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a) Then push notification itself has a JSON data structure, if you need to prefetch more than that (movies, e-books) a silent push will start a background process specifically designed to do just that.

b) Custom keyboards are a thing for at least three generations of iOS

c) It's entirely possible to open an application from a webpage

d) pure horse shit. In iOS you could prevent applications from reading your contacts from the get go. Until recently permissions were an all or nothing thing in Android. Trusting app developers to respect your or other app developers interests is like trusting a crack head with your credit card. Poor battery life was one of the direct results. It's really no mystery why Google is slowly moving to the iOS side of permissions and background processes.
To take the contrarian view, the only difference between this and some alternative kleptocratic dictatorship of any other failing state is the invocation of God.

They seem to be doing a fair job of civilization cut them some slack?
Two immediate thoughts:

This is going to be for the hitherto-unavailable third tier of new iPhone: we'll have iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. I expect this is referring to the X. Which may well only be offered in a 256GB configuration. A jet black iPhone 7 Plus in 256 GB is $969 today. So this might not be a huge increase for the X. I fully expect 8 and 8 Plus models to mirror current pricing.

And second, we've seen this "high price" reporting with other releases, notably the Apple Watch IIRC. Reputable outlets were floating high prices, and Apple announced "normal" pricing at the event. Other comments here have talked about anchoring: this may be more of the same Apple marketing FUD.
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>According to an unsubstantiated report ... citing no evidence... The firm's source.....is believed to be Equifax.
Well, it probably was some open source software because they probably run Ubuntu/Linux, or MongoDB or MySQL etc. Probably misconfigured. But this is blaming tools rather than people and their own security team.

Many companies successfully run very secure large scale operations on open source, specifically Google.
> If humans were rational decision makers, the reaction to a crime should be chosen to balance out the damage, so that nobody can derive a benefit from criminal behavior

Your example doesn't follow from this. In your example 99 innocent people are losing $100 because of a crime they didn't commit, and the perpetrator is making $9900 from their crime. So the perpetrator definitely still has profits from the crime if the punishment is spread out over multiple people.
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Linking with the code of this software in any form is not considered as containing its code

As long as you don't make any changes, sounds like it's free and unrestricted.
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I think the most likely explanations are that the hackers either exploited an unpatched application using Apache Struts or exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application using Apache Struts.
What about the increase in defects/problems with women having children in their mid-late 30s? And older father's sperm containing more mutations https://www.nature.com/news/fathers-bequeath-more-mutations-...
It doesn't seem to support Open Whisper Systems Signal messaging app. Did I miss it in the list, or is there some other reason why it's not included?
Voice assistants can be hacked with inaudible ultrasonic speech
I dunno for the other cases, but Facebook could be forced to have an standard protocol, an imposition justified because data and connections (friends) belong to the user not the company.

Something like how a phone number is portable between mobile cos.

With a standard protocol/API a Facebook user could move to another social network provider without losing the data or the connections.
I knew it was big, but didn't think it was that bad.

I'm not familiar with iOS, does that figure include the apps locally cached data and/or embedded resources (I imagine retina images and icons could add up quickly) or is that mostly Facebooks infamously bloated codebase?
Isn't the JavaScript engine itself doing a good enough job of optimizing the JavaScript code !?
> The biggest site has generated content. It is more like a places database, based on third-party APIs.

This seems to be a great idea. Combine a bunch of api to structure information in a more richful way and display it on a website

You did it for the english market?
No, you don't have to pay. You only have to pay if you modify Yue.
This is a teeny setup, but it is also easy to scale up. This setup gives you everything you need to get started and you can add or replace parts to get more capacity and current. With the project box and a folding shopping cart you could haul two larger batteries and several panels.

If you have money, you can buy integrated solutions like the Xantrex XPower Powerpack 1500 + regulator + solar panels.
You are right about religion being a pretty powerful motivational force in the lives of folks who are stuck deep down one of life's holes. It's interesting to see not just how people are capable of finding hope in terrible circumstances, but how others such a priest or a community member use their faith to help out.

People need to study the good stuff religion does, improve it and stand up to the dogma and snake oil where it arises. It doesn't matter which religion you pick. They all exist because human suffering exists. And tech and science has ways to go in addressing human suffering.

I am not Christian nor have I have I read the bible or anything but there was this series of interviews with Joseph Ratzinger (former pope) by Peter Seewald that communicates this idea much better than I ever could.
You should ask your nephew how it is going. As an adult.
Software patents are the real problem here.

The tech giants have locked competitors out of using their technology using government patents. Amazon held a patent on "1-click checkout" from 1997-2017. Google has patented ALL of the good web search algorithms.

https://qz.com/1057490/a-patent-that-helped-amazon-take-over...
http://searchengineland.com/google-granted-patent-for-panda-...

