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This is so true. I'm more impressed by the focused and successful long-term (~20 year) plan of revitalization of the local downtown than I am by most things out of Silicon Valley. It started with a cheesy video [1] and now you can go find small businesses [2][3][4] operating in what used to be the hollowed out husks of a past era.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7n1ZFJFtP4

[2] http://www.bistrooffbroad.com/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dpl7xGhzhA / https://www.latinflavorssteakhouse.com/

[4] http://hometownrhythms.com/

This is in a place where every building used to look like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9922385,-83.7205603,3a,90y,2...

It started from a dying post-WW2 textile town and now it's showing up in movies and TV shows as an idyllic small town. It's not even that kind of idyllic small town. The local paper's editor wrote articles in favor of marriage equality, trans rights, and racial equality and still hasn't been run out of town.
This made me smile :D
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Quite the opposite. They’ve managed to be at the center of attention for days just before WWDC.
Google isn't much better. I suspect the government is going to force both of them to open their app store with anti-trust suits.
Because Apple forbids you from even describing how you can sign up outside Apple. Much less provide a link.
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Bhutan almost haven't changed. Only in 2008 they had first elections.
And in many, many places, there's no looting etc. Its a protest, and the public responds positively. But not news-worthy I guess.
Are there any honest, reputable operators in the financial industry?

Between Enron, S&L, Lehman, WorldCom, AIG, Wirecard, Madoff, VW, gold price fixing, 1MDB, and all the "lost" BTC stories - among so many others - it seems like a question that needs to be asked.
When you get rid of something that advocates horrible things, and there's a market need for advocating horrible things, something else will fill the need anyway. Thus, it might be better to just phase out the bad parts leaving the good ones in place. Case in point: revolutions are usually not a success stories.
Is that because he has a @hey address? It doesn't look like he's an employee of Basecamp/Hey after browsing his site for a bit (https://manuel.friger.io/)
> You don't have to deliver your PC game through Steam, and many of the big publishers have opted not to.

A better analogue would be that you download WoW free from Steam, then take a subscription at Blizzard. Does Steam allow that?
I can offer some opinion as developer in a small indie game company (shameless self-promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565739).

Supporting iOS is super hard for us. The Apple market is heavily controlled and supervised. We have had apps rejected because we included links to the Android equivalent in the description (same price, so no big reason to switch platforms when you are already on our iTunes page, and no way anyone can install an Android app on an iPhone anyway). Apple used to offer a more or less standard set of phones, resolutions, and architecture. But that has diversified more in the last years. For Android and Linux, we have it much easier to build tools, to handle dependencies, and generally to deploy. Actually, all development happens on Linux, simply because it's a much better and more comfortable platform. When we need to deploy for iOS, we boot the mac computer (which we had to pay for), re-compile the game, try it on the iPhone (which we also had to pay for), upload, and turn it off. Additionally, and I don't have all the details on this myself, Google apparently has also made it much easier for us than Apple to operate when it comes to taxes and banking.

We normally have to sell thousands of units per month to "make
it" (and we don't). For Android, the fees are low enough to justify keeping things open even if we don't sell much one month.

In a wider perspective, we operate in a market with lots of apps and games being offered for free, really high fees and standards set by the major stores, and continuous pressure from the community, our competitors (of course!) and ourselves to release more of our work as open source. Essentially, the combination is crushing, and Apple's move does not help :(

For what is worth, we recently launched "safe2play" (https://keera.co.uk/2020/06/17/safe2play-caring-for-privacy-...), which is an idea meant to make both people safer and the pricing model more transparent. It would probably align with Apple's desires better too, although that's an unintended side-effect.
> "If you have to set up a domain to point to your help pages to explain why something isn't a typo, you're doing it wrong".

It gets people talking, just normal marketing. It's not like people can't use it without understanding why it says Imbox.
The rules change when a company has a near-monopoly and practices anti-competitive tactics to nerf their competition.

That's why we have anti-trust laws.
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Or it means they got this decision wrong.
It’s a classic marketing strategy that has an extremely high success rate - making the prospect justify why they are a fit for you instead of the usual other way.
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Apparently AT&T Mobility gives access to 144 million subscribers. I think this is an incredible value proposition that AT&T is offering to Netflix, HBO and the likes.

For reasons unknown, Netflix apparently hates this incredible offer.

https://www.attpublicpolicy.com/broadband/who-should-pay-for...
They already support custom domains for businesses. For personal accounts it's coming end of the year according to DHH's on Twitter.
jedimastert probably thought that because the developer's e-mail is @hey.com

Which would be a reasonably line of thought, were hey not an e-mail service.
Right. You can do this now by loading the page in a background tab, leaving the tab open and then going offline. Works great.

