skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there was much more communication than just that call. Apple, in a previous statement, said "Warning was given in advance of the termination and attempts were made to resolve the issue with the developer but they were unsuccessful"
This is the first I've ever heard of the concept of "linked" Apple developer accounts. I suspect most people won't come across this particular issue but it's just another fun app store concept.
> In software the long hours have specific reasons.

Yes. Bad management and artificial marketing deadlines. You can't double the throughput in some cases by doubling the resources. (in some you can) But you don't have to work in the kind of environment that expects it. I got pulled into the environment that expected long hours once. Then the manager got replaced - throughput stayed the same, people started leaving on time and were much more happy.
What’s really going on in PTSD brains?
This makes me really sad. I hope you find your way..
Wow! I've been looking for something exactly like this for a long time. I am a motovlogger (which is someone who rides a motorcycle while vlogging) and I generate tons of small videos that I've always struggled to organize. I'll need to use random videos from months and months ago sometimes and it's so easy to lose track of them when you have thousands upon thousands of small short video clips.

One question/request I might have is if it is possible to attach a general note to a specific file. It's helpful to know what a video is about without having to watch the whole thing.
The unreasonable parts are:

- Apple assumed, and let these assumptions stay untested, and particularly failed to reach out to the different contact details on all involved accounts.

- Apple admits they terminated his account in error, yet blackmail him in refusing to reinstate unless he makes a blog post. (Actual contents of the post irrelevant to the point at hand.)
Apple is reasonable but they should probably change their policy to notify all "linked" accounts when one of these accounts might end up being responsible for closing them all.
The majority of today's US med school students admitted in 2016 were born in 1992. They grew up watching the silly kids and stupid parents sit-com world of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon while getting soccer trophies for showing up. They wasted a lot of time playing non-educational games rather than reading or working hard to accomplish real things.

While they had to work incredibly hard to get into medical school, and it's harder than it's ever been, I feel like anyone born in the 90s or later is going to be at a disadvantage, because the level of stress is not only much higher than before but many just aren't prepared for the stress.

<sarcasm>However, I think that because of this, medical schools will have to change. It's just too darn hard!</sarcasm>

Getting real though: med school is f'ing hard. Reading this did not surprise me, and if anything, I was surprised that the writer did not know what he was getting into when he got in. The things he is complaining about are the same things I've heard for decades.

Also- the Helen Keller comment, while disrespectful to those that are hearing and/or sight challenged, made me laugh.
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I reached the point of not understanding my machine when mounting a disk on Linux required udisks2/dbus and parts of Gnome.

FreeBSD can be pretty spartan, but I do feel like I'm more in control.
Apple's not blackmailing him. That's ridiculous. Apple was entirely within its rights to suspend the account. Apple's offering the developer an easy way to get his account back that doesn't even require buying a new one.
That's a good question, but the short answer is no.

Fictitious forces relate to particular choices of coordinate systems (and their origins). For example, the centrifugal force is an easy way to think about the tendency to be pulled "down" by an astronaut aboard a spinning space station; that astronaut can think of a set of cylindrical coordinates with the origin at the centre of rotation of the station, or of a set of Cartesian coordinates with the origin at some point on the "floor" and centrifugal force is simply natural-seeming. However, if the astronaut uses a non-rotating set of Cartesian coordinates whose origin is outside the entire station, for example, centrifugal force no longer seems very natural as an explanation. Alternatively, close inspection of the path traced by a dropped tablet would also conflict with expectations from a real centrifugal force.

Careful study of the movement of stars in the outer reaches of certain types of rotating galaxies threw up a surprise: the linear velocities of stars orbiting far from the centre should be much faster in order to maintain their roughly circular orbits than observational evidence of their speed allows. This difference does not change with a change of coordinates, so it is not an artifact of a choice of coordinate systems. Thus it is not really fixable with a fictitious force; so far the only "fix" we know is to either use known real forces that are generated by the non-gravitational content of the universe (possibly adding not-previously-known matter) or to keep the matter content constant but modify one or more forces. (Hybrid approaches are also possible). The space for introducing truly new long-range forces has been heavily constrained by experiment on Earth, and a "fifth force" is essentially ruled out. We have not yet ruled out many viable forms of previously undetected matter, however some forms are no longer plausible.

