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Apple Charging to Keep Apps in Store
I'm a hobbyist developer who made three very small, ad-free apps. Apple charges $99 per year for anyone to make apps (in stark contrast to the $25 one-off fee that Google charges). Since I'm not actively working on my apps right now, I don't want to pay Apple another $99 this year. But my existing free apps will stay in the store for those who want to download them, right?

No. Apple's Developer Support claimed on the phone that keeping an existing app in the store if the developer isn't paying the annual $99 tribute would be a safety concern, "like an airport letting an unscanned bag through security". This really, really doesn't make sense: aside from the other disanalogies, if anything it's more like an airline kicking out a bag that they've already scanned and deemed safe because the owner refuses to pay them again in perpetuity.

The other justification Apple gave for the $99 per year fee was the storage and delivery costs of delivering my apps. For the record, my largest app is 40mb.

I have two suggestions for Apple. The first is a no-brainer: any authorised app should be allowed to stay in the store for as long as the platforms it works on are still supported, without the developer having to pay an annual tribute.

The second is a bigger step, but I think a reasonable one: Apple should have a free tier for small app developers. For example, it should not require an annual paid subscription to create and maintain free, ad-free apps.

Big tech companies are under a lot more scrutiny these days for abuse of market power, and this strikes me as the kind of reason why: I just don't believe that in a competitive market the equilibrium cost for a basic developer account would be anything close to $99 per year, or that Apple would kick existing apps out of its store unless the developer keeps paying every year.
We find unplanted weeds all the time, it's just a fact of life that plants spread.

Unless they pose any danger to anyone (which would surprise me), I don't see why all of this fuzz is being made.
It is common and I dislike it in my current car that had LoJack and SiriusXM installed but require payments to keep going. It’s just not as bad as Tesla in that losing radio or heated seats isn’t that big of a deal, reducing my gas tank by 10% would be bad.
Should UX designers come in as earliest as possible of a project (idea stage)? Or is it preferable they come in after specs and the requirements are set?
One reason they may have done this is because there was a time when they were looking at battery swapping. Standard batteries (with just software limiting) between all M3s would make this logistically so much easier.
From my understanding, Spotify uses the Chromium Embedded Framework. I'm not sure which parts are rendered with CEF, but since Spotify is using CEF directly rather than Electron, it seems likely they have a fair bit of native code as well.
Gotcha, I see the problem now.
If you look at this sibling comment [0] you will see that supposedly the buyers were aware of this happening and OK with the trial.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137343
Unemployment rates:

Ireland: 5.4%
UK: 3.8%
Germany: 3.1%
Portugal: 6.3%
Poland: 3.5%
Czech: 1.9%
Sweden: 6.2%
Finland: 6.7%

That about ~230mil people.
Mate what are you talking about.
Tesla seems to be desperate for cash flow, any cash flow. First they shutdown stores and now they are trying to squeeze out existing customers. Looks like Musk called meeting with top leaders and charged them to find any way whatsoever to get extra cash.
That's not true: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/patent-cases
DNA not only contains the most basic information, but all the information. It houses more information than what we get purely from protein expression. Where your point falls short is that we don't need to know every nuance behind protein expression, ubiquitination, posttranslational modifications, etc. to know that if patient A has polymorphism X and polymorphism X means that they cannot have succinylcholine, because they are susceptible to malignant hyperthermia or hyperkalemia we will not give them succinylcholine. My next point is that you will have variable expression of proteins based on drug concentration (the lay meaning: whether we have administered a drug or not). The classic example of this is the Lac operon, which is taught even in medical school. It demonstrates that when lactose is present the enzyme lactase will be made to metabolize it, but only when lactose is present. If a drug is not present its enzyme could not be as well skewing results in a way that could lead the physician to not try first line medications. Why would I want a snapshot of something when I need to predict drug-gene interaction before I give someone a drug?

Yes, pharmacogenomics is a home run on straight forward cases, but the amazing thing is that straight forward cases are the most important for medicine. Drug-gene interactions are so unbelievably basic and require next to zero know how to correlate side effects to genes. My previous example of genomics not being lucid is in intelligence because we have zero idea what makes someone intelligent on a molecular level, which physicians could not care less about.

My final point is purely on practicality. Last I had heard, there are some hospital systems that have genome sequencing are down to tens of dollars and are done in under an hour or two. Isolating a single protein, looking at its expression, and assaying activity is not only the bane of every biochemists existence, it takes a significant amount of time and would have to be done for every single enzyme that we want to look at. We have to be practical in medicine and the most practical option for the foreseeable future, unless a CRISPR like breakthrough comes along, is going to be genome sequencing.

