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> by prohibiting apps from even telling the user about alternate payments, Apple is effectively trying to dictate how everyone on their platform can and can't do business

Agreed. The problem of leveraging their App Store dominance for payments dominance is the issue. I don’t think there is an issue with the App Store being the only store on iOS devices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24148204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24148548

There a zillion more related to Epic/Apple, but those are about the ad.
I live on an island on the coast of Norway. It's kinda weird with all the bird life and postcard-like views. Also, there is a family of grouses (is this the right word?) living in the bushes outside!

A little bit lonely, too. But, the cities are too expensive and everything is so compressed. Maybe if I could afford an actual house in a city that would be OK.
Yeah. I trust Microsoft more these days. I know they'll screw everyone over when Edge becomes popular again (it's good now), but they seem relatively better for now.
As an iPhone user I much prefer any payment to go through apple payment UI, it’s just safer and hassle free, I don’t need to worry about scammy payment traps.

As a developer I can see the financial reasoning behind implementing third party payment methods.
Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel has passed away
30% isn’t unsustainable if every business has to pay the same thing. It’s no different than a tax at that point.
Think about America's heartland... Montana comes to mind, after two straight months of detailed R&D I think I put together a solid picture that make it very clear why it called America's Heartland, its perfect.. check it out
search sidneymontanapropertyforsale.com ... #sidneymontanapropertyforsale
> Apple has done a lot to curtail scummy developer practices and protect users.

This is so true, and the magnitude of this is not immediately apparent unless you’ve worked in an agency / freelanced building iOS applications. You have no idea how many user-hostile and abusive things I’ve seen blown completely out of the water with the golden phrase "Apple won’t allow that". It wins arguments in favour of the user instantly and permanently.

I’ve run up against Apple’s capricious review process more times than I can count, so I’ve got more reason than most to complain about it. But it’s impossible for me to argue that these rules don’t help the user when I’ve personally seen it happen so many times. It’s a double-edged sword to be sure, and I believe the best way of balancing things in favour of the end-user is to be more open than Apple is, but there are undeniable benefits to the user with the current system.
It is probably easier to list the things that _won't_ put off RMS.

God forbid you use the DOM[1] in your JS!

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
This is all true, but nevertheless this is what Samsung has done.

If you look at the linage of it (Intel Meego) and the time frame they started it (2011) the strategy of HTML5 support for apps kind of made sense.

Allegedly they are adding .NET support to it?

It is still around and actively developed. I believe it's had some success on watches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
> Would you be fine with that?

Yes. I don’t need work requiring I install a Google App Store on my iOS device. I have a general-purpose computer already. One shouldn’t buy an iOS device if these restrictions are an issue.
It competes with Play Store.
It does not in fact prevent anything. There are hundreds of shitty apps in both iOS and Android.
I think that is the first time I've ever seen a hashtag on HN. I only joined a few months ago
Use something like ProxMox Mail Gateway to let it take the chunk of traffic
It’s also problematic when it means that Apple takes competitor revenues - for instance in the streaming audio market Apple is Spotify’s biggest competitor, while forcing Spotify to give them a bigger % of iOS revenues than their own margin. Apple ends up making more money out of Spotify on iOS than Spotify does, and then continues to spend money investing in a competing product.
That's some huge release feature-wise.
Massive batteries on EV is another dangerous parts.

Anyway it's off topic. Leakage from oil tanker accident is unrelated to leakage from ICEs accident. Reducing importing oil by EV would be on topic.
Peak SV bubble right here. Hard to begin but: most people cannot earn anything near these ludicrous sums; most founders are much older and can not afford to wait; the chances of failure justify the terms.
I'm in my thirties and it's amazing to watch Microsoft evolve since the 90s. As a teenager I would never have imagined the words 'Open Source' would ever be in a <h1> tag on a Microsoft-branded website.
The supermarket on the corner also has a monopoly on what gets on their shelves, and which persons are allowed to get in to buy their stuff.
True, but Vietnamese Americans are well represented in undergrad at least. In fact about double the white representation in UCs (https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/disaggrega...)
Not sure of the range of the Zeo, but if you are burning 52kwh daily you are driving a ton. That's about 217 miles a day in my model 3, and with an average speed of 50 mph that's over 4 hours of driving.

Average drives do more like 12,000 a year, not 80k miles.
> As I've repeated many times here, now, though, I'd love to see more platforms compete with iOS. Not with the app store. With iOS and its overall ecosystem.

