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From web dev perspective Safari is becoming new IE6. CSS3 written to spec, working fine on anything else including IE11 tends to fail on Safari. I'm sure I will get a lot of hate from Apple fun boys and girls, but that has been my and my colleagues' experience recently.
Face ID only exists on the iPhone X, so you don't need a way to turn it off on other devices. :)
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It doesn't have to be illegal.

Hedge Funds have access to CEO's, they'll go in and interview them. Ostensibly, the CEO cannot say anything that is not 'public information' - but if you think about it, then why would the Fund even talk to the CEO if 'all info is public'?

Because a lot of nuance can be gained from in person interviews. Little tidbits of information gleaned can make a difference.

I'm not hugely knowledgeable of that industry, so I can't speak of the 'for sure' bad things happening, but I know at least one manager who does this.

Funny: he totally does not believe that they really gain an edge over the public. Then I ask him why he bothers with the interviews and he doesn't have a very good answer. It's almost funny. I suspect his fund partners have a better clue.

So that's one thing.

Another - is that simply by having fewer regulator requirements, hedge's can do all sorts of things that bigger funds cannot.

As far as 'hedge funds not doing as well as the S&P' - well - the S&P changes, and it's made of pretty good companies. Also - a lot of funds come and go - it may not just be 'survivor bias' - some may very well just be dam better than others. Almost all of the gains in VC go to top funds, and there's tons of churn in the bottom 50%, but that is a different dynamic.
Oric Atmos and Telestrat, also black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric
There's also a lot of people that object to a national ID number on religious grounds. These people vote and seem to be influential.
Thanks for this follow-up. It actually doesn't sound like we disagree about anything - so thanks for taking the time to write.

Also thanks for the work you put into greater equality and fairness of outcomes. Entrepreneurship is probably a separate, different axis. (Even though it's the one I asked about.)
U.S. considering closing its embassy in Cuba after mysterious sonic attack
> You've never lived in a state where your car insurance premium depends on your credit score, have you.

Hmm, I don't know, to be honest. That hadn't occurred to me.

> I think you understand perfectly well the problems identity theft can cause, but you're just being intentionally obtuse.

Huh? No, I was asking a question. Why would someone be intentionally obtuse about something like this? I can't figure out how my comment was misinterpreted, but it certainly was. I apologize for my lack of clarity in the original post.

> Um... well... how about anything you can do with your identity, except it's someone else? Do you really not understand why that's a bad thing?

"Anything you can do" isn't very clear, hence my desire to understand the threat better. Assuming I have no need for consumer credit (like, actual loans), it's just not clear to me in which cases a bad credit score can be a problem. Auto insurance had not occurred to me, so thanks for that example.

Once again, I think you may have misinterpreted my comment in some manner. Do people really troll each other over, like, identity theft? Weird. But I wasn't. :)
Add up all the malicious app installs on Google Play Store, and it doesn't even come close to the 500 million[1] (conservative estimate) users affected by XCodeGhost. It looks worse when you consider that the 500 million is on an order of magnitude smaller total iOS userbase vs. Play Store userbase and when you consider that Google allows third party security researchers to investigate and publish research on the Play Store while Apple does not, so XCodeGhost is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.[2]

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macrumors.com/2015/09/20/xc...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/128577/apple-...
The best UX I've seen for recycling & composting is putting up a board with examples of each item for each bin. So the aluminum bin would have cans, the commingled bin would have paper, bottles, etc., compost would have a banana peel, compostable forks, etc., and trash would have all the non-recyclable stuff. The only remaining problem is that the examples are non-exhaustive so you still have to guess if the thing you want to throw away isn't up there, but the trash is always safe.
... or implement Fairplay DRM like NetFlix and others...
An empty free function is technically standards compliant.
No. That's not correct at all. I am pro-business. I like capitalism (as an API not an ideology.) If I thought the GPL was "hostile" to making a buck I wouldn't advocate it.

A business model based on providing software and keeping it secret is fundamentally anti-social and stupid. This is even before we encounter things like cars that lie about their emissions, still at the stage where you can't repair your own tractor.
Here's my bit of uninformed speculation: presumably a lot more potential for aggressive optimizations. It's unlikely that you can make Linux as bare-bones as you could a unikernel. Besides, for all intents and purposes, you can't run Linux through a whole-program optimizer along with your application (not sure if this is even a worthwhile objective). I would also think that communicating between the application and the "kernel" via function calls instead of system calls would yield some non-negligible performance gains as well.
Sorry, but it wouldn't be British enough. These museums are British institutions, sir.
But the opposing bettor got to pick the funds, it's not like Buffett forced anyone to pick funds with risk profiles less likely to result in beating the market.
The OA revenue stream is meant to replace the subscription one, not be in addition to it (long term anyway). I can't tell how much of your comment is tongue-in-cheek or satire, but do you honestly not believe charging authors for the service they are buying (and then ensuring the results are freely available) is morally better than putting the results of science behind paywalls so the authors can publish for free? That seems like a no-brainer to me. Obviously nobody wants to pay for anything if they can not. But paying a transparent price for a service being performed seems like a huge win compared to the status quo of using copyright and paywalls.
huh. I expected this to be a discussion about the ABA problem, probably would have been worth at least a mention

edit ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem
Aren't you curious to see how ridiculous you could look asking "Are you not entertained?!" in a Roman colosseum?

