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I genuinely expected it to be Trump quote. Is it not? It looks like one.
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if the alternative is a malware-infested google play store where every second app phones home 900 times a day or whatever, i think i'll pass.

I'm making my iOS walled garden choice with open eyes.

I'm happy to sideload apps if they're worth it; so far the only one i found that I cared enough about to do this with was Blink, and i wound up buying it on the app store afterwards so the developers could get their cut.
I’m not objecting because I know the alternative of not using a walled garden (Windows and Android) and I have wasted too much of my life dealing with its issues. I’d pay 25% more if I had to because the time it has saved me and my family is priceless.
The user will never get the benefit of savings up the chain. That's not going to happen so don't act like it's an option.
I don't know anybody that had an imaginary friend either. It would be really funny if having an imaginary friend and being a creative type that makes TV shows were highly correlated, so that everybody working on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (a cartoon series) thought imaginary friends were completely normal, while the people who don't grow up to be writers wonder why everyone on TV has imaginary friends.

You know how business people on TV are always stressed out about the next big presentation? In part that is due to the fact that writers work job-to-job, and everything hangs on the next big pitch. In a way I wonder if American TV culture is just different parts of the life of a TV writer expressed over and over again in different settings, complete with idiosyncratic childhood developmental tendencies that are exclusive to tomorrow's scriptwriters.
As far as I recall, Display PostScript was display only - what you really want is NeWS which used PostScript for display and for building applications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
App Store cash is often significantly discounted. You can often buy $100 iTunes cards for $83 at Costco, for instance. This spurs on a lot of spend on the platform given that it becomes a staple gift choice for a lot of younger relatives.

Further this is all very hand-wavy about abuse without mentioning the benefits that very same platform provides. It makes the whole discussion around it completely specious because it's inventing a victimization.
Great! Let the iOS App Store compete in the free market on its own merits. I suspect it will do quite well—it's installed on all phones by default, and consumers trust it (for good reason).

The App Store should not be the only way to get software on an iPhone, sans literally hacking the device.
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"i don't know if i still count with the younger crowd but i guess i was an early adopter of internet tech"

The internet is 50 years old this year. I'm sorry to break this to you but you are no longer young.
Software today is developed by teams, not individuals. Systems custom-fit to an individual programmer are next to useless. You need libraries of common code in order to collaborate effectively without duplicating effort.

See also: Emacs, the ultimate customizer's editor, easily shapeable to your particular needs -- and currently losing badly to Visual Studio Code which is only readily customized with configuration options and third-party packages. When you need to pair or mob, having a common toolset and vocabulary beats having a special-snowflake environment.
It's not exactly "insane" - a bottle of fizzy-pop requires a fair amount of materials. Hundreds of grams of sugar, potable water, preservatives, flavorings. And they weigh what, 300 grams each? That's a hefty BOM and a fairly heavy product.

Integrated circuits are tiny specks of material, usually encased in comparatively huge plastic rectangles which are still only a few mm on each side.

The cost is almost all capital investment. After years of having a working design and process, the marginal cost of each chip is negligible. Most of what you actually pay for is probably validation and transportation.

What's really expensive is getting an application running on one with the reliability that people expect of a consumer electronic device. Yes, modern Cortex-M cores can do just about everything, but it takes some expertise and/or time to get them to do anything in particular.

Anyways, how much do you pay for a few hundred milligrams of acetaminophen? Is that also completely insane?
I agree, SSN's are a poor form of authentication. What's missing from these conversations is realistic approaches to fixing it. It's a lot like healthcare: plenty of people want to get rid of Obamacare, but they fail to explain what will replace it.

> For the public system, assign to every participant a true unique identifier, rather than the SSN which explicitly states should not be used as such.

This will work for a time, but what happens when the next breach occurs? How do people renew their UUID's? Expire compromised ones?

> For those citizens that do not want to register in this way, allow for physical authentication at physical locations.

Physical authentication probably means fingerprints, face data, correct? These are already compromised. Worse yet, they cannot be changed.

CCTV cameras are everywhere, and getting better resolution each day. Face authentication can be easily duplicated - some of the early versions of FaceID (by Apple) were broken by 3-D printing a mask [2]. Furthermore, some organizations are already compiling a list of "face data" that can be used to fool sensors and other biometric tools. By the time "face readers" are widespread, hackers will already have large pools of face data to use to hack into these systems.

