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It depends upon a fact about what we mean by survival rates.

In most cases survival is defined in terms of fraction of population who are alive after a set period of time from diagnosis.

Suppose Bob is going to die of Foozle cancer in 2025. If I diagnose Bob in 2019 he gets more than five years survival. If my diagnosis method only catches it in 2023 the survival rate looks much worse. But all that changed is when I told Bob he's going to die.

In contrast if I develop a treatment for Foozle cancer, maybe Bob doesn't die until 2030. He's survived more than five years after diagnosis again - but this time it's because I was able to actually help.
There is some trial work going on to get kits for you to use to test Faecal calprotectin at home and use the camera and an app in your phone for analysis. Obviously there is a hurdle of actually having to handle faeces and put a sample in a tube so it is not something people would love to do. But it could be something people with IBD could do in the future to catch flare ups of their disease early.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faecal_calprotectin

Having it actually built in to your toilet would of course be better.
I've heard it argued that Bitcoin's unique feature, something that makes Bitcoin exceptionally valuable in comparison to other cryptocurrencies is its governance model.

Bitcoin governance is basically a combination of anarchy with extreme conservatism. In the 10 years of its existence there had been exactly zero intentional hard forks. The immutability of Bitcoin's fundamental rules is ingrained in its community.

Why is that important? Let's look at Ethereum for example. Ethereum's developers and community use hard forks to change the rules of their protocol all the time, you have no clue what Ethereum's inflation rate will settle at, its monetary policy is permanently in flux with singular individuals like Vitalik Buterin having enormous influence on governance.
This elitism is a big part of why younger users* such as myself have never gotten much use/utility from IRC and hence exacerbates its growing irrelevance compared to alternative tools.

*Think XMPP GTalk etc. which were IMO superior in many ways to Slack or MS Teams
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I think most people want to know why they are being fired and they deserve that information communicated delicately.

Some might want to know who fired them when it is not obvious, but few would actually benefit from knowing this.
In my case I don't even know why it needs read and WRITE access to ALL repositories. All I want is for it to build one public repository. It doesn't need any special permissions for that at all.
Likely Accessibility API (or/and undocumented APIs).
I have gotten to the point where none of this invokes any feeling anymore. It's so bizarre what is going on with big corp and how they are getting away with all this.

Nothing I say or comment will ever have an impact so they might as well run with it.
We had that back in the late 90s. I remember dogpile and Copernic.

Actually, I just checked them out, and it seems both of those are still alive.
I think "http only" is a bit misleading given [1], but I'm no expert. In essence, apt doesn't use HTTPS because it provides limited value for a package manager. However see the link for a more comprehensive explanation.

[1] https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com
It is a shame that the Apple Walled Garden prevents customers from being able to purchase and use the software that they want.

Seems inefficient. And potentially anti-competitive.

>Spotify complained to European regulators last month that Apple used the App Store to give its Apple Music service an unfair advantage over Spotify’s competing app. Dutch regulators announced this month that they would investigate whether Apple abused its control of the App Store.

Funny that Europe of all places ends up being more pro-market than the 'States.

>In the United States, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a Democratic candidate for president, recently suggested separating the App Store from Apple as part of her proposal to rein in the American tech giants.

Though, maybe that will change.
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We have allowed institutions to frame this kind of fraud in the way that they prefer, but nothing was stolen from this man. A million dollars was stolen from the bank.

It is the same with "identity theft." There is no such thing. If someone takes out a loan or credit card in my name, they have taken nothing from me. I am not even involved, and the law should recognize that.

By framing it as theft from consumers, it allows the institutions which are actually responsible to avoid consequences.
Bulgarian has that too: "Морално остарял"
I'm pretty sure if Microsoft can be successfully sued for anti-competitive practices for shipping Microsoft only with Internet Explorer [1], Apple should also be sued for this. This isn't the first time or last time they've pulled this stunt either, just look at Spotify [2]. Just because they own and run the market place doesn't mean it is without regulation.

There may be an even bigger case if you consider proprietary connectors, Apple certification chips (which is a whole other scam if you've ever worked with them) and third party repair. People must be allowed to choose, even if there is some acceptance of fault upon things not working correctly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

[2] https://www.ccn.com/spotify-smacks-apple-with-antitrust-comp...
http://archive.is/LP5BL
It's a nice, informal study.

I'll mention this looks at job turnover (and new jobs), not raw numbers of jobs.

It's a good proxy for general popularity, but it will have errors (likely 2x or 3x). Java is more popular than Perl, for example, but I don't think we can say how Java, JavaScript, C/C++, and Python compare. Or how Perl and R compare.

