skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a PR stunt, but even so, being sued because you are so behind on standards that it's hurting other businesses certainly puts the spotlight on you.
Apple is not that much dominant like Microsoft or IBM in the past.
We're in the process of writing a specification (https://github.com/TokTok/spec) and new implementation in Haskell (https://github.com/TokTok/hs-toxcore). There is also a Rust implementation in the works (https://github.com/zetok/tox).

As for security risks and mitigations, I'd like to do that when we have a web presence with space for it. Right now, the web presence is fairly poor (http://toktok.github.io/). The specification contains some security risks and mitigations.
California’s Recycling Crisis Sends Billions of Bottles and Cans into Landfills
I would not call Xenix a forgotten Operating System. I sent Steve Ballmer an email when he was still CEO of Microsoft asking if they were ever going to do a new release of Xenix. He replied no.
I’m Done Pretending SF Tech Is Visionary
Verizon doesn't have to have the right motivations, just the right results. That's important: When your adversary is unprincipled, the only measure of good or bad is effectiveness.
iPhone and Android ARE the market, not only OSes.
He is the CEO. He should have known 5000 employees were engaging in fraudulent operations.
No slash through the monospace zero. What a huge shame.
After skimming through the docs, my mind went all the way back to ASP.NET Web Forms days :) This model, unsurprisingly, brings it's own problems when things get complex.
Give natural history museums back to the grown-ups – Aeon Ideas
You are correct, I was not. Didn't actually check what was inside the download from st.suckless.org, which was just the source w/o any dependencies.
Or, in other words, "When I was a child, museums were fun! But now that I'm an adult, they're full of annoying children! What gives?"
It could still happen given the work Microsoft Research did on Drawbridge. It is public knowledge that they use it on Azure and with Drawbridge, they could rebase on UNIX.

I doubt that it would happen given that Microsoft's modus operandi is to make as much money as possible by trying to lock people into their products, with Windows being the primary product on which they want people to be dependent.
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That works with UDP hole punching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching), and there is a branch with uPNP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play) support. We still need to review that code carefully before accepting it into master.
It may or may not be effective, but I think this is the underlying principle.
This is in french court not US .European courts in general do not see it that way, Microsoft could not get away the same way with IE and Windows in european courts
غلاء المعيشة عالمياً محتمل حسب مؤشرات منظمة الأغذية والزراعة “فاو”
5. Donate profit to charity.

The circle of life is complete.
Exactly. Competition drives innovation and progress.
It certainly appears to be an abuse of one's monopolistic position.

Edit: That is not allowing an alternate browser to be the default.
It's really odd. The NHS in the UK does a reasonable job negotiating prices down and recommending generics. It's been recommending an alternative to the Epipen for a while now, I believe. So it shouldn't be intrinsic to state-run medical systems.
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I'm reasonably sure it does a UDP hole punch to do it.
How childish
React is a lot more than it seems. The essential problem it tries to solve is componentization: how can you have a large team of varying skill work on separate parts of a page in a web application without one part breaking the others in hard to detect ways?

Many people focus on JSX or virtual DOM and muse about how that just duplicates the browser-- what's the point? But that isn't the point. It's componentization and encapsulation for large teams at scale, and for Facebook it works, it makes them more successful at pulling together disparate modules on a single page than their competitors, so there is some meat to this $NEWSHINY.

Now, if the browser itself had been properly designed years ago to be componentized and encapsulated, we'd have those features without inventing a new DOM or creating a new tagging language or isolating CSS. There is a web components standard that offers much of the same thing... It came out around the same time as React, but still isn't widely used outside of Google Polymer. Truth is these were developed in parallel before they knew of each other.

Anyway, React makes a lot more sense if you think of it as rewritting the browser from outside the browser. In the old days the stack that would have been hard to impossible-- you would have simply started your own browser. And people would have shamed you for not following existing standards, so you would have petitioned the W3C or served on committees to bring your real-world cases for years, being mostly ignored.

Now, devs have the ability to change the browser quickly and find things that work (and also create chaos and suffering).

Meh. Kids. ;)
The biggest problem for companies IMO is that the better but not much visible a person is, the bigger competitor to their own boss they become. If they produce top results and already got visibility, they are safe. If they produce top results but aren't visible, they are the prime target of their own managers, as they are just a little luck away from ascending over them.
Do you feel the same way about Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer and trying to crush all competition in the browser market? Or do you only feel this way because it's Apple's sandbox? At least with Microsoft you _could_ install Netscape. What's your choice here? Buy an Android?

I don't know you; this is a legitimate question. I don't actually know that I have an opinion on the underlying issue (I'm quite libertarian but also hate Safari). That said, I don't see how this is different from other bundling case law.