How about a fun app that lets you take famous clips from Movies and overlay your face on it. Kinda like Face Swap for video.
By "his" you mean Google?
There's a relatively recent interview with Charlie Rose, in which Ellison comes off as huge d*bag.
FWIW tptacek and a few others recommend iPhones for journalists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798321
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They don't want a third party in internal trust relationships, but they want to avoid their internal trust being used to attack their communications with the outside even more. Locally added CA certs override even features such as key pinning, so if your local CA gets compromised it can be used to MITM everything. Not everyone trusts themselves to run a CA safely enough, or to make it properly available to developers.
Good list. They missed "Geany" though, so I offered it in the comments. Geany is really under the radar and deserves to make the list.

I suspect a generally unknown fact is that it probably shipped more copies than several of those that made that list because it's been pre-installed on the "Raspbian OS" for a few years now.

https://www.geany.org
I wish this were true of most states in the USA. It’s certainly true in many parts of Europe.

I don’t have an especially authoritative source, and the first map I found was made seven years ago, but I don’t think things have changed much:

http://jalopnik.com/5501615/left-lane-passing-laws-a-state-b...

Only the green states would map to “don’t cruise in the left lane”; the laws in the majority only say you shouldn’t drive slower than normal traffic in the left lane.
Nix supposedly works in the new Linux subsystem of Windows 10, but I haven't tried it.
I've found that a lot of the tricky edge cases in lock free programming can be reduced to the following case:

Imagine that a thread reads a pointer, then immediately (before it dereferences it) gets scheduled out and frozen for arbitrarily long.

To keep the thread from crashing or performing incorrect logic when it wakes up, to have to make sure this pointer remains valid for arbitrarily long.

You have to accommodate the fact that a thread can get frozen basically forever.
There is no PM functionality on Hacker News, and I don't see contact information in your profile.
This does not surprise me.

My personal experience with hedge fund managers is that they are good salesmen that peddle their financial expertise to clients, convincing them of their financial rock-star status (usually gained through a lucky investment or two). Paulson is a classic example. Wealthy individuals buy into it, especially those that are less educated (e.g. those that have inherited money), and happily allocate away their money to these guys. Once the funds grow to a certain size, then they might consider pitching their investments to pension funds, and their money pot grows, as does the nominal value of their fees. By the time they have pension funds on board, their investments get less and less risky, eventually looking more and more like a basket of standard commodities or a standard equity index! Thus, the value they add also becomes smaller and smaller.

In my opinion, the hedge fund industry is a bit of a farce, but there are a small number of firms that do have a secret sauce that works sometimes (rarely forever though). In my experience, the firms that tend to make consistent money are the market makers, rather than the speculators.
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I've been on Gnome 3 for quite some time now, haven't checked out other WMs in a while. I've heard some very good things about i3 though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)

Huge, foolish, excess. Once completed, unable to give it's creator happiness. Not a perfect metaphor, but it gets you thinking.

OT, but Kane is definitely worth watching. Probably enjoy it more if you don't go in to it expecting "the greatest film ever".
Yeh, I hear you. Users consented to sharing their location as one of the variables required to enter the contest. It was a ticket giveaway so knowing their location allowed us to figure out which show they might go to. Again, the videos themselves were emailed directly to users and while sharing them publicly was encouraged, it was not something we did ourselves.

It's like... you gave me an email address so naturally I'm going to email you. You gave me a location so (unnaturally) I'm going to make a video for you.
For a long time SSN cards carried a notice that they were to be used only for social security and taxation purposes and never for identification. Maybe the government should take steps to make the SSN unsuitable as an identifier outside of those two agencies.
https://developer.apple.com/streaming/fps/
>> ... large outcry and threats to go to another provider.

Not an option in rural canada. There aren't any second providers. Even where two may exist for cellular coverage, only one will likely provide reasonable signal in a particular rural location. As for cable/DSL, there is no competition whatsoever. The only real option for protest is through government ombudsmen. hence my point about 5G being used in debates over the provision of broadband services.
EBITDA is not 'BS'.

