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Ask HN: Is there a way for indie developers to avoid the App Store Tax?
Several large entities like Netflix, Spotify, Epic Games, and Tinder seem to be successfully avoiding the “App Store Tax” (30% on all purchases) seemingly on account of their size and clout.

The Financial Times (much smaller) blatantly gets away with a message in their app saying “You can join the Financial Times by going to our website” and prevents users who aren’t logged in from reading articles. There’s no way to pay for an FT subscription in the iOS app.

Is there a way for independent developers to do the same?

Could I have a login splash page with my app’s logo and no other information that subtly encourages people to Google for the app’s site where they can then sign up? Or could I charge a separate “iOS usage fee” that’s in addition to my app’s main subscriber fee?

For context, users of my app also have access to a web client with many additional features. In fact, the app is an ancillary product with a subset of features that are useful in a mobile context.

Any advice appreciated.
Have you tried PETG? I know loves to adhere to glass (if rather aggressively) - maybe it'd work here too?

It'd be cool if it does because PETG is a lot easier to print because of its rigidity (especially in bowden drives)
Lived in Russia and have some knowledge about programming. Unless some breakthrough happens in general purpose artificial intelligence research, I do not believe self-driving cars that can drive here are possible at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)

"Carbon was an important part of Apple's strategy for bringing Mac OS X to market, offering a path for quick porting of existing software applications, as well as a means of shipping applications that would run on either Mac OS X or the classic Mac OS. As the market has increasingly moved to the Cocoa-based frameworks, especially after the release of iOS, the need for a porting library was diluted. Apple did not create a 64-bit version of Carbon while updating their other frameworks in the 2007 time-frame, and eventually deprecated the entire API in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which was released on July 24, 2012. Carbon was officially discontinued and removed entirely with the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina."

I think you are confusing "supported" with EoL. Adobe was pissed because there was originally talk of doing a carbon64bit and they never supported it so they had to move their entire app over.

The main point is, that Windows would never stop that api from "existing" In some manner. Unlike Apple.

This is just a difference in how both companies view themselves. While Apple claims "it just works". That isn't quite true in some of the cases we have seen. Microsoft has actually done a far better job of this.

I know someone that worked on the visual studio team. They literally had 100-200 servers that would run overnight with each build guaranteeing that the software would install and run on every single permutation of windows on an array of hardware.
I've used them many times and have always been extremely satisfied. The downside is the three week wait times.
There's always a person who is happy to explain how Apple bests any competitor you could mention at any metric you could imagine.
The rationale I have heard is that a single car could be used to make a multiple chained trips instead of multiple cars making multiple trips. This is the same idea behind ride sharing. I feel this breaks down with privately owned vehicles. I do see an increase in traffic in areas with expensive parking. Specifically I would sent my car to a cheaper lot and that would result in an additional trip. Even worse, that would be a zero occupancy trip.
I don't think this topic can be discussed without people getting touchy. Best avoided in my opinion.
Do you have some sort of special deal on pricing? What sort of quantities are you ordering? For oshpark, it's $5/sq in for a batch of 3 boards. I just checked the prices at sunstone and they quoted ~$35 per board for a 1 square inch 2-layer board for 1-day service or $14 per board for 1-week.
I recently achieved that quite a bunch of my friends switched from Whatsapp to Signal. It takes quite something to explain people why it isn't difficult to just chat in another app. But I'm happy those who came over never complained and now I have more 1:1 chats via Signal than via Whatsapp.
...

X stands for extendable in XMPP. Read about OMEMO.
The answer was and always will be to increase density not increase transit to the suburbs. This is how you get 2 hour commutes. The idea that you are not doing the driving doesn't make a 150 mile commute seem better to me.

You can cap density by height like most European cities do or go up forever like Shanghai. But simply arguing suburbs + highways were the 1950s answer and will be the 2050s answer is missing the point.
Early adopters use such sites. A significant portion of Amazon users may not even be aware there's a problem with fake reviews.
One will become electrosensitive in a dryer climate.

capacitive touch is derived by galvanic response that can be impacted by pH balance and electrochemistry.

potassium is used to reduce the impacts of gamma radiation
(wrong band, but not irrelevent)

microwaves can be lethal from a distance of 1 km (death ray)

there is so much radiation in the air, to study the affects of one wave length i'd suppose you'd need multiple band pass filters to narrow the band in question and a noise generator for controlled results.
I was personally a fan of Yang’s platform position where every citizen received an annual $100 credit that could be transferred to candidates. Instead of trying to restrict what can and can’t be said, give the citizens enough aggregate buying power to over shadow the lobbyists.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/democracydollars/
Was everyone in history who ended up doing something bad, or working for a bad organisation, fundamentally evil in some way? Of course not: good people can wind up in bad places.

