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I made the app free for a few pages and the option to get unlimited pages for a small in-app purchase:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/docushow-pdf-reflow/id1461144444?mt=8
Because no ad network is trustworthy. It avoids stories like "developer's labour of love banned over ad network that resold space to ad network that resold space to ad network that put an inappropriate ad".
seems pretty smart to effectively crowdsource development of the ecosystem.
What were you using? Maya? Resolve? Fusion?
Google please steal this idea.

Edit: current policy is

"Ads in your app that are served to children need to be appropriate and served from an ads network that has certified compliance with our families policies."

See https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/building-s...
Aside from the legal issues, the fact that the hosting provider would have my Hidden Service keys would also be a problem. Unless you can find a solution to this using some fancy crypto, allowing the customer to keep hold of their key, whilst your service still serves the Hidden Service?
> Half the bloody point of white supremacy is that the supremacist is the one who chooses who is white enough to be in the in-group, and who is not.

Meh, removing any value from descriptive terms doesn't help.

> The definition of white changes, based on who the supremacist wants to kill, displace, or enslave.

Or it's just not white supremacy, which it never was with the Nazis.
Obviously, but where do you want to go with that? Are you suggesting that because kids can use any app on a phone that all tracking and ads should be banned?
Pidgins and Creoles are on a continuum -- once pidgin's get native speakers and a stable grammar, they're creoles. But Yeah, I didn't mention that.
Yup, and parents can just install one of the Kids-Category clones of candy crush that will inevitably show up.
I can't say better but I learned Urdu for 10 years in school as opposed to Hindi which was taught for just a year or so. As a result I find the Urdu (Persian) script easier to read but I don't think one is better than the other. Probably a linguist expert could compare the Arabic/Persian script to the Devanagri one and try to explain pros and cons of both. That would be an interesting read.
With their moves with Nest I don't think Google's play is to be a platform... But rather they want to own all of that stuff and tell you what to do with it. They want to be an agent and not a platform.
You can also try the web app at https://docushow.com
That's great, except there is no way to create a "kids" account without another apple device.

My kids school won't participate in the program to create kids accounts for schools, and I don't own other apple devices. So on my rented ipad, the only option is to create a 13+ year old account (for my kindergartner). So now that she's in 2nd grade, apple thinks she's 16.

I've complained about this endlessly to the school, and talked to a couple lawyers. Apparently there is no legal issue because I have to create the accounts, so they are my accounts. I'm just letting my kid use them.

So... apple sucks, give us a web-ui for creating child accounts. I don't mind having a parent account, but you cannot have family accounts without an Ipad or some other apple device, and a single ipad is a single user device.
The health risks of lead, asbestos, or cfcs have a direct mammalian mechanism explaining their correlation. That part is important, because glyphosate targets a pathway that isn't present in animals at all.

From that samsel paper, figure 3 is the most damning to me as it's closer to my field so I know more about it. The reason why thyroid cancer incidence is rising is mostly that ultrasound is increasingly used for diagnosis which gives you power to detect smaller tumors that you'd otherwise miss and not diagnose as thyroid cancer.

The authors know that this paper is crap, that's why they published it in a predatory journal. There are lots of x that are rising at the same time as y and it's very easy to ignore context and make a correlation. Depression is rising while smoking is falling; you want a cigarette?

Read this damning critic on samsel and seneff:
https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/pmc/ar...

"Dr. Seneff has already predicted that by the year 2025, half of the children will be afflicted with autism from glyphosate poisoning." Half of all kids in 2025 will be autistic, right from the horse's mouth, does that seem reasonable to you?
Amazon’s new transforming Prime Air delivery drone
Not really, if you follow the ownership chain Carnival owns most of them somehow.
It does, but by being different in ways America wouldn't like: much more spartan accommodations, stricter entrance criteria, valid alternate middle-class career paths that sop off the demand, and (IIUIC) price controls.

It's not like Europe has a carbon copy of the American system but with a greater commitment to throwing money at it.
In practice it is easier to have same-sized experiment and control deployments than it is to normalize all the stats on a per-instance or per-request basis. I get more signal out of having identical populations than I have ever been able to achieve trying to normalize for known differences.
That all sounds terrible, but to some extent I wonder if those problems are driven by the "self-organizing company" aspect or if they are the result of it being in the gaming industry.

I think that every company in the gaming industry has the problem of not needing to treat their developers very well. There are so many CS students in college dreaming of building computer games that there are always a dozen people outside the door trying to get in. That gives the company a lot of leverage over its employees.
You mean rescuing Java from dying at version 6 and having beers with a market share going into the same size as Delphi or similar?

After Google screwed a deal that could eventually save Sun, and letting it sink afterwards.

