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> They've determined there's very little user benefit from having multiple push notification services, and they don't want to give users a way to shoot themselves in the foot by enabling such a setting that would impact battery life like that.

Well, I'm the user and I've determined that I'd rather not send private data through their servers, that I'd rather be able to do things like run a proper IMAP, XMPP, SSH or SIP client on my device without disconnections, etc. Those seem like pretty major use cases to me, ones which Apple shouldn't be making decisions for the user about.

If I ran an Apple device I couldn't use SIP and I'd be required to pay 4x as much for a phone plan rather than using a cheap data-only tablet plan for example. That seems prohibitive to say the least...
I'm incredibly intrigued as to how they are sure they are not measuring the reverse direction. That is, developers in a poor process and badly managed product are likely to be unhappy. Not that unhappy developers are likely to poorly follow process and create poor software.

I'm not asking to throw out the results. I want help understanding how they are able to make this claim.
Do physicists take the multiverse idea seriously? Specifically, the one in the article that says that there are multiple universes each with different physical laws? (This is very different from QM many worlds, where universes share the same laws.)
White supremacists have infiltrated the US military as well:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/12/nazis-in-military-im-so...
No. You can't map executable pages in the sandbox. JITs (such as LuaJIT) only work while the debugger is attached (i.e., you open the app by clicking "run" in Xcode).
Democracy in the US sounds like a great idea. Republicans have won exactly one of the past 7 Presidential elections (viz. 2004) but took power in two more thanks to the Electoral College.
>Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as social progress.

It IS progress, for individual women or single moms who weren't lucky enough to hook up with a good-enough husband, or who didn't want to go the traditional family-and-kids route in life. It's been detrimental to society overall however because it's become a norm, and almost a requirement for families to earn enough to stay out of the ghetto; families don't feel they have the luxury to have only one working parent because the cost-of-living is too high, and also, many women feel (usually correctly) that they'd commit career suicide by taking off a few years to be a stay-at-home mom, because companies don't value this and see workers who take a few years' break as no longer employable.

>Families, especially children, are getting the shaft.

Yep.
Yeah, that's true too. A global perspective on US politics is usually depressing.
>It's not a tangent. Ms. Yates apparently feels the president does not have the legal authority to make orders of this nature when President Trump is in office, but that he does have the authority when President Obama is in office.

There's a very simple answer to this:

She did not believe that the Obama EO was unconstitutional, whereas she believed that this one was. Then, everything makes sense. You can rant about how "there's no credible argument", but I'm inclined to believe an Attourney General over someone on an internet forum with regards to the law.

So tell me this: what should she have done if she believed the EO, as applied, would be unconstitutional?

Edit: also the judiciary is moving swiftly, in the past two days, the EO has been practically gutted in the courts.
But compared to the last few elections they stayed home [1]. It could be voter suppression but they were also down in California.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2016/11/10/the-real-reason-black-voters...
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I disagree strongly. The only systems that are truly free are thanks to the GPL. Linux would not be as successful without the GPL. We wouldn't have free router firmware from Linksys without the GPL. The GPL works and works well.
Trade which is popular these days is not the same as slavery which is thankfully rare. The Chinese who make much of the stuff have done pretty well over the last few decades.
If you wanna send me your CV (rik@superhi.com), I can give you a rough idea of what salary you should be expecting.
There's two cases that may be relevant: the US case and the EU case.

The US's case against Microsoft was that they leveraged a monopoly in one field (OSes) to gain market share in another (web browsers) through unfair licensing terms. Those terms were forcing OEMs like Dell to bundle IE and place it on the home screen.

I think the US case actually paints Google, not Apple, in a bad light. Apple does not license its software to OEMs, so there's no license terms that can be unfair. Indeed, if the point of the case is "OEMs should have more freedom and flexibility" - well, Apple IS the OEM.

But Google does license to OEMs under very strict terms. For example, if I am an OEM and I want to ship Google Maps or the Play Store, I must include all the apps Google asks me to, I must make Google the default search engine for everything, I must tell Google how many devices I sell, I can't sell any other devices with custom Android, etc. This is well beyond what Microsoft did, and is the basis of one of the EU's cases against Google.

The EU case against Microsoft is a little close to Apple, but only a little. Microsoft was accused of creating "disincentives for OEMs to ship third party streaming media players, and harms competition in the market for streaming media players." The concern there was that content providers would be forced to use Microsoft's proprietary media formats.