We as a society to move past patent regulations, they are artifacts of the industrial revolution and are abused by powerful corporations. Without a team of lawyers, a simple website will be sued out of existance.
Yeah I'll totally bet the farm on the hope that in five years shady_dude_1998 will upload a nice ROM for me on some kind of site that forces me to watch an add for 15 seconds first.

I'm not against the idea of customizing your phone with a custom ROM but let's not pretend that it's a genuine option for regular consumers.
Unfortunately, this library has no support for accessibility, e.g. for blind users with screen readers, particularly on Windows, where it implements its own windowless controls without implementing the UI Automation API. So I advise against using this library for any application with a broad target user base until this problem is addressed.
The funny thing with taxes is that in the end, if you pay the government or a company it makes no difference. However, if you pay the government they invest it in public schools, streets, health-care. Companies benefit the shareholder.
This would be a really great small-generator alternative for hurricane zones
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Just curious, but do these people agree and say explicitly they want exactly equal, or is that what the goal seems to be based on metrics that solely measure outcome?

I don't doubt that such people exist, but I think that metrics which measure outcome don't necessarily implicate literal equality. Outcomes are just the simplest, most accessible way to highlight the (real) problem. But like affirmative action, outcomes as a metric make sense at times of great inequality, and they won't make sense if/when we are nearer to either exact equality or to equality of opportunity.

Right now, we are losing ground with equality, not getting closer to it, and that's why (in my mind) outcomes are an acceptable way to look at it for the time being. I think looking solely at outcomes would become wholly inappropriate if/when equality policy started holding people back from getting any more than someone else regardless of the quality or amount of their efforts.

Some people on the extreme ends of the political spectrum, and some very wealthy people, do try to argue that taxes and other policy are holding them back now, but I don't even want to broach that. Right now we do have a few extremely rich people, and a lot of extremely poor people, and the gap is growing. Until that gap is shrinking and closer to what it used to be, it does make sense to me to use outcome as a metric.
Interesting that there's such a difference between fields, thanks for the data point.

Numbers like 170k aren't seen too often in software engineering in Germany as far as I'm aware.
The given answer to the paradox seems sort of like constructing a rationale after the fact to keep the status of Einstein and Newton and Galileo as unique "great men". But why do we need to keep it?

Is it hard to acknowledge that the three of them were certainly great scientists, but many other people in the world could have done what they did were it not for fortune? Is there a limited capacity for greatness in the world?

Does it diminish Einstein's accomplishments to say that other people could have done what he did and achieved the same things he did, but that he was the one who happened to do it? The research was still incredibly important and the impact on human knowledge and on society was still massive; it doesn't get less impactful because other people could have done it too.
Or you could buy two bottles of the Bunnahabhain and two other $100 bottles instead of buying the new iPhone ;)
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Of course not, but it's hardly the same.

For the sake of argument, take the university at their word: that they believed there was an unsafe environment fostered in this dorm, and that the students were markedly underperforming their peers. As such the University is selling a defective good to the parents, and they are trying to remediate it.

That sounds quite reasonable to me.

However, are they infantilizing the students and preventing them from growing in maturity and judgement in the process?

Yep, they sure are.

The problem US universities are finding themselves in, is when parents are ponying up small fortunes, they are not interested in preserving 'freedom to fail' which is necessary for growth.
I don't get why you're so attached to a PR you make to another library. So you're not contributing because you want to improve that other library, you're contributing because you want to sue them after so theycan pay you for your share of the project since you've added 10 lines of code?
I do NOT recommend that anyone click that first link.

Chrome warned me it was unsafe, but I clicked through anyway, and then it was a loop of redirects and popups.

I didn't click the 2nd link after that experience.
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On the other hand, receiving timely security updates is nice. To me, saving a few bucks isn't worth using an unpatched phone.
That's true, and it offers a way for those types of people to group together. However, if those kinds of people aren't given a way to succeed in college or any other kind of upper-class signalling system, they won't ever get into positions of power where they can thrive.

More and more, college is selecting for a certain kind of personality while weeding out those outside of the norm.
> ...if the market were left alone, they wouldn't be a problem.

That's an interesting claim. What evidence do you have that supports it?
The "BOM" lists a 35 Ah / 12 V battery, which is reasonable. A 420 Ah battery is (a) a boutique item (b) should weight around 120-140 kg (c) does not fit into a toolbox (d) costs significantly more than 299 $.

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From a professional standpoint I'd nag about

> the battery is laid into the tool tray. Plenty of extra space in this toolbox, which protects the system from dust and the sun.