Or keeping MaximeVM alive and spending truckloads of money to make it into GraalVM, which also supports the fastest implementation of Ruby?

Maybe it was merging the JIT/AOT compiler from JRockit into GraalVM project and eventually into OpenJDK.

Or even, a infrastructure monitoring system, capable to plug into production systems with very little impact probs.

Yeah Oracle has done a lot of bad stuff to Java.
This is the first thing I've seen Apple do that actually makes me happy about them. I haven't considered one of their products in years.
Maybe. I have no doubt that cryptocurrency use will be common, primarily because it will be necessary in a world dominated by software agents that can't rely on meatspace money, but I'm starting to wonder about likelihood of the original political goal. Wallstreet gave up fighting it after a couple of years, and is presently positioned as the guy selling the shovels in the gold rush, but there is an increasing amount of direct interaction. It seems like they think they'll be able to maintain the present segmented status - which is obviously not going to work. So I expect they'll go full hands on mode once it is obvious that there is no going back. What will that look like? Well every couple of years, since the very beginning, some idiot has tried to start a colored-coin/tainted-coin service - to, you know, think of the children... making the currency worthless after being tainted by activities deemed unacceptable (ransomware, exchange hacks, etc). No matter how many times it is explained that this eliminates the property of fungibility, which is what makes a currency a currency, these people keep popping up. Well wallstreet might be able to make it happen, if they make the move before there is more widespread global adoption.
Update Panic.c – The “Bruh Moment”
> Keep in mind that once customers expect your app to follow the Kids Category requirements, it will need to continue to meet these guidelines in subsequent updates, even if you decide to deselect the category.

I love this. You can't just follow kids guidelines to build up your user-base and then drop it in favor of ads and analytics. Once you follow it, you have to continue to follow it.
Your property goes from ground level to 200 feet; above that it's effectively the domain of the FAA. I would imagine the drones would have to fly between 200 and 500 feet until directly over the delivery target otherwise they would be either violating more restricted FAA airspace or trespassing on private property (under the 200 foot boundary).
Nothing. It made the news in 2009 in Phoenix: http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/airport-luggage-theft/
Glassdoor reviews indicated their backend interview is unnecessarily difficult

Difficult for you, maybe. How else do you expect them to find the top 0.01 percent of the candidate pool they're looking for?
I think you are assuming there are no transferable skills and the person would have to trained from square 1. As an example of where this isn't the case, I know an older lineman who recently moved into a design slot. Sure, he needed some training but he also brought a wealth of other value, like design for maintainability
It's censored data. Statisticians have been working with that for at least half a century. All they've done is reinvent the wheel, and I have no confidence that they've made something that's as good as what we already have.

Anybody who's interested in this should read up on the Kaplan-Meier estimator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator). If you want to see it used for a problem that's very similar to demand estimation, see Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/papers/darkpools-final.pd...).
Okay, so you're a quantum physicist and you can answer my question!

My understanding of QM is that a quantum's system's state is suddenly and discontinuously changed by a measurement.

My understanding of this article is a bit confused, and I think that there are two possible things we could be seeing:
1. Quantum collapses of superpositions actually do take time ("This Changes Everything")
2. This particular quantum system is not actually being measured, but is oscillating in superposition in some odd way. ("Just a Particular System")

Which case is it?
There are advantages to the pull saw, that is why people use them. However there are advantages to the push saw as well. For fine woodworking pull has the advantages you state, for course woodworking push uses more powerful muscles. Today we mostly use power tools for most cases where it powerful muscles matter.
The Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Has a Cool Gas Halo – Literally
Rognan robotic furniture for small space living
One of the BoingBoing editors made his own Peloton bike [1]. He's posted a few times since making it and seems happy with how it works.

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2017/04/05/diy-peloton-for-introverts...
Looks nice like Flutter.
China key suspect behind huge Australian university hack
I recommend people buying AMD where they can. Vermaden on Lobsters is a BSD expert. I asked them what hardware runs pretty much all BSD's. Vermaden narrowed it down to a few Thinkpads. All of them on eBay from recyclers had Intels. So, Intel just came with the box.

If building from parts or doing non-BSD, I'd go with an AMD, POWER, or ARM system.
According to Coverity, the "defect density" of the Linux kernel is around 0.5 errors per 1000 lines of code, while the average of the analyzed open source projects is around 0.7. Best among the analyzed projects is Python (the language/stdlib I guess) with an error rate of 0.08.
These seem a bit similar to some of the services offered by Disroot.org? They're also leveraging open source software such as NextCloud in providing related services. I'm curious of how you are paying for initial hosting costs, especially if more users start using it and you'll need to scale up? Are the operations strictly relying on donations at the moment?

