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> A month before being removed from the App Store, the app raked in ~$45,000 in revenue. This means the product was operating at a $500,000 annual run rate.

No, this means you had a revenue of $45k over one month (congrats! It’s a number to be proud of in itself). This artificial extrapolation of sales data to get attention grabbing headlines is so frustrating.
That's what I thought. Public company stock is so much better than options. It's guaranteed income/value, unlike options, and when you leave you don't have to pay for them.
But patents wouldn't protect them in this instance. Patents are explicitly for implementations, not abstractions/ideas. I highly doubt they could get a patent on an implementation sufficiently abstract that would block any statistical tracking/monitoring of app usage, or at least one that wouldn't run into prior art issues.

Apple isn't tunneling everything through a VPN to track it.
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Probably a combination of NIMBYism and poor land-use planning. Back when many of these landfills were created, they were on the outskirts of urban areas, where "outskirts" = 15-20 miles away. After the wave of suburbanization in the 1950s-80s, suddenly those outskirts are right next to someone's home. Now it's a crisis.

Most people's conception of what land is available is limited to their local metropolitan area, and they have no idea just how abundant land is in the hinterlands. You could probably bury all the nation's garbage in the craters left inside the Nevada Proving Grounds, which is a radioactive wasteland anyway. And shipping contains of garbage 500 miles from LA, Vegas, and SF to Northern Nevada looks a lot more appealing when you've gotten used to shipping it 10,000 miles to China.
> What's the amount of radiation that thing gave off simply from decay, in a non-critical state?

Not much. U-235 has a 700M year half-life. Pu-239's is 24,000 years.

You're more at risk from ingesting/inhaling bits of it.
> Superior to what?

Superior to everything else that ever came before and that currently exists.

It is the ultimate user interface to ever be developed? Surely I hope not.

But I love the iPad because it’s flat and glassy, not despite it.
This is a paradigm shift.

I run a company that develops Smart TV and OTT apps. When we started around 2010 it was cheaper to buy a Samsung Blu-Ray with the Smart TV platform and an HD/HDMI monitor then to buy a Samsung Smart TV.
Especially now the US and Canada requires reversing cameras in all new cars, there has to be a screen in the car; the question then becomes whether it's worthwhile designing a second infotainment system that doesn't require that (somewhat costly) large colour screen for lower end trims in markets where reversing cameras aren't mandatory, and it seems to be that manufacturers think that isn't worth the cost.
Tweeting a HN thread that I want people to be a part of is not embarrassing to me. Maybe we just have different definitions of the word?

Checking someone's post history, and Twitter just so you could have something to comment on an "ad" about is kinda sad though. But, have a good day!
Ding ding ding. The entire article hangs on “imply”.

The question of where data is stored for an object is far less important than how to access data in a data structure. Like, the whole reason the data structure is designed the way it is, is to access it in particular ways.
Asssuming the article is accurate, I think you're mis-characterizing what happened here. Simon wasn't calling a colleague for a second opinion before making a decision; she decided Warren needed to be admitted, called a senior hospitalist to expedite that admission, and was clearly and repeatedly refused.

The OP's title "doctors can be sued by patients they don't treat" is not accurate. A better one might be "doctors can be sued by patients they refuse to allow treatment."
How do you do that when power is ultimately controlled by a bank of physical breakers?
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Talk to customers and ask for money. Eventually you'll be able to see what problems people have that are worth spending money to fix.
Ask HN: Is there an open sourced Unsupervised Representation Learning tool?
I'm working in Disentangling Representations, and I was wondering if there was a sort of drop in or self deployable tool that has some automated system for finding the best representations in some unstructured data?

The idea is that I could then feed these representations to some other learning pipeline.

If it doesn't exist, should we try building it?
I'd look at our own problems rather than trying to blame immigrants, who have always been part and parcel of the US economy.

Indeed, many of those companies wouldn't be around were it not for immigrants, since they not only work for companies, but also found them and of course purchase their products and services.
That plus they are talking about extrapolated "revenue". They didn't mention what the server costs were for having to handle the traffic of that many users. Server costs for such would be pretty high. Also other operating costs, development costs etc. Revenue doesn't matter, profit does.
Not necessarily - they just need to have a degree.
I took a “pay cut” moving to a public company, unless you discount the startup claims of value, as you should since a dollar of options is worth significantly less than a dollar of public stock, and financially much much better off
My introduction to spreadsheet applications was through SuperCalc. Didn't hear of Visicalc until recently.
I used to work in the space, here are my two cents. If people use the apps, even once, to control these TVs, the data is literally gold. Having stupidly accurate attribution and 100% certain IDFA/ADID matching would have most advertisers salivating and throwing money at the source. Honestly, I would not be surprised if manufacturers are able to double their margin after one year.
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Well, I guess they count Mali ( ARM ) and IMG as UK and not EU ?
I get that in your application, you may want to keep a linked list behind its interface 90% of the time. However, considering your system as a whole, at some point you may want to take that linked list data and write it to a database, in which case the cleanest thing is to bypass the interface and extract the "data structure object" so to speak and deal with it in a database-related object, rather than encumbering your LinkedList object with database behaviors.
Based on the article, the doctor didn't say "you're not following process", he said "send her home with some diabetes medication, and schedule a follow-up visit for next Monday".

