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> That explains why they offer the extension. That does not explain why they make the extension the only option. It should be possible for me to evaluate their ratings without installing their extension, but for some reason they haven't made that possible.

Why don't you ask them about their reasons, then, rather than just speculating and casting doubt that you have little basis for?
It is a calculated gamble. We've seen this so many time in so many industries.
WaPo's lead fact checker who covered FAA for four years as a journalist disagrees with you:

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/110585814000275456...
That's called "Subroutine threading"! :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code#Subroutine_threa...

V8's Ignition interpreter is implemented with "Direct threading", which is quite similar but (probably?) faster on modern processors-- it does an indirect jump to the next bytecode handler instead of a return: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034167

"The bytecode handlers are not intended to be called directly, instead each bytecode handler dispatches to the next bytecode. Bytecode dispatch is implemented as a tail call operation in TurboFan. The interpreter loads the next bytecode, indexes into the dispatch table to get the code object of the target bytecode handler, and then tail calls the code object to dispatch to the next bytecode handler."
this would absolutely hurt the overall value of the company
I think the fact that Apple prevented them from using payment methods that didn't go through them makes it significantly worse though - to carry the analogy (perhaps to far) the grocery store prevents the packaging of the products it carries from mentioning the website where you can order other products or something.
Agreed. I am very aware of Apple policies on this regard and anything discussed in this thread, but still two weeks ago I wandered around in the Amazon app looking for 10 minutes on how to buy a book in Kindle version... then I realized I had to switch to Safari for that.

This is confusing for users.
I think you're completely right. I interpreted data collection here as a mining activity for ads preferences. Currently, they fully collect the voice recordings and only seem to provide options on whether the data is connected to your account. I don't see any option to "forget what I said after you've responded."
I'll feel sorry for Kindle when their devices support EPUB files.
Thanks for your feedback - and constructive critism :-)
Invitations to social events can fortunately be distributed through a lot of other channels than on Facebook - email, messenger platforms, text etc etc.
Adding to that we have more and more friends missing events on Facebook. Hence seeing that there is room for us....
Simon, Stuff.
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This looks great!

I like hosting small to medium events and even though it seems simple most platforms are not effective:

-Most of my friends either don't use or don't regularly check Facebook

-PaperlessPost simply didn't deliver 80% of my invitations for last holiday season and almost ruined the party. Will never use them again for anything.

-Others just don't seem attractive/affordable/easy.
Yes, it's possible that an engineer made a mistake--Boeing will certainly blame everyone else including the pilots and engineers. But the bigger picture here is that the plane might be unstable, it used a "software patch" as a band-aid, and it neglected to inform pilots about the new automated systems.

I suspect the blame lies with Boeing's management and with the FAA for being complicit with Boeing.
I've worked with GCP, and especially Firebase is a fantastic platform.
I bought the Pixelbook (online) for a little less than full price.

I also bought another Chromebook at BestBuy that was ~$250.

I was blown away by another Chromebook that had a 17" screen and was less than $300 at the store. I was overwhelmed by the options (and BestBuy never helps because their employees must be rated on how well they can hide in the store and not how well they can help customers).

There are plenty of options in store and online, most of which hover around the $300 price point, which is very competitive.

If you are buying a Pixelbook you are buying it because you want Linux on it, or the amazing screen, and are calculating that into it. If you want an inexpensive Chromebook, you aren't stymied in that search by price.
I may be soon in the market for a new Android tablet. Does anybody have suggestions?
Another market is Naver in Korea. Although I dont know much about how or why they remain dominant there.
My guess is this guy probably has more claim to "actually makes rockets" than Elon does: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/tom-mueller-spacex-cto-who-m...

I'm sure Elon sticks himself into tons of meetings, and hence has a lot of knowledge about what's discussed. And I don't doubt that he sets the goals for the engineers to meet, makes aesthetic and design decisions like some of the interviews suggest. But I think the guys Mueller manages are the people who actually make Falcons fly.
Yup. Look at Airbus, look at the WTO ruling, look at how much illegal tax euros European countries sunk into the failed A380 and tell me how it's not political.

Tell me how China grounding the planes had nothing to do with the trade war.

This is about trade protectionism and a warning shot from the Europeans to the Trump administration that they are willing to play dirty, and this is about who will foot the bill for the grounded planes.
My father used to work for Transport Canada (Canada's version of the FAA), and I've found it rather dismaying how little faith people seem to have in the FAA/NTSB despite many years of evidence as to their competence. They're probably the best independent regulator the US has at the moment.

