: Personal Rapid Transit Gets a Makeover
> It seems that a lot of Duarte's designs are somewhat derivative

All UX/UI design on major platforms is "derivative". None is ground breaking.

I find it funny how you back up your claim by showing an equally derivative work (LG Smart TV)
And in the context of this conversation it's also anti-competitive.
Hmmm. I've had an intermittent problem where my feed suddenly regurgitates past items without warning. Wondering if this might have something to do with it somehow...
How many times did they mention "first reusable ...", it felt like jabs at Elon Musk.
Many readers are skeptical about the usefulness of personal AI assistants. This reminds me of what Jeff Bezos said about disruptive technologies [1], which I think resonates well among many tech company executives. You (they) need to be willing to be doubted for a very long time.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation/

Any time you do something big, that’s disruptive — Kindle, AWS — there will be critics. And there will be at least two kinds of critics. There will be well-meaning critics who genuinely misunderstand what you are doing or genuinely have a different opinion. And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing and they will have reason to misunderstand. And you have to be willing to ignore both types of critics. You listen to them, because you want to see, always testing, is it possible they are right?
My post was intended to support the original post in the thread and to gently disagree with the post I was responding to.

While you bring up very good points I'm personally inclined to disagree on the "cost" argument when comparing 50mm f/1.8 and 40mm f/2.8, simply because by the time the 40mm pancake was released the 50mm f/1.8 went up in price from $80 to $125. Very shortly after it was released the price for 40mm went from $199 down to $149 for a while and at that price the difference between $125 and $149 is negligible. At this price point the 40mm is arguably of a higher "value" than the 50mm unless you really need f/1.8.

In the first sentence of your post you used present tense and I'd like to point out that the 50mm f/1.8 has been discontinued, so anyone continuing to recommend this lens is giving dated advice (not saying you are).

Currently the 3 cheapest Canon primes are the 50mm f/1.8 STM at $125, the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM at $149, and the 40mm f/2.8 at $199.

I currently recommend people the 40mm if asked about what to get for a full frame or the 24mm f/2.8 STM for APS-C. The 24mm on APS-C gives you a nice 38.4mm equivalent and I don't know why you've dismissed this fine lens (I hope that's no too harsh).

Interestingly Yongnuo released the YN 50mm f/1.8 for $50 that looks almost identical to the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II that's been discontinued.
my grandpa is 102. Russian genes! To think he was born during the Russian Revolution is mind blowing. i think his gen more than ours underwent more positive Quantum leaps than mine ever will.
>The 'you dont have to use it' comment is moot -- iOS accounts for millions upon millions of people; you generally need to use it.

No, you don't need to use it. You want to use it, and you want to make money using it -- which is a different thing, and this is what Apple charges for: having built a platform/market with millions upon millions of people in it.
Pluralistic Ignorance
It's right up there with the statement that the FBI wants to have an "adult conversation" about encryption.
Those people aren't shareholders.
Not allowing third party stores in the Store is a security feature because they can install APKs that have not passed through Google's security scanner.

Google does not prohibit you from installing third party stores.

Also, how are they using their dominance for search and browsers to do something? I can install Firefox on Android, I cannot install Firefox on iOS. I can do "Hey, Cortana" if I install Cortana on my Android phone and do Bing searches, but not with iOS. I can install the Bing app and get a launcher widget to perform searches with, just like I can with the Nexus Launcher's integration, but not with iOS. I can change the launcher out entirely, I can't on iOS. I can replace the lockscreen, but not with iOS.

And as for taxes, Google paid the taxes that was required of them by Ireland. The EU thinks that they can post-facto change the law to effect Irish companies. This is illegal and immoral.

This is also what the founders of Google have complained about, that US companies can do this, and are forced to do this by their shareholders. They are being punished by the EU for not following the status quo and being made an example of.