The first is not a medical opinion, the second one is.

The NP can answer for not coming to the precious doctor via the right process, the doctor can answer for giving advice that led to her death.
>It's even worse than you paint it, for a lot of adjuncts.

Yes, I specifically showed an optimistic picture of adjunct work so it didn't seem like I was tanking the numbers, but I should have said as much. I've gone back and edited it to reflect that my presentation is more of a best-case scenario.
>As an end user

This is a developer-focused site.
"About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Of course, all this is to be taken with a grain of salt :) I got started in QBASIC and, for all the damage it may have caused, I'm doing pretty OK today. I tried to grasp C back then but I wasn't able to yet. BASIC let me play along with the adults while I developed other necessary skills.
Well seeing as my checks against the registries yielded different results, whatever it is doing is not checking actual availability.
I must have missed the part of vehicular accident law where people hit while jaywalking at night aren't at fault for the accidents. By your logic, the 1000+ jaywalking fatalities every year must all result in human drivers "getting away with it".

Uber messed up big time in multiple ways, but legally it's pretty clear that the pedestrian was at fault in this case, not Uber.
My understanding that almost all academics with tenure and even many without in the US calls themselves a ‘professor.’

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that PDF - it doesn't even mention the word!
On Having Enough Socks
Apple does “support VPNs”. There is a setting for it.

Settings -> General -> VPN.

But the article even said the company got the idea from Onava. A company that tracked your app usage and sold the data and that was bought by Facebook.
In a purely oop language, data structures exist as an implementation detail, but you can never access them directly

In Smalltalk, you can have a TreeNode class and instantiate TreeNode instances. This is often the way that binary trees are implemented in Smalltalk. In that case, data structures exist as a design of interacting objects. In that case, you can molest them fairly directly using the object interface.

The same goes for Java and C#. Basically, you can design in such a way, that you can essentially have C or Fortran in any language, even a pure OO language like Smalltalk. The right way to do this in Smalltalk, is to use a Facade, which can be used to hide the guts of your data structure.
It was removed as a part of a general thrust towards removing shady VPN apps. Onavo the VPN app that’s mentioned in the post was also removed from the App Store around the same time. The article is trying to spin the narrative of a causal connection between Apple removing their app from the App Store and then introducing the same feature in iOS, but that doesn’t seem to be the true.
The water from my well is not very good, but ever since I got a reverse-osmosis filtration system, I probably reduced our one-time-use plastic consumption by about 95% (mainly water bottles)... and this system will pay for itself in less then one year... but of course they need to fix the packaging of many items.
I guess you aren't native english speaker. As a french speaker, I got bitten by it in the past. Revenu is the total income, you have probably profit in mind.
I think that's fine. What's not fine is removing the app itself from the app store as it was generating $45k a year, the same week of releasing its competing app.

Either you remove it because it's against the TOS, anytime in the 1.5 years that the app existed, or leave it be. Don't 'coincidentally' remove it the same week you release a competing app. That's just nonsense.
Mr Cook. I am happy to fix some mess Apple had made. Please give me right to repair.
The privacy issues are real, but you're only a slave to the device if you want to be (or you let others force you to be).

Where you see oppression, I see convenience.

If I'm on vacation and forgot to turn the thermostat down before leaving, I can use an app on my phone to do so remotely.

If there's a cold spell and the furnace fails, that same app will notify me when the house gets too cold so I can find someone to go check on it.

My wife can add (or remove) items to the shopping list while I'm already at the store.

When I'm at the doctor and want to confirm what drug I'm taking, I can bring up my online account from the pharmacy.

When I'm on the bus home and watch to finish reading the book I was reading at home on my eReader, I can bring up that book on the app on my phone -- and it will start up on the page where I stopped reading last night.

I do have my work email delivered to my phone, but I turned notifications off -- I only see a work email if I intentionally look for it.

