skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only if you put the option to subscribe into your app in the app store.

Yes, they get 30% only if you subscribe through the app store. That's already too much for a service that doesn't use Apple's infrastructure, but Spotify played along for a while. Their main complaint however is that Apple is outright censoring the Spotify app so that it makes no mention to other options for upgrading to Premium.

That's clearly foul play in my book. I wonder if you would still defend it if instead of Apple, it was e.g. Microsoft using Windows Defender to block Chrome downloads.

> There are significant costs associated with the app store, no?

You pay a $99 per year fee as a developer to Apple. That should cover their costs for general QA. If they feel that popular apps need to pay more, they can still set a higher fixed price. But claiming that 30% is to cover Apple's QA costs is ridiculous.

> Why should they have to let Spotify run on it in the exact way Spotify wants?

Because of the way they market Homepod. They present Homepod as interoperable with your iPhone, but it turns out they place artificial limits to interoperability. I wonder, what would Apple do in case of a mass-return of Homepods from customers unhappy by the lack of interoperability with Spotify or other apps?
Exactly. Olivia Giannulli even outright says “I don’t really care about school, as you guys all know..."

(source: https://youtu.be/lveMkZc-NRE, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/style/olivia-jade-giannul...)
It doesn't need to announce it verbally, just including capability updates in the (currently useless) emails that they already send their customers would do.
For pure typing latency, here's a fairly rigorous one from three years ago: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

It doesn't include VS Code, but it does describe the benchmarking process and the provided tool is simple to use.

On my current setup, VS Code 1.32.1 is ~5ms slower than Sublime Text 3.2: 16.2ms vs 10.8ms respectively.
The rough cylinder bore didn’t help, but the root cause was the design of the bottom ledge of the oil control ring grooves and the lack of proper drainage.

A popular shade tree mechanic fix was to drill drain back holes in the oil control ring groove: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrnblJ8VZtY
He/she is saying “It’s the FAA and $plane_manufacturers.”
> The thing I find to be anticompetitive is that Spotify cannot provide a web link to their own payment processing web page within their app.

Well, you probably can’t advertise your apartment on AirBnb and then Link people to your own payment service that bypasses AirBnb’s fee either. It sort of makes sense.
> Apple is not extracting a toll from their competition through their other holdings. Nothing has changed for Spotify: if you want to sign up users through Apple's infrastructure, which has a cost associated with it, you have to pay the same price as everyone else.

But Spotify's argument seems to be "you have to pay the same price as everyone else ... except Apple itself."
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> vendors should be prevented from shipping an App Store with their OS.

Congratulations, you've just reinvented the desktop adware / malware market. We know that if this is possible users will be manipulated into making bad decisions which are hard to recover from, and in many cases those bad decisions will be made for them by their carrier.

What I would support is that the app store should be more open: no refusing apps for competing with the built-in apps, and removing the ban on purchases which don't go through the platform — let the store owner charge for payment processing but e.g. Amazon should be allowed to sell you a movie on iOS without paying Apple a cut simply by using their payment system instead.
That should not be relevant at all.

During the critical phases of flying both pilots will be engaged with the operation. While it's true that the first officer may execute the take-off the captain will be at the controls, alert and ready to intervene at any time.

Later during cruising the responsibilities may be split. For example: The captain may deal with administrative stuff while the first officer is actually flying the plane.

Especially since the crew knew that the plane can potentially behave in an erratic manner you can bet on the fact that an experienced captain is standing by and observing very closely what's happening.

Source: I had the oportunity to sit in the cockpit during an entire (short haul) flight, when that was still possible. Both pilots were always engaged during all critical periods of the flight and very specifically during take off and landing. Even when the first officer executed the operations.

As a sidenote: It's not like driving a bus up there. Both pilots were focused, concentrated and busy during the entire flight (this may be somewhat different on a long haul flight ).
I agree that Spotify is taking the right stance. In their position, working on whatever team is responsible for fighting Apple, I would also do anything in my power to fight.

Having said this, Apple can do as they please. They control the hardware, the OS, the App Store, and the user accounts. The same was true of Twitter who effectively squeezed access to their API until one or two desktop clients remained.

The only two ways out of this is to legislate a lower rate (through campaigns such as these), or to create a competing platform that lowers costs for its users. Imagine if Spotify offered a lower rate for Android users... Wouldn't that send a very clear message to Apple?
I feel like the topic of CFS is irrelevant to the story. Why is there such toxicity online creating these echochambers.

If you point out anything that might question climate change for example, you will be called all kinds of names. Nobody looks at the points you are making.

