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I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion unless you seriously compare physical with digital distribution.

Retail margins are famously low (very low single digits).

The problem is that Apple and Google are exploiting their mobile content distribution oligopoly so aggressively that they are practically begging for a regulatory crackdown.

I wonder why companies are getting carried away with this kind of profit destroying greed again and again. They are killing their own golden goose.
Look, you're right about happiness, but let me make 200k/year for about 5 years and then I'll publicly share your view. Also, that's Berlin; the situation in NRW (excluding D & K) is a bit different. Currently earning 1/4 from what you earn, with 6 years experience in the same company.
> Spotify wouldn’t be the business they are today without the App Store ecosystem

Is that true? I remember me, my friends and family all had the spotify deskop app way before installing it on mobile.
Isn't NIH essentially how humans learn? While this particular thing could've been made easier in a mouse-driven CAD tool, and a more pragmatic approach still would be to buy an off-the-shelf tool, this looks like a perfect project for someone who wants to get better at using OpenSCAD.
Are the roads all completely straight where you live?
Yes, basically it is exactly that. (For why it is called like that, see other answers; but that's also somewhat irrelevant.)

But the main task is to identify how to iteratively / recursively solve the problem and what to cache (and then you should also be able to tell how efficient your solution is). This is the tricky bit. It doesn't matter if you call it DP or whatever. But it matters to be able to come up with efficient solutions for such problems. And this is what companies want to see.
India is the key ally to all developed countries in the western world, be it the Rafael Deal for fighter aircrafts to other countries like Israel agreeing to setup defence manufacturing in India all are keen to be engaged with India. US especially after Trump became president has been very much Pro India as opposed to Obama who was definitely anti-india and Pro Pakistan, If the US has to tame china it needs India , these geo political equations I believe favours India and that is why you see all these things happening now
I have the 2008 Forester XT. What a great car! But the Model Y looks like the next car for me too since I need to be able to tow my small boat.
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this is the life I want. do you have a more detailed write-up on your life anywhere?
Every company uses and contributes open source if they believe there is a business case for it. No one is immune from that fact.

I’m sorry but the whole open source claim is weak because the musicians aren’t releasing their product as free to use by anyone. Why would you otherwise need anti piracy measures like Spotify if the music was free to use to begin with?
I've been to Sri Lanka recently where 70 % of the people are Buddhists. It's a beautiful island, the people are very calm and nice to each other and to Tourists, it was a pleasure to travel around. It's a very safe place, crime and stealing is almost nonexistent. Disagreements are solved in a quite calm way.

And then I got aware that it has one of the highest suicide rates worldwide. How comes?
One issue might be that Sri Lankans do not talk about their feelings. The civil war ended 10 years ago, not talking about what happened very likely has bad effects on mental health.
Another issue could be that hiding aggression might not be healthy either. Studies show that hiding aggression is one possible cause for depressions, which might depend on the society you are living in. (I didn't read those studies but heard them from multiple reliable sources) Being aggressive doesn't mean starting to hit somebody, it can be raising your voice and get your opinion across very clearly.
I'm not sure whether a calm and self-controlled Inuit child would have an easy time in a western Kindergarten, school, or workplace.
Monthly salary is usually discussed after-tax (since you usually compare it with monthly expenses like rent/mortgage, utilities, etc), annual before.
Trusting something is inherently different then being provided information.

Lets say I pump a state's aquifers dry to bottle water and there is a scandal about it. If I remove that information from the common information repository about my company is that ok?
These are very good points. My loosely connected thoughts on this:

We originally accepted this from Apple, because we didn't consider phones as "real" computing devices.

Apple would get in a lot of trouble, with no apologist left to defend them, if they turned MacOS into an app-store-only platform.

I feel like the major benefit of app-store for consumers is the curation of "good actors". What would be the consequences of adware if the protected app stores were let loose? On one hand I fear it would go completely off the rails, on the other hand it is already worse today on mobile apps than on PC/mac-apps, so can it really get worse? Would better access to opensource apps help alleviate the adware problem?
Yes, my interpretation is that that apps that simply used to use the READ/WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (runtime) permissions (which, if granted, implicitly give access to the whole storage, albeit possibly with some write access restrictions on removable SD cards) now instead need to explicitly ask the user to pick an allowed directory tree (or trees) using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE.
So nothing that used to work should have become totally impossible now and instead of a simple yes/no choice users now could also answer "Yes, but only this directory", which should be nice, although it also means a slightly more complicated UX.

