skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absentee ballots making up a small part of the total vote count is alot different than the majority of voting taking place via mail in on my levels not just security but logistics, and several other factors

It would be one thing if it rolled out with a defined planned over the course of a few years. it is something else when it is an emergency measure rolled out with no plan in an ad hoc manner
There is a distinction between a general purpose computing device and a gaming console. I depend on my computer for important aspects of my life, not just entertainment.

I perceive capricious behaviour like this ad a threat to my liberty and well-being.
Perhaps a case related to open source licensing? Here's one that's still in progress:

https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/t...

Of course, Apple had the foresight to purge GPL apps from its store:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990
Isn't this payment option for things other than the game itself?
But we do know that. Or at least we can glean as much based upon the distribution by age for hospital admittance and death.

We don’t know what, if any, the long term consequences will be. But the short term death risk for young children appears to be minimal.
> It's not for nothing that Snap is considered dangerous by SUSE and is not officially supported. They even fail basic upstream responsibilities.

Care to provide a link to support your claims?
Hi Sean here. I work on Jira at Atlassian and I also met with Justin and the Jira Admin for his company prior to this article. I've also heard from him since. He was not consulted re the use of his comments. Generally, I'd encourage vendors to seek permission when citing a customer in marketing in this way. It's a simple respect that can be paid with low effort.

I thought it might be helpful to share a few thoughts on the article. To do that I've added annotations on the article itself using Hypothes.is an open web annotation service. This lets us have a conversation right over the article. I've added a dozen or so comments, gifs and links to help add color from the Atlassian POV.

You can view my comments and add your own via this link or find me at @seanjregan on Twitter.
https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdzone.com%2Farticles%2Fj...

Usually we don't engage in the annual articles by competitors that pin SW industry failures on Jira but in this case it seems a lot of what we've been shipping in Jira Cloud is perhaps still unknown. (And, this annotation tool seemed well suited to this sort of dialog.)

Much respect to the LinearB team. Anyone working to make SW Development better is good in our book. Great products will stand out on their merits among the dev community.

While riding the Jira coat-tails via blog titles is a common approach to generating traffic, I want to also note that Atlassian is very open and we're happy to partner with any vendor that can make dev life smoother.

We partner with GitHub and GitLab as an example. If they can do a better job or a customer prefers their tools then it is on us to 1.) Support them and 2.) continue to up our game.

-@seanjregan
Add your feedback, comments or Jira tips to the article here. https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdzone.com%2Farticles%2Fj...
This is a good point. They've also been filling MacOS with more bloat while disregarding key development features. The latest Catalina update is a complete mess and shows how misguided Apple is on this front.
Pretty hyperbolic statement. America (the federal entity) might be in danger of survival long-term but humanity has survived much worse. You don't even need to go back 100 years to imagine what it looks like for a major nation to collapse under authoritarianism.
It's like you're dating a hot girl and you like showing her off. Then you find out the next week she cheated on you then you dump her. Wouldn't you do the same thing in Apple's position?
That's a little silly as an example because AOL was exactly like this back in the day and had curated channels. You could still access external sites if AOL was your ISP as well but anything inside of the AOL application was reviewed by AOL.

Also, the web is not even a great analogy period since it wasn't created by a private company. Apple created their phones, their App Store, they maintain it, and they provide the infrastructure for it. That's nothing like the internet.
1. Only because Google might also engages in anti-competitive practices doesn't mean that Apple is allowed to. All such behaviour needs to be curbed.

2. Anyone can install any 3rd party app on an Android device, there's even a open app store "F-Droid" for open apps that anyone can use.

3. You can still run an app store. You just have to allow other ways to install apps. That way your store would be used only if it's better than the other ways to install apps.
We still have no idea what the long term effects of this disease are, or how they depend on severity.
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Exactly this. At the end of the day, Epic is a publisher. If studios can go directly to the platform they are no longer the gatekeeper and stand to lose money.

Epic wants your choice to be Apple store for non-games, and Epic store for games. Period.
Alright, well color me surprised because I wouldn't have guessed that at all.

Still, 60% is hardly a monopoly either.
Even if the kids are fine, if both parents get sick at the same time it's going to be hell taking care of the kids. Especially when you can't hire outside help due to social distancing requirements.
If you have to roll your own, of course it is, hence why I didn't try... but if there was a mature, easy to integrate HTTP server library I would prefer to keep everything in C++ (or better yet rewrite it all in Rust, but that's a whole other can of worms).
I'd much rather get my push notifications from Facebook Messenger through mobile Safari than be forced to install the full iOS app.
Please. Whatever strawman you are trying to construct is missing the point.

I do not buy Apple products as a status symbol. I buy them because they work. I won't even say the products are good, there are a lot of things I'd like to see change. But they are the best thing on the market for getting my work done.