Let's test it right now. I'm sure I'll get downvoted and nobody will respond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

Over the last 5 million years temperature has been going down but also becoming more aggressive in the swing in temperature. If you look at the last 20,000 years we are in the standard rapid spike in temps and CO2 and we have NOT spiked any higher than you would expect.

The minor spike in CO2 in the last 200 years is a small fraction of the spike over the last 20,000 years.

If you look up the Eocene period(after the dinosaurs went extinct). It was 14celcius warmer than today's climate. Life was great back then; Canada/Russia wasn't a frozen wasteland.

Climate change is good.
Of course, but what is the conversation factor between seconds and feet?
VSCode or Sublime can easily do this with a few extensions, they have fantastic Python community support.

VSCode will be easier to setup.

VSCode will use more RAM and be slower to startup but if you're just developing scripts and don't go crazy with extensions it won't be a major difference with 16GB of RAM.

Atom in my experience is dog slow.

PyCharm is overkill for scripts, but the features are very nice once things start getting big.
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A rant about NixOS
That’s incorrect.

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/re42r05-property-manage...
> How do you reconcile them as idealists who want less monopolization and more openness and better privacy, yet at the same time aren't doing it for amassing wealth?

I never said they were all idealists. I'm saying being complacent to negative change is different from actively driving it.

> What other reason could there be for doing a job one doesn't want to do?

I never said they didn't want to do the job, just that if it were up to them they might do it differently. They're still building and improving systems, just not in all of the ways they may want to.

I'm not painting people as angels and demons. I'm just tracing this phenomenon down to its baseline driver.
Instead of normalizing outrage and harassment, why not say the opposite: 'To be on twitter you should treat others with respect, and if you don't then you shouldn't on there'

Obviously that's not representative of Twitter right now, but why can't it be?
Slightly off-topic: I find it intriguing that Spotify keeps on calling their users as 'fans' instead of users or customers!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Edition_N

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Twitter, Starbucks, Skype
Not unpopular, just uninteresting.
It seems like the modal is often abused as an anti-pattern, where it's not even clear if you are still on the same page because the content is almost entirely concealed/darkened. Reddit desktop is an example. Modals with multi-page length scrolling content is just absurd
>Just as Microsoft were stopped from shipping a browser with their OS, vendors should be prevented from shipping an App Store with their OS.

There's nothing wrong with providing an app store as long as that store offers fair and non-discriminatory terms to all vendors. Charging app developers for the costs of running a store and maintaining an ecosystem is perfectly reasonable; using those charges to stifle competition isn't.

Engineers tend to want neat, perfect solutions that require no human judgement, but they're very rare in the real world. There are obvious and major disadvantages to a free-for-all versus a walled garden, for both developers and users. Customers have a right to choose a tightly-controlled platform, just as they have a right to shop at a grocery store that refuses to sell poisonous food. Banning app store bundling is a scorched-earth approach that would do more harm than good for the average consumer.
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>Just as Microsoft were stopped from shipping a browser with their OS

They were never stopped from that.

They were stopped for abusing their monopoly (e.g. threatening OEM PC vendors that unless they bundled this or that, they wont get Windows for a special price, etc).

And that when they had a monopoly (e.g. close to 98% of the desktop AND business market) -- which in itself is not illegal.
I think you are confusing 'activists' with 'agitators'.
.. that would just be Apple paying themselves.
Technically it does? Apple could be taking a 30% cut all Apple Music subscriptions for hosting the application and processing the payment. Apple then gets the remaining 70%.
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While I disagree with you, I disagree with the amount of down-voting you're receiving even more.

It's unfortunate that reasonably stated views that disagree with the basic frequency of the given echo chamber are so discouraged.
"behavioural genetics" and something else I will not even talk about for fear of being hunted and bullied by an angry mob on the internet. These topics are so sensitive because of the current political climate that they are literally career suicide for any western scientist.

It has become way too easy to bully people into submission with tools such as Twitter, but not only, too easy to create harassment brigades against anybody over manufactured outrage.
In theory that's an easy problem: anyone could make an "App Store", especially considering they wouldn't have to host binaries or deliver updates.

Something mimicking today's stores would essentially be links you can rate and comment on. Kind of like Reddit, but with a different UI and no direct user submissions.
I'm interested. Till i read "You need dotnet to run strans."
i close my browser tab.
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My device *not theirs.

That's the reason I don't buy Apple stuff to begin with.
"That evening, the Haitian minister of justice personally intervened for the contractors’ release, according to local reports, independently confirmed. "

-- So someone high in the Government hired them.
I think that should be possible. The main restriction seems to be

2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

Using V8 to execute JS without 'browsing the web' sounds okay.

And perhaps also this, although it is not clear to me whether downloaded JS scripts are considered 'code':

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. [...]

