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> The days of Instapaper and the like where you could build a really good app and sell it, are long since past.

We've had the opposite experience with Halide, which launched in 2017 in a crowded category.
> Oh cmon some guy breaking into others system feels entitled to want cash prize.

I don't think he was specifically seeking a cash prize; he reported it to Amazon despite them not having a standing offer for such prizes. Also, aggregating the results of searches that Amazon specifically allows is hardly "breaking in"

> He should have been sent to prison for this.

That seems like a recipe for Amazon having a lot more security holes (which is probably why Amazon won't seek damages here).

> Breaking into someone's house is theft regardless wether owner forgot to lock the door.

No, taking someone's property is theft. Nothing was stolen here.

> Let's just break into neighbors house and tell them that their door failed against the latest gen plasma cutter. Now pay us bounty for this finding?

This leaves the door damaged. Nothing of Amazon's was damaged here. Also the door is (probably) not expected to be robust against plasma cutters. Amazon thanked the author of the post for bringing this to their attention.

This is more like "Your neighbor has a early 2000s Kryptonite bike lock and you show them it can be opened with a Bic pen[1]. They thank you and get a different bike lock"

1: https://www.wired.com/2004/09/twist-a-pen-open-a-lock/
To see what they'd ask?
printf debugging doesn't work when your code already crashed, and all you have is the process dump (and if you're very lucky, it's a heap dump, not just stacks).
Delphi and Eiffel compilers don't do anywhere near the same level of optimization as LLVM does.

And are you sure GCC's Ada has better compile times? My sense is that so few people use Ada at scale that we don't really know.
The general rule of cars is buy used, buy cheap and buy Japanese. A 6000 used Honda Fit will run forever with cheap maintenance. Spending more than 10000 really is not needed if you don’t care about impressing people. Though impressing people is often important and not necessarily a vice.

Once Honda and Toyota go electric, those things will last a century.
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I didn’t know there was a profile pic in the App Store app until I checked again after reading your comment. I don’t have a profile pic setup so that’s probably why I never noticed the icon on the right hand side of the page. I never thought that could be clicked. It’s not obvious or intuitive to me.
We can address huge swathes of this by linking immigration law with unemployment numbers. That way companies are not allowed to simply demand unrealistic exorbitant qualifications for open positions and they would be more willing to increase wages and considering hiring and training people in deficient areas.
> at which point the free speech evangelists are nowhere to be found

I'll let you skip that step. Since the vast majority of cases are false positives and police don't have the resources to follow up on all of them, it is inevitable that your example will happen. There is no such thing as a 0% failure rate. Your dismissal of the report to police option because it is not 100% effective is too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
Throwing rocks isn’t going to solve anything.

Resorting to violence because you’re not getting your way isn’t justified, it’s infantile.
I've been to rural areas in North Africa, India, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. One uniquitous and unexpected smell is that of smoke. The majority of cooking in these rural areas is over fire, and burning garbage is a commonplace activity; people will burn their household garbage in their back yards. That and the smell of food cooking (usually outdoors) are the most prevalent scents. In low- or moderate-population areas, it's actually a pleasant smell, and the lack of other pollution leaves the air fresh, with smoke wafting by occasionally. Notably, there's no sewage smell in most of these places, even when there's no plumbing.

Cities in these places, on the other hand, can have overwhelming scents. In addition to all the smoke from the same activities above, some of the large cities (particularly in Asia) have open sewers in the street, and standing bodies of water with algae overgrowth. I imagine this is roughly what large cities over the millenia have smelled like.

Now there are two major pollutants in the mix as well: cars (with no pollution standards in place) and industrial manufacturing. Of the places I've been, this is most prevalent in large cities in India and Thailand.
Unfortunately, it's because government shutdowns (not being paid on time for a period of a week to two weeks to maybe three weeks this time) are a regular occurrence that absolutely can and should be planned for by any potentially affected government employee.
Moving the responsibility away from humans for accidents to a faceless corporation where we can all anticipate no one will be sufficiently accountable means we would have no more justice, which may be more important to us than safety. After all, we're humans with emotions, not robots with spreadsheets.

We may not actually want safer. We may actually want more just.

With 37,000 auto deaths last year in the U.S., what if Waymo perfected the self-driving car, such that they killed no one, but instead senseless slaughtered 1000 random people on the streets. Would they be justified?

Of course not, because even though they would have made it safer, they would have made it less just.
You need to either integrate them into the company or you need a liaison who can serve as a diplomat to mediate their relationship to the rest of the company.

I'm considering quitting my very part-time job at a local non profit. I got involved because I got along well with a long standing member of the board who happened to run their websites. This board member happens to be female, as am I. We met multiple times for about three hours at a time, once a month. I did some pro bono work for the organization and ended up doing some paid work on their websites.

