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I completely get the business model.

What I don't understand is why they are coupling the business model to enforced storage in the cloud. Could someone explain why the one necessitates the other, from their point of view?

I saddened that they're going to force me to stop using 1Password after all this time. I really like the software, but I don't like handing over a lifetime of secrets to a third party—any third party.
I'm not sure how the subscription model makes sense for a password manager. In general, I'm not a fan of the subscription model. I hate the trend towards subscription. I can imagine a day, when I pay $5 a month for a password manager, $5 a month for office, $5 for slack, $5 for a to do manager, $5 fr a mail product, $10 for an internet browser, and after all that having no money for anything else.
The post is flagged. By whom? We should report flag misuse to hn. Flag is meant to be for spam as per HN. Flagging This is clearly someone censoring from 1password. Another red flag not to use 1p
I’ve only seen like one movie this month so very possible. When I signed up I watched a movie a day until there was nothing else. I bet most people will be the same. Moviepass will probably have to get people into year plans only so there’s no subscribing just to May/June/July for the big blockbusters.

But yeah it’s pretty dumb for that to be their only game plan. They could pivot and license their tech out to chains to run their own programs - especially smaller chains.
With cashback on Executive membership, it always ends up being free (and then some) for me. On the other hand, Amazon was just not worth the aggravation of having to deal with their customer "service".
It's an anthropomorphization.
I don't have Movie Pass, but according to moviepass subreddit they do have phone support: 646-400-0801 11AM-8PM EDT.

(Might be newly added depending on when you cancelled). Doesn't necessarily mean they have good customer support, but probably a step in the right direction.
I think we choose learning styles just as we choose a lifestyle, a political party, sports team or candidate, or favorite color. It is only meaningful to us. We get discouraged from using, say, visual memory, because it is hard at that moment. But in a proper learning environment based on encouragement, you get over that easily.
> Turner said cell carriers can't completely secure our phones because they have to allow for law enforcement access.

The key sentence in the article. The reason there isn’t a fix is that our (U.S.) government prefers spying on its citizens over being protected from other powers’ spying.
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They boast of the CEO growing customers from 20,000 to 2M by cutting prices. But by cutting prices, they lose more money per customer. So by growing customers they grow losses.

One thing you see time and time again is some version of the old joke: “We lose money on every unit, but we make it up on volume!”
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There's also http://www.carsurvey.org/
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It's a 10 year old blog post from the creator of CouchDB who then later declared the project dead despite it already having a vibrant open source community with multiple users and contributors. Then went on to create another project that had a similar name but was a merge of a bunch of other technologies which lead to endless confusion years on after the fact.

http://damienkatz.net/2012/01/the_future_of_couchdb.html

Yes, of course the argument should stand on its own despite the author's other claims or blog posts, so let's review some claims:

> Because Prolog sucks ass for building entire applications.

There have been entire applications written in Prolog. Attacking syntax is is just silly. Had Prolog used statements and not expressions or ; instead of . I doubt we'd would have a seen a lot more or less applications in Prolog.

> But that hasn't deterred Erlang from stealing it's dynamite syntax.

The syntax is consistent. That's the point. It has relatively few syntax and semantic rules. It has strong types and behaves consistently, comparing say, with "this" in Javascript. js has semicolons but it behave inconsistently sometimes. You'd have to explain why {} + [] = 0 for example. Picking on js here since the author used js as an example of a "good" language.

> editing code is much harder than conventional languages.

Have not found this to be true. It is a bit harder. But not much harder and not a show stopper. You can't randomly copy and paste code and reorder statements because compiler will not like it. That's probably a good thing. Variables being immutable is helping when inserting a new function call in the middle, you have to think well if that modified value is suitable for the operations that follow below.

> If Expressions

There are 6 paragraphs talking about the "if" expression. "if" is not even used that often and focusing on it just because it has the same name as the "if" statement from Algol (C) type languages is a waste of time.

Use "case" instead or even better multiple function clause heads. Yes, you can't do an early return so you have to explicitly handle every case. I see it as a good thing. You can cheat and say "_ -> ...DefaultValue" but it will stand and be obvious what's happening to the reader.

> You Say String of Characters, I Say List of Integers

Or list of unicode code points... You have a choice to use binaries instead of lists of integers. They are closer to the traditional strings in other languages. This is a better explanation of how they work: https://medium.com/@jlouis666/erlang-string-handling-7588daa...

> but it's surprisingly limited and verbose, requiring you to state the type of the record for each reference in the code.