Of course Google also prefers you to use content://-URIs instead anyway. Those do indeed have the advantage that the receiving app doesn't require any special permissions because it simply uses the permissions granted by the app sending that intent, but at the same time they also have a number of issues that Google chooses to ignore. I've ranted about some of those here (https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9175cafb84bd), and the most important in my view is that content://-URIs as currently implemented totally break opening of locally stored HTML files (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/77406791) and other similar content that implicitly depends on more than the one file that can be transmitted through the content://-URI intent.
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I think it's unlikely that this crash will be attributed to the same set of circumstances as the lion air crash. I don't find it credible that an experienced pilot would fail to catch what, in essence, is a trim runaway event. There is a reason trim runaway is a memory item on almost all aircraft. Even in the Lion air case the previous flight experienced difficulty with the system and dealt with it. This was before the publication and a great deal of publicity of the details around MCAS. I don't think we've heard anything yet to suggest this particular aircraft had a fault in previous flights. Another failure in the AoA sensor on a brand new aircraft seems unlikely.

I don't find 1 particularly compelling, it would have been noted by now if it was impossible to trim the aircraft using the manual trim wheels. Unless this is very specific to the MAX.

That said, I think it's entirely possible there is something else wrong in the control of the MAX.
I think there are 2 main techniques in the article.

The first one are stories to prevent something. These stories are completely made up, but put fear in the kids to they behave as they should.

The second one is looking from a distance (or a 3rd person) at yourself.

I wonder if religion falls into the first bucket. "Behave or you will go to eternal hell". Lots of people already figured out that it's all made up. What is not clear is that, although made up, it could still have a lot of benefits.

The second technique is probably what meditation and NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) do. Take a step back and look at yourself, your emotions, your behaviors, as an observer.
Model Y will have Full Self-Driving capability, enabling automatic driving on city streets and highways pending regulatory approval, as well as the ability to come find you anywhere in a parking lot.

Pending regulatory approval, and also they need figure out how to make it work first.

Off the top of my head I remember similar claims being made about the summoning feature of the model S. Has it lived up to the marketing promises?
Apple has no grand plans to dominate open source, that's silly. All of Apple's OSS contributions can be easily understood as solving Apple's needs.

Apple's LLVM involvement is not driven by spite towards the GPL; Apple simply needed a compiler that was compatible with their business model. Likewise they started WebKit so as not to be dependent on MS for a browser, and Swift because they wanted a successor to aging ObjC.

Apple does not have a monopoly in any market.
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It's a real question because the linked statement explicitly states the same rules are applied to all apps. One who may not acknowledge the obvious falsehoods can be excused for assuming the same rules are applied to all when told that's the case.
I think you're right to be sceptical, but I also think that contemporary inuit society is probably a poor example of inuit childcare traditions - since it's basically a community in its third generation of societal collapse. Child abuse is unsurprising in that context.
I am not a naysayer. I just point out the resource investment involved in going down a different path.

Also, Unity is built on a lot of 3rd party C++ code. From the top of my head, this is at least Mono, FMOD, PhysX, Enlighten and FBX.
> It seems to be suggesting that older Californians need to downsize and live small after they retire and don’t have to enjoy all the decades of working hard to pay mortgages so that the state can gain more taxes?

And so that scarce resources can be efficiently utilized. It is broadly agreed among economists that the best taxes are those that encourage people making inefficient use of scarce resources to sell them to people who will make more efficient use of them. Generally the best way to do this is to levy a tax proportional to the value of the scarce resource in question. This is why a land-value tax is so strongly favored by economists. Property taxes are a tax on the negative externality of underutilization of resources, because someone who derives more use from the resource (close to work, close to schools, space to raise a family) will be more willing to spend money at a specific rate to continue owning the resource than someone who derives less use from it.

> How is it a subsidy?

They receive a tax break as long as they retain ownership of the property. Their continued ownership of the property is being subsidized. Tax incentives are a common method of distributing subsides. Consider the tax incentives associated with mortgages, retirement accounts, and college education funds.

> Retired people should ‘move’ away and die someplace else because the taxes are necessary?

Scarce resources are scarce, and their efficient utilization should be encouraged rather than discouraged by government policy. Markets are a crude but effective means of determining value. If a retired couple values continued ownership of a property as much as a younger couple looking to start a family values that property, then they will have equal willingness to pay the associated property tax.