For personal reasons, she's handing off a lot of her responsibilities and no one else wants to talk to me for long periods like she did. I'm doing their websites and it's a tiny town where no one seems to know anything about the web. There are all kinds of misunderstandings and I'm the new kid in town, so I end up getting treated like it's my fault and I'm a dimwit and it's incredibly frustrating. (I don't think they are intentionally mistreating me, but that's how the situation feels to me and I'm not really finding solutions.)

It's extremely part-time, only 4 hours a month, and I'm not charging that much and I'm increasingly just spitting nails and going "You people don't pay me enough for this!"

The female board member was someone willing to take the time to explain things to me about the organization that I didn't know and to listen to me and give me a chance to explain what I wanted to do and why. Then she had strong long standing relationships to others and she could bridge the gap between me and them, so to speak. Without her, I'm beating my head against a wall and wondering why I bother. I could do other things for the small sum of money involved.

The engineers have specialized knowledge. No one else in the company "speaks their language." When you give them tasks imposed from outside, they think you are stupid and crazy and when they can't do what's ask of them because it just doesn't work that way, you think they are stupid and crazy.

You need a "translator" or liaison who can find a way to bridge the gap between the rest of the company and engineering. Someone who can go to them and say "The company needs X" and get told "That can't be done" and hash it out with them to find something that satisfies both departments. Someone with the power to say "Well, okay, what we are trying to do is thus and such" and listen when the engineers run down what your options realistically are, a person who can broker that deal in a way that genuinely respects the requirements of both departments.

That's the actual solution. But it's not easy to implement.
Most people can afford common necessities in the US. It is how they choose to spend their money and the lifestyle they live. I have multiple family members who have bought houses in Los Angeles, and Hawaii with near min wage jobs which include being janitor, working at a nail salon and a crop picker. None have a high school education.
Technically no, but JPEG divides the image into 8x8 segments (does that vary by channel? Can’t remember) so using full resolution images as thumbnails will still suck everyone’s bandwidth like correctly resized .bmp files
A heart attack ~10 years prior to death, had otherwise been in relatively good health though a little bit overweight.

I agree though and think you're generally correct; his route required a decent bit of walking/stairs and probably kept him in much better shape.

He became ill about 6wk post-op and passed the night before Valentines Day; an ice storm had just come through and the power was out at his house. Was quite sudden & unexpected, he had been doing well, walking & I'd been taking him to some of his follow-ups. He'd even left me a message on my "voicemail" (answering machine, hah) a few hours prior to passing -- jokingly chastising me for calling him the night before in the middle of 'the' IU college basketball game ("How dare you call me in the middle of...!" hah). Sadly, I've lost the recording since then. =)

An autopsy later revealed, from memory, something like 80-90% calcification of vessels within his heart. Is almost 15 years ago now, and probably only really come to grips with his passing in the last 5 years or so -- I wouldn't wish the experience on anyone, and definitely not something you want to go through as a young 'adult'.
Buying used is the best thing ever. TBH craigslist is full of deals, although it sometimes takes a while. I found some parts to fix my gaming PC being sold for fractions of what they were going for on ebay, etc. Let someone else take the depreciation hit.
I agree, it's misleading marketing speak lobbyist crap

That said on a multi year timescale ethanol is far more efficient in terms of carbon output per joule since much of the carbon released was captured when the corn was grown so the only net carbon output is from the fossil fuel portion of the fuel. It's similiar to the argument for why heating with wood is better for the environment in the long term.
Yes. In EU it's a piece of cake, as there are laws that protect consumers from companies.
Haha.. Nope, I'm not a creationist. I do have a Phd mostly earned studying evolutionary biology, though (sequence conservation). Thats why I detest this form of logic so, I understand better than most how limited our insight into adaptive cause is. When I started grad school I imagined I would be able to explain all of what made humans special by examining human-chimp divergence. It didn't take too long to disabuse me of that notion.
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this is precisely why apple gets these tax complaints. their platform is hostile to users trying to have choice on their platform. players like netflix are the only ones able and willing to stand up to apples practices in running a hyper controlling app store with bizzare monetary policies.
He is just struggling to understand how simple some peoples' worldview is.
People don't "deserve" things. They earn them.

Go pile-drive that idea through your thick skull.

(Doing so, just might fix whatever major malfunction you are so clearly suffering.)
What if one changes their last name to "MD"
Those are really cool. Here's an esp8266 framework primarily intended for home automation: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna
> Arduino software compatible too.

The Moddable JavaScript (ES2017) runtime[1] works great on ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers as well.