There are other cases where fingerprints have been printed using a 3-D printer and have broken security of mobile smartphones [1]. What's to say whatever government issued terminal won't be broken in a similar way? Furthermore, it's not easy to expect people to guard their fingerprints: every glass they drink at a restaurant will have their fingerprints. I don't expect to shed my SSN whenever I order a pint at my favorite pub.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/7/18299366/samsung-galaxy-s1...

[2]: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hackers-trick-apple-iphone-x...
If we're talking about Chrome I'm guessing most of the target audience is on Android phones. Is it really not possible to use javascript on those phones to sufficiently fingerprint them for the purpose of metering? Webaudio, HTML5 Canvas, webgl, various timings, and probably a thousand other data points I don't know about...

And doesn't the clone army of iphones all essentially use Safari where the cookies still work?
Well reducers and transducers were big announcements. IIRC clojure 1.10 didn't add any feature of that scale, and few people mentioned that it was quite a "smaller", without criticizing. spec seems important but is still alpha status.
Most investigative journalism, at least in France, only live from subscribtion. And it is starting to works pretty well.
Yes, I assumed it was primarily erosion they're aiming to combat in a few years when the trees have decent root systems and enough foliage to provide wind-shelter.

Did I say something to the contrary?
"A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" is a great podcast but... as the name implies it tries to be as exhaustive as possible and as a result progresses extremely slowly through the history of philosophy.

For those interested in getting some basic knowledge about philosophy quickly I'd rather recommend Philosophize This! by Stephen West. The host isn't a philosopher by education but he seems to be very knowledgeable about the subject(at least to a layman such as me, feel free to correct this statement) and more importantly he focuses on the most important points that can be relevant to the average listener.

Also +1 for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy which has already been brought up by others ITT.
It's just not popular enough to be handled by bot scripts (yet)... and most of spam bots are not targeting one particular site so this worked for a while, just like math captcha and drag-an-image worked for a while. The moment they get popular enough for bot authors to tackle the issue, they'll stop working.
Even if Apple takes 30%, that’s still 70% that the app developer wouldn’t have if the App store didn’t exist. Without the App Store we would still depend on publishers to put us into stores, ask any author how that worked out for them.
You seem to have forgot the 3 strike rule.
It's a bit different with compiled code though right? If you stop supporting the previous C revision, it means the person compiling your code need to upgrade their compiler, the executable will work for everyone on that platform once built.

Whereas in JS-land, the support for upgrades is even more trailing because it's the end-users who need to upgrade, not just the individual/organization doing the packaging.
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As an end user I approve of the walled garden. I don't mind the limitations on other forms of payment. I think it helps prevent fraud and insecure transactions, and I like the freedom and ease of use that comes with knowing that apps on the ios store went through a fairly substantial review process.

As a developer (though it has been a few years since I wrote code for mobile) Apple's tools, documentation and libraries were so much better than Google's, though that may say more about Google than Apple. And I approve of app store revenue supporting those tools.

But 30% is really, really high. I don't work for Apple, or Google for that matter, so I have no insight into what portion of the money goes to the services mentioned above, but it seems to me that even 20% would be pretty hard to swallow, and 30% seems unreasonable.

I would love to hear from someone with actual knowledge of this how much of that app store revenue is profit.
> (I realize the irony in stating this.)

Nah, if somebody called you out on it they'd be begging the question.
He is complaining about payments in Apple Store using annoyingly paywalled medium.

As an iOS Developer I think that's 30% cut is fair and it works. Just look at sales numbers on iOS vs Android. Most of sales comes from iOS.
As a user I hate then devs decide to skip MacOS store. For me it means I have to use some 3rd party payment and license management solution so they can save some money.
Would the distance in question be close to the distance from Glevum to Chersonesos? Then the fastest route between them would take 60 days.

This "google map" of the roman world by Stanford is fantastic!

http://orbis.stanford.edu/

If only such analysis was available realtime for all current economic variables.
There are probably so many replacement parts that exist for iPhone 4,5, and SE series, Apple
could easily create an updated low-cost iOS hardware offering, but that won’t be until they fully embrace being a services company.

Their lower-end offerings would be ‘lowcost’ thin-clients.
Do note that Assassin's Creed Odyssey plays in 431 BCE that would be before Alcibiades gained any political power when he was about 20 years old.

Given how sexually open the Greeks were, the stories about his sex life probably weren't exaggerated.
GP probably meant "closest" in terms of lineage, not just composition. There's more of a Western connection to Worcestershire.
Why does Google not penalise them on search for this behaviour? Seems exactly against webmaster guidelines on hiding content or showing different content to a user and bot.
They are competing in the free market. Users are free to not use their software and there are many other choices.

