skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While I agree that Apple should probably relax their rules, this list of "exceptions" is not particularly compelling.

Yeah, the first few items on the list were relatively convincing, but the convincing-ness takes a nosedive further down the list. I mean, who in their right mind would compare hey to a companion app for a car?
This implies there's only one right answer, which I disagree with.
It actually does. You cannot use a regular email application to access your email on Hey, they don't use POP/IMAP.
> And society derives no obvious benefits from a profusion of poorly performing ventures.

This is where the paper goes from research to opinion piece. It is easily argued that without the failures, there won't be successes. One can also see that while there are many many business failures, there are also unicorns the likes of which the world has not seen before. It is not obvious at all that not having more failed entrepreneurs is a bad thing. Lower life-time earnings is hardly a social cost. If these entrepreneurs ended up on welfare, then perhaps there is an argument. But if they find a fulfilling life doing what they do, and the consequence is they earn less... what problem is it of mine? Why do I need to derive a benefit from them? That seems to be putting my desire for 'stuff' (intangible or not) over their right to do whatever they want with their life.

More examples of editorializing:

> In contemporary society, the infatuation with entrepreneurs is such that they “are seen as almost having a magical effect on economies—alchemists, whose innovative capacity allows for water to be turned into wine, lead into gold.” (Greene et al, 2008; p. 3). -- citing a source does not make it true
Sorry to change the conversation- but how is HEY any different from maintaining a whitelist? For example iCloud has had the VIP feature for a few years now which I use without issue. This is the 4th or 5th article on HN I have seen talking about HEY and Apple. It's almost like this is a marketing ploy.
My concern with phones isn't really that they're general-purpose per se, but that they're many people's primary computer--if not their only computer. Game consoles don't have that level of importance in our lives.
Thats interesting. I don't quite understand how that would work.

So can you work around that requirement by just going:

if false
then <use my type>
else <do my things>

Technically it is used exactly once, but really it will never be used..
Most countries take the stance that protecting their people, even at the cost of impeding on personal freedoms, is a good thing.
Do you price your subscriptions purely by the marginal expense of serving the content/service to another customer? Or do you price them according to what the market will pay for your product?
> "People prefer getting relevant adverts"

that's a script.
Tiny Tiny RSS self hosted. tiny Reader for iOS. There is an open source Android app as well.
The rule that business-targeted apps and consumer-targeted apps are subject to different IAP rules is not in the App Store Review Guidelines. Basecamp asked them why Hey was blocked and Basecamp was not, they were given that as a response.
Our app requires users to log in and a multi-thousand-dollar membership. No IAP option as pricing requires working with a sales person and a quote. Yet to have an issue, hope it stays that way.
PID loops are to control theory what PHP is to computer science: It barely scratches the surface but it sort of works some of the time.

If you really explore control theory you'll learn when the P or the I or the D is unnecessary. Or when you need a second derivative (not just the first). And it'll often give you closed-form solutions for the coefficients so you're not just blindly hunting around in parameter space.
These things are true; and also a significant component of Apple's value proposition. An Apple customer can be sure they will:

1) Never need to learn what a "sideload" is

2) Never be exposed to Apps that havn't been vetted by a trustworthy party (in this case Apple)

Apple is taking the opportunity to milk app developers, but they've done an effective job of positioning the milking process so that it is done in the user's interests. It is quite possible that things like this 30% App Store tax are one of the reasons why iPhones remain so prominent.
I don't know about it having to be an ISO standard but certainly it MUST be the industry equivalent of "don't roll your own crypto" but for user level authentication. This is indeed ridiculous.
This is my big problem with it too. The cost of maintaining the app store and the search is the same no matter what the app is. It should be a fixed fee.

On the other hand the argument is that all the $0 apps are being subsidized by the paid apps, so they went percentage based so that the cheap apps didn't have a huge fee. It would mean the cheapest paid apps in the app store would be a lot more to absorb the fixed cost, or if they shared it evenly, then there would be no free apps.
I see news without attribution.