I do have a notification app from work installed on my phone that can notify me 24 hours a day when I'm on call, but even that is more convenient from when I carried a pager and only got a numeric page so I couldn't tell whether or not it was something that had to be dealt with immediately or could wait until I got home later -- I'd have to dial-in to find out (and I had to literally dial-in on a physical phone line since in those days my phone wasn't a hotspot that can give me internet access anywhere, or I can just check on the service with my smartphone instead of having to get out my laptop)

There are lots of ways the phone makes my life more convenient.
This is because this would have been the only method to "block" access to the apps. Apple provides no API for other apps to "moderate" the opening of other apps, like Screen Time can do. This is a workaround because they were working in the sandboxed environment that is iOS.
So for lots of things like stairs and rafters you can use a good framing square http://www.johnsonlevel.com/News/FramingSquare

My goto build device is the speed square https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to/a3999/4306646/

And for fractions, thank you Mr Shimel for teaching how to do fraction math.

But I do have a construction calculator that will figure sq feet, cu feet for concrete. It's a standalone device for about $30, but there are a ton of builder apps out there.
Surely they had a meeting at some point and discussed and weighed this and many other risks.

I don't see anything wrong here. They just got a really frustrating outcome.
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You would actually trust a third party app to track your usage?

Apple actually had to lock out Twitter and other apps from logging what other apps were on your phone for analytics.
*DTO is the closest to such a convention as its implied that data representation is the goal.
> I have never met a pilot that didn't religiously follow their checklists.

Someone forgot to follow the second page of the checklist of a 737 in Argentina in 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPA_Flight_3142
iOS does support VPN's.

However this was a VPN in an attempt to get around a limitation/restriction of the OS.

Especially recently, I have had an issue with user choice. Since I feel like many (Google and Facebook largely, but apps like this on a smaller scale) don't fully communicate to a user what is actually happening to their data.
Most of us here are technical and just seeing "all data through a vpn" know what that means, vast majority of people would not.
I'm specifically referencing the clear schadenfreude.
Socialism!

Just kidding. But it seems that it’s the same mindset that likes the government replacing, say, private insurers, ISPs and other private enterprise.

As for me, I do not consider giant publicly traded corporations “private” any more than cities or states.
Amazes me how far people go to avoid simply running Linux, why isnt that the preferred option here ?
> ... enable a requirement that my SIM could not be changed unless someone went into the store with at least one means of physical identification ...

Anyone have experience with this, or heard reports of attacks by means of forged physical ID?
Yes but you do still need to think about vesting schedules. If you are at a company that doesn't do uniform vesting, then e.g. $400k stock/ 4 years might be more like $50k this year, $100k next two years, $150k the last year. Not sure how levels.fyi handles this but I would say that is not really the same as +$100k/year TC during your first year, given that people can change companies often, get promotions and refreshers, etc. To me it's more like an automatic raise.
Each time I see one of these stories pop up, I'm hoping that the lawyer for the Apple Antitrust case is making a note to include these testimonials as evidence of a problem.
But I love the iPad because it’s flat and glassy, not despite it.

Really? Your kitchen counter and car windshield are also both flat and glassy. Are you sure you don't love the iPad because it's a huge touchscreen controlled by software with virtually limitless capabilities, rather than because it's flat and glassy?

Superior to everything else that ever came before and that currently exists.

That's my point about you misunderstanding—the rant is explicitly about the future, as mentioned in the title and throughout the introduction.

Black-and-white film photography was superior to everything else that ever came before and that existed at the time. But it wasn't the grayscale that made it revolutionary. It's not the lack of tactile feedback that made the touchscreen revolutionary.
I hate the term "mining" for that reason. It is not like mining gold. I would have preferred if they called it "digital notary service". That's what the miners are doing. They are notarizing transactions so people can agree on the ledger and so that double-spends cannot happen. Early in the life of the system, the notary service is subsidized by inflation. Later (after many halving of rewards), they will be compensated with transaction fees.

If someone can devise a way to perform the notary service without proof-of-work, I'm pretty sure Bitcoin will move to it. Right now, no other system has been shown to actually work. Proof-of-stake systems are in the works but, as far as I know, none of them are considered trustworthy at this point.