> Why would anyone want to own property if this becomes the norm? There is no incentive to own property usually bought on mortgages and interest rates.

Are you asking why people would want to own property if property taxes existed? Property taxes are pretty common, and unsurprisingly people continue to own property even when subject to property taxes, because they derive more value each year from continuing to own the property than they pay in tax. And when that stops being the case, they sell the property.
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This happens in Ireland. results are all hand counted with representatives from all parties and public access to watch the counting.

After a vote we get to watch the news go from counting station to station to announce the results.

There are usually a few recounts etc but it rarely takes longer than a day or two and tbh which is more important done right or fast?
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Thanks :-). This comes up so often! Is there a reason HN doesn't use a more mobile-friendly format for preformatted text?
In Poland, we have a great online forum with a dedicated topic for salaries.

https://4programmers.net/Forum/Kariera/233131-ile_zarabiacie

Do you know similar places for the global market?
Higher safety record? You mean this: https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safet...? Isn't that just a bunch of crash tests?
Given Boeing's behaviour thus far (and the other HN thread about the jackscrew issue they covered up some years back), I can't say I blame them.

With that said, AIAB has just as formidable a reputation as the FAA. If the truth is there, they'll find it.
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Yes, but you still have the problem of bringing this process into your production line and finding out how it makes you more efficient or better.

Musk also had to learn some lessons Toyota learned years ago, because he trusted a bit too much in automation.

If you want to automate something, you need to know exactly all the corner cases, every step of what the human is doing to make it work. The robots are precise enough, but it's often not that easy to describe the tasks to them.
Oh dear, I have a bunch bought(mostly due to nostalgia, haven't played them on steam)

Can you give an example and the shennanigans it does?
> So ultimately it does balance out.

That's not what I'm seeing from code bases of different projects I've been working on at my current employer. It's almost fully the case that any code base for a medium sized project would end up being shorter in Java or C#, and we didn't even discuss things like annotations for validation and similar things.

> In your example there isnt any errors that you could do in Go that you couldn’t accidentally do in the subjectively better code

It wouldn't catch this

var a int
if foo() {
a = bar()
} else {
baz()
}

Or even assigning it to a different variable `b`.

> in this discussion are really just a few small percentages either way

They add up quite quickly in any sizeable project. It's not just one offs here and there, you end up with functions littered in the code base that distract from quickly getting to understand the code when debugging a bug or an outage.

I found compile times for golang (building the entire project + unit tests) to be about the same as Java, meaning all this hype about fast compile times in golang to be just that. Not to mention that exceptions are far superior when debugging issues.

I agree, depending on the situation some languages would do better than others depending on the task. The thing is, golang seems to be used just because it has Google as a name behind it, not for its technical merit (and the vast majority of critical infrastructure at Google almost surely is still C++ and Java). This shows up time and again, as people are not able to defend the technical choices behind it in any proper way, more like "the golang authors are smart and they decided to have it that way", which has already been shown several times that the golang authors are quite bad at defending their decisions, and they're not experienced at language design to begin with (C is a bad language by modern standards). Golang would probably be fine for some small tools here and there (even for that, Rust or AOT Java would be a consideration), for anything larger, a static JVM or .NET language is strictly superior.
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The fact that they set up the legal structure of the "App Store" in a more restrictive/monopolistic way than traditional GNU/Linux package repositories, is no excuse if they are going to start playing the "moral" card like in OP's link.

They benefit substantially from open source and give very little back in concrete financial terms, yet complain that Spotify is asking the same thing and portray them as freeloaders. In reality, Apple are doing far more freeloading off of other projects than Spotify is doing off of them, legal or no.

What Apple have created in the App Store (a software package repository on an OS platform) is a monopolistic trust over what should be a free marketplace, like how regular GNU/Linux package repositories have worked for decades. This is exactly what "anti-trust" is supposed to prevent and the DoJ need to have the balls to start breaking up tech companies for this shit, just like they almost did to Microsoft.
For me it's about security and freedom, not "keeping up with the Joneses". I earn a good salary for the UK, even if it might look small compared to the US salaries. But I've been very careful not to inflate my lifestyle too much. I don't have an expensive car. I don't go on expensive holidays. I save approximately 40% of my take home pay. I feel I need to do this because I won't necessarily be employable long past 50 and I don't feel like I can buy a house or cohabitate with a spouse.
I tried it last year and Teradici seemed to work really well when you were in the same region (time zone-ish size area) or using an internal LAN with a decent connection. For low latency or low bandwidth situations VNC worked way better. VNC also had a lot more options for tuning. Another issue I had was that they had me set up a vpn for Teradici, while for vnc I'm just ssh tunneling the port.
Very impressed and you come across as such a nice person too! All the best to you.
theres a cost for everything we do in life. we all have same rate of passing us by time just the choice how to spend energy in that time.
Why can I buy train tickets on iOS apps using any payment provider, but not spotify-subscription?