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

Anything else? I'm curious to learn more..
With the X-ray scanners installed at modern airports you're allowed to bring filled bottles into planes again. Also don't have to remove anything from your luggage, it's great!
> Just curious: why writing "Chinese people" and not "Taiwanese people" ?

IIRC, it's because the mainland Communist Party's domestic propaganda pushes the line that the Chinese people aren't ready for democracy, in order to legitimize its authoritarian rule.

The fact of Taiwanese democracy directly disproves that. They're a very similar population separated by only 70 years of political independence (and the democratic changes were only in the last 30 years, IIRC).
NES launched in the US in 1986. Super NES was released in US in 1991.
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1. Yes, the extra information provides context, but not a solid and deep exploration.

2. Yes, it would be different and I think it's very interesting that the broad journalistic investigation "is research influenced by activism?" does not reach to the most prominent topics that come to mind of "topics that have a lot of controversy, for which there are claims that research in this sphere is influenced by activism". The fact it covers CE as an example, and not race or gender could imply that there isn't research that states differently than activism, whereas CE does have this split.

EDIT: The claims that I'm mentioning have already been populated in this discussion thread as a whole, so I'm pointing out that there doesn't appear to be evidence in this article that politically "leftist" politics is suppressing academic research, but is focused quite specfifically on CE/CFS, which doesn't appear to fall into a clear leftist/rightist deliniation of beliefs.
So there's basically three things going on here which need to be clarified.

1) People advocating alternative therapies stirring up trouble

> "The campaigner and doctor behind MAIMES, Sarah Myhill, has posted YouTube videos setting out her views: “I liken it to child abuse,” she says in one that has been viewed more than 8,000 times. “This amounts to a form of abuse, because these people” – CFS/ME patients – “do not have the energy to defend themselves.” Myhill has published several books advocating what she calls a “naturopath’s” approach to treating symptoms of CFS/ME – one using a tailored combination of nutrition, rest and medicines. She hasn’t published peer-reviewed research on the efficacy of her approach."

This is highly suspect, like the group of quacks that started pushing "vaccines cause autism". It would be different if they were participating in the scientific process themselves.

2) People who have been denied treatment or disability accommodation because "it's all in your head".

To them, someone arguing that there is a psychological cause is not facilitating them getting the right treatment, it's someone preventing them getting treatment.

Given the interaction with disability benefits, having your disease declared to be in your head may result in the money you need to live being withdrawn. It's very high stakes.

3) Random internet cranks.

There are a lot of these, and someone who is unable to work and not very mobile and in constant pain is the ideal candidate for self-radicalising into a hate campaign. They have nothing else to do.
You are blindly falling into a trap, just like this whole article. The article is using the so-called "online activists" to dismiss political opinion (not some, really the abstract idea of having social ideals) and once again depict science as an intrinsically unbiased source of knowledge (which is usually even extend to unbiased source of social order, cf the recurring mathematical "justification" of the liberal economy).

Don't get me wrong, i'm a scientist myself (theoretical cs) and i do believe in the value of scientific method. But i do believe that (1) this problem here is about the "online" part, not "activist" and (2) every scientific field gets explored in the context of a society thus its choice, its means and its dominant approach will always be biased (which most of the time isn't any "bad", it's ok french cs community leans towards ocaml/coq but uk is more towards haskell/agda). To expand on (1), it is now long known that twitter and other ad-based plateforms favor stupid/bigot/simplified/aggressive interactions because that's what captures more attention.

So please stop mistaking social-media activism for normal activism and using this to simplistically and superficially discredit non-dominant political opinions (and push dominant propaganda forward like "left and right all extremes are same", everybody even the dominant liberals are stupid and angry on twitter, this is all irrelevant). So i don't know about this chronic fatigue whatever thing, but this argumentative trap comes up over and over, i'm kinda tired, so please folks when someone is talking about "<x> is doing <bad thing> online", the problem most likely isn't with <x> but with "online" because it most likely means "attention hijacking plateform based on control and manipulation".
> They did indeed have "the service" in question, it was just limited to Apple's own offering.

Again, there's a difference between "Siri can talk to our music service" and "We have a stable public API that 3rd party vendors can hook into to connect up to a music service". They're not the same thing, and one is a lot easier than the other.
Knowing how crap Spotify app is (an Electron monstrocity on the desktop) that's for the best.
The problem that docker solve for me is reinstalling.