So, explain to me, again, how Apple is the bastion of user freedom? Android is a shit OS, but at least it allows me to run whatever I damned please.
Great, so you can live for the Alzheimer's.
I am pretty sure that Gmail database is 1000x times larger than all non-imaging healthcare data for entire population of the world.

There are instances where blockchain type technology is useful such as transactions between multiple parties with lack of trust. This isn't true in healthcare and surely not for EMR/EHR data.
"it's called being smart"
>That's … a bit drastic. Why should Apple have any say over whose software I choose to install on a device once I have bought it from them?

So that they can fully control, secure and curate the experience, which is what I am buying Apple phones for.

Well, not really (I'm mostly buying them for the hardware and software combo, which I prefer to Android offerings), but I can appreciate that having a single, sandboxed, signed, etc source of software on a phone, makes it more secure and hassle free thing for users (of which an extremely tiny minority are in any way computer geeks). It also creates a ecosystem that moves in lockstep with the hardware and OS changes -- even if just because it is forced to.

For others, there's always a custom Android install.
Glad you liked it! We'll be comparing quite a few CI tools next week.
You can't put up a struct because the structure of a C type is arbitrarily complex. E.g. Multiple levels of pointers. So you have to maintain a type as some sort of tree, and then as you're parsing it you have to fill in the right parts of the tree.

Not rocket science, obviously, but the original statement was that C types were designed to be easy to parse, which clearly isn't true. If the types were prefix or postfix, it'd be trivial to build the trees in a recursive descent parser.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this result doesn't seem particularly controversial or astounding.

We've assumed for some time now that while we can increase the average life expectancy by getting better at treating diseases, there is still this thing called "aging" that is going to kill us at some relatively fixed point.

These results don't suggest to me that we are "never" going to live longer than 115 or so, but rather that we aren't going to get there just by taking away disease roadblocks. We would need to master the natural process of aging that serves to kill us once we have outlived our evolutionary purpose of reprodution.
+1, for everything written here! Exact same usecase
In 20 years? That doesn't make any sense. Until iOS, Apple had no say in what you installed on your device. And even on desktop, the App Store is completely optional.
This is why `f` is really my workhorse key in vim.
Wait, how’s this different from Vim? You can use :<number> to go to a line and C-o to return to where you were.
I'm still a little unclear on what we would achieve by making the language 'complete.' I get that being able to check for non-termination would be useful—but is there more?

The paper opens with:

The driving idea of functional programming is to make programming more closely related to mathematics.

From a paper by John Backus:

Associated with the functional style of programming is an algebra of programs whose variables range over programs and whose operations are combining forms. This algebra can be used to transform programs and to solve equations whose “unknowns” are programs in much the same way one transforms equations in high school algebra.

Are they talking about the same thing here?

Also, are there advantages to having such an algebra of programs outside of correctness verification?
I'm assuming they mean average.
If you don't care for the products or services, you could always opt not to buy/use them. That includes avoiding areas where Google appliances are present. I'm fine with trading privacy for AI-driven convenience, though I already have a phone I like and an Echo, so I have no compelling reason to buy these particular products right now.
"Why are they even offering crappy produce that their personal shoppers now have to pick through for non-bruised apples?"

Produce follows a distribution along all characteristics, and that distribution changes over time. There's some you could discard a priori, but then there's the damage from customers manhandling it, the normal aging process, etc.
Thing is that laws haven't really followed the state of the market. You hear the excuse commonly here - "They don't have a monopoly so it's ok!". It's not and it's damaging the basic way how free markets do and should function - essentially the integrated, DRMed, lockeddown systems prevent choice which is the basic driving force of market innovation. Right now we're in a state where a few companies (mostly Apple, Amazon, Google) pretty much funnel and lock you into a narrow choice of products and then lock them down in a way to basically make choosing a product that helps you the most as hard as possible.