Edit: I would like to also say that I'm sympathetic to the opinion that Bitcoin mining is too wasteful of resources (i.e. electricity). I think the system is perhaps flawed in terms of the connection between Bitcoin price and the economic drivers of difficulty. When the price is high, the mining rewards are such that there is huge pressure to increase mining costs. Do we actually need that level of security? OTOH, hard to blame Satoshi for the design since it is hard to foresee how quickly the system gets adopted.
An API for allowing third parties access to your personal information is not a ”feature”.
Developers should care about the end user though.
Because I'm too lazy and too cheap to have two computers.
It was removed after the feature was announced because that was also when they changed the App Store guidelines. Previously it did not violate the rules.
When they take over your account they do a forced delete and create a new account. That way they "own" the name and it is much harder to get back.
Why would there be server costs for an app that tracks local app usage on the phone?
It's business. Not only that it's stated almost certainly when you get involved with the app store. Wouldn't make sense for Apple to do it any differently.

Apple did this in the 90's with peripherals such as video boards which at the time (80's/90's) were products that you almost always had to buy from a third party. Then Apple built them right into the hardware themselves. There is zero wrong with any company 'business' doing this. If you think there is you are not a business person. (Even if the competitors products are removed from the 'store').
> if you were to limit the amount of educational debt someone could take on — for example by only making the first $20k non-dischargeable. It would fix the delinquency problem, drastically lower the total annual student loan rate, and cause private tuition prices overall to decline, but it would be called institutional racism.

The solution to structural racism is more scholarship money, not more debt. Pell and Social Security supplement grants have gotten really meager since when I went to school.

> I think we already went through this cycle with housing, when ~15 years ago politicians started saying that owning a home was a right and everyone should own one, regardless of ability to pay.

Ahh yes, this old card. Blame the poors for financial crisis. Buddy most of the defaults weren't from poor people buying homes. People with good credit scores leveraged that score to speculate, over 85% of the defaults were for investment properties. Most of the mortgage defaults were done by your doctors, lawyers, realtors, general contractors, and business owners who watched one too many episodes of home flipping shows and thought they could get in on a good deal.
SortableList?
This is some super click bait and borderline deceitful blog. Apps on iOS are sandboxed so you can't access data about other app's launch and usage. These apps were using MDM profiles to get that usage data. This also meant that the user's internet data was going through these third parties which is a pretty big privacy issue. Plus having MDM profiles gave these third parties enormous access to the user's device settings. It would allow all your children's phone data as well as device settings to be accessible to these 3rd parties. That's bad, exploitative of underage kids, against the TOS as well as using MDM profiles for wrong intentions. Using MDM profiles are only intended to be used for controlling employee and VPN access for filtering apps within an organization/company. They are not to be used for this purpose and as per the guidelines not to be used for consumer products. Same reason why Facebook's certificates was blocked because they were abusing the MDM profile for different purposes. This was clearly against Apple's policies and against the terms of developer agreement.

The author claiming it's because Apple is trying to eliminate competition forgot to mention any of the above very important reasons. They also forgot to mention that what they were doing was clearly against the app store guidelines which they had agreed to.

Looks like Apple released this info in a press release. NYT's poor journalism got called out too:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/the-facts-about-paren...

One could argue that Apple should provide an API which lets developers access to this data. Apple might be working on that or maybe they won't because Apple has a strict "privacy" policy and providing such sensitive data can be prone to being used by bad actors.
How much would advertisers pay for the ability to literally hear the consumer's verbal response to an ad? Probably a lot.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/02/16/Samsung-Careful-w...
I have several 5.25 drives laying around. The connectors still fit on them to the motherboard, but the BIOS no longer recognizes them, though the BIOS will recognize 3.5 floppy drives.

I can't find any device that connects the drive with the computer that doesn't require writing a device driver.

It's not a crazy disk format, it's DOS format.

As for hard disk drive interfaces, I have a couple off the shelf USB interfaces to IDE drives. The connectors fit, but they don't recognize the older drives.
This.

Can’t wait to hear the same complaint from authors of period tracker apps, once iOS 13 is released with the built-in period tracker.
Thanks for this. Any chance you can you edit the comment to make the links clicky please?
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It's an extrapolation from the last month which was the highest revenue they achieved and roughly estimating from the chart total lifetime revenue was ~$200K.
I don’t care how much it was generating. It was a severe invasion of privacy. If that’s how they made their money, nothing of value was lost.
What is there to miss on Linux exclusive tooling or even Windows exclusive tooling?
The Case for a New Focus System
Wanna guess which brand of tv I won't be buying when I upgrade to 4k? Is it still possible to buy "dumb" TVs with the latest display tech?
The dependency discussion is wrong. Changing code of a function does not lead to recompilation of callers in most static languages. So if one change circlePerimeter, only that has to be recompiled. But if one changes data structure, then the callers has to recompiled. But this is also true for objects. In C++ changing data typically leads to recompilation of both implicit and explicit data structures. Essentially objects and data structures behaves the same.
Wow, millennials invent excel.