skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely according to Guideline 3.1.3(b). The biggest problem with the app is that iOS only users can't actually create an account inside the app. It's perfectly fine to use a windows computer to create a paid account and then use that same account in iOS but since it's not possible to create a paid account on iOS and then use it on a windows pc it's violating the guidelines.
Would it be more fair that

- developers paid a hosting subscription for their app

- pay for bandwidth used by the app downloads

- pay for each update review

- optional pay for promotion

- Apple would not block legal content, just put it under a new category of stuff Apple disaproves but is legal.

This would fix a part for the issues with stores, Apple can't say that they are hosting your app for free anymore or that they provide you bandwidth.

The disadvantage I see is that small apps will have to pay a the yearly subscriptions but if the price is fair I see it similar as you pay for a domain and webhosting.

Apple will have to find a new way to make money though, like maybe have better services instead of crippling competition, have better dev tools and hardware.

Imagine there are only 2 companies that offer web hosting , and they will take 30% of your money (not profit but total) and on top of that they can reject your content if they don't like it.
Take away those apps and those iPhone's become useless bricks. Apps + developers add huge value to the platform.
I think your point is correct in general, but I’d like to nitpick in a specific part here:

> it's hard for Australia to build, for Germany to build, for Turkey to build, for Japan to build.

Just looking at the cost of rail infrastructure, it looks like the US has a significantly harder time generating value for money with what we build. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-09/why-1-bil...

The cost difference per km of rail comparing Tokyo or Berlin to NYC is insane. It’s literally an order of magnitude difference in some cases. And this issue arises in many parts of our society. IT modernization projects in the federal government cost boatloads of money, yet never seem to make any real headway. Even in the private sector, real value adding things like transitioning to electronic medical records never really took until insurance companies and the government started forcing it. And once they did the focus on their design was entirely around billing and coding and not really improving the physician’s workflow or enhancing care.

So while the point may be true everywhere, I think there really is a baked in tendency to veto and strike down proposals for change in the US that doesn’t seem to get quite so rampant in other places.
> You're just talking past me, bro.

Sorry for over explaning, but I feel it necessary.

Sticking with your example and making more formal. Name it pick function and let its three modes, random, deterministic and preference. In the random mode, the probability of picking one from the inputs are equal to picking to any other. In the deterministic mode, with the same inputs the function always picking the same and the probability of others are zero, but if the inputs change or any input, it could change the picked one. In the preference mode the function not just picking one, but making a sorted list of the inputs. In the preference mode, changing one input not changing the others sorting. In this mode using pick function on several inputs you got some information about the inputs overall probability distribution aka entropy (more precisely entropy is the measure of that).

The important from this, determinism not imply preference, but not random also. Cryptographic hash functions doing the extreme version of this determinism, the output is well "distributed", but not random. (PS: Sometime that characteristic called pseudorandomness, that is how PRNGs works with random seed)

Deterministic pick applied to random pick just less random than random pick alone on the same set, because random pick has the maximum of the entropy and adding some deterministic part just reducing that. But most people not picking with a well distributed deterministic function in their mind, more likely they pick with preference, which is I think much worse. So, that why I call it the bare minimum.
So would everyone else. Part of the problem is that hey is still in invite-only, and everyone who is able would just pay $1 or $2 to get around the invitation list.
The eROSITA telescope onboard the SRG observatory has completed its first survey of the sky in X-rays, producing the deepest ever map in X-rays and finding over a million sources. Most of these sources are active black holes, clusters of galaxies, supernova remnants and stars.

Annotated and high res images can be found here: http://www.mpe.mpg.de/7461950/erass1-presskit
It's good to be the King!
Duopoly is almost equally bad in such a big market imo.
OTOH, I am surprised that a comment like this is first on the page.

Lets look at some of your points

> 'not despite Buddhism but because of it.'

This is your main thesis and to support this you say -

> At least these two make a point of encouraging charity and kindness towards others.

Directly, (not subtly), implying that Buddhism does not do this.

A basic search would give you something like the basic virtues of Buddhist teachings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmavihara and how these virtues are popularized via stories where the protagonist gives up lives to save tiger cubs or say, the story of Angulimala.

Note that there is no condemnation of non-believers to eternal hell - a belief which has caused tremendous violence and looks at lot of cultures as essentially devil's work- a belief is still not repudiated today (it cant as it is a core doctrine).

Also, modern industrialized societies are still having a hard time accepting an elementary insight that animals can suffer intensely and creating montrosities where this is noted quite early in Buddhist and similar traditions.

