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> Crying fake news (which has been co-opted to mean "real news that I don't like or that you shouldn't pay attention to") completely undermined your statement.

You realize that antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) lives in Italy, speaks English as a second language, and isn't exposed to the US political climate, right? Crucifying him for the US-coloquial subtextual connotation of his word choice is pretty uncharitable.
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>Are you aware that your comment comes across as extremely racist?

It's not racist at all. You're trying to discredit any discussion of moral upbringings by calling it that. Han Chinese and Uighurs were killed. Re-education seems like an appropriate response for people who support such violence on either side.
That's a slippery slope. Cows are intelligent, and have emotions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8dAnlD51o
Word of mouth tells me they are underpaying people for Seattle-area CoL
Not... really...

Chik-fil-a is only a useful example in so far as how well the ethical throughlines match things we've seen many times before, the media has taught us to care about, and how much time and effort political interest groups have spent highlighting those to the public. Ethical thinking on this topic will not be engaged, people will take the opinion their political affiliation and chosen memes have predestined them to take, and they'll act like it's serious thinking.

Parent poster said "Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol." Substitute in Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Twitter, and you might be approaching an interesting statement.

Where the ethics gets engaging are the day-to-day business model at any currently big or hot software company. Only a small subset of people have the background to comprehend the issues. And the people saying "let's stop and think about the consequences of this" gets steamrolled by the status quo that has money to make. That's where all the good examples live.

But it's a bit harder to come to terms with when the focus hits close to home. So we have whipping boys like Chik-fil-a. "At least I don't work THERE"
And there's your problem, capitalism means the second definition, not the first. Prime example being Pinochet.
It is fairly reassuring that the sum total of that which results in human development and complexity is not easily fit on a USB stick.
The iOS App Store design is pretty awesome actually. It got a total design revamp last year in iOS 11 [1], and it's coming to macOS Mojave in a couple of months, so to claim the design is stagnant is incorrect.

It's fluid, and has great use of typography, spacing and colors. I don't see how it is criticize the design of it, the design is the best part. The missing features (like demo versions not being possible) etc and bad policies are the issues, not the design.

An annoying thing with the new design is that the Today content only is saved for a week, past articles and selections gets lost (archiving the editorial content would actually be a smart website idea, if you disregard the copyright issues), ideally it should be indefinitely scrollable.

Edit: It's frustrating that people don't bother explaining what is wrong with the design of the App Store instead of just downvoting me.

[1] https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/
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Apple has a “monopoly” on their own products, not smartphones or apps, or anything else. It’s like complaining that Ford has a monopoly on cars made by Ford. There are other phones, other ecosystems, other cars. A monopoly isn’t “I want an Apple product on my own terms, and if I can’t get that, it’s a monopoly.” This trend of claiming Apple is a monopoly or Facebook is because you don’t like the alternatives is puerile and incorrect. You have a right to competition, not the premium product. You have a right to the marketplace of for example, cars, not a right to a Mercedes.

I’m getting very tired of the phrase “de facto” bandied about in front of monopoly as a way to use the latter word in a way that has no legal or technical merit. Words have meanings. Apple has a walled garden which competes with similar products, it’s just that Apple’s is better in many ways. They have a valuable audience, they don’t suffe from the security issues of their competitors, and that may make you want to use them. So use them, or don’t, and accept the trade-offs.

Don’t like Apple? Try android, their competition in the same space.
That's only true if the long queues are caused by some people having a difficult time at the booth. But that problem mostly goes away as soon as you have two booths.

For long lines to persist because of outliers taking a long time to get through, you need those outliers to be so frequent that every single booth is usually jammed by an "anomaly". In the example I bring up in my other comment, where every noncitizen coming through had to be slowly fingerprinted at the booth, that was the case, and the line was incredibly slow.

But where that's not the case, it seems more like the issue is that there's a good amount of overhead involved even in processing someone quickly (signal booth availability; wait for the person to walk up...) and there just aren't enough staff to process several hundred people quickly.
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You can wishlist and download samples from the app on iOS, but any purchases have to be done from the website. On android, you can buy/download full books directly from the app.
To avoid the app store tax, companies can look to Audible as an example. On iOS, I can only add books to my wishlist and have to make the purchase on my computer.
I would think the anti-whaling group of people would be much larger, since it's an easier position to take. There are very few people who actually eat or otherwise use whales, the rest can freely disapprove of that without sacrificing anything.