The analogy to Apple would be very strong if Mobile Safari had lots of proprietary features, like ActiveX. But instead Apple has gone the other way, e.g. by not including Flash. It does not appear that Apple is making a play to control the web through proprietary standards.
Pretty sure all the changes are in mozilla-central.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/embedding/io...

Sorry I dont know where we keep the build instructions.
I would love to see the results in other developing countries like China or India to see if these results hold up or are much worse it is in those countries.
Are there any resources out there for tech folks that might be interested in working full-time for a non-profit, backed by YC or not?

I have a strong interest in these areas but not really in the zone for building a team to apply for YC. Increasingly interested in a career pivot towards working with an organization in these areas however. Where should I look?
Complaining about when your boss shows up to work isn't a recipe for success in any job.
in what way would that defeat the purpose? the players can also review their days play during the night
Of course. Thing is - I think I understand the goals of the publication(Nautilus) and want them to be better - it would benefit everyone.
Try reducing your cores to 16, then you'll be able to see some processes in the list!
http://www.baeldung.com/
I tend to agree, but I suppose there is also a bluffing element.

How likely is it your opponent is bluffing, based on their past behavior?

Should you try and bluff this hand?
Most people team up. I usually spend my time exploring new technologies and new paradigms to help simplify our stack. I've been doing it for a few years, and many of our foundational services and technologies came directly out of these free weeks.

A lot of people take it as an opportunity to solve annoying problems that we don't have time to solve "on sprint".

Definitely helped my career, because I can focus on building skills that I personally want to develop, in addition to building something ambitious without worrying about failure.
People have been trying and failing to do so for decades, the state space of the underlying incomplete information game is absolutely massive.
Apple is hostile to open source. The Apple store terms of service are incompatible with GPL. And to develop applications you need to be using macOS on apple hardware and you need to purchase a developer license as well.
> It's hilarious that you think [ridiculous exaggeration of what OP said]

If you're going to restate someone's argument, do it in a way that they would agree with.
Yeah... I guess I was just expecting the AI to be more self-learning and self-tuning...
Things are very simple: browser tech, Apple's or anyones else is light years behind the native frameworks and cannot even dream of catching up. Those who think otherwise most likely are not familiar with native SDKs.
BTW, there is competition for Webkit?
BTW, if not for Mobile Safari on the first iPhone we would probably weren't even talking about web apps as an alternative to native. Canvas, CSS transforms/animation and load of other stuff was first implemented by Apple on Mobile Safari.
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I understand the point you're making about the difficulty of the situation, but I go the other direction.

If someone wishes to come to the US, we'll need to ask if they're a religious minority. I'm sure that anyone wishing to attack the US (Muslim or otherwise) would be willing to lie to the US so they appear to fit the requirements.

To deal with that possiblitiy, the US would have to do research on that person's background. If it can conclude with satisfaction they actually are of that religion, they can come. Otherwise, the US denies the application with "not enough evidence."

If the US can do the research on their religious background, why can't the US do research on their political affiliations? On their views on the US?

Even from a, "damn the morals, let's be practical," perspective religious belief strikes me as a very weak indicator. Its confounded by all kinds of personal factors. Especially in muslim majority nations.

To your question: A mix of both. I think one of the "disadvantages" of a free society is that it's easier to commit terrorism. Yet we have few attacks. I think it's sensible to check that someone is not an active member of a group that wishes a country harm, but I think we need to consider the cost in lives to that filtering. If we double the time spent checking someone's background and they die after the halfway point, is that moral? If we half the number of people we can process to lower the risks, is that moral?

If nothing else, I think the executive order is totally divorced from a reasonable and adult conversation about risk and morality.
I don't know many front-end devs who understand the nuances of React, Angular and Vue (especially Vue). I don't know anyone who understands the nuances of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
I'm not sure it needs to be mutually exclusive. While it is true that teachers are not strictly necessary to utilize our modern educational methods, there is no reason a professional cannot motivate a needing student in using the same tools to the same end.
As a native, it's baffling. I think the only explanation is the breakdown between input and output; when spin and now outright confabulation carry more weight than facts, people can easily be swayed to vote against their own self interest.

Basically, Fox News created the Tea Party. Which in turn helped the rise of Breitbart and other, even more insane outlets. It's a howling echo chamber of lies, whose fuel is hate and ultimate outcome is more inequality... which is perhaps the real motive underneath it all.