My experience with Java management culture, for example, is that it lends itself to very high turnover. Programmers are viewed as interchangeable resources, and laid off and rehired at will.

JavaScript and Python are used in startups and on newer projects. New projects have high infant mortality rates (which may lead to layoffs at startups, but are likely to be replaced with new projects at bigger firms).

C and C++ tend to be things like embedded systems; often incredibly stable jobs.

I can't say my observations speak for the industry as a whole, but those do make for errors with this as a proxy.

I like to take several studies like this: Hiring, Dice, surveys, etc., and combine into a coherent picture with a clear understanding of error sources and levels. If github, dice, and a survey all point the same way, it's actually a pretty strong indicator.
People said bitcoin was a bubble. Can't wait to see the excuses and rationalizations when this one pops.
I have lifted for years, and deadlifts and squats just kill my back every time. I just had to take a week off lifting, having to support myself like an old man every time I had to bend over, after another failed attempt at deadlifting. Putting my socks on was excruciating. I'm not even 30. Right now I just cop out with the leg press machine.

I've had professional instruction, I don't arch my back, I've watched countless videos, and nothing seems to help. It's a big shame, as I've always liked to put a big focus below the waist, but it just doesn't work for me.

Do you have any tips?
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> The CORRUPT_DB macro is used in many assert() statements. In functional testing builds, CORRUPT_DB references a global variable that is true if the database file might contain corruption. This variable is true by default, since we do not normally know whether or not a database is corrupt, but during testing while working on databases that are known to be well-formed, that global variable can be set to false.

This is interesting - this really reveals their philosophy where they assume that until proven to be good, stuff is considered to be broken.
I don’t believe any app in the iOS ecosystem should have access to other apps on the phone, in these days of surveillance capitalism. This is definitely the right move from Apple. Remember that Facebook went to such lengths to misuse its certificate to gain exactly this kind of data.
Given ... everything ... about the internet, do you ever think we're at the "throw one away" point of the dev cycle?
huh, so i'm about halfway trough and i'm having a hard time following what the writer is talking about.

To me this feels like someone with ADD trying to tell me something but gets distracted every other sentence. is it just me?
The article doesn't go into detail, but my guess is through the use of MDM profiles, or possibly local VPN filtering.
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The problem is that Apple doesn't have anything close to a monopoly if you consider them a player in "PCs" or "Smartphones". It's only when you consider "Apple PCs" or "iPhones" as a separate market that it would be comparable to the MS situation.
“Apple allows corporations to use such software to control employees’ phones. But last year, the company stopped apps from using the software to enable parents to control their children’s devices. The Apple spokeswoman said Apple had blocked the practice because app makers could gain access to too much information on the children’s devices.”

Think of the children! Or at least, stop complaining about both Facebook for violating privacy and Apple for protecting privacy. We need to legislate by law rather than anti-trust and arbitrary corporate fines.
The Accessibility API on iOS cannot block opening apps to my knowledge, and using undocumented APIs are a pretty good way to get removed from the App Store immediately as opposed to with a warning to change your app to "comply".
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"In the final draft circulated among local lawmakers last week, which was obtained by POLITICO, Ryan Harkins, a senior public policy director at Microsoft, also wrote notes in the margins, often chiding lawmakers for their legislative approach and deleting sections of the bill that he viewed as unsatisfactory."

Lobbying is pure corruption. No individual citizens or even organizations have such power to strike paragraphs from a draft law. Even assuming that those edits would be ignored, they bias the legislators against public interests.
Excel macros maybe?
Microsoft was 90% of the market and did no lobbying in Washington. You can’t ignore politics and expect politics to ignore you too.
Legit reason. He’s saving hours of engineers time, every day. Hope they gave him something in some other form
Ms wasn't merely sued for bundling browser with OS, the absolute dominance of Windows was a factor in that. A dominance that iOS doesn't have.

Unfortunately you have the limited hardware, walled garden app store approach of apple

Or the crap privacy of Google.

Pick your poison or wait for the Purism phone.
It's also the cost of making business easy. You don't have to deal with a ton of different devices, Apple provides a lot of framework and services, so your work gets easier.

It seems a bit like renting a store in a mall vs renting a store somewhere in town.
In at least one case: Then, with Mobicip’s deadline just a few days away, Apple responded three times to his earlier detailed questions — with virtually the same message: “Your app uses public A.P.I.s in an unapproved manner, which does not comply with guideline 2.5.1 of the App Store Review Guidelines.”
That is my experience as well.
We run our own registry that just mirrors images that we want to use and keeps them up to date. It’s not a silver bullet but it works.
And is that respectful of the AppStore rules? I’m not sure people realize that App that provide system wide functionality using borderline workaround are only one step away from becoming straight spyware.

