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> Apple offers many ways to self-issue mobile apps

Do any of them allow a third party to certify a general purpose application from another developer as safe?

> That’s how they were able to globally kill that Facebook VPN scam app that used Enterprise Certificates, and that’s why all non-enterprise app distribution methods carry an expiry: either you’re a free sideload developer (one week), a TestFlight user (twelve weeks), or an enterprise user (no expiration unless your enterprise earn a revoke for distribution to the public).

To me, that sounds like they're happy to provide various levels of workarounds as long as there's absolutely no way it can compete with their app store. I suspect an enterprise signature used to sign various third party apps for distribution would not be looked upon kindly by them. What's more, I don't believe they should have final call over what software should be allowed on the phone, so even if they did allow a more general signing capability, what ecosystem is going to develop there when the metaphorical Sword of Damocles or Apple's arbitrary whims as to what is acceptable or not are continually reassessed (and possibly checked for conflict with Apple's future business ventures)?

> The scenario you describe, where my pocket brain can be enrolled in a third-party App Store, is hostile to my security requirements for my pocket device and I’m glad Apple prohibits it.

Possibility is not the same as certainty. It's only hostile to your security if utilized. If the ability to do so was gated by a settings toggle, you would be no worse off than you are if you did not enable it.
No, it says that moving the pitch trim switch to cutout disabled the trim buttons on the yoke. They should have still had manual pitch control the good old fashioned way (with the primary control inputs through the yoke), as well as the manual pitch trim wheels on either side of the throttle quadrant. However, it appears that due to an existing issue with the 737 design, they could not use the manual trim wheels for some reason while they were holding the yoke all the way back. That's a very bad situation to be in, as controlling an airplane that's severely out of trim can require huge amounts of force on the control inputs and could have just exhausted the pilots.
> That's mostly not true if you have an HMO plan, but your employer may not offer HMO plans if it offers insurance, the HMO may not be a good one if it is available, or it may not cover good providers in your area.

I think you meant that tongue in cheek, but essentially that means it's true for a significant number of people whose circumstances meet any of those criteria.
I am not saying they are smarter. I am saying they are getting big enough that they can face the bully.
The stabilizer trim switches enable/disable the electric stabilizer trim. There's a wheel with a foldout hand crank to manually control the stabilizer trim. Based on the preliminary report, the copilot was unable to turn the wheel which is why they turned the electric stabilizer trim back on.

One hypothesis is that because the pilot was fighting the extreme nose down stabilizer with nose up elevator the jackscrew that moves the stabilizer was so heavily loaded that the co-pilot didn't have enough strength to manually turn the trim wheel which is connected to the jackscrew by cables.
If only Apple had put that phenomenal technology in their actual phones instead of making it a $9 dongle.

Like, I'd be more tolerant of Apple's decision to drop the 3.5mm jack if it had coincided with Apple migrating iPhones to USB-C connectors, since at least that has the opportunity to play nicely with the rest of the USB-C ecosystem (which is growing pretty extensively) and could be a good way to push USB-C as "the" new standard for audio device connectivity (especially since USB-C directly supports analog and digital audio; the standard seems to advise rather strongly against using USB-C as a 3.5mm replacement outright, but a bit of "Courage™" from Apple could shift the tides such that such a prohibition is excluded from USB-C implementations). Their failure to do so makes it clear that Apple would rather make money on accessories tied to proprietary connectors than actually make good and useful products.
> Food for thought: slavery is illegal in the U.S. except if it occurs as part of punishment for a crime!

In case anyone reads this and thinks it's just commentary - this is literally enshrined in the U.S. Constitution (13th Amendment, emphasis added):

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
>USB device was generally expensive

How expensive? USB is a protocol, a micro, and some power management.

How long ago was this 'out of scope'?
> Please stop this ad hominem attack.

What?
Living 'paycheck to paycheck' on anything above the bottom tier of full-time job is solely a matter of budgeting.

It comes down to the choice to simply live as if you earned less. You can do that down to a very low number indeed.

If you earn 1500 pounds per month, and live as if you earn 1200, within five months you're one month ahead.

Does it take discipline to do so? Sure. Fundamentally though, if you were earning 1200, you'd be absolutely forced to do it. So just do it.

I'm well aware that SF is an expensive place. It's not an order of magnitude more than London.

The poster could obviously and trivially live on 100K and stash whatever the other 200K is post tax away.

The minimum figure in London I'd say is about 800 per month. Maybe 900. Below that you're going to struggle to get to work. 10K a year. Above that you could save it all _if you wanted_. Most people don't.
Feds warn: China sending ‘thousands’ of spies to US colleges
In the visualization, Spain is doing better than the US in technology. I find that hard to believe. I am not from either countries but clearly most successful tech companies are housed in US. The Coursera data set may be inversely correlated with actual skills in those areas. If you are already highly skilled in some area you have less need for taking adhoc courses on that subject on Coursera.
Non-native speaker, generally plausible info.