Now, what is going to be absolutely insane in the field of proteomics is when we can accurately predict a protein's structure and then make novel drugs to enhance or inhibit said protein. I can't remember how many amino acids it is before we're unable to predict the structure of a protein, but it's low and the current method to look at protein structure is stupid hard. Obnoxiously hard; I don't even want to talk about it but it's hard and you have to send your samples to a handful of locations. We use super computers at the moment to elucidate small proteins and usually they suck bad at doing it. If we were able to accurately predict structure and function of a novel protein with computer models, use CRISPR to insert the gene into a genome for said protein we are talking about increasing human life span in a logarithmic fashion.
planes don't get taken out of service by non-action. that takes deliberate action. this is not workers refusing to do overtime, but doing extra work to spite the company.

the equivalent would be to file, discuss and work on irrelevant bugs. declaring unimportant issues as blockers, intentionally derailing meetings with bikeshed arguments, etc...

i am not saying that the employees have no reason for their action. if the work conditions are bad, then their action may be justified. (though personally i believe that being adversarial is not helping to achieve positive change, but that is a different topic)
Grain of salt on the latter concern, because lots of big American companies are also infamous for not paying contractors on time. One of our best (huge) clients at my last company got more than a year into arrears with us, and friends at other companies have much more lurid stories than that.
Once you take the funding, you have to spend it all on expanding operations, new staff, marketing, promotions etc. If you then can't generate a profit, unless you raise more rounds the increased expenses are going to kill your business. So in this case the VCs cut their losses instead of giving them more money.
Because with Triton or just imgadm and vmadm one doesn't need Kubernetes. Solaris zones, imgadm and vmadm make Docker and Kubernetes obsolete.

"if you think with a small company you can change that you are very wrong"

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ask HN: Do you ever get asked how many LOC (lines of code) a project will take?
Apple’s new sign-in button: Protection against developers, not hackers
Are they able to completely cut off the battery by 10% or just the range? If the latter, wouldn't this increase the battery long term life similar to the extra unallocated space on some SSDs (i.e. Intel)?
Url changed from https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-a-key-flaw-..., which points to this.
So what I gather from the article is that the wheat was engineered by Monsanto to resist Roundup, a Monsanto product. Get rid of Monsanto and the whole drama is unnecessary.
Twenty years ago I was writing EEPROM stuff for my civic to increase hp.

I don’t know any car with an SDK, but most cars sold allow aftermarket software changes.
Guessing its due to the features of the car being locked into some part of memory that can not be updated over the air and bringing it in will allow them to update it so future OTA updates will give the correct update.

Basically change the car's version from being a M3 SR to M3 SR+
I think I get what you’re saying, but let me repeat it to make sure I understand: Jekyll, and of course Markdown, sites can use unordered lists, but you would need to specify explicit HTML for custom bullet points because there’s no obvious way to generate list elements with a specific class in Markdown.

That makes sense. I initially was confused because unordered lists themselves are very easy in Markdown, and indeed will generate <ol>s.
I live in a post Warsaw Pact state. The most popular car maker here is Toyota with Corolla as the most popular model. I think I don't need to explain why.

The gas is not cheap here in comparison with Russia and Belarus, but is waaay cheaper than what it costs in the eurozone States with the exception of Germany (diesel is also cheap in Spain btw).

Challenger/Charger/Mustang is mostly popular with rich kids who are spending their parents money on gas.

I own a Scion and love it, though had to import car parts from Russia as Scions were never sold in the EU and Russians get used Japanese cars almost for free. Scions are normal Japanese Toyotas with a steering wheel on the left side.
I work 4x10 and keep a timesheet; any time I work over I take back at some point in time. Planning on decreasing the hours slightly soon, drop back to 38 or whatever the norm is here in Australia.

I don't find that 10 hours fatigues me, it feels the same as an eight hour day anyway.
It's unsubstantive because it brings up a personal point solely (if implicitly) to cast aspersion on another user.

Internet commenters are a million times too likely to assume that someone they disagree with is posting in bad faith. This is probably the biggest poison we see on HN, and it's growing. When it comes to minorities of any kind (such as nationality), the effect is to gang up on others and hound them. If that sounds odd, imagine how you'd feel if expressing your personal view on something led people to accuse you of being a spy or a paid agent. That's happening commonly now. For an example from a few months ago, see the thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19401961.