Which means they just made "voting with the wallet" infinitely harder - you can't choose a phone with headphone jack, because you're locked into iOS ecosystem which means that your choice of phone has resulted in your choice of communication platform (iMessage), house appliances (HouseKit), TV (AppleTV), source of media (iTunes), car (CarPlay and iPod integration) and others. If you want to exercise your choice as a consumer, you're essentially forced to give a lot of things to get a feature you want and that also hides consumer wishes to the corporations themselves.

The state of electronics market is getting pretty dire, sometimes I'm starting to feel like we're back in 1985 on the eastern side of Iron Curtain with a single item of each type on the store shelf.
Medical research is generally aimed at the most pressing problems facing a society. Infectious disease was a focus for a long time, cancer is one of the biggest targets now. Aging has not been a priority yet, because the vast majority of people die of something else (infections, heart attacks, cancer, etc) before they die of the problems specific to extreme old age.

When we develop treatments capable of reducing the incidence of more common diseases, then focus will shift towards aging and the curve may very well start to bend towards longer lifespans.

If you want this to occur sooner, support more overall scientific funding through your donations, your votes, and your advocacy.
More like fud. Their prices are the same: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
Android also has the similar ToS regarding in app purchase, the only difference is that they do not currently enforce it.

For an indie developer it doesn't sound like a big issue, but for big corporations uncertainty in the business model is a big deal. Often large budgets and many jobs depend on it.
My proposal for them has always been simple: just charge for extra characters.

Look at Twitter for a moment the way game designers look at free-to-play mobile games. Whittling Tweets down to 140 characters is the sort of un-fun, repetitive process that a game designer would describe as a "grind" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_(video_gaming)). And free-to-play games have established that letting players buy their way out of having to grind is a completely workable business model.

So just let Twitter power users skip their way out of grinding to get their Tweets under the 140 character limit by letting them buy bags of extra characters, preferably at low enough prices to be attractive as an impulse buy. If you spend all day on Twitter, and you're faced with the need spend five minutes editing a tweet to get it down under the limit, being able to just pay ten cents for a bag of ten extra characters and get that five minutes of your life back might be very attractive! And from Twitter's perspective, those ten cents are more or less pure profit, since the marginal cost of shipping 150 bytes over the wire instead of 140 is next to nothing. Free users can keep on using Twitter for free, power users can become the "whales" that provide the revenue that keeps the lights on, Twitter makes money. Everybody wins.
You make it sound trivial. Where would it come up with $200/K year?
Projection:

Jan 2016 -> 10%
Jan 2017 -> 20%
Jan 2018 -> 40%
Jan 2019 -> 80%
Jan 2020 -> 100%

Seems quite good to me.
> That really is not a viable option when you want to access content which happens to (now) be behind Cloudflare.

Sure it does. Vote with your bytes and move along.
Aren't things like bounds checking (#1) an implementation detail? You could implement C with bounds checking if you wanted to. For example you say 'void* can't express size information' - well it can if you chose to implement it as a tuple of address and size. Out of bounds is already undefined, so you could make it abort with a nice error message if you wanted to. There's no need for new language features in order to do that - just change your implementation.
Ahaha @speedygrowth when I get another spare 4 weeks and enough sleep, I'll definitely try!
At least in Germany, Google definitely does not have the rights to profile people that have not opted in. The interesting part is

1. finding someone who is not using any Google service at all, and

2. finding their data in a Google database.
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I just thought it would be an interesting additional piece of information for this discussion.
Came here to post this. Was not disappointed.
How does it handle images? Can I drag'n'drop images and will they just be linked or saved to a place relative to the document?
C-u M-!
Things like Seastar[0] and Rust's zero cost futures would also make good use of many cores.

[0] http://www.seastar-project.org/
I've had someone pitch the same blockchains-as-EMR to me, and they made the same mistake of construing data integrity with data security.

Blockchains are public record, which you do not want your health data stored in. Even this article acknowledges that and recommends using private blockchains, which offers no competitive benefit over other decentralized databases.