And as someone constantly betrayed by my Android soft-keyboard, I've considerable sympathy.
How does it work if you want to write your own software and run it locally on your machine?
funny thing: my UPS also presents as a keyboard. and made my computer kept waking up from sleep at random intervals.

Very hard to troubleshoot.
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The point of the survey is to test whether or not people are aware of what google is doing with their data, not whether or not they're okay with it.

Transparency is at the center of the argument of the morality of surveillance. There is nothing inherently immoral about collecting data from a consenting party, but it's impossible to gain consent from consumers who don't even know that they're under surveillance.

If you are attempting to test peoples existing knowledge of a situation, you don't want to offer new information before you gauge their existing knowledge.
Thanks for the detailed writeup! You are certainly right with regards to memory usage and ease of configuration. Keep up the good work.
For healthcare at least, the federal govt gives grants that cover some of the cost. The provinces are expected to pay the rest.
I misinterpreted your post. I apologize.
The first three top-level comments all laud the decision. That would appear to be the opposite of your central claim that May I remember that most HN jumped to defend Boeing and the FAA, without a shred of evidence?.

Maybe you would be able to make a better point if you dropped the jingoism and histrionics. It can also be helpful to not lump the tens of thousands of people here into one bin of “HN did x” when trying to make that point.
I looked at every top-level comment on that story and didn’t see a single one defending Boeing or the FAA.
For those from tri-state area: folks, PM Pediatrics is a blessing. They're open till midnight, waiting times are reasonable and they are billed as PCP by the insurance.
> A push poll doesn’t provide information to authors. They don’t care about the results.

That's not necessarily true, there are polls in the middle, where the authors attempt to both push agenda, and also collect information on whether the push is working. I'm saying that any amount of pushing constitutes a push poll; the defining characteristic is not whether the authors care about the results, but whether they're attempting to influence the results.

Examples of what I'm talking about are even listed in the Wikipedia article on push polling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll

If a poll is really asking whether a certain line of negative attack is going to work better than another, and not attempting to influence the answer, not attempting to sway the respondent, then yes that would be an "honest" survey in some sense. However, there aren't actually many polls related to negative campaigns that do this, and it's also very difficult to do without influencing the respondent. Negative attack campaigns are rarely if ever interesting in doing careful neutral statistics. You'd have to be scientific about it and include controls as well as positive and neutral statements in addition to the negative ones.

So, I still don't buy the original claim that most polls on negative lines of attack aren't really push polls. They are push polls, but they might indeed be softer pushes than other more extreme push polls.
For a user of your sophistication, why bother with a Hackintosh at all? You could use a truly free Linux based OS and not have to deal with any of this. Is there some killer app that you can only get in Mac OS? Xcode I guess for iPhone dev? And if you have a moral objection to Apple making MacOS like iOS, why would you want to do iOS dev?
> It doesn't even have the MMORPG hook where if you don't play, your character is weaker then of people that play more then you.

You're character isn't weaker, but it will have fewer cosmetics. I'm not sure that that's a less harsh incentive, personally.
I think you're using "quantitative increase" to mean "measurable improvement in output", but in the article sense it means simply "more quantity of practise" without changing the kind of practice.

Quantitative would be "I write more lines of code", "I solve more challenge problems", "I write and release more programs", "I code for more minutes each day, more days each week, more weeks in a year", "I suffer and endure more". This might get you further up in your friend group or class ranking, but won't take you to a new level (so claimed).

Quantitative changes would be things you suggest, like "I use different tools", "I approach problem solving in a new way", "I lean towards hard problems instead of retrying easy things", "I work with different people to learn new ideas", "I use languages which let me do more with less code", etc. (so claimed) those can take you to better output, even if your quantity of practice overall decreases.

We always say "practice makes perfect", but "do what winning people do" seems better advice than "do more of what you are doing, when you aren't winning". Phrased like that it's almost tautological - training longer with bad form, won't give you good form.
Dude looks like a lady:

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If they get rid of option 3, they will make macs unsuitable for a lot of development outside of the Apple ecosystem (they must still be good for development for iOS and macOS apps). Surely that is a large enough part of their userbase that they won't just throw that away
My understanding is that the horizontal stabilizer position is determined by the sum of the yolk ("steering wheel") position and the trim wheel position. MCAS might actually spin the trim wheel. In any case, MCAS trimmed the plane way out of whack, such that even with the yolk all the way back, it wasn't flyable. The only way to fix the trim was to turn back on the electric motors on the trim system (including its MCAS subsystem) or else crank the trim wheel like mad by hand and hope their hands are fast enough to get the plane sanely trimmed before the plane lost too much altitude.