It can't be that it is a subscription service, because I can also buy commuter-tickets as a subscription service using CC.

Is it that you can't sell competing services on app-store without paying apple tax or is there an arbitrary list of services that requires apple tax?
You have enough work experience to be admitted into the Oxford M.Sc. in Software Engineering. If you want to get a degree consider doing that instead of spending four years getting a Bachelor’s.

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I live in Poland (so, the culture is mostly western european with some eastern influences), I was a child in 80s/90s, and my grandma would tell us pretty awful stories to make us behave (looking at them back now they were awful for many reasons :)). Like "don't go near the street or the gypsies will kidnap you".

When you're 6 it might work, but when you're 10 you just learn to ignore whatever she says cause she's clearly telling you bullshit.

I especially remember grandma telling us not to play on a heap of wood planks (probably because you could fall into a hole and break a leg or sth). Her reason was - a "kuna" (weasel-like animal, pretty harmless for people) lives there and will bite us.

There was no internet yet, and we had no books on kuna, so we imagined it like a huge monster:) Later I learnt what's a kuna and laughed it off, but my younger sister refused to go to my grandma house (like 100m from our house) alone because of the wood planks heap and kuna nearby. For like 4 years :) Despite my parents telling her what's kuna and showing her photos and everything :) My parents were pretty angry with grandma because of that :)

I admit I was a dick about that and told my sister additional stories about kuna as well.
What's the price? Can't see it outside of the US.
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Not disagreeing with your larger points, but the Model S is a hatchback, though it doesn't have that image.
Risk managment is not rational at all times. If you have a reasonable expectation that the risk has increased, doing nothing is far worse than crying wolf with good intentions. Especially if you are responsible for the consequences afterwards.

Imagine the story would go like this: a girl heard the story about the boy who cried wolf. Uppon seeing a pack of wolves the girl doesn’t cry wolf because she wasn’t 100% sure that it wasn’t in fact a pack of stray dogs. Villagers die.

The original story teaches kids not to lie to gain attention, because nobody will believe you when you for once have a serious risk at hand. It has nothing to do with how we should treat real risks, where we have real indicators of increased risk.

Climate change is the ultimate example of such a risk. Better safe than sorry, because beeing sorry can easily become the end of the species here. Some airplane failing is arguably a tiny thing in comparison — but once you have been warned about a risk you can mitigate and you do nothing, you own it. Living is dangerous and everything has a remaining risk that stays dangerous even after any reasonable risk has been mitigated.

But this isn’t about totally ruling out all remaining risks, it is about ruling out risks that are easy to rule out.

If somebody told you the brakes of your bicycle are both broken, you would probably not lend it to someone until you convinced yourself of the condition of your brakes. You will do this despite the fact that cyling can be dangerous with a fully functional bicycle too.
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I actually met Mark once, on the very day that it was reported here on HN that Mt. Gox had been breached. This was a couple of years before the melt-down.

I had read the story here and, having just a little experience of Financial systems (nowhere near enough) I offered to help.

Mark took my meeting on that day because, in retrospect, he was likely looking for a Hail Mary. Perhaps hoping for a ransom demand.

He was at least smart enough to know I wasn't it. Nevertheless, if there had been good options, as you seem to suppose, I very much doubt he'd have taken my meeting.

Mark was in over his head, even then. And that tsunami just kept on rolling in. I wish him well.
Turning that around a bit...

If it was a pair of Airbus aircraft (A320, A330, pick any you like) which suffered these two crashes, would the FAA have demanded the whole fleet grounded?
It doesn't matter in this case because iOS isn't a Market and the iOS App Store doesn't have a monopoly on App Stores. They can appeal to the public about the unfairness of it all (which is likely what their open letter was designed for) but they don't have a legal case against Apple nor an inalienable right to be able to participate in their platform on their own terms.