Or you could reimplement newsgroups (but with less interoperability) as an SPA, which in theory would work great (once you work out the kinks) but in practice would suffer from all kinds of little issues in the from-scratch reimplementation of everything. For example, printing would probably forever be a wishlist item in the backlog.
> Are there any honest, reputable operators in the financial industry?

The fact that they choose to label their unproductive activities as an "industry" and their scams as "products" means that the answer is no.
Buy a non Apple device if you don't want to jump through Apple's hoops.
Setting apart the technical parts, this is IMHO preoccupying:

> NCSC states that "Users can always turn off tracing if they are in what they consider to be a sensitive environment".

Data (location and/or contacts) is either sensitive data or is it not (according to local Laws), the concept of "less sensitive data that I can risk being not protected" as opposed to "more sensitive data that - to be safe - I must exclude from collection by turning off the app" is "crazy".

Example:

1) going to work and back: app on

2) at work: app on

3) at home: app on

4) going out to - say - procure something illegal or meet lover (cheating on wife), sensitive environment: app off

In this case absence of data may be data as well.
Forced labor is a form of slavery; it is yet to be abolished in America, and that is our collective shame as Americans.

Is it considered wrong to force prisoners to perform labor in China?
NSA is a customer. I'm not sure if financial filings need to identify individual customers. The business might be categorized as "government "?

Certainly I worked at a well known Internet company in the 90s and NSA was one of our larger customers (larger for the division I worked in, perhaps not for the entire company).
Yes, so it's time for an antitrust lawsuit.
The consumer owns the phone, not Apple, so that's a bad analogy.
It's hard to imagine a more boring place than a city full of only techies.
You might prefer this https://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/
Name one other platform that charges nearly as much as $100 every year.
Okay. Is there some comparison of living conditions between modern day Bhutan and Tibet?
> Be honest. Have you read articles about the subject thoroughly?

Since we'll be both breaking the 'rules', first of all be very very honest, have you read the HN guidelines recently?

>> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

> Because big streaming giants get Better treatment than the little guy trying to reinvent email.

Unless they are 'reader' apps under guideline 3.1.3(a) [0]. Thus it isn't quite like as you said: 'Hey is implemented exactly like Netflix.' as Hey isn't a reader app, therefore they are not exactly under the same category of apps like Netflix. Nice try though, thanks for playing. I still look forward to the anti-trust battle.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#rea...
I'll live without a VPN as long as it is crazy expensive to find one fast enough to not throttle my connection (so 1gbps) with unlimited data and support for encryption at a level that is okayish secure yet still fast enough to not kill my server or router. I've tried a few that said they could deliver, but none of them could. I have no interest in paying my ISP for bandwidth and then strangle it with a VPN.
The only features that look unique (I'm really only comparing Gmail vs Hey) is the Focus and Reply, the File navigator and the Feed. The rest are all easily done with filters/labels or already exist in Gmail. The others could be easily replicated by Gmail developers as well. At this point I wouldn't be willing to pay $99/yr for Hey.
No, that kind of is the point. The analogy doesn't work because the US put out all the evidence transparently - it was their conclusion that didn't make sense.

...so it's nothing at all like faking a moon landing.
Why is login required to view simulations? If I want to share my simulations with my followers, I don't want everyone to have to sign up for an account. Also, the "play" button in the editor UI should probably look more like a play button.

I'm excited by what you're building here!
My problem is I associate DHH and the Basecamp folks with the "Web2.0" of yesterday, and slow, hard-to-scale Ruby and Rails stuff. (Remember the year when everything looked like the RoR "To Do list" demo app?).

All their branding, personal and professional, is a decade old.
Edit: Missed a word in the quote.
Right - but the world looked at the evidence and said "sorry, that's not a strong case." ...and then the US invaded anyway.

So it's really nothing like a fake moon landing.
Not only that, the German financial regulatory response was to ban short selling of Wirecard’s stock.
Yep, this is why I didn't bother to buy either. It's $5 for something that you use daily, but I'm not going to change everything to @hey.com.

No feature is worth the hassle of getting everyone to update my email address.
go ahead, make my day!
"No one knew how they did it. One theory was that they were active in more “risky” areas such as online gambling and porn sites but no one cared as long as reported profits and the stock price went up."

That's actually the explanation. 10 years ago I ran a small project and they were the only Payment Service Provider that agreed to work with us. At that time at least in Germany there were no Paypal and Stripe to directly process Credit Cards etc. for small websites. IIRC their fees - especially for refunds - were much higher than those of competitors. Refund rates are normally in the sub percentage but they would accept higher than usual refund rates without cancelling the account. It's easy to start a business in an area where there is a vacuum of competitors.