Whereas being against eating pigs means a substantial change in diet for many people.
Even US Citizens don't really get by much faster. I'm often corralled into the USC line because of some weird green card expiration issue and it's certainly not any faster.
Apple does not sell to us, we buy from Apple :)
I haven't thought about this question in a long time... Because in a long there hasn't been anything I miss from the closed source world.
On the contrary there are many things I miss when I'm forced to work on a Windows or a Mac machine.
1. A window manager like i3 or xmonad
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That’s not completely true, as I understand it. You can (or could a couple of years ago) get an ‘enterprise’ developer account that allows you to sign and provision apps to be sideloaded via a web link. Though iirc it’s more hassle for the end user as they have to explicitly allow it on their device.
I agree it is confusing. However, there are Creative Commons licenses which do restrict resale of the licensed work (in the same way that this clause restricts resale of the licensed software).

In my mind, this fact somewhat diminishes the scale of the deception.
The dev commented on reddit that once he got Nier into a working state, Valve contacted him.
Transistor technology may improve speed, battery life for computers, phones
I haven't met any of the people involved but I recall other folks saying the CoC was being used inappropriately

https://twitter.com/puffnfresh/status/519887926327390209
Do they have to be potentially commercially viable projects, or merely interesting ones that'd work?

For me, I'd say:

1. Some sort of commission/freelancer marketplace for game development, since the biggest issue people have in this market is getting games finished without all the necessary skillsets and connections. Though I guess I may still create that one.

2. A HTML 5/JavaScript based arcade script. Always thought the future of those online game sites would be to move away from Flash and to open standards, and a good open source CMS for that would help too. But it's unlikely I'll do this, because... well I'd need to get a bunch of games to go with it.

3. Open source video hosting CMS. Not an original idea, but I do feel a WordPress/Magento/Mediawiki/whatever type 'standard' with decent community backing is needed here. But the sheer amount of technical work involved (so people's sites can basically replicate YouTube or Twitch with a simple install) makes this a project for another day.

4. I've also considered the idea of starting an event or convention for something too. Maybe web development related stuff, since (unfortunately) it seems the vast majority of them are in the US and I don't live there at the moment. Won't do this because well, I have no idea how to run an event and one look at the articles about it show you ideally need a decent team of volunteers, quite a bit of money and at least some experience in the field.

And that's about it at the moment. Any other ideas I have are ones I actually plan to put in practice at some point, likely on the project I'm working on right now.
Caonima provides Shadowsocks as a service. You can think of Shadowsocks as a SOCKS5-based proxy implementation with an extension mechanism. In China, for example, you will want to install and enable the obfuscation plugin to avoid being flagged by the Great Firewall. Like a VPN, a Shadowsocks installation is your gateway to the open Internet in places where access to the network is restricted, whether due to censorship or net neutrality violations.
Caonima grew out of my needs as a frequent China traveler. Current status is a minimally viable prototype servicing a handful of users. At this stage I'm interested in collecting feedback and assessing the service's ability to answer the needs of a broader audience. In return, and for the time being, the service is provided for free.
Something like https://form.io/ ?
> Relies on calorie-counting, which is wildly inaccurate.

Some sources on this? (not that I doubt you, it's just that you probably have better references than a quick search might bring up)

Also, if it's inaccurate, what's the alternative?
Magnetic antiparticles offer new horizons for information technologies
I preferred Sinclair Target’s own history of ed,em,ex,vi,vim [1] (recently discussed on Hacker News [2]) on which much of this article was based.

There were a few interesting things that I learned from this article:

* lower case letters had only recently been added to terminals. I had always presumed that terminals used the same technology as typewriters, i.e., use the Shift key for switching between upper and lower case.

* vi was designed to be “usable over a 300 baud modem”. I’ve found that this aspect makes vi/vim useful over slow network connections – or when a remote server has runaway processes resulting in SSH being slow and unresponsive. It’s not always true that this is a “world that doesn’t exist anymore”. That world still pops into existence for brief moments of (stressful) time.

[1] https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.htm...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696023
Quantum material is promising ‘ion conductor’ for research
Investment bankers working to take companies public or in M&A are not even in the same ballpark as someone who got taken in one of the many cryptocoin scams that everyone has been screaming about being scams for ten years. There is no comparison.

The takeaway is not about love and life lessons, it's about listening to people who are smarter than you when they scream that something is a pyramid scheme.
>Do people have a natural right to life? Humanity did not think so until relatively recently, but now we see it as obvious.

So first off, did all humans not have a natural right to life before and humanity didn't know it? "Did not think so"...what changed things?

In light of questions like these, I feel like it's easiest to go with the concept that ideas like "natural rights" are socially constructed, which I'm not sure you jive with but makes the most sense to me in light of what we know from history and how it's progressed.