> misfortunes such as being born poor (or worse) are seen as being justified somehow

Another point you bring up is karma and the word you use is 'justified'. When a thief or a killer attacks and causes suffering to a Buddhist, they might take it as the result of past bad karma, but that doesnt make the action 'justified'. Indeed, that action itself generates bad karma. A ruler inflicting suffering on people also gets bad karma.

The notion that people are fatalistic about misfortune is false can be seen at multiple levels -

Firstly, at the whole point of the tradition itself is to overcome karma, secondly, popular cultures are filled with practices aimed at changing karma.

At the political level, try reading James Scott on how peasants resisted states which became tyrannical https://www.amazon.com/Art-Not-Being-Governed-Anarchist/dp/0...

A more subtle but important point is that 'justification' is bringing in a different framework - the notion of normative ethics which is inherited from Christianity - whereas the concept of karma is seen more like a natural property like a bodily sickness.
Where do you get $300 from? The developer program is $99/year regardless of how many apps you have.
Slavery existed in Illinois, but schools don’t always teach that history
+ the hardware mandatory to build and submit Apps to the AppStore, right?
Are you sure Netflix is able to do this (genuine question)? According to this[0] article, Apple says that apps that target consumers (as opposed to businesses) must allow the user to sign up for the service from within the app:

> Apple allows these kinds of client apps — where you can't sign up, only sign in — for business services but not consumer products. That's why Basecamp, which companies typically pay for, is allowed on the App Store when Hey, which users pay for, isn't. Anyone who purchased Hey from elsewhere could access it on iOS as usual, the company said, but the app must have a way for users to sign up and pay through Apple's infrastructure.

[0] https://www.protocol.com/hey-email-app-store-rejection
There are a number of tutorials that already go over the same exact process but this one is by far the most in-depth one. Good stuff.

I run the frontend for my company website (https://makely.me) in the same way. It's super cheap. It's also relatively trivial to setup a basic CI/CD pipeline. The only thing I haven't perfected yet is the Cloudfront cache invalidations; I haven't figured out a programmatic way to detect which things I should be invalidating based on the changes I've pushed. I suspect there actually isn't a way to do it because of how I bundle things at the moment.
> I think you may have a bias against journalists =p.

He may not, but having been through the grinder (on both sides), I do. I'm not even talking about the Ben Rhodes' quotes about them being young idiots.

> However the one thing journalists do cover well and have good expertise in is current event and politics. They are closest to the sources. And thus they become pretty good at identifying BS in those narrow fields at the very least. Given that, I certainly value their “take” on what the current events portray.

Funny. Meet Gell-Mann Amnesia:

- https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
==Given that the first 12 months are very crucial in gaining critical mass I think 30% is fair and later it is really only 15%.==

It’s a lot harder to gain critical mass when you are paying 30% directly to Apple, no?

== You can disagree with the rules and fight them in a civil way in court, whilst also temporarily comply with the rules like everyone else to get your app public.==

Make less money today while you fight the largest company in the history of earth in court. Meanwhile, Apple will just built a competing product and embed it in iOS (see: AppleTV). The rules seem to change while the game has already started.
I think this is the only reasonable way to deal with this. You can't expect Spotify to take the hit. Apple demands extra money for users who sign up through the iOS app, so it's only reasonable to let the users who choose to sign up that way, pay the additional cost that comes with it.

Of course this would be entirely reasonable if it was a conscious choice by those users, but Apple is intentionally keeping the market non-transparent, screwing their own most loyal users.
Right because the alternative has worked real well - letting any random app on the store. I specifically don’t download any random crap on my computer but I do on my iOS devices. You can’t even trust known companies like DropBox and Zoom. They have both done shady things on the Mac.

I’m sure you also think that physical good stores should bare all of the cost and allow companies to sell things for free without a markup...
The apps have also augmented the iOS platform over those 8 years.

An Apple device is better thanks to the apps on it, so they sell more devices. They are double dipping when they benefit from App Store revenues + Developer program fees.
"While committing self-immolation, Tibetans have consistently called for freedom in Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama"

These were young men and women who desire freedom. You do not need brainwashing to demand freedom from an authoritarian rule.
That any algorithm can be gamed does not imply that the least manipulable algorithm can be made arbitrarily bad.

You only need to choose an algorithm so that the amount of trash is less than you can handle.
It looks like this is exactly what they are doing, and what Apple is complaining about?
> This implies regulatory disincentives to produce and consume fossil fuels. It's relevant to note that at no time in recorded human history have humans backed off the consumption of an energy source unless a better replacement (more dense) was found.

We have plenty of examples of humans forgoing technologies that turned out to have downsides. And it's a near universal truth that dire warnings were given about these restrictions, warnings that turned out to be vastly overblown. Technology does step up to the plate when market incentives are in place.

> Look in the graph below at where diesel is relative to a Li-Ion battery.