So that's a series of guesses, but yeah, still baffling.
There's a substantial difference between libertarian and conservative ideology, even if both are, in the US two party system, often found in coalition within the Republican Party. (One of the effects of the electoral system in the US and the way it reinforces partisan duopoly is that ideological coalitions are not express coalitions between parties, but covered up under veils of unity within the major parties until someone else feels that their faction isn't getting enough attention within the major party and splits for a third-party as a protest.)
Exactly, as the article says, it wouldn't be about the accomplishments of the driver and his/her reflexes and abilities, it would be all about the engineering team, AI, and tech, behind the vehicle! It would be fantastic! But I can see where it wouldn't really fit into "NASCAR" really, it would be more of a sport of its own - like you said, battlebots.
> We’re looking to fund... new revenue tools that can bolster and sustain independent media organizations.

Dear YC: I wholeheartedly support this and strongly recommend these books as required reading for anyone seeking to change how media works in our society.

1. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky & Ed Herman[1]

2. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey[2]

I realize these have an "anti-corporate" bent to them but they are truly good analyses and well worth reading with at the very least a critical eye. As Carey documents, it is the corporate sector that has developed much of the modern tools of manipulating mass opinion.

More than mere fact checking, I think you will find that the chief challenge to achieving sustainable independent media is the business model. Advertising necessarily biases media towards at least the class interests of advertisers (if not any particular one), or else it would go out of business. Meanwhile it has trained readers to not pay the full price of quality content. This is a fundamental problem.

Another challenge is that companies have business models that support their own PR and lobbying while ordinary citizens do not. That is unless they are organized and combined resources, but with the dissipation of unions there is no strong popular economic counterpoint to corporate PR. This is part of our news system as well.

I very much hope some good work can be done here, with a sober and clear understanding of the fundamental challenges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Risk-Out-Democracy-Communicati...
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Show HN: Issues in the cloud for January
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Okay, I'll bite. How do the workers so recently unemployed by the automated machines gain ownership of those machines in a way that does not entirely remove the incentive for building them?
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Have you seen native apps? Claim that Web apps load faster or behave "exactly like a native app" is hilarious.
That's OK, they're straightforward enough, as they stand. I'm sure you understand the meaning of the quantifier "most" in the second paragraph (as opposed to the word "all" which you seem to be imagining in it place).

On top of this, the moderators (which are very active on high-traffic threads) would have shut down this thread long ago, if they felt it was in contravention of these guidelines (as they quite routinely, in fact).
As long as education is controlled by government, directional decisions will be made politically. Try bringing up the idea of shrinking class sizes by eliminating the football program at your next town-hall and see what happens.

The only lasting solution will be to allow true market competition for education to replace the centralized top-down system we have. Yes, it's a libertarian pipe dream. No, I don't want to hear about how "poor people will not be educated" by such a system. You cannot know what a free market in education would look like, because we've never tried.
This is an example of where $130k is too low. It should be $200k for that role in high cost competitive markets, and you would find yourself competing with more skilled applicants who only want $130k. Fixed minimums are just dumb.
An absurd straw man argument that reflects poorly upon you. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the word 'provenance' or the concept of an international policy.

Our Constitution contemplates the arrival of immigrants and indeed specifies that their should be 'uniform rules' for their naturalization. It also distinguishes between citizens and persons, granting some rights to the latter group and limiting others to the former.
There are some aspects where 2A intersects with other rights, where NRA and others are unwilling to go.

One sticking point right now is drugs. Per federal law, any "user of an unlawful substance" is prohibited from firearm ownership, period. This includes anyone in states that legalized marijuana, including medical users. And the feds have been trying to maintain state records for medical marijuana card holders.

NRA, SAF and the rest of the bunch are unwilling to not just do anything about it, but to even speak out at all. I'm a SAF member, and I actually wrote to them about this several times, with no response. Ironically, the only gun rights org that has been consistently speaking out on this is the otherwise extremely right wing GOA.

And recently, both NRA and SAF organizations have enthusiastically endorsed Jeff Sessions, which is a huge middle finger to anyone concerned about this law...

That said, ACLU generally does get involved in cases which are centered on 2A, but involve other rights. So my hope is that they'd get involved in this as well, if a suitable case came up.
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Also worth mentioning that the quality of the stress cube is not great. A coworker ordered one and two of the pieces didn't work out of the box. It's very grainy looking plastic (almost seems 3-d printed) that was poorly glued together.

But 5 vs 22 is a fairly big price differential.
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You're including Austin, TX (Semiconductor) in that search. Their CA engineer salaries are much lower. Also, I wonder about that data. I've seen bigger CA databases that have more records and lower salaries. Also, look at what AirBNB pays their H1B's.

http://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=SAMSUNG+RESEARCH+AMERIC...