That said, of course, we can decide that animals have natural rights too, as in we'd decide socially that they do. The only different thing to me is that for many animals, they will not be aware of this social construction we've placed them in, nor will they one day be aware. This is unlike women, races of people who aren't in the dominant group, children, as well as humans who are neurodivergent as well I'd say. In the case of people who are human, we ideally treat them as equals really due to their consciousness and awareness, while for most animals (although probably not all) we can say they are "equal" in some sense but they won't be.
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I work in midtown NYC near a Chick-fil-a location. Used to be a line down the block, went with a friend yesterday thinking we caught the line at a short time but turns out they were using smiley employees with ipads coordinating orders and that they were serving arguably more people than before. Very impressed with how seamlessly they've integrated tech in their brick and mortars in contrast with the countless "cashless" restaurants that just add cruft, inefficiency, and customer resentment.
> All discussions are political.

Nonsense. A certain subset of our society insists on making everything political.

Most of us don’t like it because it ruins otherwise interesting conversations.
> People in life are what matters. Money matters too, of course, and it's tempting to dream about having FU riches. But when we live in this culture where we're all trying to gamble, and institutions are trying to gamble, and the losers get quietly swept under the rug and silenced, all that's left is the impression that everyone is winning except you. And it's ~impossible to come to your senses when you're caught up in that. It's just so dangerous and greedy.

I recently became a multi-millionaire (not from crypto) and this is so true. I'm less happy than I was when I rented month to month, didn't own a couch and ate ramen most nights. I actually really miss it- too many obligations and responsibilities to go back now. I wish I enjoyed my 20s more.

I thought that I wanted money above all else. Then I got the money and realized I don't really need that. I'm only close to 1 other human in the whole world and sometimes I wonder if she even cares for me anymore since all I do is work to make more money.

I was just so wrong about my whole life. Even though I'm young, I feel as though I'm entrenched in this game now with no viable way out.
> The booths work the same way as you described China's, but have additional complications (eg people using the app, and the receipt.)

But when you use the Chinese fingerprinting machine, you're not holding up the immigration line. This makes a big difference in queue times! SFO is wasting an incredible amount of passenger time by making everyone in line wait for everyone else to get fingerprinted.
I'm already seeing the first generation of developers who've only ever worked in an environment that's trying to do microservices and think that the only way of encapsulating code is by making bits of it talk http to other bits.
Sure, but if you're talking about bad people in general (i.e. violent criminals), immigrants as a group commit far fewer violent crimes than the rest of the population. There are an awful lot of bad white, Christian people too.
I can appreciate the clear explanation of Powershell Remoting in this guide. It was a big part of one of my previous jobs. It is a pathway to basic dev-ops things in a Windows environment.
While I'm also excited about fake meat, the impossible burger isn't close.

Impossible tastes as if you took low quality meat, pureed it, took all the fat out, made it into a patty, and then froze it. Sure, you could trick me into thinking its real meat, but not high quality meat.

And of course, this is completely different than creating a steak or something.
Revolver was their best album. I can’t wait for the modern stereo remix.
The transmission does fail. It doesn’t have a backup because the consequences of the failure don’t justify the cost of the backup.
> I’d like to know if a non-journalist who maintained a very popular blog, such as an influential software engineer, who occasionally blogs about political or topical stories, constitutes a journalist or not.

A good question. Consider also that a blogger, lacking an influential institution such as Buzzfeed or the NYT at their back, may find themselves in much deeper trouble than a denied visa. Arrest, prison, espionage charges, etc. have happened to foreigners, including televised confessions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/world/asia/china-confessi...
I think there is also a strong instinct not to harm or kill our peers which only by exception can be over-ruled - by emotional trauma or threat. We can't detach destructive tendencies from dynamic cultural circumstances.

Fireside societies tens of thousands of years ago could have formed pacifist or even vegetarian morals, depending somewhat on how thriving and reflective their days managed to be. At the same time moral ideas communicated in these modern times are not assured to improve. Here is hoping they do.
Correct. Apple gets a cut if a customer subscribes through the in-app one-click subscription, which is extremely convenient for any iPhone user (and thus app publishers) because it’s a single click rather than having to insert credit cards, 3D secure and whatnot. In this case the cut is 30% on the first year and 10% afterwards. If the user subscribes through the website, Apple gets nothing. I find this fair.

What is more unfair is that Apple forbids apps to open/link websites where subscriptions can be done to “workaround” the iTunes subscription. If you take Spotify for instance and login as free user, there are absolutely zero mentions that you can upgrade to premium, because they decided to lose those potential customers and rather let them know through other channels of their purchasing options (eg: emails).