For example https://tapatalks.com//read-blog/73_hackers-trick-3-british-... is the same text and images as https://thecloudconsultancy.eu/news/hackers-trick-3-british-...

https://tapatalks.com//read-blog/49_patching-the-citrix-adc-... is word for word https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/patching-the-...

Is the content copied from other websites and then claimed as own work?
Now that you have provided coordinates, you have to wait for the satellite to pass over for the data to populate.
> Note that I’m not regarding these activities to be entirely about conspicuous consumption

If your definition of an activity being conspicuous consumption is that somebody, somewhere, can use it for conspicuous consumption, I think you're right that it's going to be hard to find an activity that isn't "conspicuous consumption" by this definition. But I would say that's a problem with your definition.
Economic downturns are often times of great cultural movements. The renaissance, hip hop, punk/ post punk all emerged from economies in decline
also, your respondents might be a self-selecting population.
Apple should then rent their hardware out then or provide long-term leasing. If Apple is selling devices for ownership, then the device should truly be owned. I would rather they be honest, and lease the device out (even for a fixed sum for an unlimited period of time), than to claim ownership.
Well, there __is__ In-App Purchase support, but it only works if your IP is in the 17.0.0.0/8 block. We put it in because we knew it was very important to Apple ;)
I assume it’s percentage-based to allow for free apps (which are an important part of the overall ecosystem).

How do you allow free apps but still collect money? Maybe you could make a distinction between free and paid apps, and charge a flat fee to the paid apps, but then people would just make their apps free and process their payments separately anyway; essentially the same problem you hit with the 30% fee.
Most importantly: http://hnapp.com/ to produce an RSS feed for Hacker News. I use a feed that returns anything reaching a score of 50 or gets 40 or more comments.

http://hnapp.com/rss?q=score%3E49%20%7C%20comments%3E39

Have used Newsblur since Google Reader closed and been very happy with it on desktop and Android.

https://www.newsblur.com/

I use Pocket to save articles I want to read later, which makes them available on my Kobo ereader. (I'd switch to Instapaper if my ereader supported it, it seems to handle sites Pocket often chokes on.)
> I didn't say technologies, I said energy sources.

There have only been a handful of energy sources, so this argument is lame. I'll also note that it's an example of "nothing can happen for the first time".

> It won't be Li-Ion, it has to be something else, but that "something else" doesn't exist yet

Hydrogen. Ammonia. Synthetic hydrocarbons (which I explicitly listed). These are demonstrated technologies.

It's a common canard that anti-renewable polemics make to represent batteries as the only storage option. And you've continued to make this argument even after I listed alternatives earlier.

When you make an argument that no solution is possible, it puts the responsibility ON YOU to rule out not just batteries, but every conceivable solution and combination of solutions. You can't just adopt a lazy attitude of lousy engineering to make your case.

> As to carbon pricing - carbon pricing regimes require world-wide cooperation. IF you can get that, it effectively means limiting fossil fuel usage, right? Otherwise why are we doing it?

It will likely involve carbon tariffs. If some country refuses to control CO2 emission, trade with that country will be blocked. This will coerce the holdouts.

Your attitude there also smacks of fatal defeatism. What is your alternative, burning fossil fuels until we have a replay of the end-Triassic greenhouse mass extinction?
The golden age of web app development was 2012-2013.

The state of the art in the browser was jQuery and ES5. CoffeeScript was mature and stable. The Express framework and Node.js 0.8 were perfect for server-side JavaScript.

It was blazing fast, unopinionated, and minimal. It's too bad it didn't last.
Depending on what you were selling it would be forbidden under either 3.1.1 In-App Purchase or 3.1.4 Hardware-Specific Content:

> Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc.