And (while I’m not necessarily saying that Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp are fundamentally bad) the way history might judge people (such as your friends) would be in their response to finding themselves working at companies which could be considered morally dubious.
> 4. At some point there will be an accident that kills a photogenic "middle America" person or people

I'm ready to guess what it looks like: Car on autopilot going through a residential neighborhood, playground ball bounces out into the street from between two parked cars, car does not brake in anticipation of a 6-year-old that is not currently visible.
I don't believe it's "SIM as ID" - I believe it's SIM as complete authentication (i.e. userID+password in traditional systems).

(I have my thoughts on THAT as well, you'll be surprised, when it comes to security... we're nerding out about obtuse and obscure end-to-end encryption, meanwhile, majority of those 2bil users don't have a lock on their phone, and now they also have no protection on their messaging :-/ )
Anecdata: just set my mom's new iPhone up today, and re-registering Signal required she set up the registration lock PIN. I don't personally use that feature yet but interesting that it was mandatory.
>making things better for you

Ah, surely there is nothing open interpretation there.
The exception to the rule is books.
There's only a generational correlation because the 80 year old retiree is much more likely to own nice property with low property taxes (if you live in a state that only reassesses at sale) than the 28 year old with a young family. Young couples with money can be just as viciously NIMBY-esque as old couples with money.
One thing that I always struggle with in these arciles is how the percent of common DNA is defined.

>We still think that most – anywhere between about 92% and 98.5% – of the ancestry in people not living in Africa today does indeed derive from the out-of-Africa expansion.

>Interestingly, they suggest that 6%-7% of the genomes of West Africans is archaic in origin. But this archaic ancestry wasn’t Neanderthal or Denisovan.

How are these numbers reconciled with other statements like 99% of the human genome is shared with Bonobos [1]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/bonobos-join-chimps-...
I recommend git source code which was pretty neat last time i checked.
If it makes you feel any better, I live in an area that was built with a mix of SFHs and low rise apartment/condo buildings. The SFH are all $1m+ while condo prices range from $160k for a studio to $500k+ for a new 3-4 bedroom. If you figure that to build a new house they have to tear down an existing house, the minimum price for a new construction SFH or multi-unit is greatly increased.
“A Concise History of Mathematics” by D.J. Struik apparently (I have read only a tiny part of it) is good, but being 70+ years old, it is getting more and more dated.

It also doesn’t discuss the mathematics itself in much depth; it more connects topics and has references (plenty of them) for those who want to learn about those topics.

“The World of Mathematics” by J.R. Newman isn’t a history, but more a sample of pure and, mostly, applied (“How to hunt a submarine” is the title of a chapter on operations research) mathematics.

I think it is worth mentioning, though, certainly for “tourists” who aren’t aiming for full coverage of the subject, but just want to visit nice viewpoints.

Also, I think it’s quite readable for non-mathematicians, as it doesn’t do much ‘real’ math (Stillwell's _Mathematics and its History_, mentioned elsewhere, has more of that in its first 25 pages than this 1000+ page work), and its chapters can be read in isolation.
That is probably true. WSJ does have its biases of course, but I have also found them to be reasonably fair with most things, probably because there are legitimate business interests and real money relying on their information, rather than just clicks and “influence.”
Isn't this like voting, but with more steps?
The problem is that you can't have that and also have the first Amendment. Of all speech to be protected, the most important speech is political speech.

But aside from that, what happens if my spouse runs and ad naming my opponent?

Or my neighbor does?

Or CNN does - perhaps in an ad for a personal interview to be televised in prime time ?

There is no practical way to stop this. There will always be ways around it.

But first, that Amendment thing...

If you lock down political speech, you no longer have a democracy (yes, I know we are a republic). Because then the government gets to control what is or is not allowed. And I guarantee that whichever party is in power at the moment will use that to try to stay in power. And it's dominoes falling after that.
It's already happening. The Bezos-owned Washington Post's Opinions section has been, shall we say, skeptical of the Democratic front-runner in the two primaries/caucuses so far, resulting in this humorous juxtaposition of two stories written by the same columnist:

https://i.redd.it/028hqkitate41.jpg
> The last time Matrix was discussed here, just a few weeks ago, the network couldn't even require support for E2E encryption, apparently because too many of its clients didn't have it working.

Ironically, we turned on E2EE by default on the develop branches of Riot (the main client) 12 days ago at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/matrix/. It will go live across the whole network in the next release, complete with cross-signing for key verification.

And in the last two weeks, two more independent E2E-capable client implementations popped up - one in Dart (https://gitlab.com/famedly/famedlysdk/) and one in Rust (https://github.com/poljar/nio-rust). Video of the Dart/Flutter one in action is pretty cool https://youtu.be/nm36pt2rHcI :)

So yes, we're not as monomaniacal about privacy at any cost as Signal, but we're catching up.
Wow, I never knew about these tips & tricks.