Ironically, if you were to dive into a thread about "Urban Air Transport", a hot topic in Silicon Valley, you'd likely see people decrying the FAA for being too conservative and stifling innovation.
This is part of a bigger war to maximise the duopoly of music and video streaming, perhaps analogous to the triple/quad play in telecoms.

It seems that Spotify's latest salvo is timed to capitalise on the rumoured event[1] and maybe even influenced by previous decision by Netflix to breakaway[2] from the two main revenue generating platforms (Android & iOS). Whether or not it will be beneficial to their business model(s) long term - only time will tell.

Apple needs a new goose and a contender in the ring to keep institutional investors happy, at least until a new market strategy[3] is cemented and next round of R&D, technological advancements, tooling etc. take effect and come to fruition; especially considering the recent battery recalls[4] and lower than expected demand for flagship products, So, I would assume they have carried out some due diligence to avoid any punitive measures by the EU or invite excessive regulation.

Nonetheless, it might turn out to be a pyrrhic victory for Spotify, despite a ruling in favour of an app with some clout in a dominant ecosystem. For example, Amazon has decided to fight[5] Google/Apple on many occasions, with no obvious benefits. Microsoft has largely capitulated to Amazon & Google on some of their efforts e.g. Cortana v Alexa, Edge v Chrome..

[1]https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-streaming-servic...

[2]https://bgr.com/2018/08/23/netflix-subscription-payment-chan...

[3]https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-must-reverse-angela-ah...

[4]https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/2/18165866/apple-iphone-sale...

[5]https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16371292/google-youtube-a...
Especially since the top American schools are not-for-profits and aren't taxed on tuition fees received.
That Schleiss article makes exactly the point I'm trying to make to you. For a publication of your size 375 claps is a dud (that article is using data from when Medium's algorithm's would have been working in your favor). 75% of your articles are completely failing to get traction.

The job your editors should be doing is quality control. They should be filtering what you publish way down. And your job as the publisher should be to set guidelines for quality. None of that is happening and as a result, you're putting a constant stream of low quality in front of people. What's so great about being a top 5K site if you the impact is wasting people's time?

As comparison, I looked at the last 50 articles we published and only found 2 that didn't get 375 claps. Those were duds and we tried to learn lessons from them.
That's fine, but that's a different claim entirely.

The FAA has always had the "Boeing is a large employer and defense contractor" conflict. I'm perfectly fine with a "current management is bad" assertion.
It's partially true:
Qantas held the accolade of AirlineRatings' world safest airline from 2014 to 2017, but took joint honors in 2018 when the website chose not to rank its top 20.
For 2019, Qantas is singled out as the best, while the remaining 19 safest airlines haven't been ordered and are instead listed alphabetically.
The top 20 are: Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airways, American Airlines, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, EVA Air, Finnair, Hawaiian Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Scandinavian Airline System, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, and United Airlines and Virgin group of airlines (Atlantic and Australia).
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-safest-airline...
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-motorcyc...

The fatality rates are 25 per 100 million occupant-miles traveled. That's far higher than for the Boeing 737 max.

Let's also compare their safety by time, instead of miles traveled.

Motorcycles: 25 / (100 x 10^6 / 60) = 0.000015 fatal crashes per hour

Boeing 737 max, assuming it averages 12 hour flight time per day, and using your 1/350 odds: 1/(350 x 365 x 12) = 0.00000065 fatal crashes per hour

The 737 max is still safer by an entire order of magnitude, even if you compared it by time spent traveling and not miles.
It looks like in Jan 2019, Google Analytics finally started classifying DDG as an Organic Search engine instead of lumping it into "Referrals" category.

Although the change has the awkward effect of splitting ddg reporting into the two groups based on date of traffic.
By the way, the difference between the safety factors of driving and flying are not quite so straightforward. This is one of my favorite charts, which shows that per-mile, flying is safer, but per-journey, driving is safer (which makes some sense, since flying journeys are much longer, but 80% of accidents happen in the 5 minutes during takeoff/landing, so really in some sense, takeoff and landing are more dangerous than driving to work).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...

Also, note the final entry in that table: Space Shuttle. Per-kilometer, it's hardly that much more dangerous than driving. But per Journey....
Why is this down-voted? Your first statement is a statement of fact with a citation.

Your second statement is a perfectly reasonable opinion (in what universe is a second distinct crash causing defect not worse?).