(FWIW I think cancelling the account with them to switch over to Paypal took almost 2 years...)
Don't forget the messed up incentives. The only people that did their jobs were the short sellers (who have their incentives set up correctly). Everyone else involved in this story deserves to be fired, bankrupted, or thrown in jail.
Well, along the lines of counting the number of words in a tweet, maybe 14 stars? And then chains, where the linked chains look kinda like 8s? Something where the 14 and 88 are present, but not obvious unless you think to look for them.
This is truly amusing!
This is exact how I write mine, I find it much more readable personally.

The real challenge I've encountered is typically you can only use one expression. If I need to write a slightly more complex mapping I am forced to write a function, which I normally define just before the comprehension. Even though this works, it introduces boilerplate I'd rather not write.

I will admit this doesn't happen often, but it happens enough to bother me.

> This assumes some_giant_list is an object that has "findAll", that "findAll" returns and object that has "groupBy", which returns an object that has "countBy".

> Looking at that code, I don't even know what the intermediary objects are, but given the names of the operations, they can't be all flat lists.

In regards to this, I would say sure, but does that really matter. Most IDEs will give you enough inference to list the operations you can perform and the return types they give. If anything the "super collections" make a developers life far easier, I think Kotlin does a particularly good job of this with a vast set of extension functions. Have a scroll of this documentation https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collecti... mapIndexedNotNull is a great example
I try to interpret peoples' statements in the best possible light, you appear to do the opposite. I've justified nothing.
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It’s like that old saying, “Always judge a book by it’s cover.”
I don't really understand the argument. The App Store can be a service to both developers and consumers.

That's typically what a store is. Product manufacturers accept that they will sell more of their product in stores, enough to make up for the margin added by the retailer, vs direct sales. Consumers accept to pay more the convenience.
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Hmm, not so sure I'd trust "safe enough" in a flood plain, earthquake zone or valleys around a volcano.

Some people won't be able to afford the difference, and every so often you'll get a news story about 1,000-100,000 dying in a natural disaster.
Wha? The quote literally says you can export your email and contacts.
That sounds like you can export your emails when you’re done.
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https://gtoolkit.com/docs/analyzing-systems/
I mean not all of those companies you listed are in the financial industry. VW didn't even commit financial crimes, it was regulatory fraud. I don't know if the 1MDB is in the same league either, that's plain government corruption.

I feel like if you're going to ask that question then focus on dishonest financiers and not every business that has broken the law.
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Doesn't it say that you can export your emails right there in your quote?
By that logic shouldn't companies be paying Microsoft for the price of being on Windows too?
I don't quite understand why they don't decrease their orbit to burn up in the atmosphere. It would certainly be the Kerbal way.

Are the satelites too large to burn up?
It's still all indexed by google. For example; all you need to do is search for a unique seeming piece of text from your dreamwiki gem, and the site will appear on the first page of googles' results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=WHO+ROAMS+THE+KIRUGU+NIGHT&o...
Thanks for the link, that is a good resource. I was wrong about them having a minority market share in the U.S., they’re more popular than I thought! They are still far from a monopoly position. Looks like it’s a roughly 70/30 split globally, though that’s not relevant for U.S. antitrust law (may be more relevant in Europe).
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Ditto :/
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It's a minor distraction that isn't necessary and doesn't add anything.

When I see a typo, I instinctively go back and re-read the word or sentence to make sure I didn't misread something.

The last thing I want in my e-mail client is additional mental overhead. It's a minor detail, but it's also unnecessary, subtracts more than it adds, and it's easy to fix.
>But no company pays me for my commute time. If I take an extra hour commute I don't get that 15 bucks.

Pretty much anyone paid to show up in a windowless van and do some task is paid (or their boss is paid) by billable hour. Anything that decreased the ratio of billable hours to hours worked is going to mean they need to charge you more. Obviously it might amortize out to only be pennies on the dollar but when you start adding a pennies on the dollar sized inefficiency to the economy of an entire region it's gonna hurt.

Imagine if you made the day 5min shorter for 50% of the population. That's what crappy transportation infrastructure does (be it car, rail or otherwise).
Ask HN: What is your favourite app to record and edit videos?
I am looking for video recorder and editor for Android. What is your favourite choice?

Is there any FOSS video editing app for Android?
I tried them a while ago. Really liked it but put it aside till they implement https://www.w3.org/annotation/ as promised. Just checked https://h.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/ and the v2 API in development has nothing to do with the W3C standard.

