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There's a balance to be found by each app developer between roll-your-own and just-use-a-web-browser.

There's room in there for Ultralight, Awesomium, Chromium, Dear Imgui, SDL, Cairo, WPF, even GDI+.

That's basically because (I think) there's still a lot of effort being put into recreating UIs - especially for apps, games, and embedded.

(In embedded, as in, embedded systems running linux or VxWorks or something, the story is less well known, but it's the exact same balance and set of choices.)
Epic, well Tim Sweeney, bemoaned Microsoft for pushing to get developers to release apps/games within their store. I think Epic feels, and probably rightly so, that they can go the direct route and come out okay.

And if they judged incorrectly, they can always distribute it in the store later. Much easier to add it to Google Play than remove it from Google Play from a PR standpoint.
Good job TechCrunch.
Amazon self-published authors: Our books were banned for no reason
Why gopher is still relevant
I mean, there's more to a "good" or "bad" neighbourhood than how many people die each year. There's all the other types of crime, for instance...

That, and if you want to raise a family, what kind of role models and community surrounds your children is important.
Money doesn't trickle to a select few startups, and even so, there's a good reason: many startups operate in winner-take-all markets, so you can only once in the winner.
Recent and established ophthalmic conditions and risk of Alzheimer’s disease
That indeed was what in my mind. For viewers it can be a huge time waste. I lost many nights' sleep watching kittens, puppies or comedy videos, often from 11pm until 5am, in my early Douyin days. The platform kept giving me stuff from the same category again and again. There was also the suspense that you wish to know what the next video would be like. But the next day I felt terrible. Nowadays I don't open Douyin/Tik Tok after getting on bed.

On the other hand, this form (of convenience and simple pleasure) matches our basic desire, imo. So maybe it will continue to develop and expand.

I should say Douyin/Tik Tok is also great for people to express themselves, to create artistic content, to provide valuable content. So potato chip or bubble gum are naturally not very accurate descriptions.
> A million people probably have at least 10x more relatives and friends on the outside.

An ethnically targeted detention would very likely involve entire family and social circles.

> Ways of breaching the great firewall are well known even within China. Shouldn't there be...numerous reports of missing persons if this is the case?

Retribution against those piercing the firewall with politically inconvenient information to the regime are also known, even inside of China; oppressive control of information is not just a technical issue.

Plus, there are reports. That's the whole issue.
By default it is blocked although it's usually one of the first things I turn off. I always have at least one or two apps that aren't on the play store.

I hope that Google doesn't block this feature and turn entirely into a walled garden.
HN agrees, and so doesn't have downvoting for posts, only comments. (Posts can be flagged, which is different.)
What does TFA stand for? Also the article does mention race fwiw

> Across the four cities and the thousands of users, consistent patterns around age, race, and education level emerge. White men and Asian women are consistently more desired than other users, while black women rank anomalously lower.
It still means rotation in "a + bi". If you take "a + b" you get another real number, but if you take "a + bi", the b component has been rotated by 90 degrees (i), and now it's orthogonal to a. Even if we drop complex numbers, it's not like we write out points in polar coordinates as "5 + 30 degrees" - how are you adding a length and an angle together?
That is essentially what taking a large cut on your app platform is: rent seeking. It's your ecosystem, but it comes out of my pocket as the consumer (unless you're large enough to avoid, like Fortnite).
Brazil, like most of South (and now perhaps north too?) America suffers from macho populism. A lot of character politicians with tough messages, empty promises and sadly the population just falls for it every time.

These stats, along with others, is the result of years of populism, corruption and neglect.
Agreed, but even if we got voting machines to the level of resiliency of aircraft engineering, the effort of a determined adversary would still carry enormous consequences.
Alternatively, how much does Google gain by having a platform that allows companies to bypass the Play store? Myself, a tiny and possibly unrepresentative data point, counts as one customer who chooses them specifically for this reason.
I wonder if this becomes a norm in the Android freemium gaming community, will they start advertising more Android ads to iPhone users. Maybe even start offering free "trade-up" program if they spend enough.

If a user spends $1000, and 30% goes to Apple, that's $300 that could of bought the user a dedicated gaming device that will allow them to avoid that 30% tax.

I love Apple, but 30% for in-app purchases is something I will never find comfortable.

I get the exposure, but a game like Fortnite already has enough exposure.

Will freemium gaming companies eventually produce their own device to avoid this 30%.

Only time will tell, but I can say that if I had a game generating $300 million in revenue, and 60 million went to Apple, I wouldn't mind spending a few million in research on how to get out of paying that 60 million for the next year.
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How would it know how to capitalize them correctly?

