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This is why we've stopped developing iOS apps years ago. Happened to us once, won't ever happen again. Developing for iOS is extremely dangerous for your business, as Apple may kick your app out any moment for insert random reason here. I couldn't justify exposing my company to this risk anymore. History shows, my decision was perfectly right. Luckily, there are plenty of other business models that don't depend on Apple.
Nice idea. I rarely view logs on my local machine, and if I do, they already are in my local TZ. Get it into Debian and Red Hat, then this will be super useful.
Just buy the mFI ones.
Workstations suck these days. Give us something as cool as an SGI machine for 2 grand. And if you find an interface formula that works well and becomes popular please for heavens sake don’t change it. Make profitability job one. You could use Linux but your job is to make it work perfectly in all its aspects. You also need at least one server product to go with it.

Don’t make your business model around rent seeking. Create value and don’t exploit us.

Focus your attention on support documentation and community support. I like what Unity 3D has done in that respect.

Monitor your support activity and see if you can offer refinement to areas that are clumsy.

Put in charge a dictator of design don’t enshrine a revolving door of committees to design stuff.

Also now is not the best time to start up a business. Tech is going to crash in about 6 months. Safeguard your capital

People hate windows 10. Everyone is waking up to the reality that it is a liability to keep using it.

Focus your attention on getting those customers.
> I love Go, used it a lot for over 3 years. I love the simplicity, directness, the inline structs, but I still cannot get out of the package management mess.

The problem is the package managers available are fragmented and fundamentally incompatible. You have dep which is the official “experiment” and 10 others that share no compatibility whatsoever. Until there is either an official package manager or at least a standardization of the package format, you will run into these issues.
> film Cement Garden

A minor point, but it's a book by Ian McEwan. He also wrote Enduring Love and Atonement (also great films).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cement_Garden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McEwan
Why would it take so long to log in?
Keep buying Apple no matter what, do your part!
I fail to see how Sweden in this case is enforcing the cashless trends through surveillance or coercion.
I think that the correct mathematical terminology is that almost all the elliptic curves [of this family] come in only too types. (I'm not sure that this is official.)

For a similar example see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_everywhere

For example, we know that almost all the numbers are normal, but we have a prof that any particular number is normal (but we have some good candidates). Moreover, we know plenty of numbers that are not normal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
Wilderness is not just the mountains. It is the complete ecosystem, the most productive part of which is not rock and ice (which remained largely untouched in Europe as in North America because as you note there's not anything you can really build there) but the meadows, valleys and forests most of which are indeed paved over in Europe. How many primitive (i.e. never cut and regrown) forests exist in western Europe? How many subalpine valleys in the Alps have no village or pastures in them?

Don't get me wrong, there are many beautiful places in Europe. I've had the pleasure of doing several long distance walks in the Alps, the Pyrenees and in Corsica. But it's not wilderness.

Even uninhabitable places need protection from resource extraction if they are to remain wilderness. This is how Canada lost most of its coastal rainforest. Not because there are cities there now, but because it was all cut down and sold to make shingles and 2x4s.
For those of us not up on the nuances of Amazon's supply chain, please explain how that stops a counterfeiter from slapping an mFI sticker on a counterfeit box.
Panasonic (Toughbook), Dell (Latitude Rugged) and Getac all supply Milspec and milspec-ish laptops. I've owned several of these and in certain locales they're quite handy. Also, carrying just a laptop, which already has a carry handle, is lighter than carrying a 1 kg laptop in a soft briefcase. Since shock-proofed hard disk carriers are a bit bulkier than your regular 2.5" disk some of these laptops also have a good amount of stash space.

While more modern Thinkpads seem less physically robust than the old guard (Mg castings and all), even the physically low-end ones are still quite ok (e.g. the E485, which incidentally also has a Ryzen CPU).
Ignore that, ~~peasant~~ valued customer, keep buying Apple!
>Still, it's bizarre considering you can install Linux on any PC/laptop you buy.

It is kinda not true. There are windows 2 in 1 and recent macbooks on which it is almost impossible to install linux.
> unlike GO, it is a high level programming language

what is high and low level depends very much on the context, but I don't see GO to be lower level than C#...
Want to share about my experience about the "permission" part.

I once travelled to Beijing and had dinner in a fancy dumpling restaurant. When I went to pay the bill, my European bank instantly flagged the transaction and blocked my card from further use. I had no idea what happened until I called the bank later that evening (had to wait until they opened). So yeah, what you said happened to me - revoked instantly, silently, and invisibly at the most unexpected time. And even though I didn't do anything wrong.
Elm has its own infelicities with JS interop. Everything has to be done through ports, which means you have to contort your control flow to work with JS (which is extremely cumbersome if your JS is just pure functions).