EDITED: I just read your comment and realized you plan to charge users for the services. I noticed Disroot's free services experience down time quite often, but it's free. You're probably going to need an army of support staff since the expectation will likely be quite high once people have to make payments.
What is "memory training"?
In general, I believe it's based on the belief that children in partiular don't yet have the necessary mental tools to be able to properly analyze content -- basically, that they're influenced by media to a much higher degree than adults.

> Basically ads equivalent OTA television or magazine ads should be allowed

I would guess that proponents of this approach also feel that the contents of TV/magazine ads should be strictly controlled (and probably they are -- I'm not sure what the exact regulations around these are, but I am sure it's much harder to publish a blatantly misleading magazine or TV ad, without consequences to the advertiser or the network/magazine, than it is to publish one online).
USV Investment Thesis
Very true, in most Hindi speaking states people have a hard time pronouncing Z and often pronounce it as J even quite often even in English. Same thing with SH vs S.

That said, I've personally seen this as a common occurrence among people who didn't study any other languages other than Hindi or didn't study any at all.
Likewise are first-party analytics better than Google Analytics?

Some people definitely think so
This is coming. There's already a couple of startups doing this. A lot of them operate in "stealth" so they don't attract the attention of ad blockers.

There's no API needed, all they require is for the website to set up a CNAME record. They're usually random and rotated often.

If you're familiar with the current arms race in ad fraud, there's a coming arms race for ad blocking.
It's dead, sorry. They will need to pivot to something else.

My wife and her girlfriends used to be Peloton bunnies - one of the ones that you see in a studio in some of the ads. Two years ago classes were super hard to get into. They had the best instructors ( Peloton would overpay to steal the ones with following from Soul Cycle and FlyWheel ). The home invasion week got housewives from Midwest show up in classes with fifteen outfits because they thought they were going to be on TV or at least seen by the people at home. It was buzzing. Bikes were selling like hotcakes -- no discounts, no promos no anything.

Two years later, she barely goes there once a month. Classes now are meh. The studio is losing its luster. Home invasion week has classes available. There are discounts and specials on bikes, not to mention a talk of a bring your own bike option. Her friends that had the bikes at home sold them.

And competitors. Mirror showed up. Rumble showed up. FlyWheel and Soul Cycle are nibbling at its feet. Instagram is full of Pilates and Barre at home channels.

It is BlueApron all over again.
Gave it a quick try and looks like very similar to cozy before they pivoted. I guess this is also like nextcloud/owncloud/seafile. Can you explain how your product will be different from those?
You might want to check out http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html, http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....
Hey, James from Ferrous here, we'd love to chat if you're interested in this now, or a couple projects from now!

Feel free to reach out at sealed-rust at ferrous-systems.com!
I keep dipping my toes in grid but not long enough to commit and I run back to flexbox.

I feel like flexbox was such a savior already that I'm still comfortable there.
This seems more like an opt in choice for developers of the app as opposed to forcing apps to the kids section (which as you stated would be impossible to manage)
For me, the missing piece of canary deployments was how to handle gradual traffic changes ("confidence building" if you may). I now handle this with flagger (https://docs.flagger.app/) and Istio.
I'm interpreting this as third party targeting, not that you can't use a third party handle the process of targeting, serving, and billing ads.

If they are saying that the game company has to have their own ad platform that basically means only Google and Facebook will be able to release ad supported child targeted games on iOS in the future, which doesn't really make any sense to me.
Yap, pretty much. It's used as part of the sentry event processing pipeline for C/C++/Objective-C/Rust etc. crashes.
I think so. Among other reasons, those ads were deliberately included in the app by the people who created it (and now have explicit responsibility over the content of those ads).

Since parents trusted those creators enough to give the app to their children, that's something.
>Then I think there's a core distinction between hosting content and as you put it "finding new content for them".

Yes of course those two things are different, but YouTube does both of them and both of them are necessary for meaningful participation in the public political debate.

>but recommendations/search fall under curation and curation is very much back in the realm of TV/newspapers where the proprieter exercises control.

When users search somewhere like YouTube or Google, or look at their recommendations, they are typically not expecting to get content ranked by how well it falls in line with the proprietor's political outlook. They're trying to get content that matches what they searched for, or in the case of recommendations looking for content the service thinks they might be interested in, not content that the proprietor thinks they should be seeing to further their own political goals. Search, and to an extent recommendations, fall under discovery. People don't go to YouTube or Google or Facebook or Twitter to see content curated by those companies. If they want curated content, they go to a specific channel or page or account, or to a website like the NYT.

>I think that does entitle them to shape the political conversation, although I could see some argument for a great deal of transparency in exactly what they're doing in that regard.

