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I didn't see any mention of the customer, as in of the end-user variety.

The client is the customer but the client's customers are the real customers that matter.

Sometimes you need to write your own s4it and then test it out. You might find that it is just a matter of not using their language. We classify products in numerous ways - or the client does - but the customer just thinks of widgets. They haven't a clue for what a 'contemporary widget' is or the difference between a 'vintage' and an 'antique' widget is. They just want a widget.

Whittling down your copy might be the wrong way to go, sometimes the copy is needed but the language needs to speak to the customer. If it is in their language then you stand half a chance.

There is also an aspect to this that concerns 'dumbing down'. As you mention there could be fans who want to know it all, you have to write for them too.

One thing is that on the web we are not restricted to physical space like how a newspaper is. So specifications can be tucked away or the story can be tucked away. If you are reading a recipe you might want to hide the list of ingredients or the method if the bit people want to know about is the eating.

Too often a visual design process for the web strips content out rather than think through how to tuck information away in such a way that it is engaging content.
> They don't have time to read and understand code.

Where does it say that. It actually says the opposite quite clearly if you cared to post the whole quote and not just what supports what you would like it to.

> They addressed one of the issues with a compile step, eg slower feedback loop.

Can you explain to me how faster feedback from static types that they, a concept which the article reiterates again and again, leads to a slower feedback loop. Clearly the article and many more like it say that the feedback loop actually speeds up with static analysis since you don't have to run the code to get the feedback.

I'm not sure if you actually want to objectively reason.
Labor? We are talking about automation.

What I am saying, in your words, is automation will shift the "economies of proximity" equation to make more sense back in the USA.
but it's running on the mastercard network anyway, what's new?
I see no advantages over the sapphire reserve.
That's a real knee-slapper. If Apple really cared, they'd allow NVidia's drivers into their OS, support OpenGL and Vulkan, and make actual desktop computers again, not rounded rectangle hunks of metal with a paltry number of ports.

I want a real apple tower again, dangit.
Offtopic, Frank Abnegale ( Catch me if you can fame ) also says the same thing in his [1] lecture at Google. The whole lecture is also pretty interesting.

One of the best google talks I have seen.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI&t=3264s
Seems like a subpar card in terms of points. I also find it odd that Apple, a company notoriously averse to discounts and deals, is entering a sector absolutely dominated by nothing but discounts and deals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19484808
That's a Germany problem, not a Europe problem. The rest of Europe has good support for tap/pin.
Wow, what a word!

I was kind of joking that it may appease flat-earthers to some degree though :D
It's a different thing... it's a change of habit.

When I sit in that spot, I tend to get a snack for it. It doesn't matter whether I'm hungry or not... it's just a thing I do. Eating less snacks is a desirable goal. Eliminating a trigger that causes me to eat snacks is a change of habit.

Now, you might say "I want to eat fewer snacks" is a function of character. But without a mechanism, it's about as relevant as "I want a million dollars", or "I want world peace", and only slightly more realistic.

So I examine circumstances in which I eat unnecessary snacks, and try to change those circumstances. That's a process. That's a change of habit. And it's much more likely to be effective than anything about "character". This is not an act of willpower.
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I suspect that gaming subscription services will payout more than your traditional model. The difference between this and music is that most people do not want to hear the same songs over and over again. The $10 is spread across so many artist.

Video games will capture the attention of a person for hours in a month. I can see that a big chunk of the monthly fee going to a couple of titles.

I was born in the late 70s. That generation of gamers despise free to play games. I like the $5-10 titles on mobile and the $20-30 titles on Steam (I haven't bought a AAA title in a long time.) I don't have a ton of time to game, so I am not spending $120 a year on games. If this is a $9.99 service, it is a sweet spot and I suspect this demographic is larger than we imagine. Since price hasn't been announced, we'll have to see how much it will be.
Apple would also need to release something near the Switch's price point. That's not happening anytime soon.
My XPS-13 9350 does great (Ubuntu 18.04, Xorg). I just got a score of 292 (156+136 bonus) on that mouse accuracy site on small/hard.

Then again, when a relative ordered one of these laptops, the mousepad was dead on arrival, so ymmv.
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> In some ways, student debt is similar to land in that it can provide a return on investment that allows for paying off the debt over time.

Comparing student debt to buying land is funny.

At least with land you are guaranteed to be the owner of an asset. Something physical, a location, that other folks might at some point pay a price for (regardless of what you paid).

Student loans don't guarantee anything. :)
Credit cards would be more popular in Europe if they offered any significant benefit at all.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the succinct explanation.
How do you click a button with an arrow going into a cloud, and then be surprised that you've uploaded the screenshot online?