Tiny example: Mackenzie vs MacKenzie (yes, both exist; and no, they’re not interchangeable).
A coworker of mine wrote a Hadoop job scheduler (Oozie replacement) scheduler in bash because our defense network’s packaging restrictions were so awful. I suspect that once this library shows up in DoD projects that even bash will wind up becoming replaced / neutered
PictureTime: A small truck that takes unique viewing experience
I always find the "algebraic closure" approach to be the best bet for explaining complex numbers. Much like how having negative numbers means that you can subtract any two numbers (closure under addition), having complex numbers means you can find the roots of any polynomial. If you don't have complex numbers, something like `x^2 + 1` has no real roots, and you have a problem.

The really nice part of this explanation is that it tells you why complex numbers show up everywhere. It turns out that it's rather straightforward to find physical real-world problems with input parameters that are coefficients to polynomials and behavior that depends on the roots of those polynomials. Take a slinky or another other harmonic oscillator - when you model it with a differential equation, the polynomial coefficients are how heavy the slinky is, how much speed-dependent resistance there is, and how springy it is. Factoring the polynomial gives you the behavior over time, and it pretty much always has some sort of behavior, so the roots should be some kind of number.
Depending on who you ask and how they feel about their platform, the answer is "yes, on that platform".
I don't buy your characterization of car drivers' rights as having "historical precedent" while cyclists (only) have "newfound legislative" rights. Cyclists' rights to use public roads go back at least as far as motorists' do, and the subsequent poor design of roads with respect to cyclists' rights did not annul them.

If anything, it is the more recent (and sensible) restriction of cycle use on certain major roads that is "newfound".
Of course, you can't really beat the congestion offered by zero cars in your bus lane.
With rent surging, these startups offer to pay the security deposit
"Speaking out only when it's safe or beneficial for them to do so."

You say that like it was a bad thing.

I'm not sure what "coward" even means when applied to a large organization that has a duty to keep its employees safe. Is hiring someone else to take the risk brave?
"Progressive" is marketing term backed by a shaky ideology that has been totally twisted to serve the powerful.

Eric Holder for example was hired for big money by Uber to push the narrative that background checks for Uber drivers is discriminatory against minorities, never mind that lack of background checks exposes women (especially women of color) to a lot of danger from sex offenders.

Another example is in my own city of Seattle, Comcast for years has been successfully advocating against broadband competitors and one of their "arguments" is that building out higher speed internet in high income areas will cause inequity that will affect minorities in poorer neighborhoods. By "progressive" logic this makes perfect sense but it's obvious that it's simply a powerful company blocking out competition.
No, it's the same writing that frames piracy as "costing" money to the developers. If something costs you some money there's the implication that you had the money, and then you didn't have it after that something happening. As much as they'd like to believe it, projected earnings aren't money you actually have
The funny thing about Google as a Gatekeeper is that it's already a Gatekeeper via search. Even in a world where there are no 30% distribution shares, most products still live and die by their ranking on search results for either brand searches or long tail keywords. It's not uncommon to see brands buying their own name as keywords just to rank #1 on search results pages that are more and more fully loaded with ads above-the-fold, including competitors who buy keywords against well know brands.

The Play store is just additional icing on the cake. They're not losing sleep over the one unicorn exception known as Fortnite. 99.9% of other companies do not have the word of mouth to overcome the various gates, whether it's Google or Apple or Steam.
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Discovery, ratings, etc., and managing payments are services with value, especially for small players with apps that don't have an established fan base before they are released for the paltform. Charging for these services is reasonable.

Allowing people to get apps that don't need these services elsewhere is also a good idea.
Thank you! Added to my ever growing list.

This also resonates with me

"It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_con...

Add "profit motive" and it perfectly explains con artists like Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Ben Carson, too many to list.

Like P. T. Barnum before them, the primary intent is to fleece their audience. Suck them in with the outrage, then empty their wallets.

Rinse, lather, repeat.
That's only a discussion on the probability of a crash. I'm talking about the effect, given a crash has occured.

Because people in this thread claim that it's virtually impossible for a cyclist to get killed when crashing into a car. Only a car crashing into a cyclist could possibly kill the latter.