On the other hand, this creates a very safe and simple environment for iPhone users. Absolutely NO app asks for a credit card, ever. You either pay one-click safely through iTunes, or nothing. There is no phishing, no mismanaged credit card handling, no credit cards “stolen by hackers from the app I installed into my iPhone”. I’m not saying this fully justifies the above unfair rule, but it’s at least a partial positive side effect.
The top reasons I've seen indie devs mention for doing linux support are either "I write the code on linux, so it makes sense to have the game work there" or "I do it because it's the right thing to do to make my passion project to more people". Never because it was financially worth it.
I tried ssh tunneling in Beijing. it was only usable for a few minutes, then they obviously detected I was using it for http. And the speed was slowed down to an unusable level.

I searched, there are tools that can hide the real message in fake http messages.

How does this tool obfuscate the traffic?
We had one just open in my town and for the first 3 days, their slowest take was $6k/hour. Regardless of their margins, $600/month would be lost in the noise.
Can you elaborate on that? Is there a blog post somewhere that illustrates the problem you're talking about? I was under the assumption that Python interpreters run single-threaded.
True, but over many years. It would be interesting to see if the pattern is different (or maybe even more interesting if the pattern is the same).
All of those except 'running the store' are value paid for in the purchase of the phone, not the software on it.
Why not just choose Akka or Elixir and then you App will be built with message passing from the start. This makes things trivial to break off onto different machines when you need to.

If you choose Elixir you get OTP which does lots of excellent things to be able to scale out your app, the data passing is transparent between nodes (i.e. no protobuf or GRPC here). Excellent ways to monitor and deploy your app (and inspect messages as they are passed). I really need to write up the huge amount of work we’ve put into node and go microservices that are already part of the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem...

For startups don’t bother, if you do it right it will literally kill your startup before you see the benefits.
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There is no world in which pointing out the political beliefs espoused by a corporation should be considered an example of bigotry.
Do humans have the right not to be killed by humans? All humans, or just humans of the same nationality?

If so, where do you draw the line between, say, killing humans and killing fish? I'm not trying to suggest that the two are equivalent, but constructing a logical argument for the line being somewhere rather than elsewhere is non trivial.
One can even download free samples of the books which makes it very convenient to pay on kindle or the website later. But it is sad that Apple decided that apps cannot even mention that purchase has to be done at the website.
The monopoly they have isn't phones, it's iOS app distribution. It's a different market -- and the market isn't combined with apps for other systems because they have disjoint sets of customers. You can't use Android apps when you don't have an Android device.
Despite having literally hundreds of thousands of apps, I can't think of a single app that is really "good" in mobile platforms, either ios and android.

Betterment maybe, polished.

Brave Browser looks like chrome so that's good.

But other than that, it's a race to first to market and they are all mediocre to me. Should the barrier of entry be higher?
This reads like a puff piece for MPEG-G, which will presumbaly be as patent-encumbered as every other MPEG standard. The double power law for mutation distance is interesting, but the application is feeding an entropy coder more accurate probabilities of match distances. Any decent entropy coder would implicitly discover the distribution after a short period.

There are already good compressors for genetic data. The article briefly mentions them, but oddly doesn't name them explicitly. Here's a 2013 paper summarizing the research (like compressing 6.3GB to 1.1GB or 750MB with a reference): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
The raw sequencing data is 100 GB, and that's what needs to be stored, as the algorithms deducing the sequence are not perfect and under continuous development. Moreover, storing a genome in one location on a consumer hard drive is asking for trouble. In practice the genomes are stored backed up in multiple locations and in RAID systems on enterprise hard drives, so your estimate is of by about a factor of 1,000.
Reads like “We could have finished our chores and baby duty early, to have conversations, but we opted not to. Commuting forced us to dedicate this time to ourselves, freeing our conscious from not spending time home with baby because nobody is going to judge our commute time as being irresponsible to our children”
> That's only true if the long queues are caused by some people having a difficult time at the booth. But that problem mostly goes away as soon as you have two booths.

It doesn't at all. Heathrow is the main airport discussed in this article. They had several booths the last time I went through, and it still took nearly two hours to get through the line.
It seem to be the case that we're losing the biodiversity of rainforests and natural forests, but in their place gaining palm oil plantations, and monoculture "sustainable" forestry in more temperate regions.

So environmentally it's still a loss that's easy to miss, especially if people don't look past the headline numbers. At least the article points this out.
To reduce risk.

As a manager, besides budget - the risk of delivering (or not) the project is important.

The more remote, away from home timezone, less english speaking audience is involved - the bigger the risks.