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Consider, throughout history, how much time humans have wasted on such endeavors in the name of currency.
I'm pretty involved in the open source software world in this space. I'd recommend you'd look into these two projects below. Neither of them are a "filter". In my experience though, filters are marginally useful anyways.

https://netresponsibility.com -- is accountability software. It monitors the sites you visit and sends reports to a friend of sites it thinks are "bad". This, in my opinion, is far better than filtering software because it forces you to have a conversation with your partner about what went down and why. It has gotten pretty stale and the current released version is basically non-working because dependency updates have broken a lot of things. A few devs are working on the next version (v4) on and off trying to get it off the ground. It works well, just needs more testing and more contributors. This runs on *nix and osx.

https://fasterscaleapp.com -- is a tool to help you become more self-aware of your emotional status and why you feel whatever way you feel. Addicts are notoriously awful at identifying what they're really feeling (and people in general are worse than they might initially think). The idea is that as you become better able to identify the direction you're headed in you can take actions to prevent a relapse or acting out BEFORE you get to that point. Both of those projects are OSS and the repos should be easily findable from those websites.

Both of these projects would really benefit from help, contributors, and just regular users. Net Responsibility has a forum and mailing list that you can get involved in. Faster Scale App is not quite as organized, it's just one guy working on it.
Owning is passive, it's what you do with it that matters.
I've had several experiences raising prices. It's not that hard. On new customers it's trivial.
From a person with only pre-high school math knowledge, what books/pdfs/moocs would you guys recommend in order to prepare for a future computer science degree? I've read that I would need linear algebra, discrete mathematics and calculus. Is that right? Is there any resource that targets compsci subjects?
It's the biggest scamola. Self employed people on he individual market are the ones bearing the brunt of Obamacare. No tax deduction for premiums either.
Im glad HN has a voice of reason in the form of dang
The main problem is not the response time of http requests. Is when you are hacked and the database is leaked and becomes avaliable for anyone to brute force it at any speed they want.
Breaks JavaScript, internet no longer works for anything newer than 1995.
Without transparent pricing, its not a free-market solution but an elaborate life-or-death scam.

Obamacare doesn't even try to fix the root problems because lobbying/corruption prevents any real solutions from happening.
If it is like other edition changes, you can expect about four typo-fixes, a new sticker on the shrink wrap, a 7-10% price increase, and a single-use code for online tools that make the professor's life easier. Every third edition, a "new and expanded" final chapter and an intro change, and a 20% price bump.

I used to date a textbook marketing manager. It was a joke internally, too.
XIV is the inverse fund, it looks like the real gold mine, rising 9 times in a few years.
SoundCloud needs more money, or it may sell at a firesale price
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I mean how else does automation help in life. I'd think we're far from an AI making the tough life or death decisions but if their potential work load of 24 hours could be decreased with automated systems performing specific tasks. What exactly is automated? I don't know maybe the pre-checks/questionnaires screening patients.

I realize a doctor is not the same as a burger flipper/dishwasher so their tasks would be harder to automate.

Fancy medical equipment haha. Throw that x-ray imaging away let me just touch your bones and see if it's broken or not.

A tumor did you say? We'll I don't see it.

It was just a thought of my part I'm not a doctor, or a 'leading analyst's just the usual forum BS on my part.
I have said it before.

I pulled my app from the mac app store after 5-6 months and haven't looked back since.

My sales were quite good but the sandboxing made it impossible to do any real innovation on the OS X platform which my app is trying to do. Getting any help from support was impossible and so I decided to sell from my own website instead.

Whether pulling it was the reason why my sales have gone up I don't think there is a way to validate but it had no negative effect on my sales quite the contrary.

I was in the top 10 on the app store for a while and it had no effect on my sale. Only getting featured means anything for your sales which makes me conclude that the mac app store add no value what so ever to either user nor developer.

Apple should shut it down and simply focus on featuring apps they think are worth featuring instead of creating an app store which create a million apps with no value to anyone not even the developers yet they still create a lot of noise.

If not that they they should at least allow the user to decide whether they want to give access for the specific app to things outside the sandbox.
One visit to a rehab center will cure you of the notion that drugs increase personal liberties. So will reading medical literature on the subject.
If ldap is just an implementation detail to you (to get unified login), you can try cloudron.io
Seconded! Loved this book.
Ya, this is nice and all but until I can rent time on one of these servers I don't really care all that much. Are these OpenCompute designs hosted anywhere other than Facebook?

It feels more like they're bragging more than anything.
Leverage and position sizing, not short selling. People with the exact opposite trade also got blown out today.
Yeah that's the problem, you add a longer property and then oh no, gotta go back and bang in the space key some more. Oh man...

Even variable declarations and JSON? I don't know...