And that's nonsense.
On the flip side, it probably helps if good role models are willing to take their chances in establishing their presence in an at risk community. Change has to start somewhere.
You need a lawyer. Legalzoom is fine for basic legal tasks where you know exactly what you need (I've used it to form an LLC where I'm holding property), but this is more complex than that. You're soliciting advice on a legal issue from people on an internet forum, which is a pretty clear cut sign you need an attorney. I will obligatorily throw in that I work at a company called UpCounsel that helps you hire qualified business attorneys for less than what a BigLaw firm will charge you, but even if you don't give us a look, please speak to an attorney. Remember that the Winklevii cost Facebook tens of millions of dollars in cash and stock - that's the kind of thing that might well have been avoided with the proper use of a qualified attorney early on.
EU's document says that iOS does not compete in the same market as Android, so it was entirely excluded from consideration. Funny isn't it? :)
More or less. But Brazil is, for example, the world's largest armored (bulletproof) car market. I could name a large amount of social and cultural effects of this low-intensity war we have going on.
Quite consistently: no downvote button on comments more than 24 hours old; no downvote button on comments that are followups to your own comment.

Submissions don't have downvoting, but you can flag them.
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I'd rather have management that knows its business/technology over a humanities major any day
losing out on potential earnings isn't the same as losing money
Yes, there are no headlines saying "Valve will lose $600M or more in 2018 from Fortnite"...
Like the parent comment said, you need an authorized terminal, which is linked to a merchant account, which is linked to your bank account (and thus your identity). What do you think visa/mastercard is going to do when the fraud reports start flooding in? Chances are, you're going to be caught before your first payment arrives in your bank account.
Charging a reasonable fee for these services would be reasonable. 30% is extortion.
Hitting screws with hammers, eh? Ever drive a nail with a drill?
Preventing "lost or replaced" with paper ballots is a straightforward exercise in good human process. There are states that do not have good human process to manage their ballots, despite the example of other states that do have good process. Those states are incompetent/malicious.
The majority of deaths in the war in Syria have also been combatants with only being minority civilians, a substantial minority certainly but I suspect there's a reasonable minority of "civilians" killed in Brazilian drug wars.

This 63K killed/year figure seems to exceed some years of the Syrian civil war. Brazil is a larger country but the drug war is concentrated in a minority of the country. The one thing you're not getting is bombed out apartment buildings and mass population displacements.

Edit: I mean, "not Aleppo like" is true for some interpretation of the phrase but one certainly shouldn't view this a "no reason to worry if you haven't consciously entered the drug trade" or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil...
Correct, and this happens because Brazil is one of the most disgustingly unequal countries in the world. There was a small pause during the leftist governments when there was a noted improvement in social support for the poor, but the recent events have brought even that to an end. The current government is not only corrupt but is completely anti-people. Their plan is to cut the little existing social net, destroy public education, and put everyone who complains under military surveillance.
The author certainly has a couple of valid points, especially that there is a certain amount of equality distribution and trust-breaking provided by the "gig economy".

However, what the author totally misses is that the regulation movements are not without merits, often due to blatant abuse and profiteering:

- Uber gets flak because of surge pricing, whereas (at least in Germany) taxis are mandated to provide the same price to all customers, no matter source or destination, or the skin color or BAC of the passenger

- AirBNB gets flak because instead of people renting out their spare rooms, a lot of "hosts" abuse the system and run straight hotels in residential areas, with all the problems this incurs (noise, drunkards, sometimes illegal prostitution). In addition for many years AirBNB dodged the hotel and tourist taxes that hotels had to pay, thus depriving the cities of tax revenue.

- Google, well, is Google - their customer service is non-existing unless you are handing them over dollars (which isn't even possible for many services).

- Facebook/Twitter/Youtube... same problem and their "algorithms" were abused by hackers and right wing trolls to feed the population vile conspiracy theories and xenophobia.

Turns out that the state does have to provide regulatory frameworks or the "free market" will simply screw over the weakest people in society.
compare that with all their Windows and OSX user base, I guess it is less common filesystems.
these are journalists, not economists
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This just sounds like bad software designto me. You are miswanting something overly generic that’s super not needed, and regardless of implementing in any given language, it sounds like it would benefit hugely from taking a more YAGNI approach to it, restricting its genericity based on likely usage (not intended or imagined usage), and either just manually writing stuff for an exhaustive set of use cases, or code genning just those cases and not allowing or encouraging arbitrary code gen of possible other cases.

I love it when libraries limit what can be done with them and document an extremely specific scope they apply to.

When libraries try to be all things to all people, it’s bad. A sophisticatedcode gen tool that enables library authors to choose to do that is a bad thing, not a good thing.
That is actually down from the 129 they allegedly smoked in the 1980s.
So pro-consumer regulations = harming business = increased inequality. Got it.