A closed box is not a good place to keep actively cooled electronics; less so when it's a black box in the sun.
I definitely qgree that safe harbor is important

I think the main thing about tech is that it makes accessing the global market easier than ever. Monopolies in one sector can now extremely easily hop into another market. If anything it feels like an accelerated version of the railroad barons

It sure feels like antitrust laws could be used effectively. Ultimately monopolies do have a lot of money and lobbying power though. Imagine being big enough to basically absorb the billions in fines from the EU. You're either a bank or Google.

How do you fix that apart from ripping the company up into small pieces like with AT&T
Devil's advocate: maybe she's one of the designers and happened to volunteer because she likes being a face. I think it's unusual that they'd go this route, and maybe it would sell better if the model was a man in a suit, but if this is the way to go then I'm not holding it against them.
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> In the past I have written the Electron framework, which is a popular project for creating desktop apps with Chrome web engine and Node.js, while this library allows you to create native desktop apps.

Are you the same developer Roger Wang wrote about in his "Statement on the history of node-webkit project" public post?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nwjs-general/LIrC7zH...

He claims you misrepresented the scope of your work as an intern on the node-webkit project (now named nw.js), and that you removed copyright notices from code in Electron that was derived from node-webkit.
That seemed high to me. Looking at the financial statement for Q1 2017, AWS is 3,661 million USD in net sales out of 35,714 million in net sales overall. I don't know if Q1 is unusual but this is around 10% for AWS.
Sure! My websites aren't global, I'm sure people can replicate some of them in other countries.

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Evolution wants individuals to die soon after giving birth or in the case of mammals, soon after their offspring are independents. Older individuals take resources and keep around an old gene pool.

When considered in a population, mortality is a feature, not a bug. Actually, it seems like aging is an additional feature, not a constraint of our bodies. There are animals that seem to have "accidentally" deactivated it: Galapagos giant turtles, some species of shrimps and, I think, some naked mole rats. These animals seem to have enough causes of mortality to keep evolving, without the need of a timer.
I don't know how I would feel if I was linked politically to everyone I have ever worked in the same company with.
Clickbait perhaps, but also tech press noting that if it was a Struts problem then it was either a 0-day when it happened or it happened months after a patch was made available and widely publicized.
I agree but the Uber hate on HN is so strong that no-one will admit the positive impact they've actually had. Would love to see some real counter-arguments though.
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The problem is that if you allow witty comments that contribute nothing substantially, you will end up with nothing else but witty comments. This happened to a lot of subreddits on reddit.
The HN community certainly allows humor, but it has a pretty high bar. I prefer not having to sift through a wall of moderately amusing comments to find the interesting content.
Well, I just saw this on Android Police:

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Hey, Samsung released July security patch to Samsung Galaxy S4!!! We are talking about April 27 of 2013. That's 4 years and a half! https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s4/GT-I9505/NEE/d...
Yeah. I don't understand why people want this, or why people think it will bring huge performance gains… but someday in the future wasm will get direct DOM access. (And right now it's possible by exposing JS functions to wasm.)
It's time for the Equifax CTO to collect a few million $ bonus check and then leave for "new challenges".
Good summary here on strike prices. It talks about nuclear power, but it applies to wind as well - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22772441
Yes.

But we would need to measure the elasticity of the engineering job market.

E.g. how much more people are becoming engineer if the average salary is going from 150k to 200k, as the salary scale compared to others is already high and should already pull people in.
> this seems very arbitrary

It's not arbitrary at all. The only options remaining are 1) walking (totally impractical); and 2) driving a registered vehicle on public roads that are easy to spy on -- see e.g. http://gizmodo.com/feds-are-spying-on-millions-of-cars-with-...

This keeps marijuana inside state boundaries.
I can only speak to my personal experience, but my Citi Premier card has pretty good coverage for theft and accidental damage, albeit with a relatively short coverage window compared to something like Apple Care. I'd have to look it up, but I think it was about 6 months post-purchase.
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This reminds me of a power box I built for Burning Man this year. The I had ~700W of solar panels, and in a box I put an MPPT charge controller, rather than the PWM charge controllers shown here, I had a 1kW inverter rather than 150W one shown here, but also tried to make most people in my camp use DC when possible, offering 2 USB plugs for each person in the camp, radio charging with a DC-to-DC converter, and a fuse box to prevent accidents. It worked out quite well, and we successfully ran a chest freezer and a number of other things off solar in the middle of the desert for a week.