[1] https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable
Two of the three fields you mention are not paid especially well on average.
I've worked on a streaming service that did in-app subscriptions. I've written up my experiences before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831188

I wonder if Apple is letting this slide because it's enough money that Netflix would feel sufficiently motivated to spend lots of money to take Apple to court over it. Apple could lose a lot more than a billion a year if the law sides against them, which is a likely outcome. They would have to let everyone pick their payment provider. Everyone from Stripe to Paypal would rush in with better and better payment terms.

Better to keep anyone capable of winning a legal challenge against them happy.
The thing that has always impressed me the most about Let's Encrypt has been Boulder (their CA server). Not for its code quality, but the fact that they have been able to create a fully transparent, open-source CA server that meets the Web PKI and the CA/Browser forum's baseline requirements.

Most of the time in incredibly regulated sectors, most of the products you see are huge, proprietary, and generally crap. It's such a rare treat to see a nice, simple thing that works in such a bureaucratic environment.

It really shows that Let's Encrypt are completely driven by wanting this thing to exist and be amazing, since they will slog through all the baseline requirements to get there. Most other open source initiatives fail when they reach the compliance stage because the work just becomes completely not fun.

Kudos to all the people at Let's Encrypt, and I wish y'all a very happy new year!
Since neither the OP, nor the comments give them, I'd like to have a few examples of high quality expensive shoes ... If anyone has suggestions, please enlighten us.
Tell me about it. To cancel my NYT subscription, I had to swap my payment method to paypal, then literally block them from my Paypal. After which, they sent me no less than 10 emails, almost one per day for over a week.
This is actually something I've encountered outside of interviews in day-to-day work with teams.

When the topic is something where I know some underlying complexity exists, or the stakes are high, I often want to spend a bit of time thinking it through by myself because that's how I think best about those sorts of problems.

I've encountered friction at times with those that aren't familiar with and/or care about the underlying complexities and just want to talk high-level and make decisions and move on. Sometimes it is important to make quick decisions to avoid analysis paralysis, but often it is worth giving those who do best thinking through things on their own a chunk of time to go off and do what they do best. I wish more people took that into consideration when conducting brainstorms.
I find it hard to blame anyone for leaving any store when there has been almost nothing of value added in years and things are even regressing. That 30% should have gone a lot further; after 10 years, I can’t even use two different search-and-sort criteria at once to find new apps (and I refuse to sit there and scroll through offensively-bad lists of useless results, much less buy them).

I am however not surprised by the slow rate of new features in stores because there still aren’t “tiers” for developers to willingly become early adopters of new store capabilities. When there are millions of apps, why does it make sense to delay any new feature until the infrastructure has grown to provide that feature to all million apps?

Clearly there should be a way to roll out enhanced storefronts to a few apps at a time. For example, charge early adopters/beneficiaries for complex new features and don’t roll them out to all apps right away (if ever).

And then, developers shouldn’t have to sacrifice 30% for features they don’t use, either. I’d rather have a tiny percentage as the base to provide only essential features, with infrastructure upgrade options! I should be able to give up some low X% for “basic payment processing and auto-installation on devices”, with an option of X+N% to provide “that, plus hosting of app preview videos and several dozen screenshot images”, a higher option of X+2N% for “all that, plus an increased chance of being featured”, etc.
Netflix deals with all that already for all of their other platforms, so what does Apple add here except for duplication of work and 30% of tax?
All well and good until I pose as someone else and make false threats to get them legally murdered
> The Apple store seems good for small apps

that is fine if you ever show up as featured. Which is 1% of the apps, and even then, from already big companies after they spent the marketing money. Other than that, for distribution (really?) and payment, there are tons of alternatives/competition the small apps cannot even consider.

App store is nothing other than a racketeering scheme where you have to pay if you can't "protect" yourself against. It is "robber barons"/"ma-bell"/etc all over again.
That would actually be the opposite of evolution
My girlfriend does it too, it was very confusing to me for a while.

It's like a seething rage of joy.
No need to censor your private thoughts.
But beware that many engineers have seen broken promises by management at some time in their career.

So they are difficult to convince that this time it’s different.
"2) Severe exogenous financial shocks "

Like huge medical bills?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper

I only googled that out of a sense that if someone was willing to be so dismissive off the cuff then perhaps, just perhaps, there actually really was a real Dr. Pepper and that I might find him and prove that person wrong.