For those not familiar with Elm it means you basically have to interact with all JS code through a pub-sub model and can't ever directly call JS code.

Elm's creator has his reasons for why he does this (https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/ports.html), but it can make calling JS from Elm quite a pain.
Stop with the heresy! Apple customers are loyal to the death! Your downvotes show this, heretic!
The mental tax of having £100 in your wallet? this is hardly a serious problem for most people.
They're not of course. They just treat the modem as walled off peripheral black box like all the other rest of the hardware. They may load firmware on boot for LTE/Wifi/Bluetooth like most Linux laptops do. Depending on your opinion on the topic that may be free enough or not but it should be safe as none of those can access the CPU/RAM directly.
> Maintainers should not have the power to make everything they don't like disappear.

Why not? It's their project, it's their time they are spending working on their project. Why should a random user who contributed nothing to a project have power over those who created the software and donate their time and expertise to the benefit of others?
> I'm genuinely curious, what would be the rationale or incentive for a private payment processor (in a competitive payments market) to reject a legitimate transaction?

This happens all of the time to lots of people.

The biggest example is probably legal porn transactions that get censored by all the major financial companies.

If you want to get into political discrimination, we can bring up how wikileaks, which broke zero laws, had all their payment processing revoked.

And more recently, we can bring up legal services such ash GAB, that are being targeted for political reasons, and have had payment processing revoked.

It is not ok that a political organization, that did not break any laws, have had multiple payment processors collude together to censor their transactions.
Yeah, I think the fact that you have to request your IMEI number and then use additional tools to unlock the device you bought is absurd. Nowadays, a phone is no different from any other computer, and you should be able to buy one that lets you run whatever you want on it without jumping through any hoops.
Amazon has the best logistics , on many of Apple's key markets.

This contributes to a wow experience and better supply chain optimization.

Also, Amazon is where the customers are at.
I don't trust you
How do tourists deal with Sweden? Can you get a temporary Swish account?
CNN headlines, according to a neural net
On modern FreeBSD, when I run the article's demo program, by default I see even higher and more variable latency than the author observed in 2004:

0.017686
0.031868
0.055889
0.008931
0.014824

However, when I set the kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation sysctl ("Allowed time interval deviation in percents") to 0 (from the default of 5%), I get very low and consistently low latency:

0.000036
0.000031
0.000030
0.000037
0.000036
0.000040

There are pros and cons to both defaults.
I'm an undergrad taking some measure theory right now.

This is probably not exactly the mathematical formalism they are using, but it could be similar.

If I asked you to pick a random real number from 0 to 1, what do you think the probability is that the real number is rational? A natural way to answer this question is to try to generalize the way we say the interval from 0 to 1 is length 1 to more kinds of sets. Measure theory does exactly this, but we find out that the measure of the rational numbers is 0! This means that the probability of picking a rational number is 0. But that's clearly impossible you say, because there are an infinite number of rational numbers from 0 to 1! But in a precise mathematical way, the probability is 0.

Now a funny think I said was "pick a random real number". Since the computable numbers are also a measure 0 subset of the real numbers, it's literally impossible to randomly pick a real number with a computer...
I’m not so worried about that any more. But if the premium hardware is what you want I’d support postmarketOS.
You can have a very similar experience in China. So many things are now paid for by mobile wallets such as WeChat Pay that do not support foreign accounts. It's great for locals and for the government that - in an authoritarian country - gets unfettered access to all that personalized spending data. For tourists, not so much.
Growing the future
A very recent M.S. from a top 10 school in ML/DL here. Can chime in remotely as well. Need a new Lamborghini; Murcielago is getting old you know ;-)
how much more business do they gain?

Possibly some. There are people who head for the refurbished gear first.

In years past, Apple hid the refurbished sections of its web site. You had to navigate a pretty dark pattern to get there, and it wasn't available at all on the app.

Today there's a link right in the apple.com footer, and refurbs right in the Apple Store app.

I've purchased refurbished Apple gear in the past (mostly Airports) because it's cheaper than new, but comes with the same warranty as new gear.

Plus, there's a certain amount of confidence that comes from buying it from Apple that I don't get from some RandomBigGood_real_Apple_dealzez on Amazon.
> Workstations suck these days. Give us something as cool as an SGI machine for 2 grand.

I'd be interested to hear what HNners want from a cool workstation.
They don't have the baseband on the same chip, the modem is connected over something like USB (and there's probably gonna be a physical kill switch).

IIRC this is fine even under FSF "Respects your Freedom" rules
I think you missed the last 6 months of development regarding Go dependency management.