It seems like anyone who dares say something that isn't proclaiming enthusiastic, blind and unquestioning support for the "ground them all this nanosecond, this problem is unambiguously MCAS related" line of reasoning is getting down-voted in every comment thread covering this topic. Personally I agree with that line of thinking but the Reddit-like "bury everyone who doesn't think what I think" behavior is off putting.
I see there were a couple of complaints I'd missed further down, but it's still sounding like it's being talked up into more than it is.
The only thing they have going for them is:

* They have the most popular operating system in the world

* They have the most popular browser in the world

* They have the most popular search engine in the world

* They have the most popular advertising network in the world

* They have the most popular video platform in the world

* They have the most popular mapping software in the world

* They have the third most popular cloud platform in the world

It seems to me that they're doing at least something right
40% share is a general principle, but it isn't absolute. Apple have a ~27% market share for smartphone sales, but they have a considerably larger share of the overall mobile app market and the App Store obviously has a 100% monopoly on iOS apps. They're in an effective duopoly with Google, which considerably reduces the competitiveness of the market and therefore the threshold for market dominance. It's also worth bearing in mind the serious concerns within the EU about the hegemony of major tech companies.

From your source:

>The Commission also takes other factors into account in its assessment of dominance, including the ease with which other companies can enter the market – whether there are any barriers to this; the existence of countervailing buyer power; the overall size and strength of the company and its resources and the extent to which it is present at several levels of the supply chain (vertical integration).

Apple clearly score very highly on most of these points.
Wouldn't something like this suggest that Europe and North Asia was safer in the period leading up to that forbes article?

https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-02-22-01.aspx

And that greenspun article from 2009 is just special.
The tone may be flippant, but I was serious. Google's M.O. is to expand their reach into as many corners of our lives as possible. Having devices that can't run Javascript on Chrome is an impediment to that goal, and so I'm sure the marching orders were to find a way to make it work. It is already acknowledged that some upcoming work will be done to improve areas that are still too slow.
Published this today, it's the first Python package that I have released.

Could be useful for type checking Python Values that come from decoded JSON requests (for example web API request format validation)
Sounds like this:
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/kindred-spirits-meet-the...
How much do you believe Whatsapp and Facebook is connected in the backend? Any info on this specifically, especially since theres rumors stirring up that Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram are going to come together very soon. I mean your friends and family did choose an encrypted service over an uncrypted one. Better something than nothing no?
At this point that is a regulatory 'body', singular.
Congratulations on your launch! I think this space is going to be super interesting and allowing companies to build products like this by simply adding an API to their pipeline is awesome. I had a question, how would you point out the differences between you and Scale API[0]?

[0]: https://scale.ai
> How is this wildly off-topic if the subject of the article is online harassment of scientists, and climate change is specifically mentioned?

I read the article and didn't notice it. Looking back, it was an offhand mention in a fragment of a single sentence. Clearly not the focus.

> As for the inflammatory bit, you might have a point there, but the kind of climate change that enabled humans to evolve might garner that fabled 97% of backing not only from scientists, but humanity in general. So in the proper context, climate change is good.

This is a strawman. No one is talking about that kind of climate change.
We are really trying to limit friction.
Creating events requires a profile. RSVPs does not.
Also, Stuff invitations can still be distributed on any other platforms with a simple "one-to-many" link.
Hope this makes sense.
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Who will be responsible for a crash FAA Boeing or the airline. Even if FAA doesn't ground them airlines might start doing it themselves although these are the same airlines that manhandle overbooked passengers out the plane so cant be sure they would.
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Of course, it's all unjustified outrage and petty incivility... right up until it's an issue you care about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19371159
Yeah, Thanks a lot!
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The theory is that stress and psychological factors cause physical factors that we don't entirely understand, that cause the RSI. One example of this would be the reduction blood flow to the extremities.

This is different from the general effects of stress, and different from purely physical factors.
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I just love how SCIENTISTS are presented with abnormal behavior closely associated with the group they are studying and completely dismiss it as a variable worthy of research. Maybe anger issues are related to the problem. I kinda side with the guy calling their research crap and them all dummies because they can't remove themselves from the equation.
> I believe for some categories like microtransaction based apps Apple should take maybe 5%.

And then every PAID app will switch to FREE and charge for PRO, to circumvent the 30%. Oh, Apple complained it’s not technically a microtransaction? Fine, just separate every feature into a new purchase.