Edit: I see inamberclad mentioned an additional detail that the trim wheels get stuck when the yolk is pulled all the way back. I wasn't aware of this, but it makes the pilots' actions make much more sense.
You just chmod it, in my experience. Not sure what happens if you need to really install something on your own machine
Zig's new release has a ton of improvements: new targets (e.g. LLVM 8, WASM, support tiers), C pointers, Vector type, better docs, and my personal favorite: Zig now makes things as static as possible by default.

I love seeing all the progress with Zig, V, Muon, and Rust. All these languages are potentially-better systems languages than C/C++, with better safety, better definitions, and better semantics. Zig has an explicit goal to be better than C and to replace it.
Ha haa haaaa .. you can not be serious :]

‘Secret Service agent. Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang Mar-a-Lago, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put Zhang's thumb-drive into his computer, it immediately began to install files, a "very out-of-the-ordinary" event that he had never seen happen before during this kind of analysis. The agent had to immediately stop the analysis to halt any further corruption of his computer, Ivanovich said. The analysis is ongoing but still inconclusive, he testified.’
There's no need to create a cryptocurrency around this tired old idea. In fact, doing so makes the entire system worse for users. The last thing Joe or Jane Sixpack wants to do is manage cryptographic keys. S/he's going to keep this stuff on a centralized account anyway, so why not build that product instead?

If Facebook sees a market for a bank account denominated as a floating basket of currencies, they can do that purely with centralized ledgers.

I just don't see the point of this given the deluge of similar projects already and the poor match to Facebook's mostly low technical literacy clientele.
http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314565827
> How do you come to the conclusion that biking to work does anything significant to offset the 20 tons of co2 emission you produce? Let alone bring it anywhere near 0?

I never claimed that it did. I think it helps, but I don't know how much. It was only an example of one thing that people think is a sacrifice that I don't.

As for the Vox article you linked to, a correlation between income and energy usage is just that, a correlation. I don't see any particular reason why that needs to hold in the future.

Anyway, as a graduate student I don't make a lot of money, so perhaps by your own estimates I'm relatively green, even ignoring the cycling.
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NB: in most states minors can drink alcohol if served by a parent.

I'm not encouraging underage binge drinking, but if you want to have a quick pint with your high school senior, that's absolutely legal.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and have started making the effort to save money so I can take a few months off when I'm done with this job.

I've gotten halfway there without changing much. Reading Lead Yourself First and Digital Minimalism have taught me the importance of being intentful with anything you do and to leave yourself time alone with your own thoughts. The latter has proven especially useful for me recently.
You put lots of warnings in front, and if after all that they trust the source of the directions, who are we to say otherwise? There's a lot of hubris in assuming we always know better than the user. It may be that in a decade or two people will be a but more knowledgeable about their devices, but I'm afraid we're moving down a path that will make that knowledge mostly useless, since there's now way to express it.

We're at an inflection where in the future we will either retain some control over our devices, or almost none. I'm done arguing for complete control, that's boat seems to have sailed. I'm just trying to influence people to not throw away all their control at this point.
>(O)r they flat out have no idea how to profile people except expressed interests from outside sources

I think this is the closest to the truth if you meant that the way I'm interpreting it. YouTube seems to base its search algorithm around certain, broadly defined parameters that are chosen purely based on advertiser demand. If I watch one "meme compilation" sent to me by a friend, my entire recommended section will be meme compilations for weeks afterward. These videos grab eyeballs, particularly eyeballs in my demographic category as a general rule. However, if I search for car repair videos surrounding a specific model, I will never see anything relevant in my recommendations except for general "auto enthusiast" videos that target a very broad audience (broad in terms of the demographics of this hobby segment). It seems like YouTube is very focused on serving videos that please their advertisers and that their major advertisers are only interested in very generic target categorization.

I'd say this is best explained by the fact that producing a compelling video advertisement is several orders of magnitude more expensive/difficult/labor intensive than simply choosing a set of keywords for a "click here to buy" ad to show up in google search results. This means microtargeting is effectively impossible as it just doesn't make sense to spend $15k+ filming a professional quality video advertisement (plus cost per impression/click expenses) just to sell a hyper-niche product like a manufacturer-specific diagnostic tool. That said, I am a huge fan of two specific channels which seem to draw a large enough and unique enough audience to get hyper-niche ads for things like capital pipeline maintenance equipment so maybe YouTube just doesn't have the volume of audience analytics to make such ads work on anything but the most obvious signals in the data.
Well, there are actually good arguments to be made on both sides of the issue. For example, one argument is, "why should people who live in high cost states pay less federal tax for the same federal services?" The counter-argument being "they don't need as many government services since they get the same benefits from their state" and also "their incomes are higher so their total dollar contribution is still just as high".