Well... I didn't plan on learning that today.
"Apple Tax" is a well defined colloquial term to refer to the markup Apple makes on its products because of their company branding and product reputation. I wouldn't credit the author with inventing this term—rather they are borrowing it for something that is actually more like a tax. When there's a transaction in the Apple domain, Apple levies a tax/fee/toll/duty. This isn't going away, and it's going to be heavy hitters like Netflix which pressure them to change. Let's hope the change takes a form other than an exemption specifically for Netflix.
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Don't payment processors like Stripe handle billing, sales taxes across jurisdictions, cancellations, chargebacks, etc? And they charge 1/10th of what Apple does.
1. A university education is a massive advantage in various measures of success

2. Universities have often been actively hostile towards various groups

These two facts caused a lot of government regulation to be applied to universities, which includes the university taking steps to prevent a "hostile environment." This means that policing harassment is often a legal requirement on universities, and was put in place so that the universities could not rely on the existing student body to do the discrimination on behalf of the university.

That is to say prior to the laws that are being applied in this case, we had laws against harassment and they didn't work. At least partly this is because harassment is usually not a federal crime, so the federal government could not force the states to enforce those laws.
As a dev who works on a fairly large app with an in-app subscription, we are the ones that get a ton of support requests, even having the unsubscribe link in our own settings.

The problem is a huge percentage of users assume deleting the app will also stop their subscription, but it does not.
The application in question allows geolocated (as in "nearby") anonymous "Yaks". The Yaks in question threatened violence.

"Don't visit their site" indeed.
> Resorting to violence because you’re not getting your way isn’t justified, it’s infantile.

By that logic nobody should ever fight for what they believe in. I'm not saying I agree with these people (or even that they are using the best tactics), but I absolutely believe people should take a stance for what they think is right.
Waymo is caught between a rock and a hard place. If they hand the car's video to law enforcement without a warrant, lots of people will worry about the privacy implications and the precedent it sets. It will also strengthen the resolve of the luddites by allowing them to claim persecution. Right now, the problem is limited to a few wackos. If a multi-billion dollar company ruins the lives of some photogenic families (even if it's legally and morally justified), public sentiment could change.

Waymo doesn't want publicity. That could lead to copycats and political polarization. Most people in the US don't even know about these tests, and I'm not sure they'd allow them if they did know. If an interest group (or god forbid, a political party) comes out against self-driving cars, rollout could be delayed by years. That would mean hundreds of thousands of more lives lost due to human drivers. The quieter Waymo can keep this (and the more they avoid looking like a big bad corporation), the sooner we get self-driving cars.
Same with Portland, Oregon
Agreed. The other side of the argument seems too trapped inside a vacuum where things are done the way they should be on paper. That's not reality at a university looking to turn a profit. The people doing the grunt work (Campus Police) might have the tools and means to solve this problem but the people signing their paychecks don't want them to do anything that could reduce profits or put their job at Campus Police in jeopardy.
Every time that Neo4J is mentioned here, the pricing issues are raised.

No exception today: I used Neo4J at a previous startup, but after using the "free" non-scaled version of it, we got into a hard bottleneck due to a lack of scalability. When we looked to scale Neo4J, we almost had a heart attack when seeing the price. Being this a 50 people "developing country" startup we could not afford to pay the very steep prices.
I am curious: Why do people want to pivot? Is the work more interesting? Is the pay higher? Are there more opportunities? Is there some other reason?
I don't know AZ very well, but knowing a bit about how government and organizations work, I'm inclined to suspect you have good reason to be suspicious. That said, examples would strengthen your case more than sarcasm.
>There's an important difference between blaming the victim and trying to explain why the attackers are doing what they are doing.

This is the quote

>“People are lashing out justifiably," said Douglas Rushkoff, a media theorist at City University of New York and author of the book “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus.” He likened driverless cars to robotic incarnations of scabs — workers who refuse to join strikes or who take the place of those on strike.

He is quite plainly saying the vandalism is justified.
While I don’t think you should fire someone just to set an example, the scarcity of developers is precisely why you should fire those who are negatively impacting the teams and are unwilling to change.
> your neighborhood

They own the house, not the right of way in front of it.

People who think they own the road are why we need self driving cars.
This needs to goto the Supreme Court, hopefully sooner rather than later.
I suspect fining this guy was more retaliatory (i.e., personal grudge) than a real attempt to defend red light ticket income. But I am just speculating and am also pleased with the outcome.
>> V4 and geared at the mission to haul 1 ton of cargo

I’m sure you made an honest mistake, but a V4 is very rare - the Duke was an inline-4.

I had one in a 1984 Fiero, and even in a small car like that it was lacking in power. Not that it didn’t have bigger problems, like catching the damn car on fire, which they recalled them for.

Somehow that engine ended up in the even larger Firebird/Camaro...
Thanks for the tip. I too work in rendering and often wondered if pre-caching end() would make significant difference but figured its best left to the compiler.
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