> If the only function of the App Store (or Play Store) is to provide hosting and some quality control then I don't see why apps can't be hosted on a secure website from the vendor

If the vendor server is compromised or is down, a download from the App Store won’t work for a single app, leaving customers confused and complaining to Apple, who can’t fix the issue.
Unfortunately I think Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 in 2018 counts as resetting that streak. It wasn't a crash but it did result in a death. I think your point still stands though. Very few of the incidents on this list are US airlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
Sums up most of Kickstarter or any crowd funded hardware product that fails to launch. People get super excited about the prototype they built, but then come to realize that mass producing is way more difficult than anticipated. The money raised in crowd funding gets burned through faster than anticipated with the various iterations with each of their vendors.

As guess could be said of any startup though. Not just hardware.
No, it's not. Damore is (objectively) an asshole and doesn't earn any discussion.

Choose any one of the (fairly unoriginal) points he was trying to make and talk about that.
Chromebooks are only successful if one constrains the world to the US school system.

Outside that they are even less than the worldwide GNU/Linux desktop market, hardly a measure of success.
Amusingly, if you search that phrase on Google now, your comment shows up as the only result. Their indexing is very fast.
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ASCII is pretty limited. For example your namesake's book Nationalökonomie could not properly by rendered in ASCII.
Thanks a bunch. And thank you very much for your feedback.
RSVPs does not require you to sign up.
We will add features like how many are attending and messaging on invitations over the next two weeks. Stay tuned.
Simon, Stuff.
It's still enforced by the type system. The type-safe deserialization libraries nowadays use 'result' types to indicate success or failure. The compiler forces you to handle both.
>and support searches for unavailable (out-of-catalog) entities

This is a subtle killer feature of Netflix's search, and something not often done by others. By including these unavailable entities, it allows Netflix's similarity and recommendation engines to still understand what the user was looking for, and provide things that are relevant and similar, even if they aren't exactly what the user is looking for.

That being said, this is a lot easier for something that has a relatively finite, known set of items (movies) in contrast to things with lots of items that can be differentiated in smaller, subtler ways (e-commerce, web documents).
I personally downvoted because of how a single incident is being extrapolated into a new trend by you, and that feels unhelpful/fear mongering.
Apple does provide the infrastructure to distribute the app to customers and does deserve some compensation for it.

But on the other hand, Apple is stepping into a market (music streaming) from which they control top to bottom and has a advantage no one has (no IAP transactions fee, they basically pay themselves for it), which in a way is unfair.

If they want to remain fair to competition, they should waive IAPs costs or reduce them significantly in market they engage themselves in which they are direct competitors.
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An automated way to avoid a political (human) outcome is the definition of insanity.
Yes I believe it's mechanically connected.
https://emojipedia.org/lying-face/
You're leaving out their most important product: AdSense.

After that, every other product is just a mechanism to feed the beast including search.
After some months of research and some trial and error I finally managed to create videos programatically using libav.

Nothing innovative, and I don't know how to write about it to make it feel exciting. Although I feel excited for working on this.

It was an important step towards some more noble goals, like creating animated content for visualization of time series and "procedural videos" -- I'm not a native english speaker and I don't know if this is the correct translation. I mean "procedural" in the same sense of "procedural games", but with videos instead of games. Googling for "procedural videos" returns a lot of medical-related stuff, this is not what I have in mind.

I'm pretty sure there are many companies doing this already and there is probably a common name for this, which I'm not aware of. But I want to have such capability in my company.
> malware blacklisting "services"

If you're thinking of Google Safe Browsing (used by both Chrome and Firefox), you're wrong.

It works the other way around: Google sends you the list of undesired domains, and your client prevents you from visiting domains found on that list.

Nothing needs to be shared with a third party for that functionality.
Yes it is, the same way a CEO is responsible if the systems of the company are hacked and millions of emails and passwords are lost. They do what security experts tell them. Equifax for sure had lots of experts. Or Sony for that matter. There is a point when a court will decide that "you should have known" and the "expert" defense will not work.

It's funny on HN, if it's security the CEO should go to jail for listening to experts, if it's Boeing - one of the holy cows beside Tesla - it's "follow expert advice".

I bet $100 if an US 737 MAX crashes the CEO will go to jail.
> Somehow every internet forum had this figured out within hours of the crash using public flight tracker data.

They didn't. Every internet forum is speculating right now, none can support a conclusion.

> It seems clear that safety is being weighed against level of disruption

It is more than disruption. Democratic societies have some concerns about Rule of Law and fairness, all societies have concerns about not bankrupting the air-transit providers, and about providing confidence in a stable environment for business.

Besides, air-traffic disruption kills people too.

Democratic countries tend to be very transparent about this calculation, but you probably won't be able to get it this quickly. In a few days we will probably learn the details why Canada made their decision.
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