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Ask HN: App Store Sherpa?
Hello HN - I have a new iOS app recently submitted to the App Store that received some objections from Apple. Some were minor and can be fixed easily.

One was more major and stemmed from the reviewer misunderstanding the nature of the app. Not entirely unexpected as the app has some nonstandard functionality. But it made me realize that I may need some type of “sherpa” to guide me through the App Store review process. How could I find such a person?

As an aside, how could I have obtained App Store sign off prior to building a la Lean methodology to avoid this high stakes moment of App Review?
There was this incident a while back. Some psychopath sent letters threatening to kidnap young females, rape them, and kill them. He talked about how he had rigged out a van to facilitate this.

His letters got turned over to the FBI, since they would up in different states. Turns out that each stamp has microprinting on it that identifies it. Given the stamp, they were able to identify which post office it was sold at. They guessed at approximately when it was sold, and then from the security cameras they identified the letter writer.

So... explain how private entities are going to do more surveillance?
Then why are republicans fighting so hard to keep people who should legally be allowed to vote from voting? They can’t be doing it because they think it will hurt their chances.
Note that just because Republicans are wrong (and boy are they) does not make Democrats right. Democratic administrations, even with majorities to pass legislation, have done nothing to correct much of the anti-democratic processes in the US including elections being on a non-holiday Tuesday, absentee ballots being limited / restricted and operating state-by-state, the persistence of first past the post voting being the least representative form of election, the continued existence of the electoral college and senate, nothing to correct the loss of voting rights for felons, and more.

The Republicans are the wrong answer, but by and large and consistently for the last 80+ years the Democrats have not been the right answer. The US has a void (many voids, but this one in particular is most problematic) of a labor / workers party. Democrats are liberals and republicans are conservatives, both of which represent capital interests. This lack of representation is structurally foundational to US government and has been intentional since the founding over 2 centuries ago, and its also intentional that the only path to correcting it without violent revolution is a supermajority of states to compel an amendment to fix it. Which is in and of itself a nondemocratic process because a supermajority of states have a minority of the population.
If you can trust the lawyers with a single piece, can't you trust them with the whole thing?
If the application behind the login contains personal data, it's even non GDPR compliant.
No, it’s international water and they have every right to be there.
We're pushing back on the appropriation of "tech" by software developers.
There's a table of numbers in the readme but it has no headers so I don't know what it means.
Trader Joe’s reversed their initial reaction to cancel their kitschy labels of trader Giottos and Joe-san, etc.[1]

“We do not make decisions based on petitions”

[1] https://www.boston.com/news/business/2020/07/31/trader-joes-...
You could try replacing the pot with this board:

https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/ds3502-i2c-pote...

I pick this one because it has a good guide to go with it... but this digital pot is a different value. It's 10K ohms, and the one on the board is 2K ohms. Even so, it might work (it depends on the circuit). You need to remove the pot, and connect the RL, RW, and RH pins from the board to the pot pins.
Seems to hinge on the definition/degree of imprisonment. From what I have read they aren't really in the same ballpark. What's going on in Gaza does seem unethical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang#Human_rights
If we're disregarding "congress" and "administration", I'm not sure how you propose this is a "Republican" problem at all. Republicans where? Republican... citizens? Republican postal workers? Which Republicans have caused USPS to has a history of financial issues?

Just from this graph, it looks like since 1960, the only time they ran a surplus was 1994 - 2004: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/USPS_Sur...
The simplest counterpoint to this is that government allows accountability.

You will have those same people you don’t like running private enterprise, but CEOs have much longer terms than postmasters general.
Carl Bergstrom on data manipulation, fake news,& using science as a lie detector
International shipping delays are pretty interesting right now. Because a fair amount of that was handled by now drastically reduced passenger flights, it's a crazy guessing game as to when a cross country shipment will arrive.
In a similar vein, Cantor's original diagonalization proof of uncountability is one of the most satisfying results in real analysis. From https://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/blog/posts/124.html:

"Any real number can be rep­re­sented as an inte­ger fol­lowed by a dec­imal point and an infi­nite sequence of dig­its. Let’s ignore the inte­ger part for now and only con­sider real numbers between 0 and 1. Now we need to show that all pair­ings of infi­nite sequences of dig­its to inte­gers of neces­sity leaves out some infi­nite sequences of dig­its.

Let’s say our can­di­date pair­ing maps pos­i­tive inte­ger i to real number r_i. Let’s also denote the digit in posi­tion i of a real number x as x_i. Thus, if one of our pair­ings was (17, 0.651249324…) then r_17^4 would be 2. Now, con­sider the spe­cial number z, where z_i is the bot­tom digit of r_i^i + 1.