My laptop and phone are my hammer and workbench. The iPhone and MacBook are far and away the best product for the work I do, which is not iOS or MacOS development. They're simply the best general computing solution on the market right now.
The epoch times is a propaganda site and shouldn't be used as a legitimate source.
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The big disagreement is whether the market should be defined as "iOS apps" or whether the market should be defined as just "smartphone apps" or "smartphones, which have apps."

Does Apple have monopoly power over the "iOS apps" market? Yes. Do they exclude competitors from that market? Abso-fuckin-lutely.

But it seems to me like the understanding has always been that people do have a choice. If they don't like Apple's control over the iOS App Store, they can buy an Android. Apple, after all, does not have a majority share of the smartphone market.

Under that understanding, the market is smartphones, and apps are just a feature of the smartphone.
There isn’t anything about this that’s makes it a monopoly or any different from selling items in any other marketplace. You want to sell here? There’s a cut that goes to the house.

I don’t know why people get in a tizzy about it, you knew the rules going in and they haven’t changed.
Third party app stores can't implement background installations, auto-upgrading, or batch installs because of the restrictions Google put in place on Android. Using third party app stores is hindered experience on Android.

The Play Store can do background installations, auto-upgrading and batch installs of software, while competitors can't. That's anticompetitive behavior in my book.
You’re right, but people tend to see Docker Hub as some master registry for quality and official images, even if it never claimed to be such a thing. Reading and understanding the Dockerfile it vital, before deciding to use it in any sort of production environment. The never policy well help clean up Docker Hub.
Are you okay with Apple requiring that if you offer services on their devices not through Apple Pay or sell your app via a 3rd party store that you must also offer them at the same price using Apple Pay and on the App Store?

It has to be this way because otherwise you can force someone to use your 3rd party processor by making the Apple price 100x or something. If your payment processor is better than Apple you can pocket the 30%.

Because why people are so quick to defend Apple out of a fear that if this crap is allowed then it will become the only option and users will wind up with less control and choice.
Actually, even for desktop Snaps have some advantages.

First of all, the fact that you can put a system service in a snap: The OpenPrinting project is working on creating a snap which contains the entire Linux printing stack. This is so users of older distribution releases can still use the latest printers.

Secondly, the Snap sandbox is a lot more granular than the Flatpak sandbox. Flatpak went for portability and Snap went for granularity. Snap uses AppArmor to mediate existing Linux kernel api's. As a example, you can give a Snap access to joysticks and controllers but deny it access to a USB webcam, for example.

XDG Desktop Portals should make it possible to safely use certain host features such as a webcam in a Flatpak, but this requires applications to be rewritten to use the portals api. In the current state, most Flatpaks disable large parts of the sandbox because the applications would otherwise not be able to run in it.
How is a sideloaded app any more or less sketchy than one downloaded from the app store, when it is using the exact same APIs?
> what do we do if we learn that the pandemic will not end for the next 10 years?

What societies have done throughout history for diseases like smallpox, polio, malaria, tuberculosis, the flue, etc. Essentially, we learn to accept it.

Yes, I know, eventually a vaccine was found for smallpox, etc., but those diseases had been around for centuries (millennia?). Only very recently have we found ways to deal with them.
Around my city I'm seeing a lot of kids lonely, anxious and unhappy where I've never seen before. My children were really looking forward to school and seeing friends, were crushed when told it wouldn't be happening.
Companies should compete IN markets, they shouldn't set up their own.

Customers aren't in a position to "just switch platforms" because they don't like what Apple or Amazon are doing.

This shouldn't be seen in the light of "is what they are doing so bad that they need to be stopped"? It should be seen as "would consumers be better off if someone intervened?".
Because the rules of the App Store say that the apps that get charged the fee are those who rely on the purchases or payments as their primary function. Browsers have a different primary function.
We're closer than we have been in a long time to something like Google deciding to license Blink or Chromium. There are some good reasons that couldn't happen (yet), but what a world that would be.
Yeah, they wouldn't. Marginal costs to app developers are effectively 0, so profits and revenue are synonymous.Thus prices are set to maximize revenue. If setting my IAP at $10 maximizes revenue, that's true whether the processing fee is 0% or 30%. Cost to consumer is determinant.

Now if I'm given the options of accepting App store payments at 30%, and let's say PayPal at 3%, I'm going to offer the customer a little discount to switch to PayPal. That too will be whatever discount maximizes profit. That wouldn't be too hard to determine with testing, and would depend on how easy the payment methods are and how much customers love the convenience/security of Apple's payment system.

