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At this point, I strongly suspect Apple are hoping to keep Lightning going until they're ready to make phones wireless-charge-only. That's probably still a few years away, but I'm sure they're thinking in that direction.

It'll cause some initial grumbling, but I'm not sure it would be a terribly thing. As well as making waterproofing easier, little sockets at the bottom of phones always seem to collect lint in my pockets, which ends up causing dodgy connections.

What would the EU do in this case?
Do you think this approach could work in other verticals/products other than contact lenses?

I will give your website a try next time I order contacts. Best of luck!
>It's just a small fraction of the time you get a near miss or an actual injury.

We're taught to value the entire lifecycle of our work, at least in my field. For example, rushing to finish a steering maintenance on a large tanker truck could mean your friend gets his thumbs crushed under a pry bar, or it could mean hundreds of fatalities as the poor job you did caused the tanker to collide with a shopping center.

A missing cotter pin or a failed motor ground could easily injure dozens, or even kill them, on a large enough escalator.
Avoiding third-party sellers doesn’t mean you’ll avoid counterfeits, alas. Amazon mixes stock, so even if you buy directly from Amazon, you could just as easily end up with an item from a third-party seller claiming to sell the same thing.
Of course it's not. Apple devices don't have USB ports - they have Lightning ports.

Have you read this article at all?
Check out Tim Ferris who learned as an adult: https://tim.blog/2008/08/13/total-immersion-how-i-learned-to...
And if you have Whatsapp installed on the same phone, it possibly gets all the data that you have given Whatsapp. Ditto for Instagram.

Don't trust Facebook or anything they own.
Let's take the car dummy example. Do you think gender is one of the most relevant distinction if you'd really want to dig interesting clues from your team, that professionals wouldn't have thought of ?

If i were a team leader honestly i wouldn't care about gender first. I'd be more interested in recruiting people from different weights, sizes, ages, maybe even races, and medical backgrounds first. And then, maybe gender would come into play.

For some problems gender is an important factor, for others it's not. The fact that this "gender" predicate divides the world into two half doesn't make it relevant per say. I could divide between blue eyes and brown eyes, or skin tan, or lactose tolerant, etc, and come up with fairmy big chunks.

Now I do agree that differences between men and women are indeed so important that it's an very interesting criteria in many topics. Although for some reason i don't think that's the argument you want to base your reasoning upon.
I work on an online diabetes prevention system [1] that lets you select goals and log physical activities including various kinds of exercise. It doesn't include pram jogging (which I never heard of before, so I read it as "param jogging", which sounds to me like a cool Python function decorator technique).

That's a great idea that's new to me, and I'm thankful to the author for pointing it out, and I'll suggest we add it. (In the Netherlands where it's flat, parents pedal their kids around in a Bakfiets. [2])

The program's content was mostly designed by a woman [3], so I don't think omitting pram jogging was a sexist decision on her part -- it's more that you can't think of everything, or keep up with every new trend that's happening (and if you try, the menus are way too long so the user interface is difficult to use).

I agree with the article that it's outrageously patronizing and sexist for Fitbit to tell women how soon they must get over their periods!

[1] https://turnaroundhealth.com/

[2] https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/2010/06/bakfiets-is-au...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_PS3lzlqpg
I wanted to quickly give it a try on the Mac.

“lunaInstaller” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

At least sign the app to remove one more friction point from trying out your tool.
But aren’t most subsequent rounds, Series A, B etc putting money into the company, and not transacting with existing shareholders for an exit?
It's funny that this only seems to be acceptable when non-liberals are in power.
But the features are not arbitrary. The vast majority of features are common among many applications, and a template formal spec can be built to satisfy those features. Once formal spec of the building blocks is created, there will only be the small portion of unique code that needs a unique formal spec.
Many people don't have close friends they're comfortable talking with and even people that have close friends, those friends are often the same age as them give or take a few years and thus don't have the 'wisdom' of age that this article is talking about.
> How did Vim become so successful?

They didn't answer this question. The most obvious to me is that Linux distros have had it as the default for decades. If FreeBSD caught on instead maybe we'd have people writing the same article about the amazing history of nvi.

This is a weird thing to me. When I was getting started with this stuff, everyone out there acknowledged that vim was a vi clone in the first breath. There are now lots of folks that think vim is the primary thing. Kind of similar to how they call shell scripting "bash". I guess it's rather like asking what brand of Kleenex, or a Coke in the southeastern US.
> we have these stupid slow bluetooth adhoc payment systems

Sounds like they already have a plethora of insecure adhoc hacked together contactless payment systems, just even worse than if Apple allowed third-party NFC
Yep, I use those movement commands for getting to the beginning or end of brackets when I edit JavaScript.
Grew up in a fishing village in north east Scotland - many of the trawlermen could't swim for similar reasons.
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They do, it’s just a subscription plan instead. And the underlying cost is still there, so if it becomes uneconomical then the subscription cost will go up or go away.