But IANAL.
Always refreshing to hear one of Haroon Meer's talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rarpym8JJXQ

Jake Appelbaum's Digital Anti-Repression Workshop is de rigeur listening too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHoJ9pQ0cn8
That's by design to keep connections with other peers.
That's right, but as others have pointed out, all the network service providers have convinced investors that being an efficient provider of a commodity would be a tragedy.

They have talked themselves into a trap. They will find synergy is hard to turn into money if they can find it at all. In 10 years they will start talking about specialization and focus.
Mid 50's here. I've been coding professionally for about 30 years. All of this is pretty much spot on.

More so, the ability (and desire) to learn the latest/greatest has waned. I fear that we only have the ability to jam so much new knowledge into our heads. At some point, we must discard the old to make room for the new.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna delete the ability to control my bowels.
So the answer is "American consumers are suckers who are paying for the rest of the world, and there's nothing we can do about it"?

How about US prescription drug marketing costs (something that's illegal in most other countries)? Drug marketing costs are similar or higher than R&D costs in many cases - why does drug marketing even exist?
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Woah, indeed.

http://i.imgur.com/3MdrSQi.png
I find the creation of avatars in VR intriguing. What FB showed is far from perfect, and apparently the avatar's gestures and expressions are controlled by hand motions, as another poster pointed out. Still, even without legs, their avatars look a lot better than these [1] by Foo VR, in which they synthesize a full body avatar solely from controller positions.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT3jZyOXqzU
I kinda felt that way too. I didn't finish the video.

My mind kept going to the gutter though. I kept on thinking, the only way I will probally get into this is when it gets dirty.

And then again, seeing naked women was one of the main reasons I bought my first laptop. Opened it--went to smut. Then figured it out it had other uses.
Regarding security audit: my day job is developing high security software. I could do a formal audit, and it would take about 2-3 person-weeks, and be completely useless, because it would result in a huge number of trivial issues that need to be resolved before it could identify real problems. So instead of wasting time and money on that, I've decided to go and fix those trivial issues one by one, and once I'm a bit happier with the code, I'll have two other people do the formal audit.
Certainly? How so?

I'm also very curious about the monopoly. iOS has an estimated 13% market share.
+1 for Joe Armstrong's talk. Very funny, but uncomfortably true
Richard Hammond, the former Top Gear presenter, is also the businessman
In the mobile space? They own the mobile space. Which is why everything is labeled an "iPhone killer." No one labels a new product as an "Android killer."

This is still their market to lose.
It depends.

There are some scientists talking about some newly discovered effects on soil by fireforests. There are two types of ashes after a fireforest: White and Black. White cinders are completely burned. Can be permeated by rain and contain minerals and nutrients easily taken by plants. Black ashes are incompletedly burned and have instead an hydrophobic efect. They make the soil reject the new water. Soil turns into a brick and water can now only move trough crevices, (unavailable to the other "90%" of the soil for months or years).

So, fireforests can be good, but there are some undesired collateral effects also. A better way would be that some people stop deliberately creating fireforests for profit, and I'm not talking about environmental managers here.
It's a joke - hence, the smilie.

This is a typical response from a non-Firefly fan. :)
'mom please give me 100 000 euros, I messed up a bit..'
Computronium
And IANAL but that's a tort, not a crime.
Brexit – Facts of Life and Death
You can manage individual certs with cert objects that aren't used by ingresses.
I remember working on 286 based systems with multiple users on serial terminals running SQL based database applications.
FTFY: The guy you go to lunch with during your on-site interview @Google is most likely the one who hasn't completed interview training yet.
Right, but I know Apple has argued at W3C against certain web standards and for others on the basis of security in a mobile context, power efficiency and functional alignment with touch UI behaviours. We don't know why Apple has chosen to implement some features (so far) and not others. Do you really want French courts deciding those kinds of technical decisions or taking those decisions away from mobile platform vendors?
Linux Crypto
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Photog2 (aka Andrew Spear) really is "annoyingly good at his job". I especially liked the disheveled gaze of "Rex Sorgatz on West Lake outside Napoleon" in contrast to the author's cheery, preppy profile picture.
Microsoft had a functional monopoly on the desktop at the time of the IE wars.

Android phones are currently outshipping iOS about 4 to 1 http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
I only went once, it seemed to stop for a while after I managed to go. I'm looking forward to attending again if it will be regular once more.

I agree it was a particular good experience, even with technical issues (no lights for one), it had some really helpful topics and enlightening speakers.