It's a pretty good metric, actually :)

It really just means 'profit without weird accounting things taken out'.
There was a cycle in consumer electronics. Beige, black, white, grey, and back to beige again. This didn't happen by accident. It was managed by the Color Association of the United States, which decides which colors are "in" for each season.[1] They've been doing this since 1915.

The Color Association has much less clout than it used to, since the US lost its apparel business. They once really did rule color, because their "forecasts" were used by big fabric mills to decide what to make in quantity.

[1] http://www.colorassociation.com/pages/6-forecasts
I heard that Expressif was working on an LLVM port, but we'll see...
> that is sure to swallow the 8 bit micros.

What makes you say that?

MicroChip released new xMega's in May. [0]

[0] http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATXMEGA64A1U
As someone who went from webdev to more devops work, and as someone self-taught who started writing javascript by hand and testing on all browsers in the era of ie6, I'm really put off by how whiny the web-dev community seems. (When represented by people like you)

It's your job, dude! You have to test in multiple browsers and deal with irregularities! It's the same for everyone in every aspect of computers!
For me, Safari's engine level blocking is huge. Safari ad blockers aren't just a mile long list of CSS rules (which can bog things down as much or more than add), they're JSON rule files that are compiled to byte code via LLVM and then applied to the list of resources that are allowed to be loaded BEFORE the page has loaded. Result: blocked elements aren't even requested and blocking has a near-zero performance impact. These extensions, being nothing but JSON, also can't track anyone or do anything malicious, giving you a 100% guarantee that it can't be highjacked and updated to do something malicious.

Aside from that, Apple's design decisions tend towards giving the user more control over their experience while Google seems mostly interested in wooing developers, regardless of cost (who cares about resource consumption or what the user wants?). Apple's approach aligns with me better.
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Ah, great. This used to be rather clunky to do.
Unfortunately, it is nonsense, in large part.

Not all algorithms are obvious from a picture of the data structure, otherwise we wouldn't need computer science at all.

No, you won't spontaneously invent a minimax search with alpha-beta pruning if you're just show the picture of the game tree with board positions.

Some of the "low-hanging fruit" is obvious, but that's about it.

In the other direction, some algorithms are abstract; the same structure will work for more than one data structure. Sometimes the process is important, not the low level representational pieces. E.g. "map reduce".

Gee, don't show me "map reduce"; I need to see the servers and requests! No wait, I mean linked lists and atoms, ...
Hmm, an interesting pullback. Usually the US is pretty persistent in remaining in even the most dangerous places. I actually turned down a state department job because of the dangerous placements.

Additionally, it isn't clear who is doing this attack, it could be:

1) The cuban government

2) A foreign government

3) a non governmental actor, cuban or non cuban, paid or unpaid.
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I just checked and nothing really lines up with what the author states.

MacOS Sierra and El Capitan default to the "Last Printer Used". The UI is the same in both and there is no indication in the UI that this a per network preference.

Windows 10 defaults to "Let Windows manage my default printer" and has clarifying text under the option that states "Windows will set your default printer to be the one you used most recently at your current location". Which appears to be the feature the author loves about OSX.

Windows 7 sets the first installed printer as the default printer and when you install a printer it asks if you would like to default to it in the future.

Personally I prefer the Windows 7 approach over macOS and Windows 10. Having a network/location default would be ideal in my mind and that doesn't appear to be an option for macOS or Windows.
And yet nobody in the industry is doing the work for cheaper at scale. And the noble non-profit players like PLOS aren't able to do it cheaper either. So yes, you can take the stand that literally every single player in the industry really sucks at what we do, from the large commercial publishers all the way to the non-profits. Or you could acknowledge the alternate hypothesis, which is that it might simply cost that much to deliver the services performed.
Slow approach with a sheet 20-30cm wide held at opposite edges by both hands. The film being transparent the fly sometimes doesn't notice it. Also a convenient means of disposal.
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The article focuses on junk food, but it's both.

Until recently in medium-sized Brazilian cities, the only fast food chains an American would recognize are McDonald's and Subway. This changed since the last two years. In a short span of time I saw new franchises of KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino's and Burger King.
The apps are presenting their own UIs showing all the photos. They also have options to upload all the photos in the background. They clearly get permission to access all the photos.

Going to settings doesn't help

1) Giving an app permission to access the photos and then revoke it when I'm done doesn't prevent the app from accessing as many photos as it pleases until I revoke access. In the time it would take for me to give an app access, select a photo, and then revoke the app could easily have looked at 10s or 100s of photos.

Add some ML in there for their ad targeting

2) With the Mic off I can't receive calls in any of the messaging apps. If iOS asked each time then that issue would go away but as it is I need to leave on mic support or miss calls. I suppose I could miss the first call, turn on mic support, return the call, turn off mic support.