> In limited circumstances, such as when features are dependent upon specific hardware to function, the app may unlock that functionality without using in-app purchase[...] You may not, however, require users to purchase unrelated products or engage in advertising or marketing activities to unlock app functionality.
Space manufacturing. SpaceX Starship should get a kilogram to orbit for $250 (actually Elon's goal is to get the costs down to $10 per kilogram[1] which seems insanely crazy but be forewarned).

Historic costs[2]:

- Space Shuttle: $41,000/kg (24.4 t, ~$1B)

- Delta IV Heavy: $14,600/kg (24 t, $350M)

- Falcon Heavy 2R: $1,700/kg (57 t, $95M)

A good first product to make in zero G is ZBLAN, fiber optics so clear that they require up to 100x fewer repeaters than ordinary fiber[3], lightweight and very high value.

[1] https://wccftech.com/spacex-launch-costs-down-musk/

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-put-1-kilo-in...

[3] https://www.issnationallab.org/blog/taking-zblan-optical-fib...
I would love to talk more about it if you're interested. I posted my email below if you'd like we can set up a skype and I'll answer anything you'd want to know.
I haven't found a way to sign in to YouTube without being signed into Chrome.
SSH for job running and management, NFS for filesystem access. Have remote systems mount the local file system. If NFS isn’t available, have the remote job pull files over rsync from your local system, then rsync back the resulting output.
> An Apple customer can be sure they will: (1) Never need to learn what a "sideload" is, and (2) never be exposed to Apps that haven't been vetted by a trustworthy party.

But Apple customers can be sure of that anyway--just don't sideload apps. Anything essential is going to want to be in the App Store, in order to reach customers.
Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode on iPad Pro
> just like HEY subscribers who expect to read emails on their phone

To use the service, you have to use a mobile app (or web app), the service won't let you access via POP/IMAP.
Legally, yes, that is how it should be. even if worthy of criticism socially.
Apple has an exception for when the product is purchased as a physical good or service. (Tesla and SOHO House in the example list)
Is there a tool that mimics the interface of SCP but uses SFTP under the hood? Then I could alias `scp` to that and forget about the SCP protocol forever. (rsync is not good enough: it requires rsync to be installed on the target server and seems to be slower than SCP in some cases.)

The proprietary ssh.com implementation of SSH apparently has one called "scp2", but I don't see any open source version.

Well, except for this, but it's tagged "[MAINTAINER WANTED]" and written in JavaScript:

https://github.com/spmjs/node-scp2
Why should software makers share their revenue with Apple? We don’t do it on android, Windows, macOS, linux, or anything else.

The only value added by Apple is some kind of vetting (they don’t do code review, they just check that the app meets their recommendations... and they are called RECOMMENDATIONS not REQUIEMENTS).

My app was recently rejected because i refused to sell in-app purchases and want to keep purchases only on my website.
A similar new anti hate speech law has just been invalidated in France by the constitutional council (supreme court).

The wise men indeed recognized that judging whether or not content is illegal and thus censored should be left to judges, not private companies.

I would not be surprised if the German law ends up with the same fate.
Dead simple: apple could charge a low fee hosting ($99/yr) and a higher fee for promotion.

Or Apple could drop the charade and charge users for access to apps based on whatever pricing scheme they want.
Nuclear might have been an answer ten years ago, but one cannot make the case today that it is the answer. The raw economics have pushed nuclear out of the picture now.
> If Oracle accidentally made all their client's 1st party data public they'd get sued out of existence.

Historically speaking, I don't know any entity that has been sued out of existence for these kinds of things. Usually after the media cycle everything is back to normal.
> A lot of projects that are nominally open source are more and more influenced by the decisions of particular companies which erodes its purpose.