It's always good to hear from real projects about real problems and solutions rather than blog posts which are too often focused on what's best given a perfect environment, not what is realistic.
I think winning in civil court is less likely than triggering a review and fines by the EU. If I were in Apple's shoes, I would fix this now that Microsoft wont distract anyone from their behavior. Any one of these butterflies could land on the wrong desk.
Precisely this. Crystal Reports used to (I don't even know if CR still exists, tbh) display each page of a report as it rendered it. This made the app very productive compared to every other reporting tool we tested (at the time). They all rendered ALL the pages before showing even the first. This is deplorable and anti-user.

Visual Studio should read in all the files, restoring to open the ones I had open last time and allow me to start editing immediately while still loading the rest in the background. Also, Intellisense data should be cached, because if the load time of 30 seconds is because it's prepping that each time, that's a waste.
> The talks remind me somewhat of TEDx events, but primarily focused on technology.

All tech meet-ups in my corner of the world seem to have devolved into these TED style talks.

These days everyone wants to be a visionary discussing big ideas. Everyone talks how awesome it is to work for their startup that is changing the world or be a freelancer that earns tons of cash by writing Ruby while surfing on Tahiti. Share various personal stories of enlightenment.

This style was exciting when TED got popular a few years ago, but now I find it increasingly annoying. I really miss old meetups where people would just present their open source projects and discuss technical topics. If I go to a Python meetup, I want to perhaps hear about some new cool library you made, not how you learned to play the trumpet.

(I don't mean this as a criticism of this Hacker News meetup - I haven't been to it and perhaps this style fits there. Just a general observation.)
My experience was that they refused to even talk money before doing team matching. This was less than a year ago; maybe things have changed?
The preliminary plan is to deliver a high quality implementation of the Tox protocol and then deliver a high quality client. I personally don't have time to do both, and the team has very limited resources. The most actively developed client is currently qTox.
https://www.artstation.com/

I've discovered it a couple of month ago, and I'm so happy I did, now I visit it almost every morning. It has so many brilliant digital artists and mindblowing artworks.

Even if you're not that into "art", it's so fun to just watch people doing something with incredible level of expertise.

Just so fucking good. I can't recommend it enough.
Would a duopoly be more accurate for you?
Allowing alternative browsers on iOS would be great. But the real change will happen when there is a way for users to change the default. I hope that is part of their "request".

With just that smaller change people could start using any of the existing alternatives available right now.
"I'll never again work for a company who has institutional performance review processes."

Deming's 3rd deadly disease: Annual rating of performance. “It is purely a lottery”

https://youtu.be/ehMAwIHGN0Y?t=298
Yes, it's the same plan, just more restrictive. Weasel words.
Very Nice, hope this will get anywhere. Apple got too far with its restrictions, but I also hope that this doesnt go sideways directly into flash issues. :)
qTox is currently undergoing major rewrites, so I'm not getting myself involved with that. Once the rewrites are done, I can see about reviewing it. Just like with toxcore, if I started reviewing it now, I'd come up with lots of trivial issues that need resolving before I can do a serious audit.
It might be 13%, but it's a rather loyal user base.

Being whimsical about what would or would not appear on the App Store is certainly abusive.

--

Somewhat unrelated: https://blog.kapeli.com/apple-removed-dash-from-the-app-stor...
Why? I'm assuming if you looked at say the auto industry you'd see the same trend as net prices rise to account for inflation.
19.3% market share in France according to this [0]. Not what would normally pass as a monopoly.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274123/market-share-held...
Just curious - I have been around in pretty much every place* in Europe but London, and I am flying over the Atlantic now and then:

What are your reference points here? Would love to hear other recommendations of yours.

* With a of noteworthy/critical tech sector
Funny, but unlikely. Farmers moving on to better-paying jobs is a process that takes decades, as we saw during the 19th and 20th century. It takes a sudden drop in the food supply to cause a famine.
Some(Apple) may say that the web/browser ecosystem is mess and it's not worth the investment though. However the restrictions on 3rd party browsers is weird. The application is sandboxed (thus no additional security threats compared to other apps) so I think the argument is political not technical.
can't tell if this is satire or not
>this crusade sent ripples throughout the industry

Were there any other companies that followed yahoo's lead?
FWIW: This confused me as well
Apple is the single biggest manufacturer with a 41% share of the US market.

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Re...
> the sleazy slimeballs in the anti-trafficking movement

Defending pimps and johns while calling anti-prostitution activists "sleazy slimeballs." I love it.
A few years ago, France passed a Law to protect small companies such as Nexedi against large companies that try to impose unbalanced contracts. [...] Not allowing the publication in Apple's AppStore of web browsers that are not based on Apple's own Webkit raises in our opinion the same issues as if Carrefour (a company similar to Walmart) was not selling any beans but those based on Carrefour's seeds. This may be legal in other countries but in France, it is most likely not.

This is incredibly weird to me. In France, you can sue to force a major company to sell your product if you don't like their terms? Is this just speculation, or is there actual case law? How is this even tenable?