For me as a consumer, if I got offered a 10% discount and had something comparably easy to use I'd probably go with it on small transactions. If I had to enter a credit card, I'm not going to bother on a $1 or maybe even $10 purchase for that little.
If a consumer does this they waive the right to all sorts of hardware warranties. Essentially, if they jailbreak their phone, Apple no longer recognizes it as an Apple Device so no, you don't effectively have a choice.
I know it's a lame answer because I can answer it to most new schooling concepts

Cohorts.

If all the students you schooled with could easily come from the other available systems and your school could only expel them at the same rates as the other schools I'd be happier.
To be fair, if Epic does this I won't want to use it (just like with their desktop client).
Given the current state of the ecosystem, I think Go's approach is the sane thing to do.
What exactly about a Biden/Harris presidency terrifies you? Strong language there.
I literally don't get that argument. Just like on Android, 99% of customers would never ever untick that box and would enjoy the benefit provided by apple-vetted apps, while we as customers would regain control of the devices that we paid for, allowing them to run code that hasn't been vetted by Apple....if you wish to do so.

I'd also appreciate if you laid off the personal attacks, thank you.
"natural" is over used - arsenic is natural. If dish soap wasn't safe we would have known about it well before now.
`snap revert app-name` is a lifesaver..
This is a discussion about Canonical's strategy, which happens to involve technical products and services -- it is not a technical discussion. I see no reason to think that someone's software development chops would correlate with their ability to meaningfully contribute to this discussion.
Are you then trivially going to monitor you're not breaching any tax reporting thresholds in 155 countries, register for VAT MOSS in one of the EU countries, implement IP geo-location for your European customers to make sure you charge them a correct VAT out of 27 options, and then personally do quarterly VAT MOSS submissions?

You don't know what you're getting from Apple for 30%. Which is fine. This is Apple's gross mistake that you and others are not aware of the benefits they get.
> You have bazillion types of generic computers to choose from. People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them - regarding what settings are reasonable to have, what software they want you to use etc.

Strongly disagree. I have 4 MBPs. I can install whatever I want on them, thankfully. I write my own code and execute it on them.

My iPhone? I don't want them telling me what I can do with it. I want the good hardware and OS compatibility with my MBPs. I also want to install whatever I want because I'm an adult and developer in a free economy.
> I mean, in this case, the consumer is literally saving 20% for the same purchase. Seems good to me.

In this case, you have to let your kid take your credit card and input it into any sketchy gaming company's web form. What happens from there?
If you can get away with charging $5.99 for an app today why would you charge less on a 3rd party store?
Surprisingly many upvotes, so I think it might be good to clarify something:

> Don't hire people who look for something to be insulted by.

For context: I used to be like that, looking for a fight, even though it was for different cause.

I don't believe in behaving that way anymore, and I think I might have done more harm than good back then even if I had the best intentions.
You also don't see other app stores preventing apps from including their own payment systems. Because how people pay for additional content inside an app is completely not the distributor's problem.

Sure, many other app stores provide extra value in their systems for in-app purchases and a developer might see fit to use that system since it reduces friction, but usually it is voluntary. Obviously, not every app even does in-app purchases.

This argument that Apple's rules around in-app purchases are necessary to pay for the ongoing maintenance of their platform is completely bizarre to me. That money is completely separate. What if Fortnite didn't have in-app purchases? It would cost Apple exactly the same amount of money to distribute it and to provide development tools (which, by the way, every developer pays $100 a year for up front anyway). Yet Apple wouldn't be making those juicy margins from in-app purchases. Would Apple be in the right to demand Epic add in-app purchases? Would you be making the same argument?

Anyway, if that's the argument Apple is going to use, they're fucked.
Free Fortnite
I know 7 people now that have had it. The worst affected one had to stay in bed a day, most of the others just lost taste or felt a bit run down. Children had sniffles. 2 were asymptomatic.
Everything novel has this problem, and fortunately our epistemology is up to the task. We set our priors to a weighted linear combination of other similar things and then revise as evidence comes in.

For instance, MMR II was approved in 1978. How do we know that people who were given MMR II won't spontaneously die at the age of 60? Or perhaps to bring it closer to another problem, how do we know they won't spontaneously develop Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of 60? There hasn't been time. It's a pretty novel vaccine.
With all due respect... the statement that "People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them" is very silly.
You really wouldn't want to do that. Android phones still need @20-30% more powerful hardware to get comparable performance.
I assume both Epic and Apple are playing chess here. Apple must have anticipated incoming lawsuits as they cracked down on external transactions in gaming. It will be very interesting to see where the courts land, but it sure seems like Epic and similar have the upper hand on the PR battle.
To quote the iconic line from The Social Network: "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, then you would have invented Facebook." [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/QqP38kZC1QA
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"It's not harder to use it's just more complex" is a wonderful summation of Linux on the Desktop™
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My father always had several small computers laying around when I was a young child. I really enjoyed the Tandy pocket computer. Even as a 4 or 5 year old, I could get it to do the "What is your name", "hello <>" program. It was a source of hours of enjoyment.
Who's device is it? Apple's or the customer that paid for it in full?
Regarding absentee ballots, all 50 states combined yielded 143 fraud convictions over 20 years. Those numbers are so low that there's not any way to massage them into an actual risk to elections.