You may be able to find a situation where you get someone else to subsidize your cost, but it’s certain to be temporary.
Out of curiosity, why would you need that kind of API?
All chemical energy available through coal and oil stored in the earth is the product of a massive amount of highly ineffecient capture of energy from sunlight. [0]

All wind is caused directly by unequal warming of our planet through sunlight. The average hurricane individually releases more energy than entire world population has exhausted, since the dawn of time. [1]

Sunlight is plenty enough. The problem is cheap, clean storage.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis

[1] - https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energ...
Thanks for the detailed explaination.
Innocent until proven guilty, right?
You are moving the goalposts.
You can read NFC tags on iOS devices without a problem, I don’t want an NFC signal being able to initiate any action on my device, you shouldn’t want that either.

For mission specific implementations e.g. inventory checking or shopping costumers can have the app active it’s much less of an inconvenience and a security risk than being able to wake up apps and communicate with them without the user being aware of such activity.

While you can argue that many innovative ideas are hampered by Apple this isn’t one of them they are in the right on this issue and many other security related issues.
>They require you to first open the app, then swipe.

I really wouldn’t want to allow anyone with an NFC chip to be able to open apps on my phone. Which app gets used for what should be under the user’s direction, not the store’s or the developer’s. Habituation users into trusting any random kiosk to put data on their phone without input from them is terrible practice.
Certainly is.
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A poor argument since iPhone uses, and has always used industry standard USB-A on the "wall" side.

I really don't understand what the EU is complaining about. I'm not aware of a single smartphone that doesn't charge over USB. Or do they really have stick up their bum about both ends of the cable?
Belphemur said it best: before LE SSL/TLS was relatively 'obscure', sure many sites had it, but it was an optional extra that cost a yearly fee. Now, any old joe bloggs can setup a webserver (or use tools like cPanel which have LE integrated) and get the nice shiny green padlock with 'secure' in their browser.

And, if you run your own server, their client even generates the configs for most major web servers on most major OS', so you don't even need to lift a finger. Type 1 command and boom, you're secure.

Doesn't get easier than that.
Friggen ageism. You know how hard it is for me as a young man in Japan to be a middle age man for rent?

For real though, given the use-case of the clients, foreigners would be perfect for this job. You can throw anything on them and not worry because they will skip the country soon. Only problem is the language barrier.

As someone that is very much here today, gone tomorrow, people have been exceptionally open with me. Maybe I should start renting myself out.
What makes you think that every device would have its own plugs? It's certainly not what happened way back when electric plugs were not regulated as it was a new technology.
I remember before the EU's previous threats, when Nokia had their "FastPort", Sony Ericsson had their "PopPort", Motorola has theirs, Samsung had theirs. I'm very glad for consumer-friendly government intervention.
That's not a trivial feature that "every other editor" can do, though.

> I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Emacs, for one.
Ha, I was going to ask about Donjon and then found it listed in the FAQ. A fine start. I think it has a way to go to feel competitive with the other dungeon generators (such as Donjon's) out there for me personally, although I guess the focus here is being reasonably faithful to the DMG?
Exactly. The author needs to look at how managers like Guardiola or Klopp set their teams to attack like a co-ordinated symphony. In contrast, defensive managers like big sam set up their team in two banks of 4 with full backs never moving up the pitch. As a spectator, I enjoy watching beautiful attacking football more.
I'd too take the lash, these days. But keep in mind that back when that was popular, they didn't have antibiotics nor germ theory, and being unable to do physical labor for any length of time was a lot more problematic. Death was a common consequence.
Apple chargers are USB on the block, just not on the phone. You can plug a micro USB cable into an Apple charger to charge your USB devices, and then switch to a lightning cable (whose other end is full sized male USB) to charge your iDevices.

You could also use a non Apple USB charger with your lightning cable to charge your iDevice, though how effective that is depends on the voltage of the block.
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Not anymore and we have the EU-law and smartphones tonthabk for that.

I remeber when Nokia, Sony etc. all had a different charger and they all were hardwired except the iPods and later the iPhones.
Awesome, that's great to hear! Thank you.
Also it may be homeostatic with multiple attractors, push too hard from one and you pop over into the one next door.
I love that pi-hole will even block commercials on “free” tv apps that run on fire/apple tv.
This is exactly the primary point of my post - yes, the Nazis didn't consider those countries to be "German", but they intended to include them in their conquests to build "Festung Europa" ("Fortress Europe").