Super useful feature. Will miss it.
it's based on pdf.js ... which is developed on Mozilla. Both projects are open source. It's also free ;)
Sorry, I didn't see your reply to this until just now. I hope that you get a chance to see mine:

I have to disagree that nomenclature being fractured is not the problem. Within any given field, it is true that as you go deep enough into how things work, it gets complicated and hectic. However, as we have done throughout the entire written history of humanity, we have a special set of tools to help us engage with those complications, and reduce them down to complexes of simple objects whose behavior we understand - mathematics. If we are unable to reach deeply enough within a single field, it is because the tools we teach are not up to the task.

A large part of the issue is that the mathematics in common use in these disciplines, and at the elementary level, is in need of an upgrade. That upgrade is in the process of being performed (category theory), and as we learn to apply it in more and more fields, concepts and processes that seem deep, difficult, and essentially different turn out to be related in mathematically precise 'analogies'. This means that the same set of 'deep concepts', applied with different sets base objects and different operators that obey the same rules, will unfold into some of the main ideas in each discipline. Baez's Physics, Logic, Topology, Computation, a Rosetta stone is a good example of the beginnings of this, but googling 'applied category theory' or 'applied category theory course azimuth' ought to bring you some interesting extra links.

More generally, what we see of as specific processes within a particular field, when viewed through the right lenses, I expect we will find are instead instantiations of much more general processes that are the same across most, if not all, fields of discipline. How will we convince everyone to use these different naming systems and toolsets? Because those people who do use them will perform better, and the logic of competition will pull the educational system and society along with them.

If you disagree, I'd love to hear more about it. Nomenclature and Education are near and dear to me - I always jump and an opportunity to discuss with someone who does so in good faith.
They need to allow you to use Sony's DS4. It's effectively a universal game controller now and no one makes a better gamepad.

A compatibility layer w DX11/DX12 would be even better.
Any news on a signup bonus? The rewards aren't that compelling, so I don't see a reason to apply without a significant bonus.
Hm. Yeah I thought it was priced in Ether.
The economy is not bigger in China yet. Also, the competition in China will be more fierce for US companies than in domestic markets, meaning they will have less market share.
not running a server that stores images uploaded by anyone on the internet also saves them from having to deal with any legal issues associated with running a server that stores images uploaded by anyone on the internet
I think it's time for my tool (https://github.com/rbanffy/nsaname) to grow beyond Vault 7 and accept patches with suggestions.

I wish Docker and Kubernetes made it simple to plug in host name generators. My clusters would de much much cooler.
This launch event was very odd. It seemed like a launch event geared towards the general public but about a media platform for the media. No real launch details and no pricing structure with no previews of shows.

Given the recent debacle with the airpower lack of a launch date I can't help but not really trust that this is going to come out in the fall...much less "what" is coming in the fall.
I have no particular basis for saying this, but it feels like it was written as part of a larger attempt to discredit the environmental movement as a while.
Apple likely save quite a lot from small transaction ( $0.99 ) if it was done on Apple Card.

Roughly $50B are spent on App Store, and even more with growing number of Subscription along with other Apple Credit Card usage. That is a potential of $100B+ transaction volume.

It will likely be another entry point for Apple Cash, sending and receiving money from friends.
The regulation prohibits "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein" so if you and your friend made up your language to keep your communications obscured, then it seems that it would not be allowed.

If you happen to speak a language that's not commonly known in the area then that would likely be fine.
Man I hope most app games become part of this. I hate the amount of BS in the games my kids play on their iPads. Ads, in game purchases, etc.
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Has it been proven beyond doubt that we wouldn't be able to produce enough food without the use of pesticides?
By "gaming space", you mean casual games played on the phone, right?

I see great opportunity for casual games. Think "Candy Crush", but where it's part of your monthly and you just get to play, without having to sending friends energy so you can get an extra round back when they accept.

On the other hand, the trend lately has been game companies telling people exactly how they have to play and Apple won't be able to resist that. If you want to play a different mode and Apple doesn't think you should, you won't get to, and modders won't be able to provide it.

If I were a game developer, I'd be wary as well of the usual pitfalls. Clones or Apple developments being anointed the winner by Apple. Core functionality to the game suddenly being disallowed. No transparency or recourse with Apple as publisher.
There are many academic studies on this exact topic. Two theories are given weight: 1) people feel a sense of obligation because they received something (the natural human tendency to repay debts) 2) being able to buy votes is a forward-looking signal that shows the party/candidate is serious and may be able to provide further benefits down the line.

Further, political operators can at least guarantee that they went to the polls. This way, they can influence turnout.