This just seems like another hammer looking for a nail.
No. Source: am a little guy. If you remember the early days of the Web, most sites then were small, free, and ad-free to boot. I'm still running the same personal/hobby web site I've had since 2000, still out of my own pocket, still without ads. The costs have fallen over time even as I've added much more content and switched to a VPS from a shared host.
That's concurrency, throughput, and load-balancing of web servers connected to pipes of certain bandwidth. It's not the same as parallel execution of CPU-bound code on a tiled processor. You could know a lot about one while knowing almost nothing about the other.
or you know, democracy. If people choose to vote somebody into office, no matter how wrong it is, it still is democracy.
Being removed for fraudulent activity is one of the times where it makes sense for Apple to remove the download completely from the store, because you don't want the fraudulent activity to continue. Obviously it was a mistake in this case though. But I bet Apple's done this before, just not with any app that people actually gave a shit about.
I won't pretend to know how they should have monetized, that's what @jack is compensated richly to figure out. My point is that the chance to be the messaging backbone of the Internet was more valuable and a better use of Twitter's resources (human and financial capital) than the certainty of being defeated by Facebook.
they have done/got a lot of things right.
Except afaik, those workers aren't coordinated and reporting back to some central agency. If a housekeeper in New York happens to be snooping on their client, it doesn't mean one in Los Angeles is acting the same way. The damage is limited.
Very curious to hear from the HN crowd - do people actually see high ROI on Twitter ads? I've personally conducted full scale Facebook ads for a consumer product company with great success (very positive ROI) but almost literally couldn't get anyone to buy product via Twitter ads. Where does that $2B in revenue come from!?
If it's not federated, it's not a solution. As for that being "too confusing" to people, well, you can't save everybody.
Honestly I would look toward manufacturing, particularly if you can incorporate ideas from the world of the digital -- for example crowdsourcing, mass customization, or continuous delivery of updates/modifications. I read an article in WIRED oh, I guess about five years ago now, called "Atoms are the new Bits" that talked about companies using 3D printing, crowdsourcing, etc, but to make real world products.

Part of the reason I think this area is hot is that it's harder to do than apps. Every "app" I can think of has already been done, and in fact there's probably a dozen versions of it languishing in app stores. Manufacturing is harder, and is often geographically local, so there are fewer competitors and more niches.

Another leading indicator for me is the general rebellion of young people against the fact that "shop class" has been taken out of schools. Lots of kids are trying to find ways to be "makers". In my state, when I was in school the "dummies" were pushed toward taking vocational classes in plumbing, welding, etc. Now (20+ years later) the vocational classes are the most competitive, prestigious classes that students fight to get admitted to.

If I had to guess, the new manufacturing is going to be smaller scale, extremely high quality, locally sourced materials, with some kind of digital "twist" on the business models.
> If 99% of people with attributes x,y and z are bad candidates for a job, will you even get an interview? Is there any attempt to account for the fact that attribute x is something you were born with?

Why would that matter to the company? People are born with stupidity.
This is a bit of a dumb question; when do you feel your site is going to be back up? I would actually rather like to buy a Parallella...
This article kinda sucks, and it all should have a big asterisk; on average the longest lived humans will be ~115 unless there is a breakthrough in repairing damaged DNA/RNA.

Eventually there will be technology that allows us to repair that damage. It just might not be for a hundred years. But to say that it will never happen is pretty ridiculous.
If Twitter's current intent is to make it a platform for debate. They make it awfully confusing place for any newcomers. A crummy character count, that forces everyone to speak in acronyms, hashtags, and shortened URL's. It's a miserable experience for any type of dialogue, with various overlays, and drill downs, that honestly gets me lost most of the time. TechCrunch summarized this well.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/twitters-new-simpler-rules...

"SIMPLE".
Is draggin an .app file to "Applications" directory such a hard exausting thing to do you'd rather give up the choice of which apps you can use and functionality of said apps (sandbox!)?