This comes from a cognitive bias rather than malice—the bias that, because my views are so obviously bright and light to me, anyone disagreeing must be coming from a dark place—but it's no less poisonous for being unintentional.
I wish I could also give apps "coarse" information about my location. Say down to a mile, or even just the zipcode (5 digits only). I.e. if a news app wants to know what to serve to me, zipcode is quite enough. If I'm looking for pizza on yelp they don't need my exact location. That way on the one hand the apps can function, but on the other they can't really track you accurately enough for it to be terribly privacy-invasive.
Quote: "For Raines and the law’s other architects, this was the most alarming unintended consequence: their efforts to make New Yorkers virtuous had caused a spike in casual sex and prostitution."

Wanna guess today where prostitution is most prolific as well? Where it involves drugs. Current drugs laws have the same effect as to Raines ones mentioned in article. If only legalizing drugs, just like tobacco and alcohol is, and tax it to make more money for state and federal budget, would be such a good idea.
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I doubt solar is actually cheaper for this process right now.
"when someone is immediately behind you and the road ahead is clear, and then for example someone swerving into your lane from the side"

If someone swerves into your lane you accelerate... into them? Unless its a really wide road (12 lanes?) where you have plenty of time to see that person, and somehow know they're going to pull into your lane, but you can't pull into another lane because Theres too much traffic. As I said, contrived examples.

(wasn't quoting you btw, just put best in inverted commas, as there's a lot of different interpretations for best)
I salute to you, had the same impression on French cars.
Apple sees the reporting device’s ip-address. Obviously Apple is in an excellent position to spy you anyway, but the claim that even Apple doesn’t know where the turned off device is doesn’t hold for the reporting devices: Apple can infer which reporting devices are in proximity.
And they possibly even know who the reporting IP is because of iCloud.
I’ve met a Project Manager whom I saw ask for LOC to her developers on every single task of a project before having them start working on it. Mainly to estimate how much it’d cost.

But is this the best way to measure estimated costs?

What are the better alternatives if any?

Just off top of my head, I can imagine how copy paste codes can skew the numbers greatly, especially on the front end side.

But she insists this is how most top coders do it. I don’t know what to think of that, seems kind of silly if you ask me.
Apple might end up becoming a benevolent king for whoever decides (and can afford) to use its ecosystem.

I'm in favour of that, I wish it will democratize this concept to other companies, although it's unlikely Google will since it's in competition with their core business model.
> As they say, no one ever got fired buying an ibm.

No one ever got fired going Big Blue...

I know a director or two lol.
Right, but if you broke it then Honda wouldn’t reflash it for free. And they don’t give you EEPROM flashing cables and SDK documentation.

So is there really a tangible difference? I’d be surprised if Honda provided you with anything beyond what Tesla provides (ie nothing).
Taking this a bit farther, here are some simple examples illustrating stability and static determinacy.

Imagine a single weight dangling from two strings of roughly equal lengths attached near other on the ceiling. The weight will swing if you blow on it. If you turn the strings into (lightweight) compression elements and turn the whole thing upside down, it will be a bipod. The weight will indeed be balanced, but any slight perturbation will knock it over or will at least require shear forces to avoid this fate.

Now try this with three strings. The weight will resist swinging if you blow on it, and the cathedralized version is a stable tripod.

Now try four strings. If the string model is imperfect, one string might be slack. If you cathedralize it, you get a quadropod, and, if the construction is at all imperfect, the loads on the four legs might be wildly different and, if it’s too far off, the structure might wobble. This structure is statically indeterminate.

There is, strictly speaking, nothing strictly wrong with static indeterminacy, but it makes the analysis considerably more complicated.
The Wired article is not detailed enough to definitively poo-poo this scheme, but I am pretty skeptical about some of the claims, given a) how easy it is to map an IP to a coarse location, b) how easy it is to map many IPs to a small number of already-known humans/users.

That is to say: the asym crypto may strongly protect the precise (GPS or LTE triangulation) location from Apple and from others, but I do not see how a cloud-based system can ever hide coarse location from Apple and/or from governments as, given the short range of BT, they can reliably infer that a device (and hence its owner) is/was near whatever IP sends the encrypted precise location to their cloud. Then it's just a matter of mapping the device's "randomized" ID back to an actual user/phone. That seems easy enough as soon as a second device accesses it from an IP that's mappable to a specific residential address, Apple account, etc.

e.g.

A and B both log into iTunes or some other Apple service using a@apple.com and b@apple.com from HOMEIP at some point in the past. HOMEIP is never used by any other Apple accounts.

A(lice) and B(ob) exchange a secret and otherwise begin participating in this "private" tracking scheme.

A goes out shopping and while there it pushes its encrypted precise location to the Apple cloud, using random ID 424242, from MALLIP. Perhaps A's device sends it directly, or perhaps it's relayed from BT to Mall wifi to Cloud by C's device if A has both LTE and wifi disabled.

A few minutes later S(omeone) requests encrypted location for random ID 424242, from HOMEIP.