See
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/artic...
If they removed interchange fees, they wouldn't be able to offer any kind of significant cashback.
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You might have that backwards. Consider Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Iraq was diverse, with multiple languages and religions. The authoritarian strongman was needed to hold the country together against the divisive diversity. Without him, people quickly took to killing each other.
When so much of tech takes place in an open office setting, "don't work at a place that utilizes one" approaches "don't work in tech". And when so much of white collar work in general happens in that setting, it approaches "don't work"
Wouldn't the risk of fraud make a $1 million transaction much more expensive to handle?
Meat and grain also have the pesticides in them though.
The percentage fee is 1, for rewards necessary to get people to use the card and 2, to cover fraud which is actually a MASSIVE problem and 3, to cover defaults/payment issues.

The per-transaction fee existed to cover the additional cost of building out the network (literally running cables and wires to the merchants' stores) and providing card readers. The network is already built and has been paid for THOUSANDS of times over, and at this point it's largely obsolete. I'm also pretty sure merchants need to buy their own card readers now.

Finally, the best estimates for the cost to process a transaction is < $0.01. So that means, they're charging $0.35 for nothing, essentially.

Oh the joys of running a cartel.
Oh great, now I feel much better.
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I'm not the person you responded to, but here are my observations:

1. Borg's authenticated encryption is a composition of AES-256 in CTR mode and HMAC-SHA256 (or alternatively, Blake2b256). This consists of two distinct constructions. Most cryptographic vulnerabilities are introduced in the combination of distinct primitives and constructions. While combining AES-CTR and HMAC is a way of doing authenticated encryption, it's not the safest way. As a specific example - in order to avoid introducing a nonce-misuse vulnerability, Borg needs to implement specific logic beyond the construction to ensure that the CTR counter (containing a randomized nonce) is not reused. This kind of overhead is dangerous because it adds a lot of room for a developer to make a fatal mistake.

It would be much better to use a dedicated authenticated encryption scheme, like AES-GCM. AES-GCM is a more complex construction, but it also has very convenient interfaces and language bindings which obviate the need for developers to interact with raw primitives and constructions entirely. You don't need to implement AES-GCM so much as call its seal and unseal operations from your language of choice. There's far less room to footgun yourself here. The even more modern method would be to use something in the ChaPoly family. For example, XSalsa-Poly1305 goes one step further than AES-GCM by using an extended nonce. ChaPoly constructions also have ubiquitous language bindings and easily used interfaces to safe implementations.

2. Borg uses OpenSSL directly. This is not great because libcrypto exposes raw primitives directly to the developer. To its credit, Borg's documentation does provide a few reasons why its use of OpenSSL is trustworthy. But those reasons are more to do with TLS implementations than cryptographic constructions. As with above, working directly with raw primitives provides a lot of room for implementation errors and avoidable security vulnerabilities. It's generally better to abstract away your cryptography implementation to a known-good, trustworthy source which you can just call via a straightforward (and opinionated) interface. For example Borg could use NaCL instead, which would provide XSalsa-Poly1305 encryption out of the box. I hypothesize they'd eliminate a few hundred lines of code with NaCL instead of OpenSSL.

That being said, I don't know if I'd call Borg's encryption "weak." It's not ideal, and I don't personally trust it. But it's not like they're using AES in ECB mode or Mac-Then-Encrypt CBC mode.
The short answer is that corporations have decided to externalize production as much as possible into global supply chains.

It's cheaper, it buys you flexibility and it makes "re-tooling" for other product lines a matter of switching suppliers.

There are many excuses that allow a company to end-up in a situation where they're little more than finance, product/sales/marketing management, and scm-specialists sitting in cubes with headsets on "hitting their numbers". I find it all very sad and unsustainable in the long term. If China eventually "eats our lunch" economically, we will have richly deserved it as a nation.
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The ad, sounds like it is geared towards indie game developers, not players. They do not want to do current mainstream games, but capture some niche market outside them.

My guess is they are throwing a lot of money on this, to get exclusive launch titles. It would be nice to know from the early vendors what are the attached strings.
I wouldn't call it nefarious, but corporations operate on greed. As another comment points out, it's probably a good thing that society can get this greed targeted towards improving the situation for people who might otherwise be marginalized. I'd say my agenda would be to encourage a healthy skepticism of every good thing you hear about a corporation. Amazon has had bad press regarding how they treat warehouse workers. If we're too busy praising them for this, are we missing out on places where the greed leads to bad things?
Tighter control over performance, no royalties / no unity logo at launch, unlimited flexibility, smaller more optimized binaries. It really boils down to control. I agree though, most people don't need to work with the graphics api directly.
how the hell do people use a cli on a phone
Apple isn't launching this in Europe (where Revolut operates) anytime soon, at least with this kind of offer.
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If money and logistics were not an issue, I believe the FN Five-SeveN with the specialty 5.7 cartridge would win hands down. It very much has done for the pistol what the AR-15 did for the rifle.
I mean... the whole point of a democracy is to protect against powerful people having "authoritarian tendencies", whatever that even really means
A significant proportion of interchange fees goes to covering fraud chargebacks.
It is a combination of factors that lead to this, I will just give you a quick example, please note that I will not cover all factors.