You're right, I didn't differentiate between the areas they aimed to conquer for Lebensraum and the areas they intended to conquer for strategic purposes. Should I have? Why? Should I have gone so far as to mention that while they didn't intend to occupy Britain, they certainly intended to bomb them into submission?

"Nazi Germany wanted the German state to include all of Europe" is accurate, just incomplete. They also didn't intend to invade Switzerland or Sweden. They fought alongside the Finns for most of the war, until they fought against them.

Hell, you could even go so far as to color the actions of some of the German military staff as anti-Nazi even as they fought against the Allies - Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, for instance. Things like that are important pieces of information for historians and other interested people, but are they really important enough to cover in a high school history class?

Infinite nuance.
You are right the dependencies probably have a larger impact, but notice that emacs has a similar package emacs25-common (65mb) in its dependecy tree.
> What would the EU do in this case?

Fine Apple for not following its regulation, of course. Classic EU.
I don’t want an NFC signal being able to initiate any action on my device

Isn't that exactly what happens with Apple Pay?
The earth is not a superorganism or entity that prefers one state to another.
I won't bother taking the survey, I only use a couple of services (EC2, RDS, SES, S3, Cloudfront) and I have no idea what the icons are for any of those services, even if I login on AWS daily.
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Smart, well-meaning people on boards such as this refuse to see the Prison Industrial Complex for what it really is...a jobs program for police, courts, judges, jails, prisons, and of course, lawyers and politicians.

One group "increased incarceration" definitely has a non-marginal positive impact on are all-of-the-above.

Can you show me any examples, anywhere in history, where a group that directly benefits from and controls the entry level and duration of access have ever decided to lower their wages and put at jeopardy their livelihoods?

Because at the heart of it, that's the real effect that decreasing incarceration will have...closing jails, firing police officers, lowering ridiculous attorney fees, and shutting down county court complexes.

And we are surprised when the very people whom benefit from the status quo don't see things the way we do?
> Not anymore and we have the EU-law and smartphones tonthabk for that.

What? The EU did absolutely nothing that got us this outcome. It was purely the market itself, when everyone started switching to smartphones and it was common to connect your smartphone to your PC. Remember that smartphones are not evolution of mobile phones, but PDAs and MDAs - that had mini USBs for a long time before any smartphone has existed. This started at least around 2003 and around 2007, it was already clear that not using USB is a disadvantage, and in 2008/9 it was irrelevant what "dumb" mobile phone manufacturers are doing as it was clear that smartphones have won in the long run.

Yeah, the EU has created a memorandum. A completely irrelevant memorandum, as it was created in 2009, very very late in the game.
I wouldn't want your app on my phone if you insist it forces my phone to do things when in proximity to your tags. Talk about user hostile—it's my device, not yours.

If you don't like Apple's product design philosophy, that's fine. There is plenty of healthy competition in the smartphone market. I for one am glad there is a product like the iPhone which doesn't implement NFC as an anarchistic free-for-all.
I imagine GP may have meant "marginally informed" about the company specifically - the article makes it sound like her judgment of it is based its website.
Because phones all had their own plugs before the EU (and later China) threatened to legislate a common plug.
Why assume people are just shit-smearing for "shit and giggles"? As far as I understand it, it's mostly homeless people who end up "doing their business there", due to a lack of better options.

Just fining them, when they ain't got a whole lot of alternatives, sounds like a rather mean, and inefficient, thing to do. They probably can't pay the fine anyway, but they still gonna have the very same bodily urges. So that whole exercise would only have generated some useless bureaucracy, without actually having changed anything about the problem.

A much smarter solution would be to offer homeless people an actual place to do their business, instead of trying to "police away" fundamental societal problems like poverty and homelessness.
Exactly. The whole point of offering a service to the public is that you know more than other people. So of course customers will do wrong things, be confused, etc.

In Microsoft's shoes, I would have strongly avoided anything that sounded like customer blame. E.g.: "We really regret the bad experience they had here. They were using the platform in a way we didn't expect, which led to an obviously unacceptable failure mode. We appreciate their bringing it to our attention; we've made sure it won't happen going forward. We also agree that some of the responses from support weren't what they should have been and will be looking how to improve that for all Azure users."

The goal with a public statement like this isn't to be "right". It isn't even to convince the customer. It's to convince everybody else that their experience will be much better than what is hopefully a bad outlier. The impression I'm left with is that a) Azure isn't really owning their failures, and b) if I use their service in a way that seems "wrong" to them, I shouldn't expect much in the way of support.
The store review process can only achieve so much, it also has no control over the backend.

Apple Pay is fully integrated with the banks and issuers you get a notification form your bank when you add a card and you can revoke it without going through Apple if your phone is lost.