The problem too is when you work on other people's code spaced differently and no alignment at all. Damn.
A state can't choose permanent daylight savings time, but Arizona, for example, could be said to be on permanent Pacific Daylight Time. Sure, they call it Mountain Standard Time, but it's year round UTC-7 either way.
My cofounder's wife hired me to tutor their kids in maths during my PhD.

Got talking about some ideas after a lesson and hit it off.
That's very surprising if the article is correct about it not charging via USB-C. My latitude (basically just an XPS with a different NIC and GPU) does. Dell also have a good line is USB-C docks.
The Steady Destruction of America’s Cities
> A bill signed by Governor Charlie Baker in August included a provision establishing a task force to study if Massachusetts should leave Eastern Standard Time behind. The commission would analyze putting the state on Atlantic Standard Time throughout the year, rather than springing forward every March and falling back every November.

I don't understand how the statement you quoted works with the statement I quoted. Is the task force to analyze the impact of doing something that the state isn't even allowed to do?
Woah wait when did the pound lose 25% of its value due to a SEC ruling?
Ask HN: How can you keep a non-evil company on track?
Here's a bit of a "corporate charter hacking" question. If you're founding a company in order to effect social good - some specific purpose that goes beyond shareholder value, that is - is there any way of being reasonably sure it will continue to fulfill its purpose after you've retired?

There are organizations that have stayed true to purpose for long periods of time (the ACLU comes to mind) but if the intent is also to make a profit, I've heard of too many companies that lose track of the purpose of social benefit in pursuit of the profit.

Is this a circle that can't be squared? What mechanisms are already out there? I'm not even sure where to start.
ctrl+left is back in browser :(
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It seems like the rationale for DST no longer applies to countries with electricity, economies beyond farming, and workplaces without incandescent lighting. Regardless, every office I've worked at runs the lights all day anyway. I would think that air conditioning costs much more than running the LED lights we have in our offices today.

Is there still a compelling case for keeping DST?
I wonder how many HN users see that headline and think "cool" vs. how many see it and think "uh-oh".
Can a non-AppStore app voluntarily sandbox itself?
Is that really happening? Links or you just got information from inside Apple?
> When OSX and iOS merge

[Citation needed]
Not only it's clear every big car-maker is working on its own self-driving technology, I'm not sure how licensing could work... each of the small self-driving startups will need access to hardware and data collection at scale to make true advancements, i.e. partner up with one OEM and be tied forever :) I believe there will be more of those billion dollar exits. Uber is the exception here, but I don't see how this can end well for them.
Is there anything special about that set of colors?
Huh? Are you talking about the opium wars where China was invaded by the British and forced to stop trying to combat their opium epidemic? I've never heard of an interpretation of events where China made opium illegal in an attempt to forestall invasion by Western powers.
I'm not familiar with Apple's guidelines for publishing apps to the Mac App Store, but this post highlights an interesting point--

Traditionally, the burden of security was on consumers: which emails or files to open, programs to run/install, actions to approve, etc. Efforts to enhance the security of third-party software have been sporadic and limited, e.g. SELinux policies, changes to ports to use OpenBSD's pledge (systrace before) and FreeBSD's capsicum.

This is the first time I see a mainstream OS vendor forcing third-party software authors to use advanced security mechanisms (like sandboxing) as a prerequisite for software distribution through official channels.

I think it's great. I hope similar policies make it to Android and Windows.
If facebook is just now announcing their upgrade should we expect these prices to go down?
He must have meant loosely correlated. I'm sure it varies by product type and user knowledge.
If I remember right C++ was going to replace C. I don't think any language has truly replace another language. Some languages aged out of usage, but I still know the banks around here hiring cobol programmers. Plus while linux keeps using C I believe it will always have a healthy place in programming society.
That's not happening, and wouldn't be worth worrying about until it's announced anyway.

We know it's not happening because Tim Cook has explicitly said so. Additionally, it doesn't make financial or engineering or UX sense.
Please describe the flaw, and give.an example of it.
would love an invite if anyone has one to spare. Going to be launching my startup soon.
Never... I'm not convinced. Rollback to when Amazon was pre AWS. Everybody thought they were crazy announcing they were getting into the datacenter and cloud business. I'd say it has worked out well for $AMZN.
Not that Apple never spoke an un-truth, but they're on the record saying that will not happen:

http://fortune.com/2015/10/13/apple-merge-ios-os-x/

(They also said they would not launch a small tablet and so on...)
An iOS-like approach seems natural.

-download from App Store; app runs normally

-function in app hits boundary

- OS: "app Example has request access to <files: all/this directory/this folder> this time/always/not now/never"

Would solve this problem pretty quick right?