Some software, like RDBMS, are heavy to setup. You can do once and is not that hard, but then when the day come to reinstall, upgrade or move it to another version:

- You need to remember how do that

- If you upgrade OS, the step have changed

- If the install (of the OS) go kaput, you can lose the work of setup everything so far -the steps- (ie: I have a few times manage to ruin some ubuntu install. Instead of wasting time fixing it, I spin another server and redo)

- If the install (of the app) go kaput, you are left with a inconsistent state (I manage to broke a PG database in a upgrade, because was looking to the wrong tutorial, Instead of wasting time fixing it, I spin another docker image and redo from backup)

- I try to upgrade everything fast. A new ubuntu version? upgrade. A new major PG version? upgrade. Not always to production but I don't like to wake up 2 years late and face a BIG upgrading cycle. prefer to spread the pain in the year. If something wanna break, I want to see it coming. So I reinstall a lot of times.

And it work across OS. So all the problems of above, was in my dev machine!

P.D: I wanna something alike docker, I don't care for orchestration (so far) only something that allow to package apps/dependencies, work in my small serves, allow to (re)build as fast as possible. What other option can work? (P.D: My main deps are postgress, nginx, redis, python3, .net core, rust (coming). Wish to setup android/ios toolchains too)
8000 hours on type? Or 8000 hours on safari tourist drops. He was only 28 years old. The sums barely add up, and only then as an exceptional case
Probably some docs pertaining to Haiti's debt to Venezuela in that bank, not sure why the US would intervene but cant help but think this wouldnt be related, almost seems obvious.
Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js, Part 2
I dont really see your problem - and would counter with "we cant understand the world without data, but we also cant understand the world with data alone"[1]. With your firstly and secondly you are basically just making the normative-positive statement distinction: Sure, you cant prove normative statements, that's the point! But you can learn more about them with positive statements, which you can falsify, verify etc.

People not accepting evidence is kind of not really a problem of science, but of science communication. But yeah, its also becoming an increasingly severe problem with examples such as climate change denial and anit-vaxxers on the rise

[1] hans rosling - factfullness
> By contrast, Apple is a minority player in the mobile market.

That's Apple's magic trick. They only own the top 20% of the market (evading monopoly attention) but they extract almost 100% of all profit in the smartphone market. No idea how you'd legislate against that though..
A family member of mine suffers from severe IBS, including the ever-maligned apparent sensitivity to gluten. Until fairly recently, many doctors considered these complaints to just be hypochrondria. But, if one has severe diarrhea every time one has a trace of garlic or onion, even unknowingly, it's real.

As an aside, IBS sufferers usually aren't sensitive to gluten (unlike with celiac), but fermentable sugars that always occur alongside gluten.
Good luck on ur project :3
I understand the point that the aircraft itself is probably safe (up to the fact that we don't know what caused the latest crash), but there appears to be an inconsistency between these opinions (emphasis added:)

- not everything is back from the Lion Air incident, but internally there was strong confidence that a lack of pilot familiarity with the adjusted mechanics of MCAS contributed to the disaster.

- training for the 737-8 and -9 was just short of non existent because in practice, these planes don’t fly differently.

My best guess is that the latter refers only to the situation where things are working properly, and may also ignore the what-its-like-for-a-pilot issues raised in ASRS report 1555013, as mentioned by hnnmzh in another reply to this post.

Plus, at the time of the Lion Air crash, no-one had said anything to pilots about these 'adjusted mechanics'.
> By contrast, Apple is a minority player in the mobile market.

Apple sold 47% of the all smartphones shipped in the US in Q4 2018

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
Do you have evidence of your claim that "These topics are so sensitive because of the current political climate that they are literally career suicide for any western scientist."? For example, an investigative piece similar to the one here, except about behavioral genetics?
For a team that has been pushing the cutting edge of Javascript VM performance for many years, it must feel pretty weird to ship a feature that allows one to willingly regress performance so much!
It's small and in the mid-west, you may have heard of it, but it's also possible you may not have. The point, for the family, was not in 'cred' but because they loved the place.
Is it reversing time if there is no time to reverse? It is moving the state of the system from disordered to ordered in a calculated way.
For ET that is a captain only airport
Great, David.

Free idea: this is a great resource. People will want access to this. Increase its "linkedness". Internal links (related maps, recommended maps, etc) make it easy for people to navigate in site (Amazon is great at this). External inbound links (SEO, embed-capability for journalists, etc) help people get on site.
Is the election of Trump largely a result of independent expert advice? Would you like to see more adoption of a similar system for news curation?
> There's ways in which trivially, of course, duh, pain is in the brain, where else would it be?

Actually nociceptive pain is by definition not in the brain and is fundamentally somatic. However somehow it is privileged by society: it’s “real” pain while those others are “all in your head”.

The sad thing is that the scientist is validating these phenomena yet the critics don’t understand that.