But again can’t read article so I might be wrong.
Well it's not very useful without the bullets.
According to him it takes about 5 hours to get to the command prompt which is kinda funny but interesting project nevertheless
> SINFUL and IMMORAL

Well ... it was the Apple that got Adam and Eve kicked out of Paradise, right? ;)
But it all of a sudden had a twelvefold increase - from the levels of Bash and assembly to be as popular as Javascript. Did something happen with Excel macros in Office 2016?
Historically government-issued money has become worthless on a country by country basis so if say you lived in Venezuela and had money in gold you could smuggle it out and buy a condo in Miami etc.

I daresay offshore accounts could fulfil the same function with less hassle.
This would be even worse regarding privacy!!!
Rebond it to a similar behaved person?
This might be ignorant, but I've wondered about this for a while.

Isn't Uber essentially a software company? The drivers doesn't get anything besides their share of the fares?

According to the free part of the article they've lost 7.9 billion dollars since 2009.

How expensive can it possible be to develop and operate their software? According to some sources uber takes a cut from 20-25% (although some claim much higher fractions in practice)

http://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/#6 claims ~10B _quarterly_ revenue for 2018, with net loss at close to 1B. (EDIT: seem the revenue is counted as full fare price - not ubers cut, so that brings "actual" revenue to ~2B/Q)

How are they not making money..? Lots of normal taxi services have booking apps too. If they IPO it'll be interesting to see a more detailed breakdown of their costs.

EDIT2: found the IPO prospectus including some numbers: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...
Ideally yes. Jailbird for association. Sorry
I'm not sure you can have it both ways: you can't complain on the one hand about the likes of Facebook having access to undocumented APIs, and on the other expect apps which make use of these APIs (even for social good) to not get removed from the App Store.

We had the wild west of apps with the Windows ecosystem and it ended in malware, viruses and spyware. Even with appropriate permissions, most customers do not know what they're letting themselves in for if undocumented/private APIs, custom certs and proprietary VPNs are part of the picture.
It's called oligopoly, and can also be legislated against. ios and android together run the mobile market.
IRC has gigatons of clients because it is an open protocol. Some clients are even shareware/commercial. Same goes for servers and server admin interfaces.

IRC may have its shortcomings, but its worst defect, for the too many people that want to have fun while pretending to communicate, is that it is not "modern".
Yes. The article purports to discuss equine language. The real title should be, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” with the tag line, “How a total disdain for logic brings physical danger and emotional agony to a family.”

Spoiler alert: After all the consultations and deep insights they just sell the horse. Pure failure.
That’s a perverted view of the “public interest” as being diametrically opposed to corporate interests. Microsoft is a major employer in Washington. Not to mention, it’s one of the nation’s major innovators, making products everyone uses. It’s views on proposed legislation are extremely relevant and helpful and it’s in the “public interest” for legislators to consider them.

Note that some of the provisions in question would have been a huge boon to plaintiffs’ attorneys:

> While the state's attorney general had called for the inclusion of a right for individuals to sue companies for potential wrongdoing, such a provision was eventually not included in the final proposals. Financial penalties — much-needed teeth to ensure compliance — were capped at just $7,500 for each intentional violation and $2,500 for any unintended infractions.

Violations are generally construed to be “per user.” So a single unintentional error could result in a huge penalty. Creating a private cause of action would have created a huge incentive to turn every unintentional error into a class action lawsuit.
You can if your income depends on as many people visiting your article's website as possible, and the best way to do that is to make it invoke emotions. After this, you can then write an article about companies abusing undocumented APIs to steal information.
I looked through Mobicip's support materials and they install a remote management profile.
Airbnb is profitable. It has been since second half of 2016. Or at least close enough to profitable depending on the metrics you want to account for.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/airbnb-made-its-first-prof...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/airbnb-sa...
That would help very little.
They will probably lobby their way out of this as well.

Not sure if there's any hope for the USA to break free of carrier oligopoly.
If they wanted to communicate with laypeople they'd offer support over the channels laypeople expect support nowadays, namely Facebook. Instead they are going to choose some middle ground that will displease everybody; they will botch it, as they like to do.