It's a tough issue. From the Federal perspective is makes a lot of sense to get rid of the SALT deductions, and I suspect the next time the Dems are in charge they will "be unable" to restore the deduction for "reasons", since both parties want the extra revenue.
and here I was thinking that 2019 must surely be the year of Linux on the desktop
It's obviously facetious by the original poster, but the sentiment stands. Anyone not recognizing the shift (or "externalization") of responsibility from the police is purposefully blind to it.
A piece of literature is an argument. If it fails to convince you, then it must not be very good. I think Romeo and Juliet says interesting things about love and I think that Star Trek says interesting things about utopias.
The actual title should be the title of the article, which is neither misleading, nor clickbait. The made-up title is both of these things.
The algorithm this site uses (maybe just text substitution?) is really good and really funny. Also of interest is the Wikipedia article about HN put through Gizoogle: http://www.gizoogle.net/xfer.php?link=https://en.wikipedia.o...
The last step is a full-coverage default public option, paid for out of taxes. Enough to eliminate the billing departments outside of actual luxury medicine.

As far as cost controls/etc, set by something like a dutch auction within a given metro area, and then some bean counter will get to figure out if it's cost effective to ship people that are outside of metro areas in to them to provide non-urgent care.
Now I'm imagining someone dropping malicious keyboards instead of USB sticks, waiting for people to pick them up and plug them into their computers.
Boards/collections are just glorified marketing terms used to convey that Pinterest has something new to offer. Alternatively, I can create a group chat on Insta or I can create a private subreddit and share the interesting links with the people I want to share. I can create multiple Insta chats and subreddits each for different topics.
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How well did crypto exchanges survive April Fool's day Bitcoin rally?
> It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system.

Well, just the one OS vendor comes to mind and a particular chip maker also shares the blame. Just how difficult can it be to design-in total isolation into a 'computer'.
My central claim is this:

> It took China for once having an independent policy instead of "impartial" agencies pushing their agenda onto a defenseless world.

And I stand by my comment about HN: I clearly remember the bias on the discussion. The top comments are top comments once the story settles. And the replies to those comments show a different picture.

> Maybe you would be able to make a better point if you dropped the jingoism and histrionics.

There is something worse than being slightly offensive: being biased and pushing damaging narratives onto the rest of us.

Let's notice that the truth has come out because a Max crash would also affect americans. Whenever interests are not so nicely alligned, we in the rest of the world end up paying the price.
See my reply to your sibling
Another option would've been to remove the physical button entirely, which is exactly what happened with the iPhone X (I think? I've never used one; only seen pictures) and with pretty much every flagship (and even less-than-flagship) Android phone nowadays.
Apparently Norway's government hasn't been bought out by neo-liberalists.
Apparently Norway's people are among the happiest on earth.

Coincidence?
>Surely that is a large enough part of their userbase that they won't just throw that away

Don’t be so sure. It’s truly impossible to predict and understand some of decisions Apple's made in the pro market.

Best one can hope for is to get an explanation 10 years from now in a podcast or blog post. If there’s still such a thing
That could have been more clearly and nonpejoratively articulated.
Seems like we need to relearn the concept of liberty, but again in the digital world.

Yes, liberty is sometimes difficult, and it allows people to make bad choices. Liberty is hard.

We've seen this story play out enough times to know that it isn't a slippery slope. It starts of as a play to "protect the users" or "avoid the bad guys", or as we have seen in the security theater of other domains, namely the aviation industry, "for your safety and security"
I'd imagine it's another tier for Gatekeeper (the mechanism in macOS that verifies this). Gatekeeper can be outright disabled if desired (appears missing from the System Preferences UI though), allowing all unsigned code to run.

Currently, if an app isn't signed and you have Gatekeeper set to "Allow apps downloaded from App Store and Identified Developers", you'll get a prompt stating it isn't permitted to run. If you open it using the context menu, you'll get a button in that prompt to "Run Anyway". Alternatively, recently blocked apps by Gatekeeper appear in System Preferences allowing for manual override as well.

I'd imaging the notary service would be included in the "App Store and Identified Developers" section, and the same restrictions apply.

As for your own software, XCode signs it with your Apple ID automatically. Everything else, via terminal is the same as always.
I personally dislike it, but I don't think it's monopolistic behavior. macOS's market share is comparatively pretty low and you can install windows or linux on your mac if you choose to.
I’ve had the same experience with video encoding and image libraries. All the momentum is in Go.