Edit: Sorry, going to retract this. My data is a few years old. It seems like they have started paying market rates.

http://h1bpay.com/salaries?company=samsung+&city=mountain+vi...
So we think that they live in remote villages using smartphones but no electronic payment? Is this really a valid use case?
At that point, Hong Kong was entirely dependent from the fresh water provided by the mainland, to the point that if the taps were ever closed, hundreds of thousands would have died before alternative sources would have been available. You cannot just ship enough water for 6.5M people, and HK authorities were scared that if they started constructing desalinization systems, PRC would pressure them to stop doing that with the threat of immediately cutting off the water. PRC had effective power over HK before they were granted legal power over it.

Before the time of the transition they stressed that all the current treaties for water were written to end at the time of transition, and that they would not be willing to renegotiate them.

Any attempt to keep HK or to turn them over to Taiwan would have resulted in mass death and evacuations.
Apple is not hostile to open source. GPL you get wrong way around. While it is true that you need Mac, you don't need to purchase developer license to develop. Only to distribute through App Store.
In short. Project dead. Dropbox moves to Go.
Saying it gives you the ability to read minds and inject thoughts into other peoples' minds puts it in the same category homeopathy.
Back then, we had a attorney general who had an interest in dealing with the problem, under an administration that could help deploy the government to deal with bad actors. That's all changed now, and the populous saw the gap, with the ACLU being well equipped to advocate for the same issues.
There are several issues, which overlap 1) Credibility: Altman's call to fix the fake new problem is ironic, because Altman's most recent statement [1] propagates the very fake news he decries. For example he refers to Trump's travel executive order as a "Muslim ban" and bases his thoughts on that false premise. 2) Woolly thinking: His statement that "most of them [Trump voters] voted for him for reasons other than the promise of a Muslim ban," is not only false because it's not a Muslim ban, but false because increasing security at the border was one of the main reasons they actually did vote for him, and the actions Trump has taken have high approval from his followers. 3) Being a smug liberal: See point 2. The idea that Trump voters are misled fools is a common theme of liberals. Altman is determined to try to show Trump supporters the error of their ways instead of making any attempt to understand their concerns. It's useful to note at this point that Trump flipped states that had been previously held by Obama. 4) Hypocrisy: Where was Altman when Obama was actually bombing Muslims? I know where he was -- organising a YC fundraiser for Obama [2] 5) Hyperbolic: I'm all for reasoned arguments, but his previous post [3] bordered on hysteria, saying Trump is "irresponsible in the way dictators are" and making outlandish comparisons to Hitler. 5) Poor business decision: It's surprising that Altman would damage his business by creating a culture of intolerance for founders who have political views from him. How must Trump supporting founders, employees and investors inside YC and beyond feel when Altman claims the moral high ground? 6) Emotional: When emotion takes over business, business fails. 7) Evasion: Despite numerous requests Altman has not clarified his position regarding the status of pro-Trump founders.

Put all of these together and I just lost respect. I thought he was smarter. And I certainly I don't feel the need to justify my support for Trump to any investor. So, no, I don't think there's a culture fit.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/time-to-take-a-stand
[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2014/05/obama-fundra...
[3] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
This actual analysis from The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which uses long running public (easily accessible) data from the Census Bureau, the BDS report[1], suggests that income inequality hurts startup creation rather than helping it.

Note: The specific relationship that they find is that startup creation is associated with home prices. This makes sense in the US, as home prices are a good proxy for middle class wealth. Here's a quick not fully vetted interpretation of this finding: When the middle class is relatively rich, they start businesses. When it is relatively poor, they don't. The aspirational income inequality that Graham posits doesn't immediately jump out when looking at year by year new startup numbers on a graph. I'm currently analyzing these numbers, but it's pretty clear that they don't support Graham's assumptions.

Note 2: The FRBoSF analysis isn't perfect for answering this question, but at least it's a good start, unlike the pure logic approach (despite the easy availability of good longitudinal Census data on the subject) that Graham published.

Note 3: The Graham essay is an essay on income inequality that came out before the atomic bomb that Picketty dropped on the subject. It really shouldn't be dragged out now because the research landscape on the field has been completely changed since it was written.

Final Note: I know that every time the word startup is used on HN, it spurs a 'No True Scotsman' debate about what qualities invalidate a new business from the label startup. Not remotely important. The FRBoSF article notes that new businesses have faster job growth than older businesses and that's the larger subject in question. Trying to throw companies out only serves to move the conversation from fact based to conjecture based by throwing out a perfectly good source of facts relevant to the matter.

[1] http://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/bds/