I don't want handbrake to have access to my photos, I'd love Native fine-tuned permissions like this.
Now self-employed people with pre-existing conditions can actually buy insurance. That is different and better than before the ACA.
Anecdotally, Trello is the most performant large scale web app I use.

From a user experience perspective it is freaky fast at updating other clients.
That argument is not really useful as you can basically set up the Mac to make it really insecure.

The real question is should those who really care about security and are fine with the limitations of an sandboxed app really be defining the OS X ecosystem.
You might want to look into creating a benefit corporation, which is essentially a for-profit entity with goals beyond maximizing shareholder value:
http://benefitcorp.net/faq

In terms of making sure the company stays true to your purpose, that's what board seats and voting shares are for. Beyond that part of entrepreneurship, and working with others in general, is accepting that we won't always get what we want. You might have to accept that your company at some point focuses more on profit than you'd prefer.
It's what I thought at first though.
Copied from my previous post:

Wouldn't this work?

-download from App Store; app runs normally
-function in app hits boundary
- OS: "app Example has request access to <files: all/this directory/this folder> this time/always/not now/never"
Would solve this problem pretty quick right?

I don't want handbrake to have access to my photos, I'd love Native fine-tuned permissions like this. Seems like you could adapt this to any functionality be it location/file access/ability to do certain things etc etc. you know... just like iOS does
Not only KGB, there are such victims jailed in Guantánamo even tonight.
Android always required sandboxing, and Windows's Store/UWP (and the older Windows 8 variant) also require sandboxing. Unfortunately Windows "desktop apps" don't have the option of using the same sandbox, but with some effort you can sandbox your program (Chrome does this to its renderer subprocesses, for example).
Well, to be fair, the value of the dollar is determined by its buying power. If goods widely increased in cost, then the effective value of the dollar has decreased.

Not saying that's what did or didn't happen on 9/11, though.
In my view, the widely stated purpose of Obamacare was to address the access problem, but not the cost problem. This was a disappointment to many people, including me, who had hoped that the law would go a lot further. But it seems to have been a necessary compromise in order to obtain passage of anything, given the interests of the medical and insurance industries.
States can't go on permanent daylight savings, but they can go on permanent standard time and they can choose which zone they are in.

The effect of permanent standard time one zone east is the same as that of permanent daylight time in the original zone.
Can a user easily tell when an app has done so? (Or not done so?)
You will forgive me, but I'm too skeptical. This summarizes my feelings about the 'predictability' of these studies:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delive...

As far as proofs go, there are few elegant free will thought experiments, may it be from philosophical, spiritual or scientific approach/kind, that are actually all for some level of free will in this system we live in.

But anything that have people guess something, and then conclude if free will exist or doesn't, just fails bunch of working techniques we have to coming to conclusions from experiments.
It's not great because it basically hinders any real development and innovation on the platform.

It's not felt as much on iOS because so much effort goes into building new features, tools and improve hardware that it feels like you are innovating even though you are sandboxed.

The OS X haven't had any real love for a long time so Sandboxing it is slowly suffocating the entire ecosystem.
Sure, that's the story the government tells everyone. It sounds plausible enough, but is it the whole story?

* Apply Downward Lowenheim-Skolem to get a countable model of set theory

* Construct the reals using whichever technique you want.

* Since the base set theory is countable, so is the set of constructed reals.

The same technique can give you countably many groups, countably many rings, countably many points in the plane, etc. Everything is countable.
Happy to know Accessibility is seen as a serious feature. I just hope more apps make use of the accessibility APi
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Yeah, the public benefit company is already something we're looking at - Kickstarter is one.

And the knowledge that we don't control our children is also something we're looking at, on a philosophical level.

To be honest, I keep thinking about Charlie Stross and his corporate charters written in Python, then reminding myself that is not yet a practicable plan.
I'm in the latter camp.
Seattle tech engineers are more loyal than those in San Francisco (Indeed data)
depends on the app and what it is trying to do but no clear indication.
SoundCloud is great but I never saw how they could effectively monetize the platform.
The problem is that permissions only work for the most basic things.
That's not how a requirements.txt file is written [1], but I suppose that the author intends you to run those commands in your shell.

[1]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#require...
If you ask contemporary Romans, for a lot of people it's just a huge hassle. It slows down economic activity of all sorts - every time you dig, stuff comes up, work is stopped, and lengthy procedures are started to assess what's there etc etc... This, of course, if you are honest and have time to spare. Less scrupulous individuals will simply loot what they can and keep digging, or even smash everything to bits before anyone can notice.

Rome has one of the most underdeveloped subways among major capitals, simply because digging anything is very difficult: as the article mentions, soil is quite peculiar over there, and technically it's a city built over several hills. Add the archeological element, and you might as well give up.
> In my view, the widely stated purpose of Obamacare was to address the access problem, but not the cost problem

Cost is a component of the access problem, and there were measures to address overall cost in the ACA (and overall cost growth went down with it.)