I'm curious if you would you say that if they were hiding content you agree with and promoting content you disagree with, or what you would say if there was an election coming up and they were hiding content in favor of your preferred candidate and pushing content in favor of the opponent.
> Your proposed possible mistake is a way too stupid for a modern experimental psychology.

Bees have psychology now?
1. I find conferences on https://edas.info/rssConferences.php and then use my country's national ranking lists to figure out whether it's a good one https://www.tsv.fi/julkaisufoorumi/haku.php?lang=en, here, a score of 1 or better is worth submitting to.

2. I don't think "top publications" like found in http://csrankings.org/ turn down submissions because it's from an independent author. Instead, it would be harder because you are working alone. Now, you need more time, nobody is steering or affecting your opinions what is currently relevant, and nobody is giving you a fresh pair of eyes to identify your own biases. That's hard.
slight digression but great book on Churchill:
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money

https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Champagne-Churchill-Money/dp/...

https://on.ft.com/2EUTgi7 review

https://youtu.be/xjpm44l8wD4?t=457 video of author talk
Drug Co Fined $15.4M over Doctor Bribery Scandal from $1B per Year Medicine
you're exactly right. although i think the oversight was coupled with greed. corporations in the u.s. began a race to the bottom in terms of manufacturing cost, and now we're paying for both incompetent oversight and greed. consumers are to blame as well, but that blame is hard to place when consumers in the middle and lower class are getting squeezed in every direction.

it's very disappointing that the u.s. took this turn.
That would surely help Islamize the 'Hindu' land.
Cloudera CEO Reilly Departs
> If users created or changed their password after March 14, 2012, it is hashed with a function called bcrypt. If users have not changed their password since then, it is uniquely salted and hashed with SHA-1.

This is a common mistake.

Don't ever do opportunistic upgrades. Instead, upgrade all at once and retain "legacy" metadata needed to re-authenticate the user until their password hash is rotated. https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password...

Beyond that: Bcrypt is great, SHA1 is terrible, and the level of technical detail in this advisory is excellent. The fact that I was even able to critique their 7 years old security decision at all speaks volumes to the transparancy.
> I will up-vote any baby-step towards getting less proprietary magic firmware in my Ryzen rig.

This has definitely got to be the most compelling motivation I've ever seen on HN!
Is this a new change? What is the backstory on this?

And how is "third party" defined? Sounds easy to game by having it only directly communicate with the server of the app developer, and having it completely impossible for Apple to tell whether or not they are then communicating with a third party service.
iPhone Owners Can Sue Apple for Monopolizing App Store, Supreme Court Rules
No, looks like it is just the apps targeted at kids.
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
It's really about day to day decisions being "pipeline driven" - allowing automated pipelines to make continuous tactical decisions that humans usually make in "traditional" processes.
When to merge, is it secure?, when to deploy, is it up? when to spin up an environment? when to rollback, when to enable a flag, when to declare "all OK" etc.

This also means, not just dev and ops skills. It's also testing, also security, also compliance.
"pipeline driven" is what we are after. And this of course enables true continuous delivery.

"DevOps" is another Silo. Which is why we also have "DevSecOps" and "TesOps" etc...

I'm in the process of writing a new book about this new-old idea: https://leanpub.com/pipelinedriven/
Some data collection tools allow you to add metadata to the metrics, so for aggregate alerts you can use all of the data and for things like canaries you filter based on the metadata.

If the canary is generating too much traffic to a service we need to know about that, and that will be a proportional alert. But at the same time we also need to know that the overall request rate to all servers combined has dropped precipitously and may mean we are having gross routing issues. In the rare event where someone is rolling out a huge improvement, like better cache infrastructure, you disable the alert, and possibly offer a new one.
YouTube could wind up with cesspool videos? The horror!! It's a good thing they've now got these new guidelines in place to remove all the garbage videos. I'm sure that all the remaining allowed videos won't hurt anyone's feelings. /s

I'm not advocating for zero censorship. I just think this reads like they're heading down a slippery slope.
Developers File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple over App Store
The screen time feature lets parents control kids iPhones/iPads through content ratings, I am sure it would be relatively easy to extend it to kids feature. Also kids Apple ID would have the age info.
Not just between demonetization (totally fine with me) and removal (don't really like it). Promotion is also a tricky one, since those algorithms are fully under Google's control and thus responsibility for its results. But do you still participate in this "public square" if only your followers will find your message? But Google will have to decide what videos are shown anyhow...
How does this impact Google's "YouTube Kids" app. It is currently listed as the "Best video app for all kids" on iTunes. It contains more videos advertising stuff to kids than it does any other kind.

With McDonalds non-affilitated but clearly still ads being the most prominent.
>We're not talking about software developers here, are we?

Why wouldn't it be...