Since the blog was written Erlang got maps other languages call them dicts or hash tables for example.

All in all I'd say syntax is often what people talk about but it is closer to bike shedding. It is easy to argue about because it's right there and everyone can see a . instead of a ;. It would better to talk about the semantics of the language, sending messages, concurrency, modeling applications as a set of communicating processes, supervision trees etc.
I seem to recall the author of the old post ditched Erlang at some later point.
The difference being that the Russian guard will quite possibly like it.
I can tell that you’re not from Germany or know anyone from here that pirates. There are special law firms (Waldorf Frommer comes to mind) specializing only on sending out cease and desist letters carrying fines of around 1.000€ per infringement (mostly movies and tv shows). ISP’s willingly hand over any customer data to those firms. Of course the only one benefiting from this is the law firms not the copyright holder who never sees any decent payout. Torrenting in Germany can get very expensive very fast if you don’t know what you’re doing. I got big folders full of letters from Waldorf Frommer & Co from before I learned about VPN’s and I still get the occasional letter when my VPN fails or I’m being stupid. They can/will freeze your bank accounts if you don’t pay, it’s no joke.
That's how Planet Fitness sells gym memberships for $15/month. People are not good at predicting their future behavior. I don't like their gyms, but the business model can make money.

If movie pass owned the product they were selling they might have been able to pull it off.
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Having ridden on the Changsha Maglev I wouldn't suggest its a very well refined design. Lots of shuddering and certainly didn't seem designed for anything much more than commuter speed.
HN isn't really startup-focused, beyond sharing a domain name with YC. I for one go on HN every day and don't particularly care about startups.
God didn’t create evil. Is there something specific you’re thinking of?
Hermy-own. I stumbled on it every single time.
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Very interesting article, very misleading title.
After reading this article I am more convinced about gvisor or something similar.

The security of your systems is best left to experts.
Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint/Word have a patch in _CFArraySortValues to change the sorting algorithm slightly. How do you break sorting?!

To take a wild guess, it could be a change from a stable to unstable sort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Stability

Apple gets a bad reputation for their supposed lack of backwards compatibility. Nothing is further from the truth: macOS includes tweaks for specific important apps to keep them working on new OS versions.

I read it more as "even Apple is willing to put in patches for backwards compatibility, if your app is important enough." If your app is not, then Apple couldn't care less. MS is more conservative about not breaking things even for relatively obscure apps.
This sounds somewhat analogous to what Nvidia do with their graphics drivers. You hear stories about how the driver is full of game specific hacks to work around bugs / poor designs in the games themselves.

While this can be good for performance and stability of these games, it does result in a bloated and complex driver, which I'm certain is difficult to maintain.
With correspondingly higher prices than HEB (it's owned by HEB).

I've been to the central Central Market. The lack of products is kinda off-putting. Better to go hit the HEB at Mueller, which has a huge selection from upscale to downscale products.

And beer in growlers.
That was my first thought too.

"Most businesses would close if their customers never showed up. An empty restaurant is a disaster. An empty store means bankruptcy. At a gym, emptiness equals success.

Today on the show, the mind games that gyms play with you. From design to pricing to free bagels, gyms want to be a product that everyone buys, but no one actually uses."

From Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/12/17/371463435/epis...
It has saved me too a couple of times. Jetbrains for the win :)
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So what is the reasoning behind Apple's constant breaking changes?
It's not because of any insidious details of the contracts. It's an unusual tidbit of copyright law that a work of the government is not copyrightable. But work done by contractors is not done by the government. It is done by a private entity that is perfectly able to hold and retain copyright. The incentives are such that the government doesn't really care whether it (or the people) have ownership of the IP rights, just that the government is free to use it. So the contractors sell the government the unrestricted right to use it, for government purposes only. The contractors often offer a smaller bid for letting them keep the copyrights, which from a direct, first-order financial perspective is a better deal for taxpayers.
From the article:

> "Note that this is just a list of apps Apple has developed compatibility tweaks to make them run on newer macOS versions. As the list demonstrates, even the best apps often needs some tweaks on newer macOS. In addition, most of these patches are only applied to older versions of apps."

Quite a stretch from this to the clickbait title "These 299 macOS apps are so buggy...".
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This. A middle-man can handle some of their clients failing. The problem is that, at my guess, WeWork's clients have highly correlated failure rates.
God created everything directly and indirectly, everything includes evil. Even if it was indirect, being omniscient makes him ultimately responsible for it.