You seem to be objecting to the manner in which they compete.
Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?
Yep, sounds like a bank to me. I worked at one of the big 4 for 6 years (way too long, I know) and the experience was horrible. It once took us a full year (no exaggeration) to get a single server allocated...and my group was actually one of the well funded teams
I know its snarky but complaining about Apple's walled garden via a post on Medium makes me chuckle.
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While I agree that it's hard to support legislation that's likely to have a lot of unintended consequences, it's also important to realize what's driving folks to introduce a bill like this. It's also worth pointing out that (in particular with Netflix) your example is its own counter-argument. You can't turn off autoplay, and that's the opposite of letting me make choices for myself.

There's also plenty of other examples of government regulating or banning things which exploit human weakness. Ponzi schemes, meth, gambling, and more are all controlled. It's pretty clear that a lot of tech-company design is (intentionally or not) probably scratching a lot of the same itches. It's reasonable to expect regulation.
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Strange. I did JUST check mine and the option is there for me. Possibly they changed something between your adventure and mine.
Not 100% sure but I think it is something to do with being able to write to localstorage (e.g. if the site figures it can't write there then it is in Incognito). I read it was something like that.
>Maybe Apple intends to change that some day, but that's speculation, not reality.

I'd say it's pretty obvious that this is a desired outcome on Apple's part. You can either wait until it's too late or bring it up before it's happening.
And so starts the next stage of the cat-and-mouse game: for instance detecting if the Incognito-allotted RAM filesystem is unrealistically small: https://9to5google.com/2019/07/23/researcher-discovers-new-w...
The technology only seems "not that innovative" because they've been around for a decade. The whole concept wouldn't be possible without widespread smartphone adoption which occurred in that time. The real problem with the business is the economics don't work. Riders use Uber because it's cheap and driver use it because they get paid enough to make it worth their while (or at least they believe that to be the case). These two things are only the case because they're blowing billions of dollars on subsidies.
> It was the only country in Africa to resist the Scramble for Africa

Indeed. In many ways you do better to think of Ethiopia (of that period) as a colonial power. Although there were no sailing ships involved, a fairly small center conquered lots of surrounding territory, inhabited by people who linguistically and culturally were about as foreign as could be.

> Their population went from 70 million in 2007 to 100 million in 2017. The current forecast is for about 200 million by 2050.

And from 20 million in 1960, when America was about 200 million.
That's an interesting project template. Manually managing dependencies and using backbone sounds quite fun!
An app I worked on had a similar feature to Snapstreaks, but it was used to help people quit smoking. This bill would have killed this feature that helped many people lead healthier lives.
What does admitting you had sex with a goat have to do with if the machine works or not? If I was not clear, they are looking to see if you can be blackmailed. They may know already you buggered a goat, or snorted a kg of the white stuff. They just want to know you will admit anything you have done as that is the key to make sure others cannot gain leverage over you.
Is anyone actually claiming a shortage of experienced developers in London? Or is this just what we developers would like to hear?

IMO there are few, if any, tangible signs of a shortage locally.
The asymmetries cut both ways. The site can detect probing attempts, and if that happens switch into a mode where the captcha results are obfuscated. Let's use blog comments as an example:

The normal mode of operation is to give the user a clear error message if they failed the captcha, and have the post go through if they passed the captcha.

If the number of failures is higher than e.g. 10 in the last hour, successful captchas cause the comment to be put in a hold queue for an hour. Failed captchas cause the comment to be rejected. The attacker can't know if they passed the captcha until an hour has passed, which slows down their iteration a lot.

You can then slow it down further with some randomization, while keeping the experience of real users the same. E.g. successful captchas go to the hold queue. Failed captchas are rejected 99% of time time. The remaining 1% of the time they go to the hold queue, but are auto-deleted after a random delay of 2h-12h.

So you accept a small amount of temporarily visible spam as the price of obfuscating the signals.
Ah, if you require better visibility into the progress of a sprint why don't you just attend the daily standup where the developers talk about what they have accomplished, what they will be trying to accomplish and if they have any impediments?
There is no need to shoulder tap each and every individual on the development team for a status update. If you are doing that then you don't understand scrum or agile. Maybe a few more years in the industry (myself 20years vs your 3?) and you can write a more feasible blog post.
I’m unhappy because Apple has prevented me from using my phone how I want to. I recognised Spotify’s published complaints against Apple 2-3 years before they spoke out. I vowed to never use or buy Apple Music, Apple Watch, HomePod, and even a new iPhone because Apple were degrading my experience with Spotify compared to their own services. They deliberately created an unfair playing field on their platform in order to make more money.