Also, I used 2x100Ah deep cycle marine batteries + 2 additional batteries of unknown capacity, probably between 50 and 100Ah
I've never really grasped where the surprise comes from with these kinds of discoveries - we know that our ancestry always had the potential to give rise to lines that look very much like us, since we look very much like us. Why should it be a surprise if it happened more than once? We're looking at a terribly long timescale, after all - at least by comparison to our recorded history.
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I would say it's the distribution that matters. https://data.oecd.org/chart/4VMU
I think Apple hit a point where producing an exclusive phone with top features in every department wasn't really possible anymore at their scale. We've seen them stuck at 16GB for a really long time simply because upgrading all phones to 32GB would consume another whopping 15% of the SSD market. OLED screens in that quality and format aren't produced in enough quantities to put on every iPhone - yet. But people expect an iPhone to be the best of the best given the price.

So there's a new X line that will have all the best of the best and the regularly numbered ones below it will have more mainstream features / design and will be produced in greater numbers.
It doesn't matter how much you started with, and how much you already took out. As long as you have stuff invested into the coin, you're not cached out - you have value that you could take out of the system that's exposed to the fluctuations.
I would love to read an analysis or critique of these laws that doesn't come from the radical anti-copyright lobby
Yes, but with average salaries already higher than most other occupations, the pull from 100k average to 120k average (+20%) shouldn't be that high, but I don't know/have numbers.
That's all fair. I don't like bloat either. I'd suggest the ecosystem is more to blame than individuals devs. Apple and Google could do more to fix this problem than anyone else. It's too easy to make a basic app that's large, and it takes too much effort to get the file sizes down. If it were easier to make a small app than a large one, apps would be smaller.

The real problem is economic, which is why I brought up food & gas. We are optimizing them slowly, but it's not happening quickly because it takes too much effort and consumers don't care enough. You're right that not optimizing is externalizing the waste onto consumers, and that user waste happens at a vastly different scale than developer waste. Which is why if consumers made a big enough stink, the problems would get fixed more quickly.
For being a library designed to assist with creating cross-platform GUIs, the website itself—which should give a good first impression of the project's attention to user interface details or user experience—is a joke.

Compounded with the other HNer's comments regarding its licensing, make your own judgments.
A lot of states have heavy restrictions on transport of alcohol, a sort of state-mandated middleman that is either parasitic or fulfills an important regulatory purpose depending on who you ask. This seems like a natural extension of that. In the article, it even specifies that deliveries must be accompanied by GPS.
My mistake, I meant 420Wh. Thanks.
There is not a problem with "tech monopolies." As new tech emerges, new platforms, new ideas, the market WILL be disrupted.

For example.

1. Google emerged in a market where there were dominate search engines, such as Alta Vista.
2. Facebook emerged in a market where MySpace was dominating.
3. Facebook is disrupting Google.

etc.

I firmly believe that the market is ripe and ready always for new ideas and tech. Are you going to be able to build a better search engine than Google? Probably not because it works well. Google will be disrupted in some other way we haven't considered, maybe AI.
Oh stop bashing on CSS in JS already. It's not CSS in JS, it's CSS in component files which are -- surprise surprise -- VIEW FILES. I see nothing wrong with having dimensional and visual definitions in view files, their whole point of existence is to serve as such. You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Coincidently I've been reading and youtubing about human evolution recently. If anyone's interested here are some bullet point facts that may surprise other laymen.

* In the last few years the Out Of Africa theory (modern humans originated solely in Africa) has received stiff competition from the Multi Regional theory. Namely that waves of human species have left Africa since we diverged from chimpanzees 4 million years ago and that our ancestors are from all the homo-inhabited regions of the world to a greater or lesser extent.

* Neanderthals and Denisovans are 2 known species that certainly inhabited much of the world (apart from the Americas) from around 2/300,000 to 50,000 years ago.

* We certainly bred with Neanderthals and Denisovans, some of us contain up to 4% of their DNA.

* Mammals generally take about 5 million years before they evolve far enough to be reproductively isolated. Of course before then there can still be breeding problems, for which there is evidence of in our breeding with the aforementioned.

* DNA from human skeletons several hunreds of thousands of years old can still be analysed.

* Mitochondrial DNA is passed by mothers only and so undergoes very little mutation. So it provides a stable and valuable signature for detecting ancient affinities between species/sub-species.

* By analysing the variation within genes certain characteristics can be interpreted like population size (eg; there were very few Denisovans) and that there are as yet unidentified species that humans have inherited from.

* Neanderthals possessed the FOXP2 gene known to be central in human speech.

* One of the oldest known oral traditions has evidence to verify a story from around 30,000 years ago: that Australian aboriginees brought the palm tree seeds with them from the north. See: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-03/aboriginal-legend-palm...

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