Isn't that a contradiction? App Store _IS_ "its overall ecosystem".
Which specific lawsuits are you referring to?
Straight, Middle-Aged Men Are Being Charged More to Use Tinder Plus
That's my first reaction when thinking about this, but given their current approach to stuff like tracking and telemetry, and that they try to compete in the same space as Google and Apple I feel like Microsoft behaves like it wants to be in the Google & Apple position but they don't know how.
You Don't Have to Be a Founder; It Often Makes More Sense to Join a Startup
If one doesn't know the language, they can write shitty code, regardless whether it's C or PHP. Any decent PHP programmer knows about the `===` operator that doesn't do any type juggling.
> It shouldn't be for minority but majority

Then make the case. I think there should be general purpose computers. But not every computer need be one. There are advantages to a locked-down ecosystem.
Because the bar has been set so low at this point, "we're not all dead yet" (except for the over 160k people who have died so far from COVID) is actually a talking point I think
Well the gas doesn’t magically appear at the station...
I’m totally cool with that provided it’s not easy enough that another App Store is able to become a de facto necessity via that install method. The current official side-loading methods are almost good enough to suit the case of power users running a few custom apps from outside the store. If there’s a way to take off the time limits and not open up the possibility of the above scenario, that’d be wonderful. I have a couple non-App Store apps I’d put on mine, in fact.
> just good old-fashioned depression

So you're normal (half joking). Humor is a good medication for depression, and at least you can joke about it.
I am really curious how those Yale guys check applicants race. Some kind of skin color pigment measurement (sorry, you are a bit too white to qualify as African American, next person please)?

Or do they measure someones eye shape to "detect" Asian people?

How about Jews, is nose measurement sufficient (they need to dig really hard in their archives to find some Nazi "scientific" statistics on that...) or they just ask to take off pants during interview to check if someone is not hiding his race?
Well, certainly they wouldn't do it for millions plus 30% of dollars a day in sales.
It also entirely ignores the core point of YC, which is not (and never was) the modest sum of money. It's the network, the other entrepreneurs, the advice / mentoring, the reputation sharing that it provides when dealing with investors in the future, and so on. Going through YC is a form of validation, other investors will take you more seriously by default afterward (the reputation sharing).

You can get $150k from a lot of sources these days. The value of the YC network is far beyond that.
AWS ELB has some level DoS protection out of the box (e.g. SYN flood), plus you can probably add another layer by manipulating security groups in response to traffic.

You will lose your old IP address, but the DNS should be fully functional.
Skyroot: First Indian Startup Successfully Test-Fire Multi-Stage Rocket Engine
Have a look at Odoo, you can test our engine here: https://www.odoo.com/page/invoice-automation

We will open our API next week at last.
The Kokkos Lectures: The C++ Performance Portability Programming Model
I have a few mail servers and I have not had your problem but this could be because I use fail2ban, and have it drop requests above a certain threshold in a given time frame.

Depending on how these ddos attacks are getting sent this might help.
> Security doesn't require a 30% cut of every transaction though, nor does it require them to ban other payment methods

Epic’s fight, regarding Apple bundling its payment service with its App Store, is orthogonal to the “free device” cause. The former is compelling. The latter is interesting, but it’s an old debate that has never found traction.

It’s helpful to segregate these arguments.
I need a thing to exist (calorie counter), but I also talked (if only superficially) to other people like me about the issue. I still got a lot of insight out of that. You wouldn’t expect the number of tiny, innocent assumptions you make that hold for yourself but are utterly not the case for others.

For example, the fact that I live with my partner and many of my potential users don’t means they can apply a fundamentally different process to tracking calories than me. You are not going to realize stuff like that on your own.

So even if you’re mostly just fixing your own problem, just talking to a few people and making minor changes accordingly can make your product useful for a way bigger audience. Or maybe better stated conversely, not talking to others will narrow your products’ audience down immensely.
I'm pretty sure fortnite's inclusion in the play store is relatively recent. For a while it was available only as a sideloaded so on Android devices.

(No pass for the racueteering play store/app store implied)
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You should read about the diamonds industry and their marketing, from a marketing point of view this industry did great but from a user point of view you will be disgusted.
After you read(or watch a vide) about diamonds ask yourself if something similar is happening under our noses today and we are not seeing it because the marketing is so clever that is invisible, there is a chance you will spot some parallels with other companies in present day.
This seems like a huge bridge-burning move.

If I owned a grocery store chain, and some food company decided to trash me in the press, mock me, and sue me, I would never allow a single one of their products on my store's shelves again, forever, regardless of the outcome. I honestly don't understand what Epic hopes to achieve here. Why wouldn't Apple just ban Epic products from their store for good after this?
Now make 80% reversible OLED so that the screen is powered and semi passive through ambient light.
Another electric boat from Finland - http://q-yachts.com/ - looks beautiful.

They have been making electric propulsion for boats for ~15 years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanvolt
Rice University had about 600 freshmen when I matriculated over 2 decades ago and they rejected 16 perfect SATs that year. I feel for you, though I know that if you really are so into math then maybe this was a much better path for you than doing undergrad at an American institution where the goals in undergrad are usually broader and fuzzier. Contrast that with grad school where I’d be more inclined to be biased for the top student in the specific subject. My alma mater is a top-20 school and as unfair as it might seem, I appreciated the fruit of their quest for diversity among matriculants. Not only ethnic diversity, but people of a slightly wider set of interests too. I felt interacting with the other students was the best part of my college experience. It’s true I don’t know all the stories of the people who weren’t admitted, but when dealing with such tiny acceptance percentages it really feels more like a lottery for a very scarce resource. So it’s definitely not fair, and they’re deliberately not always choosing the highest scores. My mother always said life isn’t fair and I’m not sure if the outcome would be what you or I would hope for if the process was made more “fair” for undergrad selection.