* Product X is made by 3 companies in the US. It costs them $20 to make the product and it is sold for $30-33.

* Government increases minimum wage, which leads the cost to go up to $23 (e.g. cost of raw material is impacted, labor, etc), the producers increase the price to $33-35 while still taking a personal hit in their returns.

* Unexpected economic disruption or shortage in a certain raw material leads to increased costs to $25 and increased consumer price to $36-38

* Government implements a new legislation that impacts customer demand negatively and increases cost of production to $28. This leads to increased consumer price to $39-40

Throughout this process, supply/demand dictates that the increase in prices may impact negatively the demand for the good produced.

* One of the companies realize that it can produce the goods in a country called Melo for $5. It shifts a good portion of its production there, allowing it to sell the goods to consumers for $20.

* Customers sensitive to price will flock to the cheapest good. All the other companies decide to move their production to Melo country to remain competitive.

In part, consumers are willingly exchanging a few jobs here and there so that they can get goods & services at a cheaper price. Economics is full of trade-offs, understanding them is essential for a country's long-term success.
Yes. This is roughly half of the transaction fee. The other half is to self-fund the rewards illusion that gets customers to use the card.
Not to mention culture, night life and other non-home-bound entertainment, a variety of good restaurants, and perhaps real-life friends who share your outlook, experience, and interests.
There's a reason most population statistics use per-capita rather than raw numbers.
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I'd be surprised if those assumptions are largely true.
Fortunately there are a lot of banks and a lot of credit cards. There are only a few credit card networks, but this doesn't make things better or worse.
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Listen on a port. Parse bytes. Encode bytes. Parse text.

Implement SMTP.
I wonder if wine from the EU is better at having less pesticides?
>That the US provided some weapons to people fighting a war, does not making them responsible for it.

Yes, it does. Not soley responsible, but that blood is still on US hands.

>Of course, the US was not fuelling both sides of the war with weapons as your comment implies, US equipment in Iran was there long before the Islamic revolution,

I assumed you had heard of the Iran-Contra affair. My comment implies the reality.

>Iran has declared that they want to destroy the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. If they want to take that posture against powerful nations, and at the same time get pretty close to building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to mount them - well - then they're picking a fight with entities much more powerful than them, which is why the sanctions were put in place to begin with

You act like they claim they wanted to destroy those nations for no reason. Decades of the US backed regime is what led to the Iranian revolution, which was just the tail end of Western powers looting Iran. A return to those conditions is what is still required of Iran to escape sanctions.
I want to know what sort of extended warranty insurance they will provide. There was no mention of this in the presentation today. They mentioned giving 3% cash back on anything bought from Apple. Right now American Express is giving me 3% back on all computer purchases and extending AppleCare by 2 additional years. I made the most recent purchase with that card via Apple Pay.

So if I went out and bought a new MacBook Pro today, either AppleCare or American Express will pay to repair or replace it for the next 5 years, until March 25, 2025. (Just for using the card).
Doesn't Apple have some sort of patent on the hardware part of things, such as the glass in the trackpad? I can't read the site as it's being hugged to death...
I don't know man?

I'd wager that Google, Mastercard, Visa, and AT&T each know way more about me than Apple does. That's not even counting companies like Amazon, Target, etc. It seems to me that with respect to privacy, Apple is the least of my problems.
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Apple went from supporting games on the Apple ][ line, to discouraging games on the Mac, to supporting games again with Pippin, to not really supporting them on the Mac but still claiming there were games on their platforms (idTech Rage demo, yaaaay?), to... supporting games again. Is anyone buying this? Is this thing on?

I realize companies shift, but Apple has done a lot of shifting when it comes to gaming.
Thanks, I'll take a look. Any you recommend?
Current discussion of this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19476323
Asus was actually sued by the FTC a few years ago over poor security practices in their wifi routers.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/ftc-a...
Wouldn't that also be consistent with a finite universe as long as the distribution of galaxies is not biased towards or away from the edge, as long as the edge itself is beyond the observable part of the universe? We wouldn't have to be in the exact center, just not too close to the boundary.