Apple (and any government compelling it to share information) can reliably infer that "Someone" was A or B attempting to track either B or A, and that the tracked phone was at/near the business address of MALLIP - their coarse location - even if they can't decrypt the precise location without the secret key. If you know from public records that A and B are married, and assume that women are more likely to be at a mall on their own than men, you may further assume that A is at the Mall while B is at home.

Result: the "private"/"encrypted" precise location beaconing has an unfixable metadata side channel that will leak coarse location data to Apple and to any governments that compell it.
They should offer the steering column as an additional, beautifully machined $999 option. The clientele will understand.
Japan is such an asshole.
False, and a bit of a paranoid assumption to make. Updates are installed at the discretion of the car owner.

In this narrow case though the ability to say no was at the time of contract signing and it was made super clear up front (i.e. not in fine print) what was going to happen.
Can you use alternative app store on your non sign-in apple device without rooting it ?

Because on android you can.
It primarily feels bad because unlike a spotify subscription, people still expect to own the cars they buy for tens of thousands of dollars, and this very effectively demonstrates how people who own the software you use can change what your car does with the push of a remote.

If I buy a traditional car that accidentally came with a premium feature, is the cardealer going to come to my house and rip the seat out?
Depends on your setup. On my phone it was perfect. On my desktop the text column is about the size of a sheet of paper, which is again perfect for me. Widescreen monitors are great for filling in your peripheral vision when gaming but it's easier on the eyes to move your fovea 35 degrees of arc for every line instead of 75.
Where I come from our green lights blink five times before the light goes to yellow, then red. I've found that it's much more useful than having just a yellow light to estimate when I should accelerate at a light and when I should stop.
Using your own VPN vs using a VPN provider is not a 1:1 comparison. VPN providers give you access to multiple servers running on different countries. You cannot setup 250 servers all over the world just to emulate a VPN's offering. There are shared and private IP addresses etc.

If all you want to do is hide your traffic from a state level actor, then tor is a much better solution.
Manufacturing one single version of the hardware and then crippling the cheaper one is actually very common across cars, electronics and a lot of other consumer goods.
What are the apps by the way?

In the pre-Apple days, mobile app makers on J2ME, BREW, Symbian etc had to give up to 70 percent to marketplaces and spend potentially up to 50 thousand dollars or more to code sign each app across multiple device types. $99 for code signing all the individual developers apps across all devices and publishing it was unheard of at the time and truly shocking compared to the old paradigm. Goolge then made it free and only later charged $25.
They already consented earlier so the question of consent was already covered. It’s not a non-consensual update. They can even change their mind if they would like to upgrade from the demo functionality to continued use.

Model 3 updates are opt in.
Not just that. Say they have a security breach... if there is no data, no data gets leaked.
Firebase keys give you access to the database, which can be public. You just have to setup rules for the database, usually so users have to be authenticated to view anything and can only read their own private info.

edit: just realized you may have just been asking about hiding keys in general. Sorry if this wasn't what you were asking about!
Not to mention PWC was one of the companies named in the article as a potential perpetrator of age discrimination.
Mine: Being forced into management. Which is happening.
It's not supposed to validate the truthfulness of the content, why would you think that was the purpose?
But is that just where wave heights rarely exceed 7 feet?
It seems like they would still need some kind of safe mode to deal with once per year/once per ten years conditions. Maybe the could fold up.
I had a friend at Huawei about a year ago tell me how they had lawyers come in and prep them on the exact procedures they should follow in the event of an FBI raid. This was well before I heard anything in the news about China, Huawei, etc tensions.

Knowing this, I personally give quite a bit of weight to any accusation against the company. I have a hard time justifying in my mind that a company operating legitimately in the US would prep their employees on how to respond during an FBI raid.
About the only time JavaScript is useful is something like google docs. The rest is just fluff and there’s no reason a webpage should require it.
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Why is it unethical if you got exactly what you paid for?
My ISP rotates IP addresses between users, so you can't match IPs to addresses. Quite often GeoIP doesn't even get my city right.
Fine, young person here. I personally rather the person in a higher up managing position to have a lot of experience because it's such a vast scope of departments and functions you are usually responsible for in a large company. Having experience in multiple roles and area helps a shit ton from being blindsided.

If this is a small company with less responsibilities, then I would consider this a problem and more so ageist, because less complexity and moving parts doesn't require more experience.

But I agree with the others a little bit as well, you seem to lacking a little EQ.
Lunch/beer are certainly above nat'l average, but they do not cost that much in the bay area. It's mostly the housing (Childcare also up there).
Yes, most likely they are trying to label him as far-right as well. Remember they support Marxism which is against a free economy.
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