They are already working on botching it, since they've moved the Rust channel to a closed source alternative with no expectations of privacy: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/04/26/Mozilla-IRC-Sunset-and...
Thankfully Wiktionary imported wholesale the old Webster's dictionary (due partly to it being in the public domain). It has the same multitude of meanings and examples, including those from the article. On top, of course, it's updated for very modern language and with quotations from literature and journalism closer to us in time.

Which is why I have three different methods for quick lookup in Wiktionary in the desktop browser, and whipped up an extension for FF mobile to look up the selection with one tap.

Wiktionary's definition of ‘pathos’ omits the first variant from Webster's, however I'd say I've never seen it used in that meaning and it sounds more like the original Greek sense. (Though the relation to ‘ethos’ should probably be mentioned.)

Alas, for my love to Wiktionary, I'm having trouble learning less-familiar words with it, because I'm hoping to use Anki for that purpose. Turns out, a scroll of different meanings is no good as an answer on a flash card since I'm yet to learn just the most prominent one. All points to me importing a simpler dictionary like the Oxford, and manually fiddling with subtler meanings where I need them.

I'm yet to find a thesaurus which would be as comprehensive and usable, with notes on the differences in meanings. For now, I'm employing thesaurus.com plus Wiktionary lookups—the thesaurus somehow just has more stuff and shades of meanings than other online ones, including established names like Merriam-Webster.
OpenVPN iirc has a custom negotiation protocol which happens before TLS and is probably the vector used for detection.
Yeah the playback is what makes this cool. I started using TimeSnapper and am really liking it. I do think it is lacking some depth and features. I was going to email TimeSnapper back to give feedback this weekend.
> Funny that Europe of all places ends up being more pro-market than the 'States.

Why should that be funny? The EU is explicitly pro trade and has much cheaper telecoms, air travel, and many other items thanks to aggressive pro competition policy. They forced Microsoft unbundle explorer.

In fact they have a very powerful competition commissioner unlike the us which has no such, and where antitrust has been systematically watered down for almost 40 years.
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But it was possible to see this trouble coming from way back. Docker, Inc. took on over $150m of VC investment up to the end of 2015. One hundred and fifty million dollars. How do you possibly plan to show a return on such an investment? The only way is to get one of your "services" injected into peoples pipelines as a critical component, no matter how questionable the fundamental necessity of that service is. But of course, you own the tool, you get to design the workflow and do your best to shape your users worldview.

I do wish developers would be a little wiser around these things, especially when they see companies taking such huge amounts of capital. I found it quite depressing to watch the unquestioning way development communities assimilated the docker worldview.
That lowers the value of my damn phone. That's bullshit.
It lacks administration features - kicking, banning, etc.
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From my short dystopian story, The Time Rift of 2100: How We lost the Future

"IN A SAD IRONY as to the supposed superiority of digital over analog --- that this whole profession of digitally-stored 'source' documentation began to fade and was finally lost. It had became dusty, and the unlooked-for documents of previous eras were first flagged and moved to lukewarm storage. It was a circular process, where the world's centralized search indices would be culled to remove pointers to things that were seldom accessed. Then a separate clean-up where the fact that something was not in the index alone determined that it was purgeable. The process was completely automated of course, so no human was on hand to mourn the passing of material that had been the proud product of entire careers. It simply faded."

"THEN SOMETHING TOOK THE INTERNET BY STORM, it was some silly but popular Game with a perversely intricate (and ultimately useless) information store. Within the space of six months index culling and auto-purge had assigned more than a third of all storage to the Game. Only as the Game itself faded did people begin to notice that things they had seen and used, even recently, were simply no longer there. Or anywhere. It was as if the collective mind had suffered a stroke. Were the machines at fault, or were we? Does it even matter? Life went on. We no longer knew much about these things from which our world was constructed, but they continued to work."
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You comment now comes up first, but the rest of the results all try to contact googlesyndication.com, so ads? Google will not exclude sites that literally give them money.
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Just bundling IE isn't what got Microsoft in trouble. In addition they also used a combination of payments, discounts and threats of withholding access to software to prevent PC manufacturers and sellers from both providing alternative operating systems and browsers.
Ask HN: Why aren't brain computer interfaces consumer products yet?
At least as input devices to replace or complement keyboard and mouse/touch?

When do you think they will be ready to be consumer products?

How much would you spend to buy one?

What kind of design would you like?

What would be a friendly process to calibrate and train the device to recognize your intents?

Who would benefit most from those devices?

Who would create most wealth from those devices?
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This is quite close to what I would write as a parody to prove my point.
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You used to be able to google a simple question, something that could be answered on the search page without having to click through. But since no one clicked on them, they stopped appearing after a few years. The only results were ones where the data was hidden and you had to click through.