In order to address the access problem, costs also needed redistributed as well as controlled, which means that classes of people that were on average better off ended up paying more of the cost, which meant that some people saw dramatic cost growth (and because the targetting wasn't perfect, there were some perverse effects in who that hit.)
This would be great! Little Snitch, but for file access.
https://github.com/grosser/rubinjam is a super simple way to convert most Ruby gems into a universal binaries. Which is what this whole post was about :)
Tech workers find communal living a solution for high rents
You'd be surprised with what you can actually make money on the App Store. Yes, there's money in utilities.
Discount code for anyone interested:

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This sounds like a great thing to implement in a desktop OS, if you could do it in a sensible manner with sane defaults.

Unfortunately, with the state of the macOS dev team at Apple (merged into iOS?) chances for a feature like this are kinda slim.
I think I've released all my side projects to the world out of laziness: my Github account is not a carefully curated resume, it's just "things which were interesting enough to warrant source control".
Ask HN: What is a day like for someone who works in cybersecurity for the NSA?
All companies with human shareholders will work to maximize profits, be it short- or long-term.

If you can provide the environment where any 'evilness' will actually work against bigger profit, then the shareholders will try to make sure this doesn't happen.
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There were two separate events, adding up to 25%. The first happened instantly as the Brexit result became known. The second happened on Oct 7 at the opening of trading when there was nobody around who wanted to buy...

I find that Bitcoins are an effective hedge against conventional wisdom.
> Anyway, this is is just 1 contrived example of something modern OSs do, and that OSs from the 90's didn't do.

This doesn't add anything, because contrived or not, it doesn't answer the question that was posed: "What does modern Linux do that Solaris from the 90's did not, that it requires 50x more memory?"

It hits the first part of the question, but not the second part. We could add wifi to a 90s OS without severely inflating the memory requirements. My Nintendo DS (with 4MB RAM) "seamlessly connects and disconnects to wireless networks", after all.

You could easily answer the question with a sensible, non-contrived answer, and I'm not sure why you didn't.
Thanks :)

I don't really want to spam HN but I might give it another try and see if I can get some feedback :p
It's cool... but uh-oh, people are going to write obscure libraries using these features (eyeing c++ template).
+1 for Kraken, their track record is excellent
> Everybody thought they were crazy announcing they were getting into the datacenter and cloud business.

All the comments I heard were positive about how they were diversifyiny by leveraging expertise they had been forced to develop for their own core platform, not that they were crazy. I'm sure there were some.who.said "crazy", but it definitely wasn't everyone.
Can you explain why? A Turing complete type system allows sophisticated constraints to be embedded and programs to be rejected at compile time that would otherwise throw runtime exceptions.

It seems best that errors are caught at compile time
> the sandboxing made it impossible to do any real innovation on the OS X platform which my app is trying to do

Do you have any examples of things you needed to do but the sandbox prevented you from doing?
What I don't get about this idea is that it would put Massachusetts in a very strange place - if you left the state in any direction in the winter you'd drop back an hour. Is the idea that Massachusetts is powerful enough in New England that the rest of the New England states would go along? (Just under half the population of New England lives in Massachusetts, so this isn't entirely far-fetched.)

I can't imagine all of Connecticut would go along, though. It wouldn't surprise me if eastern CT went with Boston time while western CT went with New York time, following roughly the Red Sox - Yankees border.
Could be a reference to Brexit? The pound suffered pretty severely after the referendum.
Read about Soros breaking the Bank of England sometime, it's great stuff. Black Wednesday I think is the name of the event in popular culture
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I'm speculating. I just can't see the financial upside for Apple to continue with Mac OS X. The vast majority of their sales and profits are from phones, tablets, and music.

Mac OS X and laptop and desktop hardware will become more and more of a distraction. We've seen them stagnating already. As a unix, Mac OS X is a rather elderly BSD.

They may keep a laptop device in the mix, but it will be more like a chromebook and run iOS.

Again, I'm speculating.
That's a good point. I suppose that access is always available at some cost, so access and cost are unavoidably two sides of the same coin.

My own preference remains to find a non-zero-sum solution, where access goes up but overall cost goes down. I think that in order to manage costs, the cost structure of the system has to be greatly simplified. Presently, there are too many business entities and relationships, so it's impossible to even know where the money is going. Somebody is gouging us, but we don't know who, and everybody can point to somebody else. It may be that countries where costs are lower, simply have better ways of tracking who ultimately gets paid for what.
Apple should shut down the Mac App Store and open a Product Hunt style website for all Mac Apps instead.