UPD: there is not a single issue open on the main repo wrt W3C standard implementation: https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aope.... The post I took as a promise: https://web.hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standar...
> But claiming monopolistic behaviours and associated restrictions on a company that has 20% of the market is silly.

iPhones have a majority of the marketshare in the US. It's silly to ignore that.

> Check the ruling against Microsoft: they were slapped down for this because they had a monopoly in the field of PCs / computers, and they (tried to) leveraged that monopoly into a monopoly for browsers.

If we follow your logic, there were other platforms that did not run MS Windows. They only had a monopoly on Windows computers.
The German financial regulators also launched a criminal investigation into the journalists investigating and reporting on the fraud: https://www.ft.com/content/8e1948be-6060-11e9-b285-3acd5d435... Their handling of this was nothing short of asounding.
It’s partly the reason they’ve decreased their homeless population by 54% since 2011, yes.

I’d probably point to the concerted efforts between the housing authorities and the regional VA office that, with combined HUD & VA funding, essentially ended homelessness among veterans in the city first though.

Kinda unfair to compare them
to other American cities tbh, it’s always easier to do stuff like this when you can actually build.
Reminds me of the Russian experiment that worked to prove that a selection process for behavior could produce domesticated foxes. An unanticipated side effect of the experiment after six or seven generations was that the foxes facial phenotype began to resemble dogs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)#Be...
I don't know if this is true but I've heard that at fox farms they kill the aggressive foxes. Resulting in the foxes getting more and more tame. So they are basically killing dogs for their furs.
I'm not sure, I _think_ it's still a thing in China. But since the percentage of incarcerated population is lower, it affects fewer people.
Doubt that Apple would let that pass. I Am Rich got pulled from the App Store because of its egregious pricing.
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I think you have good points, but I would also add to it that the high barrier to entry also prevented people from being copy cats. A simple messenger was a major accomplishment, so when something worked there weren't 10,000 copies of it by the end of the week, so nearly all content you found was actually the original and not just some repost or copy paste job.
I believe you're confusing discrete and continuous time, Fourier in continuous time is Laplace evaluated along s = jw or the vertical axis and not e^jw, the unit circle
You forgot HSBC
I know until recently Sky broadband was doing this.
Everyone should have a custom domain. Switching email providers is horrific without it.
The Hey onboarding today is tied to a website-driven invite and signup process. While that _could_ be a bad customer experience through some lens, what percentage of users following this flow are or will be downloading this app prior to signing up?

In a larger sense, Apple seems to be saying that, at least for consumer apps, they have an expected user flow from launch/beta through purchase. That flow makes Apple the primary channel and pipeline. If you have a multi-channel app (web + app, in this case), they want the main experience through the app regardless of business model or context. This makes the customer experience argument seem like misdirection.
Interesting that you bring up that James Scott book because that paints exactly the unflattering picture of Buddhist states I’m talking about: rice growing states in the valleys waging war on their neighbors and capturing their populations wholesale to put them to work (a practice that is very much still current in Burma where the military occupies villages in the periphery and forces everyone to work, either in the fields or in factories that work for companies like Pepsi).

This kind of violence hasn’t been common in other parts of the world for centuries. It’s also a phenomenon that is distinct to states in South East Asia - and, in fact, to the Buddhist states in South East Asia ( it was not practiced in what is now Malaysia in Indonesia - which are now Muslim and before that practiced a religion that mostly resembles Hinduism).
It's actually pretty exciting to see how well it performs interactively.

This might really spark some interesting breakthroughs that I am not smart enough to predict.

Core math breakthroughs like this have huge and unpredictable knock-on advancements...
Just FYI: South Korea was a brutal military dictatorship until the late 1980s.
Xcode comes with an iOS simulator so you don't need hardware, but it would be a bad idea not to test on an actual device.
I endorse this project. Finally, something the world needs (though does not deserve)
This also shows how inefficient government legislation is when the potential risk and impact punishment of being caught is low. These companies and all the people (not only few) should receive a substantial penalty. I think it is was not really sufficient in the VW case. We will see how it is going to be with WD.
If it's the same threat I'm thinking of, the phrase apparently has a history for americans, like "Лес рубят, щепки летят" might for russians (or maybe not? is the Stalin association a purely anglophone one?). "Racially charged" is a thing in the US. I read russia freed the serfs in 1861, does anyone beyond historians have an interest in cultural influences of serfdom now?

The US military doctrine differs with you on how armed authorities should approach crowd control:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347585
(an older manual, but the doctrine seems to be up to date: they have shown themselves unwilling to play cossacks for their czar, both in word and in deed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23412986

https://www.military.com/benefits/military-legal/can-militar... )

By the way, speaking of shooting, what did you think of "Брат 2"?