The number z above is a real number between 0 and 1 and is not paired with any pos­i­tive inte­ger. Since we can con­struct such a z for any pair­ing, we know that every pair­ing has at least one number not in it. Thus, the lists aren’t the same size, mean­ing that the list of real numbers must be big­ger than the list of inte­gers."
I am no fan of the Democratic Party and strongly feel we need to overhaul our systems in a big, big way. Part of that overhaul cannot be, however, a period without democracy. It is much easier to maintain, modify, or destroy a democracy than it is to create one.

Here you have the Republican establishment, not insurgents, actively trying to disrupt Americans’ right to vote for their leadership.
Slaveholders were taxed, but slaves were not represented. The taxation compromise was intended by Feds to delay the same forces that led to the Civil War. It was not a pro slavery position, but it definitely kowtowed to pro slavery positions predominantly held by slaveholders. Unintended consequences of negotiating with slavers were that the compromise was interpreted by slaveholders as increasingly punitive and untenable as time went on.

That’s why you don’t negotiate with terrorists. Sooner or later, they will leverage their position into a better deal at your table, or they will find a better deal at a different table, one which may render any leverage against them moot.
This seems like an unnecessarily absolute (and needlessly insulting) statement. There are reasonable arguments for piracy benefiting the producer in the given case, where the likelihood of a sale having been lost is theoretically low.
That’s derisively known as ballot harvesting and the legality varies. Republicans generally say it’s cheating and try to pass laws to ban it, except when they do it themselves. https://twitter.com/libsinamerica/status/1261069338427211782...
Try getting close to a warship in international waters and you'll find that right has some... functional limits, though.
>Tribe, wu, west coast gfunk rappers, mobb deep, fu schnickens, onyx, bone thugs, cypress, busta, we're all wildly different.

I would argue that they all sound the same when compared to any southern rappers that came after them. You keep referring to the bling and crunk era like they are sneers but I would argue that if New Yorkers had gotten their way and got to be the gate keepers of hip hop and you were only allowed to rap in a style like Wu Tang and rappers like Outkast, The Hot Boys, and just the dozens of ATL rappers were not allowed on the air ways that the art form would have gone the way of disco and died. Sure its cool when a song has a multilevel meaning and deep metaphors spread through out the song, but its not a necessity to make a good hip hop song.

My hot take is that if you can only appreciate NY State of Mind, I Got a Story To Tell, 1st of The Month, but can't appreciate Back That Azz Up, Crank Dat, and XO TOUR Llif3 then you don't actually appreciate hip-hop. Just a very narrow subset of it.
> You fix it? Same like when production breaks; hopefully you have people who can fix production, hopefully you monitor your important tools. What happens when it gets overloaded and its outsourced? You hope your provider fixes it, and you call and yell at them.

Well, in my case. I just clicked on “minimum” and increase it by 1 in my autoscaling group or I scale vertically and change the server from 2xlarge to 4xlarge.

Can you get another server shipped to your colo in 5 minutes, brought online and roll over and go back to sleep? Like I did at my last job. Most of the time by the time the notification alarm woke me up, scaling has already taken place.

But, depending on the service, part of “monitoring” is bringing up another server automatically when CPU usage spikes.

But I think my current employer knows just a little about managing servers/services at scale. As far as I know, my current employer manages more servers than anyone else on the planet and has more experts on staff than anyone.

Even that being said, we outsource a lot of the services that aren’t in our core competencies to other companies.

I couldn’t say that about my previous employer who had 50 people in all.
How would you compare this toolkit to something like SEAL? Are there particular selling points or things that I should be aware as a potential user?
At my office it's noticeable (well, modulo sample size) that video goes on between people who trust each other and off otherwise. Call with subcontractor? Video off. CEO on the call? Video off. Engineers only? Video on. Means you don't have to monitor your expression all the time.
Right, there are, what, hundreds of millions of worshippers of Guanyin in the world?

Meanwhile, the author has multiple peer-reviewed publications about John Henry Newman and fasting. Speaking as someone who worships at Anglican churches, has a copy of Apologia pro Vita Sua, and makes something of an attempt to follow Anglican traditions around fasting (the ones that would have been familiar to Newman), I can assure you (with some sadness) that there are nowhere near a hundred million people today who care about Anglican fasting practices in general, and that the tradition is almost certainly about to die out. (Perhaps it's unfair of me to pick on the author - but I think it's also unfair for the author to have picked on other academics in his field, when he could have said, "After spending years writing about Newman's fasting practices, I realized I'd have more impact on society by joining libertarian think tanks, and that's a problem for academia," and it would have been a much more convincing argument.)
I won’t say that you’re naive, but only that that is kind of diffuse liberalism has no history of effecting real political change while the labor movement has a long, international history of doing so.