Dark Matter introduces invisible mass far from the centres of galaxies that help to suspend these surprisingly slow-moving stars. Modifications of gravity have also been proposed that bend the trajectories of such stars less towards the centres of their galaxies.

Dark Matter also explains the peculiar velocities of galaxies within several clusters; they move as if attracted to unseen mass in the cluster. Previously mentioned modifications of gravity have to be further modified to incorporate these observational results.

Collisionless Dark Matter also explains the behaviour of several known (past) galactic collisions where gravitational lensing preceeds the visible matter and especially the energetic gas and dust that collided as the galaxies passed through one another. This so far has not been fixable by yet more modifications of gravity, however people are trying that approach too (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.09128).
I tried VSCode shortly but switched back to Webstorm mostly because I couldn't find comparable refactoring/renaming options in VSCode. Also js debugging options were not as feature rich as in Webstorm.
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After listening to the call recording, I can't see how Apple was being all that unreasonable with the guy.

I suspect that his recording and posting audio of that call is going to blow up in his face. Especially if he broke any laws by doing it.
> Preventing your employees from accessing certain birth control products

Not providing access != prohibiting access.
technical article referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680872
Call recording != wire tapping. Not that Apple will take kindly to it either way...
American bike and car commuter here. Americans are not the greatest and checking mirrors before opening their doors. I wouldn't say all don't check but I'd estimate a slight majority do check.
Alright. I can go along with it not being blackmail from a legal perspective.

Morally it absolutely does remain blackmail.
Of course it is. The size of medical school debt is about the size of a common mortgage. That's no burden at all for a deep six-figure salary. It's a total non-issue.
That is genuinely cool.
Thus is hyperbole, of course -- hyperbole which serves to highlight that refusing to allow the patient to decide for himself, trying to force your own outlook "for his own good", is exactly the same as not giving pain medication because it's against some religious ethical code.
I can recommend this book: "Difficult Conversations"

https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-...
You might look into the magazine The American Conservative. It's far from perfect (Pat Buchanan uses it as his soapbox from time to time, for starters), but on the whole it's pretty readable.
I thought it's been proven that terms of service can't override or be a substitute for like... other laws. It's possible to find the terms of service invalid.

Apple's warranty policy that users 'agree with' has been over turned in many many countries.
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Where did they say they terminated his account in error? On the recorded call they made it very clear that the accounts were linked and that Apple believes that to be accurate. The fact that they're willing to provide Kapeli with a way to get his account unlinked and reinstated does not mean they were incorrect in the first place.
Because generators may be implemented with delineated continuations but they are not themselves the same thing.
That sounds incredibly dangerous. I don't doubt that it happens, but I'd much prefer the person cutting me open to not be fatigued and exhausted.
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Listen to the phone call. He asks them why they contacted only the owner of the linked account and not the details on his account before closing his account, and Apple does not deny they failed to contact him and only says "cause they were linked".

There was no other communication with Kapeli.
> You may not think you're talking about sense data, but you might as well be.

Ah, isn't the imperialism of philosophers so likeable? Hey scientists, you're not talking about the stuff in your experiments, you're talking about this other thing we made up! Because we say so!

>The sense in which a subatomic particle is inferred from its effects is completely different from the sense in which the brain "infers" things based on neural signals. The former is part of theorizing, the second is a bit of information processing that's prior to theorizing of any kind. The former is a fact about how science works. The latter is a scientific discovery which does not (directly[0]) affect how we do science.

Actually, according to our most up-to-date paradigm, they're both instances of hierarchical Bayes inference, one of which is implemented in hardware, and the other of which is using said hardware as a primitive base to build higher-precision inferences.

For someone trying to stick up for philosophy, you should read more of it, since I'm getting many of the details from Andy Clark's recent book.
Everything is a remix ;) Light table certainly was my inspiration for the instaREPL. DrRacket inspired the notion of running code in the same process as the editor. The code completion system comes straight from CIDER. I could go on and on. Please don't interpret the lack of a mention as a slight. We're all remixing each others' work.
It's a fun concept when dealing with any kind of anti-fraud measures. I highly doubt the App Store is the only place where accounts can be considered linked.
From 3:52 on the recording with the Apple rep -

"Because we see them as the same entity. If we have accounts that are enrolled in our programme using the same credit card, they are the SAME legal entity. They ARE the same..."