It's even mentioned in the blog post: "Last spring, we published a draft design for Go modules, which provide an integrated mechanism for versioning and package distribution. The most recent Go release, Go 1.11, included preliminary support for modules."
Ah yes, how could I forget about the coveted “doesn’t actually meet my needs” set of ecosystems?
A highly secure OpenVPN 2.4 configuration in 2018
How to Change the Language in Ecwid
Did you consider Java?
Got it, none of your friends or people you know there are using it.

Getting set up on an exchange is challenging these days, at least in the US. I didn't know if there were better options that people there in Scandinavia were using, sounds like no.

It's sad, because once you have crypto in an exchange it is super simple to send to an address, and the current exchange rate is easy to see. Seems like it solves your problems in that no one would need to use one of the different and incompatible banking systems. I'm sort of surprised the cost of signing up for a crypto exchange makes the banking system still a consideration.

It's an interesting place you are in, highly mobile within Europe, with the financial system getting more complicated when you travel within it.
The US doesn't actually have an AAA rating anymore according to S&P it's an AA+.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_govern...
This still requires running Android, most likely with an old kernel and nonfree blobs.
My understanding is that RescueTime actually has a feature to show you where did you use apps.
Brain Tumor Vanishes Right Before Surgery
Built a small demo project in ReasonML. It was an enjoyable experience.

The generated JS is readable and well-commented when for instance a record is transformed into an array. Just opening up the generated JS and reading it made for a nice self-check mechanism when I was starting out with the proof of concept.
If we keep making the maniacs whole after every crisis they cause, they'll never need to learn to avoid these predicaments.
> More consumers have decided to value light and thin over repairable and upgradable.

Turns out many people really like to fuck their children and grandchildren over (and when you can even extract some shareholder value from catering to that demand, then why not?)
No one is talking about “punishment” but you. The concept here is building mechanisms of accountability (again, nothing to do with punishment).

Applying your example, the ideal is more like a social system stepping in and providing a means for the bank employee to safely not hand over cash mid-burglary.
Which is much longer than handing someone a 10 euro note.
Its a fear that shows up in a common interpretation of Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. This is one of the verses in the Bible that tends to drive a lot of the hatred for national ids and removal of cash in the US.
Here are some common techniques:

1. Hue shift your complements towards the primary instead of trying to use the full range. This mimicks what we experience in different lighting conditions: under a red light, everything looks red.

2. Create ramps of saturation within the palette. If you have a dark blue primary, add a grayish transition and pastels to complement.

3. Make a larger palette than you need right now and then trim it down. When making palettes for pixel art(a great way to learn color), there's an iteration between making color ramps and making test images to spot the flexibility of the palette. You can do similarly for the site design: you don't want to have tons of colors, you want colors that can be used in many different roles.
FSF marks commons clause as non-free, recommends users fork software using it
You'd have to transmit it before the client can double-spend, yes, but my point is that it's not necessary for the owner of the coins to have an internet connection.
The Apple that produced the famous Big Brother ad is no more, and hasn't been for years. The sooner people accept this (and overcome the cognitive dissonance) the better.

Keep feeding the beast, folks.
It's not neurosis if it has a useful purpose.
> [..] then the small issues become meaningless when faced with death reminder .

On the contrary I find I get depressed and anxious when I think about death. I just came out of being a "serial hypochondrist" which was caused by that reminder and related thinking. I manipulate my timeline perspective and it works very well to keep those thoughts at bay.
Who actually owns twitter & how are you defining ownership? It seems like you're implying something but the implication isn't clear to me.

In terms of individuals, they are the single largest shareholders.

Evan Clark Williams
... the social media company's largest individual shareholder. Per an October 10, 2018 filing with the SEC, Williams owns 1.4 million shares directly and another combined 18.3 million shares indirectly through Obvious Corp. and a family trust

So he owns ~671 million

Jack Dorsey
... most recent filing with the SEC on April 28, 2017 he is the second-largest individual owner of Twitter with 16.6 million shares.

So he owns ~565 million.

Peter H. Fenton
... last filing with the SEC on May 25, 2016, the former director owns 21,165 shares directly and a combined 3.7 million shares indirectly through Benchmark Capital and a family trust

...Benchmark Capital who acquired a 6.6% stake in Twitter during a Series C funding round in 2009, at a $25 billion valuation.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/060916/top-3-...

In terms of institutional investors, it's Vanguard, Blackrock & Morgan Stanley which together make up 30% by my count.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr/institutional-holdings
A pre-release Amiga with the signatures of team members molded into the underside of the cover. Including mine. http://obligement.free.fr/gfx/a1000-signatures_2.jpg
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Yea, because I need to be nickel/dimed, or spied on for revenue.
I don't really have anything of value to add to the conversation, but in case the Librem5 team is here I just wanted to thank you for your work and applaud your openness to the current status of everything.