Still, I'd argue if Apple wanted to be even more serious about privacy they wouldn't allow apps to have unrestricted access to the mic as they do because it makes the burden of trying to prevent spying pretty cumbersome.
I should also note that the location consent was (in most cases) initiated by the HTML5 Geolocation prompt. Now a lot of companies use this technology to reposition something like a Google Map on their website. We did the same thing but positioned a static map and made it part of a video composition.
So clearly, for the individual, the optimal strategy is to simply invest in index funds and just wait.

But a new question that is being raised is: "what happens if everyone only invests in index funds?"
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"If I'm overriding random domains without doing my due diligence, then I get what I deserve."

I mean, that is exactly what is happening here, so it sounds like you get it. We aren't doing things on other people's behalf; HSTS is part of our plans.
Why should the option to do more complicated things be taken away? If some behaviour is needed and preferable for the vast majority of users, then of course this should be default - but why, oh why, must their not be an option, hidden behind some series of menus, to change that behaviour for those users who are so inclined?
"The lessons you can learn from them are applicable far beyond the fields the books are technically about."

The 'Art of War' is about winning in a zero sum game.

For most of history, that's the only way wealth could be created, i.e. 'taken'.

The Valley in particular, is a testament to the opposite - that value can be created out of thin air, that we can 'grow the pie a lot, and just take a small slice as profit and everyone wins'.

The 'Art of War' is therefore a bad business book for so many reasons - it presupposes that the only way you can win, is by destroying others. Surely, in some markets/situations it may be like that, but overall, it's antithetical to the premise of innovation.

Gates was somewhat like that Jobs a little less.

The 'new gen' are not really like that so much. I think Zuck & co. are highly competitive, but not conquerors.
Semi-related question: could you train a bot to play a game like Agar.io by pitting a whole bunch of bot players against each other in the same instance?
> Has there been any thought put toward simpler alternatives to HTTP+TLS?

Well, many people think that current TLS is too complicated and in part that discussion led to TLS 1.3. While I'm still not entirely happy with the complexity, it is far less complex than TLS 1.2.

TLS 1.3 removes a lot of the options that 1.2 had.
> Apple took two hardline positions on web tech and not everyone is playing by both of these rules.

Which ones? Desktop Safari still supports Flash and it has DRM available in the form of FairPlay. It's the latter which those other platforms are presumably using.
I can't vouch for this source, but here's a claim that alpha is real: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2016/07/26/is-active....
I'll just add that, in my experience, milk and coffee do not mix well. YMMV.
Yes, in the German system Internet over the phone lines has to be open to other providers, so for ADSL there always is competition and thus it's hard for a single provider to worsen conditions for ADSL customers (also takes away competition as incentive to physically improve the infrastructure though).
Because it's really difficult to disentangle changes made legitimately in supporting a merge from unintended extra changes that break things.

It also separates changes you made to implement your functionality work relative to the branch point from the extra changes you need to have your functionality work relative to the merge point. With rebase, you get the opportunity to put all the code to implement a feature in one place.

Remember that the usual caveats about writing software apply: you're doing this for the future-you and future-team-mates who come along in a few months trying to make sense of it all. Make life easy for them.
Thinking about it some more. For Camera and Mic they could have the option to "ask the user" every time and revoke that permission if the top is not the front app after a minute or so. That would at least prevent using the camera and mic when the user has not recently given permission. Whether people would use it or not I don't know. I would.
As long as it includes a portable toilet.
>it takes a year to approve a cell that can be installed in an hour. Permit fees run to thousands of dollars per cell, and cells often require permits not only from cities but from Native American tribal authorities—even for locations far from tribal lands

And I thought we had it bad in Brazil...
Here's the problem with current trash UX:

1. Person walks up with trash in hand to 3 bins. Each bin has a poster with pictures of items which are meant for that bin.
Each person has to make O(n) comparisons for each of the bin and then make the closest judgment call.
Too exhausting, error prone and inefficient as each person is solving the classification problem for a given trash item over and over again.

Here's a simple solution to the problem above:

1. Setup a regulation that each article be simply labelled with a numeral marking: "1", "2" or "3".
Standardize each trash bin to be called bin #1, #2 or #3.
Each person simply throws the trash in the matching bin.

This moves the classification problem from the person to the time of manufacturing of the article. Also, the classification is only done once by experts and not by each person at the time of throwing away the article.
Also, reduces the classification problem for the person from O(n) to O(1).

Simple solution which solves the problem in elegant fashion.
In other words, Safari users have no choice but to switch browsers or use the desktop app.

I understand that/why OP is unhappy but that is a pretty decent choice they offer here.