I guess I can stop using condoms now, as long as I sleep well and exercise my heart for half an hour a day... /s
>SIM/# as ID is just too practical for both dev and user

In what way is that practical for a user? Once i've chosen an ID and password for a service I can easily type that in using literally anything that can connect to the service and spew out some characters.

An id linked to a SIM/# is is a real pain in the ass when you need to change your SIM/#, hence why i've got a bunch of old contact numbers for people stored on my phone alongside new ones so I can talk to them on whatsapp or signal and have it show me their name still after they change numbers.

I've also got a bunch of whatsapp contacts that aren't even people I know any more because their numbers no longer belong to them. People who's pictures and updates I can see who I don't recognize or know.

SIM/#'s are ephemeral in a lot of places, I know people that change them fairly regularly, having that linked as some kind of identifier is not good for users.
They will have different sex chromosomes (Y from tiger or lion) and different mtdna. So there might be some slight differences. And it's not out of the question that one is more viable than the other.

EDIT: Wikipedia: "Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species, unlike tigons"
Last time I left a negitive review not only did I get nothing offered, but Amazon removed the review with some nonsense reason.
> build a static HTML page.

No way in hell today’s HTML will survive 25 years now that google owns it, browsers will literally crash due to lack of user tracking. Best just host a static txt file.
The problem isn't with terminating SSL, it's with keeping your keys safe on exposed infrastructure.

A single domain name and DNS to route is uncommon because it doesn't give you fine-grained control of load - you need to be mindful of the rack's capacity, and you also need to make sure that most of that ISP's customers go to the rack/people who aren't that ISP's customers don't go to it.

Anycasting isn't going to be great for traffic management or long-lived TCP conns, and if you can avoid the complexity of each rack needing a bgp session into the ISP's network you're going to be much better off.

Typically this is going to be directly routed to the rack via a unique DNS name after some form of service call.
In the 90s, most seriouc C programmers knew about these books. They were the core books most devs relied on and referred to. They're all good.

I disagree with this comment: "No website is as good as a good book. And no good book is as good as a disassembly output."

There are many websites today that are excellent. And there are many websites that cover obscure topics not found in books.

Finally, I think it's important to move past C89 to at least C99. I realize in 2011 (the date of this post), that was less feasible. But today, there is little reason for most projects not use the advances found in C99.
Frustrating how?
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More like this thing that people like is energy inefficient, produces pollution and leads to more homogeneous, less diverse communities. And therefore it should go away.
JLC PCB is less than $10 for 10 5x5 cm PCBs, including shipping. They just take way too long to deliver where I live.
I feel like I wrote that a decade ago. Wait. Damn. It WAS a decade ago.

Amazingly the list is still relevant. I will try to check out the new suggestions on this thread.
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All chats are encrypted to and from the client, but only secret chats are encrypted end to end. And yes, secret chats are only available on mobile.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data
Statistics and probability.

I've lost count how many times I inferred stuff by common sense and hunch, just to be proved wrong.

Our intuition is mostly off for statistical phenomena like confidence levels, odds of something happening again given some sample, some event being (statistically) relevant or not, etc.
Which Matrix client are you using? Wondering if the lack of polish is because you're on Riot/Android rather than RiotX/Android.
I'm all for more housing but we need to make sure we have the appropriate infrastructure to support it, water, sewage treatment, roads, etc.

The city I live in has been growing a lot, but so has traffic and crime.
What I think is interesting is that none of these articles talk about one specific implication of self-driving cars.

What happens to car-insurance companies?

Seems like with self driving cars the form of car insurance we have now wouldn't be really necessary. I expect car-insurance profits to decline. Isn't there an incentive ( read: lobbying ) for car insurance companies to discourage self-driving cars?
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I've been playing around with serverless a lot lately. I love the fact I can build any idea that comes to my head, while hosting it for free and test if the idea has a market.

So, I decided to write an ebook on how to build a paywall using netlify functions, nextjs and sanity.io (data storage). Think of this as a gumroad replacement.

I'm giving this ebook away for free, well for a twitter follow. That's it. Check it out at https://app.creatorsgate.com/products/build-a-paywall-and
TLDR: Yes, if you dare to live dangerously and sacrifice convenience.
FYI, Elon Musk is worth dozens of billions. Not sure I'd call that "low". [0]

[0] - https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/#44fcf3a7999b
You are right, we live in the golden age of electronics prototyping. I'll throw in plugs for the Octopart search engine for finding parts, and PCBEX for inexpensive prototype boards up to ten layers.
This is one of the most important use cases I can see for self driving cars. As it is, on demand transit is expensive and in rural areas not the most frequent. For example the northern portion of Montana has a very low population spread out across a large distance. For many elderly to get medical care they must travel 100-200 miles to the nearest hospital. When they have to make this trip every week, I can be a massive burden on their loved ones. On demand transit is an option but may only run a couple times a week due to limited drivers. A self driving vehicle would help this situation a lot.
I'm an ham radio operator, and shortwave spectrum pollution is sadly a big problem despite very strict regulations.