How anyone could argue that the benefits of the gig economy actually improves worker lives is beyond me. I tend agree that it's better for the consumer in terms of price and service, which I guess you could say reduces inequality because more consumers can afford access that used to be cost-prohibitive. But by and large, if more and more workers don't have a steady and liveable wage, health care, and retirement benefits, this leads to drastically increased inequality.

I tend to think that pointing fingers to anywhere but the tax code and resulting social services or UBI to reduce inequality is barking up the wrong tree.
Good heavens. These give me the shivers. In some of these samples you can hear breathing, emphasis, and even what sounds like genuine emotion.
Well, biggest apps are the ones strongarming platform vendors. Weixin, for example, threatened to quit apple app store because of in app purchases. Apple's Chinese C-levels were personally sent to Shenzhen appeasing Tencent when they began intentionally degrading weixin's functionality for users with Chinese IPs.
That's the chief reason why I've stopped following links to Google support forum issues. I honestly don't think I've ever seen a single one that was ever given sufficient attention or a reasonable answer, and the vast majority are simply ignored. It comes off as a big FU from Google to pretend to provide support. They clearly don't give a care, and would actually have a better image if they didn't pretend to support anything.

And product owners wonder why their seasoned developers hesitate to have anything to do with Google. Hopefully one day Google's prestige with the tech-illiterate will dry up and the fact that they're simply THE GOOGLE stops working for them. But I wouldn't count on it.
> Apple aren't doing anything to prevent competition with their platform.

This is a categorically false statement. I can point to a lot of places where Apple are doing quite a bit to prevent competition on their platform. I mean, browser engine choice is the easiest to see of dozens of ways Apple is doing something to prevent competition on their platform. Did you mean something else by your statement I do not understand?

Even if you mean "with their platform" vs "on their platform" as if users can go somewhere else, that's a far cry from "aren't doing anything" as they are in fact doing lots of things.
1) It's hard to overstate how much people love Fortnite. They can also lose ~25% of sales and still make the money without the cut.
2) It's not necessarily about the money, there's lots of other rules besides the 30% cut that might be the actual sticking point.
Politicians have also been murdered in Brazil. The most known case is municipal representative Marielle from Rio.
My understanding is that Apple does not have a large enough market share in the EU to be considered for similar violations.
Apple is 24% of the smartphone market so anything they do on their their systems only affects that minority portion and isn't denying competitors access to the market.

Android on the other hand has a 74% share of smartphone market so anything they do impacts a majority of the market and could limit others access to the market.
So I would suggest two! Learn backend dev or deep learning using python.

I recently started a new job and we use python for machine learning and our backend systems. It was really easy to pick up, but I had a background in PHP backend. Now I am not in the ML team so I haven't learned too much about it - I will peek at the code and understand it a little but I enjoy the backend written in python.

So I would learn 2 at a time, learn how to develop a backend in python. Then you walk away understanding how backend development works and you can apply other languages you may know to the concepts, as well as understanding python more and you can then apply that to other applications outside of backend.
I wonder how much Google regrets not being a walled garden like iOS.
Linked arXiv seems pretty straightforward?
I think that, if real, which I doubt, is a hard to enforce rule and an unfair one. If you are unwilling to protect the privacy of your users, you can still serve your website to people who live in countries that don't mandate such protections.

My problem is with the misuse of a political statement. The EU is not censoring anyone. It's protecting its residents. Shame on governments that don't do the same.
Murders in the US are extremely unevenly distributed. Most Americans live their entire lives without ever knowing anyone who was murdered. Many "bad neighborhoods" are not bad because of the prevalence of murder, but because of the prevalence of burglary, theft, etc.
Finance is one of the pillars of modern society. You need finance to bankroll everything from scientific research to wars to infrastructure development. The dominance of the British Empire, for example, was intertwined with that of its banks: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/can-place-built-on-gl.... The quality of a country's investment bankers is incredibly important, and America has benefited tremendously from having a very strong banking sector. (You should watch Hamilton.)
Brazilian here. Our criminality numbers are _probably_ higher than the official numbers. The country is huge and diverse, but even the most pacific states and cities are in a bad shape if compared to almost any other country.
More than 70% of the deaths are related to gang conflicts.

Drugs are not the only problem. We also have a lot of cargo/truck stealing, street-level robbery, an enormous black market of stolen mobile phones, etc.

We have some affluent startup hubs, there are innovation in e-commerce, payments, banking, HR and many more, but our tech elite is complete out-of-sync with our major problem: violence. Maybe a fresh HN discussion can put some light on the issue.