I might be ignorant here, but isn’t it the “open source companies” that are actively doing this, rather than Amazon? It seems to me that these companies that represent an open source project are realizing that you don’t get it both ways: it turns out that releasing open source software means that the source code is open, which means that you don’t get automatic business just because the name of your company is the same as the name of the open source project.
Ah yes, Volkswagen engineering.
...and Lorenz attractors leads to Chaos Theory which illustrates the central problem with nonlinear systems which brings up nonlinear control theory, state space control theory, etc etc
That's not what he is saying. He is saying that Apple is closer to being a credit card company than a retailer. When you buy something at Walmart, Walmart gets a cut, and the credit card company gets a cut. But Walmart's cut covers the costs of what they add to the transaction, which includes shipping and warehousing the product, providing a store, staffing the store, providing heating and air conditioning to the store, etc etc. The credit card company presumably takes a much smaller cut, because the costs of what they add is much less.

With Walmart, if the store is charging a lot over their costs, the consumer can choose another store. If the credit card company is charging too much, people can pay cash (or stores can refuse that card, etc). It isn't perfect, but at least there is some degree of competition forcing the price toward the costs of providing the various services.

Ultimately the reason Apple can charge so much is because consumers have limited alternatives. Bundling, application barrier to entry, etc.
I feel this; do you have any resources you can share regarding this phenomenon?
Best Buy also doesn't require you to sell your software in their store if you want people to be able to use it with the laptop they bought there.
> Humans applying policy will be inconsistent.

This is not my argument. It is not just inconsistent, it is selective. Major players are given far more leeway than small ones. There are obvious antitrust concerns, such as Spotify being required to give Apple 30% of it's revenue for it's service that competes with Apple Music[0]. There are concerns about freedom of speech and information, such as Apple removing an app that notified the user when there was a U.S. drone strike[1], or the Hong Kong protest app that China pressured them into removing. Or blocking all VPN apps in China.

And even if the argument at the end of the day is "I don't care; I like having a curated app store", why does that imply that Apple should be able to force users into only using theirs? How do you lose anything if users are allowed to install apps from other places, in some cases where there are serious human rights issues at stake?

0: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/16/apple-pay-and-ios-app-stor...

1: https://theintercept.com/2017/03/28/after-12-rejections-appl...
> Usually this is not why people are booted off from platforms

As someone who worked on a social media platform (large, but not one of the largest), I got to see the evidence that admins and moderators used to make their judgements (which they aren't given much time to do) and frequently the banned user mischaracterizes their actual behavior (both current and previous) and has an incomplete understanding of what the ToS says or the implications of the literal ToS text.

I don't know about Stallman or more academic exercises, but the average person arguing on social media is very likely to go over the threshold of acceptable behavior and may not even know what the threshold for which social media companies are required to report content to police.

The best thing platforms can do to mitigate some of these issues is to give public explanations of their ToS as the moderators are taught to interpret them (basically reduce the information loss from the ToS legalese) and to give moderators more freedom to explain exactly what behavior violated exactly what part of the ToS (reducing some of the confusion from ambiguity).
I've always considered getting rid of the Google vs Google Labs distinction was one of the dumbest brand decisions of all time. That it hasn't been brought back in some form really speaks volumes on the level and lack of strategic leadership in the last few years.
It is. Incredibly no one does anything about the modern day slavery in Northern Africa, where are all American freedom fighters who will change World events!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter#BLM_interna...
What makes you think people aren't looking at turbulence?

The difference is that you don't need a partnership of a dozen large governments to swirl things in a coffee cup, but you do if you want to expand on the previous generation of collider.
To take to the next level, get some VC welfare. Buy the tickets with MoviePass, and order the popcorn on Grubhub, and catch an Uber home.
"Amazon accepts gifts freely given to it" is a weird accusation.

OSS authors could distribute on a non-commercial CC license.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport[1] makes Boston's Big Dig and San Francisco's Central Subway look good in terms of infrastructure efficiency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
The article mentions the father having recovery codes in a safe. For those of you who do use MFA with recovery code access if the MFA device is lost, how do you store your recovery codes?