Either that or you start to get into pantheistic territory.
Why are people surprised by this? It seems so naive to think they would be upfront with their massive secret, dark projects.
AMC has been struggling at keeping people in the theaters. Shouldn’t they be thankful for a company like MoviePass that gets people into theaters again, even if it’s at a lower ticket price?
It will be interesting to see what happens. Demand has spoken at this price point. Will supply come around to accept it and produce movies for e.g. $25m instead of $100m?
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I guess I made the big time!

The iTerm2 one is interesting because it came too late. Apple's patch disables Sierra's native tabbing. Version 3.1.3 did not disable it completely. I published a fix in version 3.1.4 which came out on October 22, 2017, about a month after Sierra launched. I guess they must have fixed it in a dot release of Sierra, but I won the race and got the fix out before 10.12.1 which came out on October 27.

I'm glad someone's got my back, anyway.
I already tried adding a model based on its lat/lon. Unfortunately, the gps in mobile devices is not accurate enough to position the model exactly where I want it to be. It seems like no matter what I do, the real-world lat/lon is between 5 and maybe 20m off (even if I filter location results to be better than say 4m horizontal accuracy).

If you don’t care about exact positioning and orientation, it could work. Say you walk around your neighbourhood and you see objects placed around certain locations like a park, sone other open area, etc. But if you want the model to always stick to exactly the same point, it will be a lot harder, even if you use third-party services like Mapbox.
Gyms rely on their clients optimism to sign up, but profit on their lack of commitment, which seems to be what MoviePass is banking on. Early adopters tend to be the most vocal and the most intent on extracting value, so I can see that if they hit a certain level of users, there's a chance it could be as profitable as a gym.

The question comes down to one of runway, and it's tough to tell if the CEO is being truthful about future investment.

It seems risky but I'm curious to see if I should give it a try now vs. waiting until they get more "creative" with their plans.
Reminds me of my all-time favorite Joel Spolsky story about Bill Gates' amazing technical free-diving skills and the Excel date compatibility problem.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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Interesting that Firefox made it onto the list; one would have assumed it would have been easier to produce a patch for an open source application than to maintain a compatibility fix in your own code.
Local vs. National pricing is always funny like that. For example, a local doughnut chain had a sale that was actually $0.01 more expensive than the local price.
There is some interesting research on fasting and the immune system:

https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...
And who will decide what is not to be tolerated?
>>cryptocoin was meant to free folks from being persecuted for such "non-crimes" as tax evasion, securities fraud, prostitution, narcotics trafficking, arms trafficking, etc.

It's important to clarify that "securities fraud" here refers to what statutes refer to as securities fraud, and not any actual fraud involving securities.

Any sale of a non-registered security is termed "securities fraud" by the Securities Act, even if the sale involves zero fraud. The term, as used in the statutory context, is a misnomer, and an Orwellian attempt at misleading the public into believing there was a victim in the transaction.

Generally libertarians like the cypherpunks do not object to laws against real fraud. It's the victimless crimes like prostitution, trade in unregistered securities, drugs, etc that they believe should be free of prohibition.

Anyway, to your point, there are legal industries where traditional financial players cannot operate, like the legal cannabis industry, due to everything from corporate policies being slow to react to the change in laws, to reputational risk, to non-binding but still influential guidances and warnings from regulatory agencies (e.g. Operation Chokepoint). These also might be/become natural sources of demand for cryptocurrency.
I don’t understand this pseudo code from the article:
if __CFAppVersionCheckLessThan("com.microsoft.Powerpoint", CFSystemVersionYosemite) {

Why are they comparing an app version to an OS version?
Interesting. I wonder how much this lookup check adds to every app's load time?

I may have missed it in the article, but is the lookup run only upon first time the app is executed, or on every single run instance?
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Tri-rail is basically ratchet AF and slow, but it is convenient if you have nothing else.
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I would say the Singapore mrt is an even better example, since it features privately operated lines.
> [This] function, which returns true if the current app matches the specified bundle ID and is linked on or prior to the macOS version. Thus, older versions of the app would have the fix applied, while newer versions built with a newer SDK would not.

This it notable. It means Apple is ensuring backwards compatibility. Even if an updated version of your app (as detected by what OS it linked against) fixes things, these patches are still around for older versions of the app people may still be running.

Backwards compatibility never ages out...
Might be. I took a look at _CFArraySortValues, and the "normal" path through it ends up calling CFQSortArray. However, the "com.microsoft.*" path performs what appears to be a bubble sort. Interestingly, the public facing version of CoreFoundation doesn't have the special-case paths: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/df3e...
But even then... why sell a plan providing me no discount? Shouldn't I get the same discount others would off their tickets?