Yikes, because I often put contractor developer subscriptions and other incidental expenses on my company credit card to facilitate turnaround. Now it looks like I can get black banned if one of my contractors on the other side of the world goes rogue?!?
That's a very specific role in the development community.

There are great developers scattered in all sorts of roles in the community. Not just building infrastructure or contributing to open source projects.

Besides, how many people need to write sorting algorithms before we say "enough! We know how to sort things now!"? I'd say that point was about 5 years ago. I think we can move on to other challenges now, eh?
Ah, that's a nice thing. Back when I used a mouse most of the time (back when I mostly used a desktop rather than laptop), I really liked middle mouse button paste in X, as merely selecting text wouldn't overwrite the clipboard. I used it all the time and it was probably the biggest single thing I missed when I had to use Windows or Mac. It's super handy, IMHO.

For non-X users who have no idea what I'm talking about: In the traditional mouse button setup for X Window System, you can select text, and then paste it by clicking the middle mouse button.

I don't know if I can train my hands to be able to select/drag with a trackpad quickly...just trying it now seems very clumsy and time-consuming. But, I do often wish for the ability to copy without overwriting the clipboard.
Only if you can get a Romanian judge to extradite him to California.
Did we read the same article? He used his credit card to pay for a friend's developer account and gave her one of his old devices to test on. Though he didn't mention it (sticking to facts) it looks like he was teaching someone how to make an iOS app and provided a bit of charity.
How hard do you have to lie in order to pass the due diligence required for a $100m investment?
I feel your pain.

Few years ago my company switched to an open office layout. There was a temporary arrangement issue, so I had to sit in the sales section of the floor for a few weeks. I don't think I accomplished a single thing the entire time I was there. Constant phone calls, loud talking across multiple rows of desks. It was like that scene in the movie Wall Street. The guy behind me was incapable of properly using a keyboard. He would mash the keys down as if he was angry at them. Never heard such noise from squishy dome keys before. Jesus.
Apple representative states there was no wrongdoing on Kapeli's side. Absent any wrongdoing on his side the termination is in error. Additionally they made the error of not contacting the holders of all accounts involved.
The cost is $3m per year for each year after the attack for extra protection ... I'd argue they were discounting their security posture by $3m every year before the attack.
> I don't see how you could make a statement like that. It costs money to live, and it costs money to keep a business venture going. After 20 years you may own $20m. It doesn't necessarily mean you're incompetent. It may just mean things didn't go the way you planned.

If you have $10 million in income and cannot make ends meet, something is wrong with you. I understand that you could also have debt. That doesn't mean you aren't "making ends meet". I have more debt than income. I'm making ends meet just fine.

> My point is you don't know enough about someone's situation to make a blanket "they can afford it" or "they can't afford it" statement, and that statement underpins the entire argument for forcing people with higher incomes to pay more taxes.

Income is extremely correlated with how much of anything one can afford, including taxes.

What is your alternative anyway? We'll just stop taxing people entirely because we can't really know what they can afford? Or are you just being pointlessly argumentative?

> Or it's much larger than you probably think. Nobody knows. Why are you assuming you know?

Because I did the math, as could you.

> Actually, with current interest rates it's pretty easy. I know people with millions in assets who put their money in safe investments, because there's no reason to take risks when you have millions and you're in your 70s. Right now the interest on safe investments is a rounding error.

Drop your millions into T Bills for 5 years and you'll earn 1.3% on the safest investment you'll get. 1.3 is a rounding error? Ok. On a million dollars it's also 13k. So if you park 5 million in this absurdly low interest investment you'll still make 65k/year.

So no, it's not easy to make no money if you have millions in assets. A few million in safe investments yields more income yearly than the average American family makes.
It depends on the headphones. A good set of active or passive noise cancelling headphones will block all the sound even with no music.

I wear my headphones as earplugs on an airplane when I want to sleep, and I can usually keep my volume at 10% of max or less and hear everything crystal clear.

The biggest downside is that my headphones cost $350 and are only available in Europe or Montreal, CA.
That's a good one, I'll have to remember to add it to my repertoire.
As a father whose young son had a compound fracture recently and had to wait in the ER for 3 hours to get it patched up by a grumpy, rushed, and tired ortho, this is horrifying.