Source Heritage Foundation https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
We don’t know an infinite number of things. You can’t make decisions based on unknowns. You have to make decision based of evidence, not the lack of evidence.
I don't.

I really don't want to troubleshoot my parents iPhones after they install arbitrary code from the Alternative App Store #12 after clicking on a banner ad run by an anonymous chinese entity. Holy shit.
Apple is more than welcome to put whatever rules they want on their systems. My phone is not their system though, it’s mine! If I want to run tmux/fetchmail/ocamlc on it then it’s my problem not theirs!
The former basically doesn't exist in Western nations either, so I'm not sure what the point is here.

A well designed permissions system means what code runs is up to the user.
Unless Apple really screws up, that malware would have to be downloaded and installed by me.
If I "flip a switch" and enable that option, that's on me.
PCs have always been like this and no one bats an eye. I'd be willing to accept that risk; hey, Apple could make flipping that switch really freaking difficult if they wanted too, I wouldn't mind. Just as long as I have the option.
> they just want more money

They charge $10 for 1000 credits when purchasing via Apple.

They charge $7 for 1000 credits when paying Epic directly.

They aren't making more money with the change. Although there's nothing stopping them from increasing the price in the future.
You can switch toolboxes. You can't switch app stores.
Now just use the OTCA Metapixel, build a computer within the simulation, and let it go wild!

http://www.amandaghassaei.com/blog/2020/05/01/the-recursive-...

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...

https://github.com/QuestForTetris
Why Our Pets Have Become Super Needy During the Pandemic
This will prove to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
I hereby demand that everyone who read this send me one micro-bitcoin....;)
Most vaccines have been in use for years, sometimes decades. They're given nearly universally. We've had ample time and sample size to uncover their dangers (if any). Covid hasn't even been around for a year. The two situations are nothing alike.
> yes, I know, confirmation bias cuts both ways

Indeed. I suspect people who are adamant for more aggressive lockdowns are those who have good WFH options and good job security.
that's roughly how Windows works with MSIX?
I know two people who have had it. Once lost her sense of smell four months ago. Not back yet. The other died.
The comment you're responding to never used the word "monopoly", what are you talking about?
Agreed.

Also the Supreme Court ruled that code is speech. Apple being the gatekeeper to code in an iOS device is equivalent to censorship. yes I know some people define censorship as only by the government but would you ok if you could only browse internet sites approved by Apple? Only watch videos approved by Apple? Only read books approved by Apple? Only listen to music approved by Apple?

Software is no different. It's another form of media just like books, video, music, and as such you should be just as upset that you can't run whatever you want whether it's game portals, streamed games, porn apps, dev apps, whatever.
58% is not a monopoly by any definition.

In fact US Justice Department states quite clearly that it isn't a monopoly if it's 50% or less. This isn't a light switch where you instantly change from "not a monopoly" to "monopoly" based on a temporary gain in market share.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Still won’t be quick. EU has bigger things to deal with right now and even if they do pass something the ECJ would then be involved no doubt.
> or buy an android
>The only way to affect Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation is for donors refuse to donate for Mozilla Foundation until it addresses the governance issues.

Un(?)fortunately, donations to the Mozilla Foundation are only a few million dollars a year--mostly because they don't do anything particularly interesting. (Seriously--look at https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/ )
You literally cannot prove a negative.
I'm not mad at this though, they really do have a monopoly with their marketplace and it's killing the growth of the mobile app industry.
You clicked an ad. Amazon is happy to have paid for you to land there.
Well I am a libertarian, Both Biden and Harris are known "Tough on Crime" Authoritarians,

I also oppose 99% of their platform including government run healthcare, extreme theft errr taxation, open social programs for anyone that happens to be physically located inside the boarders, their Identity / Social Justice Warrior politics, I could go on and on

I support federalism, I support individual liberty, I support meritocracy. all of which they stand against
I mean, all of these things are pretty straightforward with Stripe today. I guarantee if the ecosystem were more open there would be a drop-in replacement for Apple's system by Stripe available in practically no time.

If Apple wants to compete on offering a better, more seamless experience, there's nothing stopping them from doing so. I don't think anyone is arguing that Apple shouldn't offer payment processing altogether. A 30% cut and anti-competitive stance towards other payment methods don't feel like competing to provide the best experience to me though.