While it’s good to acknowledge the failings of prior forms of the labor movement in addressing issues of race and gender, this doesn’t reflect their current state or reality. Unions for groups like the teachers, nurses, or service workers across the country are already wildly diverse across every axis.

The primary failing of solidarity in the US is among white collar professionals, who see the struggle of these workers as separate from their own concerns, even though these unions been fighting for the racial and economic justice for many years prior to the current unrest. To my mind, this is the result of an ingrained classism, where said white collar workers see themselves above unionization (and thus the working class union members), preferring acts of temporary, performative symbolism over durable structures that would unite them with others across class lines. The first step in fighting this would of course be to form their own unions in explicit solidarity with those of the working class.
>The same economic and spectrum constraints apply

Single Indian Telecom (Airtel) paid ~ 2 Billion USD(current price) in 2016 for 173.8 Mhz spectrum across 1800/2100/2300 Mhz bands. Where as small YC startup(Link in my parent comment) has created Bangalore city wide WiFi Internet(2.4 Ghz/ 5 GHz has been made unregulated and free).

So, definitely telecom spectrum cannot be called same as WiFi as one requires Billion dollar oligarchy to enter the space and the latter can be entered with 4 member startup team.
Personal pet peeve that whenever someone brings up the movfuscator, all the responses seem to of the “well akshhhhuallly...” variety, I’ve never understood it. The responses here are generally incorrect; x86 mov does not have conditionals (that would be ccmov), cannot load the program counter, and can’t do general arithmetic beyond very standard indirect addressing ( the same forms allowed by many RISC architectures). movfuscator actually includes a version that uses only two forms of mov (a load and store form) that would work on nearly any common RISC architecture. So the assertions that “this only works because x86 mov is ___” are generally incorrect, and needlessly dismissive of an interesting idea - the addressing used by movfuscator is just addition/subtraction. Certainly at least, at a broader level, the idea that it may be desirable to reduce general computation to some extremely simple form is interesting.
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Thank you for the great suggestion - I've already updated the page to add "Lifetime Access"!

Fixing the Paypal button issue will be more tricky! I just tried it in Firefox and it's fine, but I'm seeing temperamental issues in Safari. Will look into it further - thanks for the heads up.
> create the worst outcomes we’ve seen in decades

Do you really believe all that is worse than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars which caused millions of people to be killed? It sounds like you're just a nationalist who thinks their lives don't matter because they're not Americans. If millions of Americans were killed in a decade-long internal war, you would probably rank it worse than the mail being slow, fear for your American lifestyle, and the president's policies being stopped by the courts.
Don't forget WeWork
I don't disagree with you, but there's a hidden third dynamic here. If we agree some people want to work in offices and some people don't, we'll need to accommodate both. We'll have offices for some and remote for others. However, now there's two groups -- and I'll dig up some studies, but I believe remote workers are passed over for promotions and raises since they're out-of-sight, out-of-mind for the in-office crowd. This is going to pressure a return to the status quo IMO.
You must be unfamiliar with telegram. They were going to offer their gaming platform for free.
If the difference in cost and quality of living this enables is sufficient maybe fewer people will chase promotions.
You could plan to use the stamps later and think of it as a loan to help the USPS through a pandemic and a hostile administration. Of course this means limiting yourself to a quantity you can actually use.

Forever stamps roughly match inflation, so you're not even losing money in real terms, so it's not a horrible return.

I don't use a lot of stamps myself, but I know someone who sells stuff on Amazon, eBay, etc., so if I bought $100 of stamps now, I could probably get them to buy them at full face value from me later. (It also looks like you can sell unused stamps online but only at around 70% of face value.)
Yeah, crazy. https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/1290001490866708480
The simplest one is just selectively closing polling places, or the related practice of requiring local jurisdictions to fund their own elections, which selectively impacts poorer cities or counties. Next comes voter identification laws which selectively target people who are less likely to have government identification cards (black voters are four times more likely to lack both a drivers license and a US passport compared to white voters). Finally you simply throw ballots from the disfavored precincts directly in the trash. County officials can do this in several ways, by not delivering working machines or official ballots to certain precincts, by forcing precincts to vote on provisional ballots that officials have the authority to ignore, and by subjectively discarding mailed ballots because the signature "doesn't match" according to a non-reproducible process.
It's crazy that the party in power is literally tearing apart democracy to stay in power. Destroying the foundations of this country, the right to vote, for self serving political purposes.

Incredible that within 60-80 years the Republican party went from shoring up democracy here and abroad to naked fascism and intent on tearing up our institutions.
Right, the thing that rubs me the wrong way about this article is the assumption that, because nobody reads what these professors are writing, the work is crap and should not have been done.