Something really needs to be done about current crony capitalistic US medical industry.
> but failing to actually follow up with Kapeli's account to see whether that one is actually and in reality controlled by the same person

That doesn't make sense. We're talking about anti-fraud measures here. If they contacted the other account and said "hey are you the same person as this first account?" a fraudster would always say no even if the same person controls both accounts!
So, Apple wanted to secretly pay the developer (via removing a penalty they had imposed) to produce PR material regarding the trustworthiness of their actions in the Developer Program.

That's pretty much the same thing they claimed was the basis of the account suspension, if you think about it. Guess it's a "good for me, but not for thee" kind of thing.
Listening to the recording it seems that they do want to get the account reinstated but want Kapeli to release a statement on why the account was deactivated.

Which after reading the post and listening to the recording on why Apple hit the account it seems fair after all this has gone public. (Kapeli set up an account for a relative using his CC, gave them some of his old hardware and it's that account that was caught in the review fraud. So in Apples system the two accounts were linked so when they nuked one account, the other went along with it.)

A Blog posting from Kapeli explaining the cause of the account ban and that he has worked with Apple to unlink the two accounts and resolve the situation.

> What Apple has done: on Friday they told me they’d reactivate my account if I’d make a blog post admitting some wrongdoing.

I didn't get from the call that he would have to admit and wrong doing, just explain what had happened and he got hit in the crossfire. Heck if I was in his boat I would end the blog post with "I would like to thank Apple and Phil for working with me to get this sorted and thanks to the community at large for helping to get this resolved." Not that they asked for a thank you but because I can see it from Apple's POV from Kapeli's recent Blog post.
Ouch. Plenty of jolly and upbeat advice here for teachers on decorating their "Windowless Classroom", which is apparently a thing. OMG.

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2015/08/25/best-of-t...
Wow!!! story changed after listened the call. I don’t think Apple did anything wrong in this.
> single-board computers that support the 64-bit mode of ARMv8 are less common

hey, you can use Nexus 5x, 6p or Pixel phones! I've been meaning to write a blog post about this.
There are some impressive numbers (from google I think) about conversion/retention/bounce rates in relation to page load times. I believe it was about a 50% reduction for every extra second.

Page loads are mostly download (bandwidth-limited) and layout. For many actions, you can reduce drastically reduce data transfers if only the actual data that changes is transferred (no markup/images/content already loaded). Similarly, only a small part of the layout may change. That can result in anything from doesn't really matter (newspaper) to "this project wouldn't make any sense without it" (google docs).
Indistinguishable for some, I guess.
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Birth control is specifically for NOT pregnant women.

What's your point?
I think they started off with a vision and assuredness that they would succeed, but they never stopped to consider the possibility they might not. At some point maybe they did, but Theranos and Holmes has decided it doesn't matter. Press ahead. Success is inevitable.
On the other hand, while this might not be the way Apple should have communicated. They do have a point.

A linked account was involved in fraudulent activity. Its easy for anyone to say 'Oh, i just paid for that and gave my hardware but thats not mine'. Still doesn't change the reasons for suspicion.

It does suck since I really like Dash. One reason why you should not share/use your work CC/bank accounts and Hardware for non-work reasons.
That's true, but the practical effect (having access to application internals, interacting with live program state, the ability to connect to a live program and hotpatch it, even if it's running on a remote server (but you'll really want the source files if you're doing that, and you should be sure to upload the new sources/binary to the server you just hotpatched, or you'll be in for a shock when it reboots), and so on) is exactly the same, and they mostly share the same capabilities (AFAICT, Nightlight might have better autocomplete than SLIME/Geiser, but other than that, I can't think of anything).
It costs $21.60 to "search" for this case at the Delaware Court of Chancery, even if you know the case number. And another $40.00 to download a single document. The complaint is marked as confidential and is not available.

Lexis-Nexis owns the site that maintains the court's entire docket.
I know of one very large company that paid for downloads and 5 star reviews for years; I doubt Apple would ever do more than ask pretty please. Given how far their rating has fallen recently they might have been asked to stop. But that's a long way from punishment.
Ask Elizabeth Holmes.
The question is why was that account involved in review manipulation
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