You also are assured that your card details are never exposed because Apple does not use the PAN for billing, and it also does not expose your billing/shipping information without your acknowledgment and consent when used to purchase items on Apple Pay enabled services.
Having multiple connectors on the phone side results in more cables, more waste.
The DID system doesn't use any central registrars. Connecting a key with an entity consists of the entity represented by the DID publishing the key in their DID document. That document is then published on some ledger (can be blockchain but could also be, e.g., IPFS) so that others can discover it.
Would be great to hear a bit more about your experiences, or maybe provide some pointers?
...and apparently forgot to notify customer of it, and in general communicate with customer better.

I think this is the main reason for AWS lead. They simply treat customers right (well, better than G and MS anyway).
Captcha doesn't even work. I clicked "Submit" without even touching the Captcha box and it just let me through haha.
> Same in Austria. Schools have no more access to a pool nearby

That sounds like there used to be a time when that was different. In my experience, apart from maybe very few private or sport oriented schools, Austrian schools never had a pool. But in Vienna school groups would go to a public pool, of which there were and are many. Not sure if they stopped that, but if they did, it's not for reasons of access. More likely because doing anything outside school grounds is an "excursion" and organizing it probably comes with more and more bureaucratic nightmares.
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Depending on the methods employed, one's convalescence from twenty lashes could last longer than a year.
Interesting to see the automation of truck driving used again as an example in this discussion.

From what my dad tells me, the trucking industry is hurting for long-haul drivers. Few men want to spend days on the road, far from their families and homes. It's such an unsatisfying job that women largely refuse to consider it. Even fewer want the nomadic lifestyle idolized by many on HN.

How will the trucking industry deal with both this threat to their jobs, and also a lack of human interest in doing the job?
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The standard iPhone charger has a USB-A socket. You plug a USB -> Lightning cable into that. So it's only the cable that's non-standard. Perhaps not ideal, but rather different from mandating a complete new charger.
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I'm guessing here, but probably that plugging in something that expects a different voltage could start a fire
Ugh. Just use paper for voting. If the 2000 recount taught us anything, it’s the importance of a paper trail. Just take the time to count the ballots by hand.
In the US, we have the understanding bartender or wise taxi driver stereotype. This seems like largely the same thing: somebody with some perspective on your situation because they aren't too bogged down with the minutiae of actually knowing you very well who can "buck you up" or dash off an insight that your spouse or friends can't.
Because, of course ...

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi...

There is a whole history of why emacs is not likewise in the SUS, already related long since by other people.
And if the chargers weren't standardized, you'd have to buy that extra cable if you actually want your device to turn on.
The EU has been doing this since 2009 (almost a decade) and is mostly the reason why smart-phone manufacturers have settled on micro-USB port as the standard port for chargers (of devices) manufactured since 2009.

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/electrical-engineering/re...

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-others-agree-to-universal-ce...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/07/eu-study-harmonize-phone...
If you look at IQ and the kinds of jobs people sub-100 IQ can retain, you begin to realize very quickly that about half of the population is going to need to be retrained in some kind of intellectual job going forward.

That forces public schooling to train children for intellectual persuits, and children who are gifted need to have programs tailored for them.

It also means you are going to have post-scarcity politics. The scarcity of resources forces social interaction and gives value to life, relationships and property. Universal income is horrific in the fact it dissolves those relationships, and politicans can decide to revoke people's food or shelter on a whim and also the public can decide to support it. You also realize that things like firearms ownership become very important as that becomes one of the few things that forces people to have value for each other at a very basic level.
Does it use it in the background, though? I've always double-tapped the power button to open Apple Pay before trying to read the phone. Likewise, when I had an S7 Edge, I opened Google Pay before attempting.
Hackernews loves these articles that give some kind of hope for a magical solution to climate change. It's easier than the thought that it will require a huge concerted effort across the world and changing the habits of millions
Charts doing stuff like this drives me nuts. Where I work VPs love to brag about how much better things are with them in charge. They then make a chart with 6 things in it all in different units on a single bar chart. Plus it compares the values at two points in time saying "see how much better I am doing before and after" yet the values ignore the points in between. So the "crash rate" goes from 0.4% to 0.3%, even though in between the crash rate was 5% for several versions. Then you add in other items which are dollars or counts or hours and you wonder what the point of the vertical axis is. So market value to GDP in a chart is so stupid.
I just wish it was updated more often.
No, you have to initiate payment from the device (phone/watch).
> In reality, the pie doesn't actually grow and each time that they take out a slice, there is less pie remaining for everyone else.

If the pie doesn't really grow, why has the world economic output increased so much in the last 200 years?