Another project which is taking on a similar challenge and is similarly open is the Dragonbox Pyra.
That’s anti-fraud to stop someone from stealing your card and using it elsewhere. You can usually pre-empt that by informing the bank of travel.
The story goes that Amazon was one of Oracle’s biggest customer, and they have been for a long time.

When Oracle entered the cloud they started making fun of Amazon, “If their cloud and database offerings are so great, how come they use us to do the actual heavy lifting? That’s because our stuff is rock solid and theirs isn’t”

This pissed off Bezos, the sky broke and a voice foretold, NO MORE ORACLE!
Any experiences with their laptops?
Pivotal and VMWare are sister companies, -ish. I wondered about whether to mention it but decided at the time to leave it off in case it sent a mixed message.

(And thankyou!)
Sometimes.

First, I am far from being above using HN and Reddit, as evidenced by me typing this. So, this is not a “you should stop using X” rant, because I can’t stop using it either.

I think as a means of getting professional news, HN and Lobste.rs are basically unparalleled. These have been an unambiguous success for me

As a means for being informed in general it seems to work, but I’m dubious about the utility of being “informed” about things in which I have no stake or power to change things. Recent example is discussions about Swedish cashlessness. I don’t live in Sweden, nor will I travel there soon. So what utility does taking up some of my precious attention with this un-actionable information have? I genuinely don’t know, but I fear that the opportunity cost of such reading might be catching me in some subtle way.

As a means of entertainment, my original comment stands.
It's an OS function triggered by a physical button. If some other app can imitate that then surely it is already game over?
since it has no generics, it has less expressive power
Does the recently revealed hardware encryption problem affect the SSDs used in Macs? I know it's for BitLocker, but maybe you can use the same bug to get your data out.
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
Working remote is not allowed due to certain regulations. That's why it's so hard to hire good data scientists!
In the case of US, it is because the dollar is by far and away the largest international reserve currency, which gives the US what is known as the "exorbitant privilege"[0]. Putting it simply, this means few countries are going to let anything bad happen to the dollar because if it does most countries would suffer, and as a result the US can get away with things other countries could not, such as building up trillions of dollars of national debt. The same applies to the other countries whose currencies are used for foreign reserves, but on a much smaller scale given relative proportions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
Existing, non-crypto currencies don’t have that problem, mainly because of inertia: so many people are using it that exchange rates don’t affect ordinary prices denominated in the currency.

When a cryptocurrency has such adoption, the volatility problem will go away too.
Maybe the near monopoly of the payment network is the coercion?
grpc-go: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go
journalctl does this by default? Already in most Linux distros.
Questioning if someone read the article or, in this case, watched the video is against the Hacker News guidelines. If you feel a commenter is not fully engaged with the topic you should decline to continue the thread.
You have a severe lack of imagination. You must be fun at parties.

There are a myriad of ways Sweden can and probably is enforcing cashless trends through surveillance and coercion. Encouraging banks and retailers to refuse cash services, as referenced in the article, is likely done by the government. This enhances their ability to track and control all monetary transactions for any number of reasons (nefarious or otherwise).
I imagine you Venmo or equivalent like you do in America.
Fancium
Fancium is a free prediction platform where users compete for monthly prize pool by forecasting various markets like sports, cryptocurrency, politics and stocks
> recent macbooks on which it is almost impossible to install linux

That's FUD, and you know it.
You can disable secure boot on Mac and boot whatever you want.
One of the top 20 investment banks.
There is some good stuff in here, but it misses the biggest pain point developers face when trying to make a robust hypermedia API: tooling. There is a lack of tooling on the server side and almost no tooling on the client side. The amount of effort required to serve a RESTful API requires a lot of upfront investment. Then convincing the client developers to take advantage of the hypermedia affordances requires a lot of time and energy. If one does manage to convince them, the client tooling requires even more upfront investment. The only attempt at client tooling I have seen is the work done by Mike Amundsen.

One thing GraphQL got right was focusing on the client tooling. If the client developers are bought in to the protocol/specification then the server developers will naturally come along. The reverse has not been true in my case.

This opinion is based on my experience building hypermedia APIs, consuming hypermedia APIs and helping with the HAL hypermedia spec.
As usual, this articles doesn’t understand that there should be a different between standards imposed on everyone by law and standards set by businesses for their own marketplaces and by extension the reputation of their brand.

If private refurbishers can no longer sell through Amazon, they can throw up a Shopify or WooCommerce in a few hours and keep going. Amazon, like any other business, is entitled to choose whose products are to be sold through then.

This is a free market society and we all may choose where to purchase products. Many Amazon customers want to see only official products that are trustworthy and carry manufacturer support. Just like Walmart or Target or Joe’s corner store, Amazon is making a business decision to better serve they customers. No one is losing any sort of right.