Li-ion batteries do not have to become as energy dense as diesel for fossil fuels to be displaced. Some applications don't require that energy density. We are already seeing battery electric buses, for example. In other cases something other than batteries can be used, for example hydrogen. In the worst case, net zero CO2 diesel can be made synthetically, using energy from renewables (and carbon from either CO2 capture or biomass; use of biomass would be limited to these edge cases.)

We are already at the point technically where a great deal of fossil fuel for transportation would be displaced if transport paid the true cost of CO2 emission.

> Fundamentally, for your position to be true you have to assume a miraculous leap forward in technology.

No, the roadblock is not technology, it's proper carbon pricing. That is the biggest obstacle.
Get tested for Vit D3 and sleep well and sleep early.
Only when they find a job and integrate. At least most European countries haven't been very successful at making this happen with migrants/refugees who have little education and money when they arrive. It appears the US is better at this.
Almost everyone in the world have a smartphone. Having only two options (iOS or Android) to choose between in such a big market is a joke. Google or Apple will just continue to buy out the competition to make sure they are the only option.
I take it you have never run a startup.

Otherwise you would realise that having an effective and profitable channel to market is one of the most difficult things to achieve.

Apple gives you one on a silver platter and for a pretty fair cost per acquisition compared to other channels.
>> He explicitly reused a racist phrase to suggest the black protesters should be shot down.

He said "When the looting starts, the shooting starts". This is obviously not a serious, literal statement and it doesn't even say who would be doing the shooting - Merely that the situation could escalate into shooting. Also, I don't see any trace of racism in that sentence.

If this statement leads to a reduction of actual on-the-ground violence, then this is a net positive and is why freedom of speech is important.

Talking about violence is much better than actually carrying out violence. Trump is likely one of the least violent presidents when you actually count the injured and the dead. Yet he has repeatedly made all sorts of verbal threats in the past... None of which he actually implemented.
On the other hand, for a lot of successful apps Apple’s share looks like profiteering and it becomes a very bad (but unavoidable) deal for developers.
I'm probably missing something, but can't Hey just make subscriptions in their page and let the App from free in the App Store?

Is the same as gmail, I can pay for a Google Suite, but the app is freely distributed in stores.

Basecamp should have great products (I've never used them), but it seems they are using this as a marketing strategy.
What really rubs me the wrong way about that is that great products like Basecamp are what give app stores their legitimacy.

Without that top 10% layer of professional, honest apps from trustworthy companies, the app store is just a sea of scams, shams, and clones. Like barcode readers and tutorialware games with a $7.99/week subscription that only exists in the hopes that someone gets confused and clicks it.
Let me mention there is an entire StackExchange site for this kind of questions: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/

You should have posted the question there and submitted a link to it here on HN.
They did—or at least, are trying to. The issue is Apple is saying, based on unwritten rules, that Netflix is allowed to do it, while Hey isn’t. And that’s the crux of the problem
So how has that worked out for developers who chose to use alternate stores?
Well, in European history the answer is because wars and conquest were profit-seeking ventures, and those who managed to amass foreign lands intended to squeeze them for as much profit as possible.

It's easy to oppress people you never see, who are just numbers in a ledger. People you see every day and must rule face to face is another matter.
We’re believing the victims of forced relocation and genocide at the hands of China.

I’m open to your sources, since you’re so convinced of your side being the one deserving of trust.
HEY has (accordingly) done the same. You basically can only log in, you have to go to the web to sign up.
That's not the interpretation of antitrust.
It's not that horrible, even with large displays (enough for reading hacker news for sure, lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdKNugT-mTQ
Trump used the the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" as part of a longer series of Tweets about the riots. The same phrase was also said at least once before, by an obscure racist 70 years ago whom no-one had heard of before the Tweet. Some have drawn the conclusion that Trump was in fact making a deliberate reference to this obscure racist.
I wasn't aware of it, seems like a good practice indeed.
People don't generally like their culture being destroyed by an invading one, even if they enjoy some improvements while being converted into an ethnic minority in their own country? Could be that.
Access to a market that they solely own, the definition of antitrust.
Thats one of the worst pages to promote your product, unreadable.
'There is a sense on almost every page of Parisian Lives of the biographer settling scores and airing long-suppressed grievances. [...] . It’s a pity that the generosity and kindness of Seamus and Marie Heaney and others towards her is described only in passing.'

Instances of this remind me of the "Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you still carrying her?" koan (e.g. https://www.kindspring.org/story/view.php?sid=63753 )
(note that this article dates from January 2020, although there doesn't appear to have been much discussion of the news previously on HN)
The codebase I work on now is python and I prefer it to both the java and scala codebases I've worked on before that were much smaller. Python gives a better debugging experience than java and a better updating experience than scala (especially someone else's scala) in my opinion.
Enterprise account is $300 https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/
No, that would be absolutely absurd. The only thing that would be fair is for Apple and Google to allow third party stores without restricting them.