The real solution to the problem is that we should find ways to get more people to read what these professors are writing! (Which will also have the side effect of improving the quality of any portion of it that truly is crap.)
It's DNTO actually
Exercise, sleep and shooting the shit with friends has the biggest impact on my perception of mental acuity.
> I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to be equal to professionals who work 70 hour weeks when pay day comes around, but they don't want to be equal when it's time to work.

Are you saying that the likelihood of slacking off is higher for certain groups than others? I doubt what you say is 100% proven or even probable but that said the likelihood of this happening is equal across all groups
They could’ve just used ZEIT as the platform then. Vercel sounds like some generic VC created tech name. Their customer base is literally the exact opposite. Indie developers, people with Github accounts, technical engineers, engineering leaders. Not some Salesforce CRM enterprise selling to CEO’s marketing bs “Vercel” lol.
They can also be cheaper by doing less, e.g. no more rural service
This "reporter" seems to pine for a career as a playwright:

> I'll begin with the tale itself.

> Malware is one of technology's greatest scourges. Look how it terrifies people.

> An existential question, for sure. But one best left for a smooth tincture at the end of the day.

> Our reader, however, was still learning that technology's depths can appear infinite.

> One should always presume one's data has drifted to a place one will never be able to visit.

The ad-libbing made an article about with some serious questions difficult to take seriously:

> The reader continued: "How could any application be running that she hadn't started? How is it that Microsoft can't manage to provide security updates for Windows 7, as it is end of life, but still manage to force a new web browser that isn't wanted on Windows 7 users?"
The quote explicitly states that this is per quarter. Let's say "tens of millions" means 30 millions. So that's 10 million per month. If there are 500 people that's an average cost of 20K/month per person. I assume many people will have much lower salary but I also assume there will be infrastructure costs.

Can you clarify how it's hyperbole? Did you read it as being a yearly cost despite the quote referring to it as quarterly?
Sounds like you may have two possible issues and I can't tell which one the question is about.

1. You have difficulty explaining or articulating your ideas in general
2. You have difficulty translating your thoughts into physical interaction on the whiteboard.

For the second one, I just think of the whiteboard as a place to bookmark or store the stack of a discussion. Usually the rest flows from that idea for me.
The vast majority of academics are there for power and status. I rarely see a true scholar, and nearly always bizarre characters and politicians to say the least.

Politics in academia is especially vicious.
Vostok, Mercury, Voskhod, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, Shuttle, Shenzhou - and now Crew Dragon. We still have progress, ladies and gentlemen.
Is early voting an option every where? I know there's been a push in my local area informing people that it is an option to avoid the rush on election day.
Except Apple doesn't have a monopoly in any of its markets. They don't have a monopoly in phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, music, TV, processors, none of their products dominate their market.

Of course you can try and distort the meaning of monopoly but that isn't going to get you very far.
If Android were not part of Google, it wouldn't have gotten distribution just like Firefox OS. If this story is true, it amazes me that Google executives still don't understand why Android worked. It wasn't because of Andy Rubin's bumbling executive leadership.
Yes!

In fact, in practically ALL applications it's better to work than not work at all. The only exception I can think of is directly-interactive software like video games and VR imaging, where minimum fps really does matter.

Many situations for various customers aren't massive datasets but modest sets, so you might be on the left of the J-curve. Requiring 2 seconds, instead of 0.2 seconds, for a result is simply not important in most cases.

I think it's fair to warn the user that "GPU acceleration not working" if the performance is expected to be much better with a GPU.
> 1) Taxes

That was nightmare. Best to outsource it completely with: Merchant of Record, an app marketplace or resellers.
AI can be used to fight fake news
Chunks of size 1/M are possible. 1/N would violate information theory.

If your data is compressible, you should do that first.
If it were considered mature it wouldn’t be on the front page of HN.
Why not? I am curious to know more - is it expensive or difficult to implement? Couldn’t other jurisdictions copy King County’s system?
I think their input would be more valuable if they disclosed pet status.
I don’t object to people posting their own project/product, but doing it like clockwork, once a day (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=txn3735)? Please don’t do that.

If all your ideas were “Anything that good hackers would find interesting” (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), other users would post them, once one has pointed them to your site.
And yet the REPUBLICANS are the ONLY party that is actively trying to subvert the vote turnout - and that is VERY telling.

You can whatabout all you want, but the fact is that the Republicans are the ones trying to destroy democracy, not the Democrats.
And Theranos. And Enron. And Lehman Brothers. And Bernie Madoff.
Don't forget Tesla, Solar City, and Theranos.
> We discuss mathematical and physical arguments against continuity and in favor of discreteness

I can appreciate the physical arguments which makes me think of this as a question in physics. What might the mathematical ones be? Math is about defining a system and playing it out, what would make continuous numbers off-limits?