It's strange to hear there are places Cinemark has significantly higher prices: I live in a fairly affluent suburban area, my Cinemark is literally around the corner from a significant number of multi-million dollar properties. Anyone who sees movies near me can arguably afford the higher ticket prices.

But thanks for the non-local perspective on the matter!
On Steam you can find a game called "Zombie Night Terror" which is basically Lemmings with a horror/zombie theme. I enjoyed it and was excited to play Lemmings style game
You can confirm these stories by downloading Nvidia Inspector which includes the Nvidia Profile Inspector that allows you to view and edit the - hundreds - game profiles the driver knows about and even make new ones (quite useful if you are playing some obscure game that happens to have a similar bug or use the same engine as a more popular game). The available tweaks even include fixes for games released in the 90s.
I disagreed up until the docs section.

I like all the other things he critiqued!!1!

Rearranging: the punctuation helps you think about how you’re rearranging. You can’t copy/paste around in any function and expect it it work!

The records comparison to a struct is unfair. He could have patterned matched on the record instead of destructuring and accessed the attributes of the record.

Immutability! Fuck yeah! I tend to name subsequent variables with the mutation that was applied to them. It’s wordy.

Name = “wayne”

NameCapitalized = ...

Now get off my lawn!
Let me ask you a provocative question. When you build credibility in your field, will you be reviewing papers for free for open access journals?
Its explanation (Japanese):
https://qiita.com/KTakahiro1729/items/c9cb757473de50652374

And we can implement Lisp interpreter with list comprehension:
https://github.com/t-sin/lisc
China also lacks actual mechanisms ensuring that land seizure serves the public and results in fair compensation.

Some models are better off not being applied.
> Researchers have begun experimenting with using emergency contacts gathered from medical records to build family trees that can be used to study the heritability of hundreds of different attributes, and possibly advance research into diseases and responses to medications.

Will leverage of blanket permissions and ToS for
big data/ML usage be the next frontier of "hacking"?
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It doesn't use real node-local/shard-local MVCC AFAICT. It's O_APPEND on flat files.
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It's comparing what macOS version the app is linked against, not the app's own version number.
Happy to see value types making their way, however I'd put good money on not seeing this in Android until 2030 at the earliest.
I suppose Excel data is often almost sorted with a few new additions, which makes bubble sort an arguably better choice?
I am working on an educational related project.

Pretty much what I do is have traditional textbook type materials for students to read. I also have the same materials in a visual interactive type lecture that basically explains/shows how to do something followed by some sort of interactive exercise where the student can apply the previously taught materials. The interactive exercises also act as a way to teach material as well. By analyzing how the student interacts with the exercise I can determine how well they understand the lesson. Nothing is locked in. If students don't want to read the textbook then they don't have to. Likewise, if students don't want to listen to the lectures then they don't have to either they can skip to the exercises.

After learning about 10 of these lessons that compose the chapter they can take a skills quiz to see how well they know the material. I intentionally make all the skill quizzes extra hard just to make sure students know the material before progressing to the next chapter.

If you have ever used codecademy then it is very similar. The only difference is my project is focused on entire college courses. If you took MIT OCW and combined it with codecademy then that is basically what I am working on. I am combining the formal structure of a college course with the technological innovation seen in codecademy.
There is an unfortunate asymmetry that breaks wikipedia this way which is counter to the asymmetry that makes wikipedia work. Making an article is harder than reverting or deleting it. This asymmetry produces all of the content and stops it from going too pear shaped. The asymmetry of good actors getting annoyed by bad actors and leaving unfortunately swings in the other direction.
Related to gaming and preserving memories, I recall a Reddit thread a couple of years ago about a young lad who loved playing a first person car racing game with his dad.

After his dad unexpectedly passed, he went back to the game one day and noticed his dad's "ghost" car racing against him on the track. As his dad's ghost car would always be the one to race against as long as it held the lap record, I believe he said that if he ever got close to beating his dad's time, he would back off and lose the head to head so that he could always continue to race his dad.
From what I'm reading now, it seems like it's read-only. Only to get things from a vault onto their servers.

I still don't understand how the revenue model (subscriptions) necessitates the technical solution (cloud storage).
That'd be an absolute dream. Never going to happen with the current political climate though. The Victorian government could barely get some level crossings removed without Murdoch and the Liberals shitting all over it.

It's basically sacrilege to invest in infrastructure other than coal power plants in this country.