The unfortunate reality is that the market is flooded with noisy devices, often cheaply produces overseas, that vastly exceed legal limits (chargers and other rectifiers, plasma televisions, powerline adapters, and much more).

Enforcement is difficult due to how widespread these devices are.

In many places, the noise floor is to high that long-range shortwave radio communications all but impossible.
Anyone who has done a social media ad for Bloomberg has some serious integrity issues to sort out.
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I've always wondered.. If there ever was another sapient species on this planet we either killed them all or interbred with them, or they went into hiding.
What kind of stuff were you buying?
Ah yes, the California Bind.
For my extension the review was automatic, and flags things like direct html editing. I only have a few hundred users though, so I'm not sure at what point they decide to do manual reviews.
I'm very much in favor of researching electrosensitivity. Whatever the cause, it's undeniable that certain illness patterns are becoming increasingly prevalent.

But I'm not really seeing research from electrosensitivity proponents, and especially not double blind studies. Instead, I'm seeing requests for fairly massive accommodations (along the lines of eliminating all Wifi and Cell phone radiation within a certain radius of a person), backed by not a whole lot of scientific evidence (unless one counts "Rudolf Steiner would have said so" as scientific evidence).

And I'm not even seeing many reports of such accommodations working to the long term benefit of the sufferers. Instead, once the Wifi is gone, they seem to develop MCS, etc. To me, that would support the prior that the suffering (which itself is undoubtedly real) is likely to have endogenous rather than environmental causes.
I have tried to get my family & friends on Matrix. Setup a small server on Amazon instance and created the full system, "How to" guide on installing the app, etc.

I do not appear to have the persuasive skills, clout, or sheer dominance over my family members that some of the more Matrix-successful fellow geeks here do :-D
As usual the article conflates the (very difficult problem) of self-driving everywhere with various other sub-problems.

The self-driving problem on highways is much more solvable, and can further be improved by convergent infrastructure evolution (forewarning of traffic jams from central control, embedded rfid to aid pathfinding in bad weather, weather reports, wildlife nets/barriers, highly standardized signage, internetworked cars). It would solve and serve a number of functions that are extremely valuable in efficient logistics, safety automation of boring long term driving, and better utilization of infrastructure (automated overnight driving when the interstates are much less used).

I don't really care if my trip to Taco bell is automated. Sure it would be nice, but that is so insanely difficult compared to automating a 400 mile trip on an interstate.

When they can full automate a 400-800 mile interstate trip so that I can sleep in my car while it drives overnight, it will massively disrupt the airline industry in so many positive ways.

But the article is from a sensationalist news source, so what can one expect.
I don't understand this appeal for facebook to be politics babysitter, if anything I would want them not to do anything or interfere in any way. Let people speak their minds and leave me alone to decide.
In short: It is a great starter. The book is so tiny it won't discourage people and get them going in no time.
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Well, historic stuff obviously is historic.
This is good. It's nice and simple and does not bother the user to do anything before viewing my results or try to sell anything. I appreciate that the JS is not visible for the user but I would remove the "console.log" for production and add an option for doing business in all 50 states. I also found that the "Next" button does not do anything on the last page.
The World Bank loses another chief economist
Species is a social construct.
Than expected? I am pretty sure none of the people who actually works in the related industry expect self-driving car to come out anytime soon. The hype is created by media and investors, with intention other than creating a viable product.

Driving is simple but still logical. Though it doesn't seem to involve too abstract of processing like what is required for language, that doesn't mean it is just looking the road ahead and making turns. Say if an accident happens and the road condition is messy now the one-way road is changed to switch to allow once direction then another, how would AI understand this? No it can't.

Current NN based model had huge problem guarantee Robustness, while human can be incredibly resilient against adverisal scenarios, because we are superfasr few shots learners.
Oh I don't think communities should go away. Cities can have communities if you build them in the right way. I just think these communities need to evolve from the particular format of a single family house with a lawn, car and garage.

Plus I'm a little perplexed at the library analogy. I'm not saying we need to lower funding or anything. If anything we should be pumping more money into suburbs so that they can build and create more healthy, flourishing communities. These communities should just be built in a way that's space and energy efficient.
And the founder of whatsapp is bitter about what Facebook did to it, and is funding signal now. And Moxie is no fan of Facebook either. These aren't some random kids and a VC.
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