This problem is the same. How can Spotify compete with Apple in a completely separate industry like Music when Apple takes a 15-30% cut? How can Netflix compete? Apple is using their position to expand into other areas of business.

This is bad for competition, and what is bad for competition is generally bad for people.

Sure, Apple has a great, safe experience with the store and in-app purchases, but that is no reason to prevent other flows. Why can I not decide for myself whether to use an App’s “alternative” payment system?
Your examples are from video sites. So having an autoplay there makes sense. There is no need for it to be the default setting.
I wanted to give it a try, but the text has unicode errors that behave slightly diferent in every browser I tried, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to be read.

That said, here are two general pointers to get an idea:

1. Z uses sets, functions, and integers as its basic "type", on top of which you write more complicated "types". Therefore, in Z you often write specifications of the type "I have this element that belongs to this set, a function that maps elements of this 'type' to other types, and this operation says that my element is inserted into this mapping function" (without you writing down how the insertion is computed). Note that I write "type" in quotes because Z is not a programming language, and my use of the word type is a bit careless.

2. The comment is being a bit cheeky, since Z has comments, function names, and whitespace for better understanding that the comment is not using. The comment is right that the syntax can get complex at times, though, but calling your varibles "t" and "M" doesn't help.

Random fact: the Wikipedia example is a bit clearer, but written in Spanish. It details how to write a toy birthday agenda. It turns out that it was uploaded by a guy I personally know, which should give you an idea of the size of the Z community...
It is a dumb analogy to be sure, but I think the point is valid. As intensely social creatures, humans are not particularly well adapted to handle the never-ending waterfall of synthetic social interactions you get from the likes of Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/etc.

In the past, getting as much social information as possible about your tribe was a huge reproductive advantage, but now that modern social network products have boosted the populations of our "tribes" into the thousands, trying to consume all that information has downsides that far outweigh the positive.

Facebook is basically the psychological equivalent of high fructose corn syrup.
Don't build your business model over a bug - I guess.
I wonder if he broke the CFA in doing so. Trying to access a computer in order to commit an act to defraud or some such nonsense.
I wish they’d just ban incognito-blocked articles from HN (or at least flag them, so I don’t waste my time).

Modifying browsers is preferable to that. It will (hopefully) solve the the problem at the source, and make a HN-level solution redundant.

I imagine other news aggregators face the same problem.
TypeScript is becoming the de facto type annotations proposal.
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> the large credit firms are doing exactly the right thing (for their shareholders) by not spending tons of money on security.

Isn't this due to the fact that there are no serious penalties for losing customer data, aka regulation?
> For the public system, assign to every participant a true unique identifier, rather than the SSN which explicitly states should not be used as such.

How do you make this proposed new unique identifier more secure than the (admittedly very unsecure) SSNs?
It's especially funny to me, since I apparently have exceeded my monthly premium medium article limit - and would need to pay to actually read this.
The network exists for non-pooled rides as well. Riders don't have to wait as long if there are more drivers, and drivers don't have to drive as far to pick up a ride if there are more passengers. The increased efficiencies allow prices to be lower as well.
> Good luck proving it was our fault not yours.

Seems like it would be incredibly easy to prove that an S3 bucket was misconfigured in such a way that the data was publicly accessible. In fact this has been the case in the recent high-profile cases that I can recall.
> Reflecting on it, it is completely crazy that these devices are available for 25$.

They are most probably subsidized, though not sure how much of it is considering they offer 14 GB for 1.50$ a month.
It applies to nearly every organization that's been advertising itself as news for easily the last 20+ years.

They are all - every last one of them - suddenly nothing but editorial opinion and entertainment as soon as they show up in a courtroom.
Oh, that must have been tough, glad you're doing better now. Yes, that definitely helps to put things into perspective. Similarly, I had already thought about doing this kind of thing before. Then my mother, who worked her whole life, passed away shortly after retiring, so that only reinforced the idea too.

Exactly, that sounds like a good plan!
They've been planning this for a while. Lots of schools and government offices were closed so people could do this - I wouldn't be surprised if more than 10% of people were involved.
I don't think they ever will do that with Mac, and will be a key reason the platforms remain separate.
They have to realize how popular Mac is for developers, going down this path would completely remove that market for them.
Remember back in 1996 when people didn't know what eBay was and didn't realise people could just bid up items and then never pay?
I stopped after that. Is Super 30 supposed to be like the Avengers or something?
TFA links to this in the first sentence: https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-ini...

Basically, attempting to use FileSystem API but getting an Error === Incognito