And it only applies to contracts the aggrieved smaller party views as unbalanced. So you can sue if you don't like the contract offered, but you can't sue if you would accept the terms of their contract but MegaCorp just chooses not to do business with you?

If that's actually the case, I wouldn't be surprised if Carrefour changes their policy from "we only sell Carrefour beans and beans grown from Carrefour seeds" to "we only sell Carrefour beans".
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If this catches your interests, please research greening the deserts using permaculture.

Here is one example but there are many examples and projects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Nb-rqGfWI&spfreload=10 | Reversing Desertification With Sticks, Rocks, and Ancient Wisdom

Permaculture is more practical in the long run, doesn't require much tech.
Duopolies aren’t problematic in the eyes of the law.

On that note, neither are monopolies. The problem comes when a monopoly is leveraged to stop other companies from competing.
Sport cars are often compared to Ferrari, but we don't say that Ferrari "owns a car space". iOS falls behind Android in pretty much every market share statistics I've seen.
Yeah but Safari has pretty much 100% market share among iOS users.

As a web developer, Safari is a huge pain for me. Most of the time I can develop on Firefox and stick to the standards and most of the modern and/or commonly used browsers are fine. But Safari will have issues, and since I don't own any Apple devices and can't run Safari on the devices I've got, it's difficult to figure out which standard Safari isn't paying attention to and develop a workaround.
The Law that is being used actually gives power to the French Minister of Economy to cancel the provisions that bring 'déséquilibre significatif entre les droits et obligations des parties'. It can be very fast. It has already been used.
Assuming your interpretation of your manager's motivations are correct, that's horrible and I'm sorry you had to go through it. With that said, would you have had any more protections at a smaller company? The process at those bigger companies, while excruciating for all companies, makes it harder for managers to fire, not easier.
They have some of the high end, competing heavily with Samsung's Galaxy S line and the occasional high end phone from other manufacturers. There's a lot of space in even the high-end market that's not owned by Apple, never mind all the lower markets.

Just because tech magazines really like them doesn't mean they actually have most of the market.

If you really want to go look for something to pick on... go look at how US telecoms companies fuck over the market by directly selling phones tied to contracts, making it incredibly difficult for a manufacturer to sell a phone if the telecoms companies don't want to put their weight behind it.
Came here to say that for the specific problem at hand (`ConnectionState`) you should probably use session types in Rust -- but someone on /r/rust beat me to it _and_ the author already added it to the post while I was reading! :)
It costs $2.60 to view the website in Canada with non-retina images.

Source: https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/test/161007_QR_78c23294113b6c...
No. They own just "their portion" of the mobile space.

There are more Android phones in the market than iOS. It's very hard to say that iOS is abusing their position of 'power' and negatively influencing the browser market like Microsoft was back when.
But then you only get the mobile version...
Seconded. More and more noise, less signal. Unfortunately, this trend does not seem to stop at the IT sector.
Apple accounts for about 1/8 of smartphone shipments (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp) and 1/4 of mobile web traffic (http://marketshare.hitslink.com). Based on those numbers, I don't think you can say they own the mobile space. They may be the most influential company in it, but they have real, effective competition
It really depends how you define the market. If we look countrywide [0] France has ~20% iOS, here in the UK we have ~40%.

But the product my company is selling (in the UK) is currently faced with a OS distribution of ~80% iOS and ~20% Android (some small number of web only clients). Why? We hypothesise that our customers have greater cashflow than the average Brit and as such the iPhone is much more popular choice.

It is also worth noting that this dominance has caused us to drop at least one feature from our product because the iOS devices seemingly have no way of reliably running a process in the background.

[0] http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-ios-v-android-market-sha...
A spanish source: http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/deuda-google-nino-publi...

12 years old kid is punished to stay at home, he decides to be a famous youtuber and somehow he ends up giving his bank account. Fist invoices are low, after one month with a 19k invoice the bank notifies the parents and the parents block all the invoices.
> Do you feel the same way about Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer and trying to crush all competition in the browser market?

Not a comparison. Windows was effectively a monopoly at the time where iOS is a strong but far from dominating force in mobile.

However if you want to make this comparison, honestly? Yes. I think the suit against Microsoft was justified simply because of how blatantly obvious their practices were designed to squeeze out other browser makers after the fact. However it's a different situation here: Safari has always been the defacto browser for iOS since the first publicly available version. There is no significant competition for Safari because there's no way to change iOS to utilize it in the same ways, and the Apple TOS for developers specifically states you cannot create apps that directly reproduce functionality of Apple's built-in applications.

Ergo, they are not decreasing the competition or being anti-market because there was no competition in the first place, and they made no secret of that.