I'll just put an .apk or .ipa file on my website and be done with these ridiculous stores. That's what's fair.
Distribution is explicitly locked to the app store. That's not an honest argument.
I know a guy whose dad did this. An outback Australian country pub, just in his back yard. Complete with tractor-seat barstools, old advertising signs for beer, the works.
Honestly, Apple's response is actually pretty reasonable, all things considered. Read the full letter — it was clear, fair, and professional — despite coming off the back of a lot of bad press.

I see plenty of comments are focussing on this quote, re their Basecamp apps:

> These apps do not offer in-app purchase — and, consequently, have not contributed any revenue to the App Store over the last eight years

Apple have (freely) provided Basecamp a platform to grow their business via the App Store, whilst giving Apple (effectively) nothing in return.

Now that Basecamp want to grow their revenue further (at Apple's expense), AND they are breaching the rules (whether you agree with them or not) — I don't blame Apple for pressing the brakes. Especially not after all the negative press this whole debacle has brought them.
Tracking and data collection. The way the make money. Twitter in 2010 was actively losing money, if I recall correctly.

That said... modern frontend that doesn't run proparly on a core 2 intel machine with no adblocking should be massacred.
I've seen this comment all over the place and I genuinely can't believe people think this. Apple accepted v1.0 of the app. They're rejecting v1.0.1 which just contains some bug fixes. How could anybody predict this? It's also going to damage their long term relationship with Apple (an important partner) and if they lose this fight their entire product is in danger as being unable to access an email service on one of the most popular phones is going to be unsustainable for Hey.
> Isn't that a little like comcast charging websites for access to their customers?

Not exactly, as Comcast don’t provide the infrastructure to Basecamp to host and deliver the binary of its app. Basecamp can’t be said to be ‘freeloading’ on Comcast.

Basecamp would come back and say ‘well, we pay our developer fees’ but developer fees don’t differentiate whether Apple has to maintain app updates for hundreds of downloads or millions.

Edit: Was clearly referring to the app binary.
Be honest. Have you read articles about the subject thoroughly?

Hey is implemented exactly like Netflix. This is exactly why it’s making such a ruckus. Because big streaming giants get Better treatment than the little guy trying to reinvent email.
So Amazon, EBay, the console makers, FaceBook should all offer their markets freely?
What animations are you doing that you need JavaScript for these days?
> that phrase is exactly what I would love to hear from authorities as black business owner

If you want your fellow neighbors gunned down, you should move to China! You'd absolutely love it there! You'd love to know their government murders their dissenters. I think you'd have a little trouble being a black business owner, but the pros outweigh the cons.
Beyond biting the bullet and paying for the expensive construction costs the only immediate solution I could see is more remote workers and a decentralization of offices away from city centers. Other possibilities might be improvement and adoption of self-driving cars, or better urban planning, yet those seem more unpredictable to me.
How to Make an URL Shortner Website – Python Project
https://youtu.be/U7cjfoSkHwk
This analogy makes no sense. It’s not a business to consumer issue. The problem is Apple running their own marketplace and inconsistently applying the rules they have created for that marketplace.

If the hotel opened a food court and treated the vendors like this, it might be an apt analogy.
>Apple gives you one on a silver platter and for a pretty fair cost per acquisition compared to other channels.

For the Apple system, isn't that the only available channel to sell and distribute apps? It's not like there are other alternatives, or am I missing something?
Tech as hopeful – beyond the honeymoon phase?
I want to explore revisiting the augmentative capacities of the web and ways in how we can help each other help ourselves be the Le Guinian "children who have survived" - i.e., creative adults.
I'm writing a book on networked learning but it won't be complete if I don't at least try to reach out directly to those in the industry (this, as opposed to only including passive bibliographic references). Also, a great trend in academe is co-creation, which I seek to make space for in all I do.
I am so grateful to so much tech - and hope that by raising this question I am returning to tech a space for relaxed reflection.

((If an additional prompt is needed, if I were to submit a point for ‘talking therapy’, I’d ask about “boundary issues” that threaten a healthy hopeful relation to tech. E.g. what stops one from feeling “whole, sound or well”; “uninjured, of good omen”?
This is deliberately broad. Some problems affording creative solutions to cultivate hope could include building new networks to improve the currently lamented unusability of the web - but also learning to establish healthy work/private life boundaries...))
Why is it going from zero to gradient descent solution? I feel like going from zero to deterministic matrix inversion solution would be more normal.