Say I have MFA enabled to send me an SMS when I log into my email.

I am abroad, and my phone gets stolen. I need to log in to my email on some other device and re-access my boarding passes, maybe communicate about my upcoming radio silence. But I can't access my account without the code sent to my phone...

That's my worry with this thing.
> The licenses weren't conceived of with the thought of something like AWS.

You mean...a hosting company? I find it hard to believe that the open source movement was blindsided by the realization that there are companies that sell hosting services and that somehow this destroys the viability of their movement.
I go backpacking and stay overnight in White Sands, NM every few years. It’s a fun place, but also very treacherous if you’re not an experienced backpacker. I was rather happy this year that the rangers did a gear check on us when we asked for a permit to camp overnight because it was going to be below freezing. I was surprised to learn how many people try to go camp there without the right equipment.
You’ve seen through it, congrats: they are pricing based on value, not cost.

McDonalds, Nike and Gillette do this too. Hey, maybe you’re doing it yourself: is your salary really the cheapest way for you to produce the work you get paid for?
Steps to beat failure – an inside job
"Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first." - Brian Tracy
They do have some patents https://patents.justia.com/assignee/zoom-video-communication... so there was some innovation required. I thought they may use middle out compression, but couldn't see its mentioned
I'd consider permitting it outside of 401(k) funds. But the quality of private equity investment opportunities offered to middle class people != the quality offered to folks like Tiger Woods, who investing in Google's Series A back in '99.
We are opening it soon, but meanwhile, the waiting period is almost zero. Depending on the influx, you'll probably get the beta key instantly.
That’s not a tech specific feature that’s society.

Corporations buy up all the viable land, then rent rooms, or sell stock. They “bank” all your money and use it to profit for themselves.

Wax cylinders and vinyl records are like human society: round and round they go, skipping on all the same old knicks.

The financial ownership model is your real problem. Money is speech now in America.

Good luck.
So is Apple in on it? Remember, Apple initially approved the app.
1. Fastmail has been asked to allow in-app sign-ups and they do use POP/IMAP.

2. Hey can be accessed via HTTP, so it's not app only.
Ugh! Thanks but no thanks

I dont want to mount and expose nfs, or allow a full ssh login. This will be a custom agent/daemon on both ends
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> WeWork — Allows in-app sign up?

> No, but you can view slow tracking shots of change-agents and disruptors.

:)
> Why should software makers share their revenue with Apple?

Why should Apple care what software makers want?

I get that it's a pain to develop software for the iPhone and then have to pay rent to Apple to get it to users; but that's not Apple's problem unless enough users either complain or switch hardware to cut into Apple's revenue. That doesn't seem to be happening. Sure, there are plenty of users (I'm one of them) who refuse to buy an Apple device precisely because of limitations like this, but there are plenty more users who don't seem to care; whatever they are getting through Apple's curated app store appears to satisfy their needs. As long as that remains true, Apple has no incentive to change its policies, and that's just a business reality that any software developer contemplating making an app for the iPhone is going to have to deal with.
> The OP explicitly invited questions about conflict of interest,

FWIW, I don't think I did, at least not intentionally. I certainly disclosed mine, but it's not clear that that's intentionally inviting more questions.

That said, to your first question, no I don't work on chrome, or ads or anything related, and I don't proclaim to have any particular insider knowledge thereof (if anything, the opposite).

To your second question, while I'd prefer to be able to answer you, responding to that kind of question is the kind of thing that I believe could put me in hot water, whether my answer was a "yes" or "no". Ultimately while I think the risk of answering is small, so is the perceived value (I don't think a "yes" would change your opinion, and a "no" would just embolden you), and it's mostly moot anyway since, again, I'm not working off of any particular knowledge beyond Google's already public statements.

I'll add that I originally had a bit more in this response, but I removed it because I don't think it would be used as anything but an additional way to attack me and my character, which is unfortunate.