* edit: typo on mobile :)
It's not about aesthetics, if you keep adding satellites with extremely high density, at some point you run out of gaps in the sky, that are dark enough and unobstructed for long enough time to make any meaningful measurements of the observable universe.
PUBG Mobile v0.19.0 APK and Data
I mean another App Store with its own captured platform where you have to play by the rules if you want to distribute software on it. The whole package. Not another App Store on iOS. I do not want that.
Was this mostly thoughtless comment AI generated?
That is an historical accident because IBM wasn't able to sue Compaq due to their clean room reverse engineering, and they tried to kill PCs with their PS/2 architecture reboot.
You’re talking about the competition of hardware sales.

On the iOS hardware platform(s) it competes with nobody. The owner of an iPhone isn’t tossing up between Play or App stores. It’s Apple or nothing. There is no competition for methods to install apps. Both developers and users are completely at the mercy of Apple.
Shame ! Late thirties - I feel privileged to have grown up in the 90's when everybody(companies) were still not sure what to make of "the internet" and Microsoft were the ones using dirty tactics and OpenSource+Linux was enemy #1 !

Oh well - I need to go update my "ipchains" arg I mean "iptables" :D
I'll assume that, because rebooting fixed it, this wasn't a pure traffic problem, but just a general system overload issue. You might want to (1) collect traffic origin statistics and (2) take a good look at some more efficient mail-reception servers (I don't think your outbound SMTP server was hit by DDoS).
It's not Apple vs. Fortnite. It's actually Apple vs. Users. Apple has been taking us for a ride this whole time. We pay damn much and buy the phone. It is the user's property from then on. What the user install's and uninstall's from his phone should be his decision. Taking a cut of say, 3%, to keep the app store running is forgivable. But 30% digging into users pocket is unpardonable.
Apple is no longer the underdog that it was 40 years ago, and some fanboys pretending it to be is despicable. It's a monopoly and the only thing it cares is it's profitability.
Despite all the sugarcoated lies Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been saying to the senate, they are a monopoly. Stop letting them deceive us.
Let's take the power back. Stop enabling such deception. Death of a country is determined by it's governance. Death of a society is determined by it's culture and greedy monopolies.
The way we can claim our power is by raising awareness to the point that the powers that are will take note and take action.
>That people would be happy to see house and land prices skyrocket?

> 70% would. Government would.

Please. Stop and think. There are countries who had their youth decimated in atrocious wars to conquer portions of new territory proportionally smaller then the one Israel is occupying almost without damage.

This cavalier attitude you're showing is part of the self deception of Israelis in regards to the occupation. They keep building cities in land that doesn't belong to them, but refuse to admit they're actually reaping any benefit. That the country is becoming substantially larger and more spacious. That there is space- or there will be some time in the future- for more industries, more fields, more suburbs, more people to come and live in Israel- the people Israeli leaders keep inviting to move from France, from the UK, from the US.

But of course this would be an admissions that Israel is reaping some unjust benefit. That it might want peace, but it also wants to keep what it gained. That peace is a negative, because it implies an end to the progression of appropriations.
I never had any problems with DDoS of our email servers.
If we have one, we're gonna

1) check that our MTA is up to date
2) check that we got fail2ban rules for POP&SMTP failed logins
3) use a haproxy and ban by subnet/country
Why did this post move from #1 to #36 within minutes?
If everyone has 5.0, the average is 5.0. With even more pressure, since even smallest downgrade to someone has huge impact.

I did not meant to imply you would average letters, they are just the usual way to express the grade.
While I applaud Free Software more than OpenSource, the latter has a better name that doesn't have the `free as in beer` ambiguity.
Covid-19 way “before” 2019 (Google Fail)
Last year showed a smartphone that was exactly like that: The camera was embedded behind the screen. [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/xiaomi-shows-off-camera-built-into...
> Personally, I would argue that consumers should have a legal right to install whatever software they wish on a product they have purchased, including onto the bundled operating system

I fundamentally disagree and this is also a misrepresentation of the current situation.

If I buy an open operating system which advertises that I can run on it what pleases me then I should have the right to carry out this freedom of choice.

However, if a company advertises a product as a walled garden, specifically claims that one of the things it does is to vet and prohibit apps which violate their guidelines (which are also open for me to assess myself) and I buy a product for its benefits doing this, then I have a right as a consumer that the company will stick to this and not be forced to change in order to please some dodgy companies or gaming apps which I honestly couldn't care less.

It's like saying I bought a petrol car but I should have a legal right to fill it up with Diesel or make it work with electricity. It's illogical. The packaging said petrol and so I knownlingly bought petrol. The packaging says secure, long battery life, high quality phone because of walled garden, so I fucking expect Apple to deliver the walled garden promise so I don't have to do the vetting myself. When I buy an iPhone for my kids or parents, then I pay more for it because of Apple's walled garden, because it means I have to spend less time doing dumb things for them which I'd have to do on another operating system.
> When this botnet is attacking your site(s), it's goodbye to your blogging income. Sad but true.

Is it because botnet attack makes your site slow, and make it lose google ranking ?
Can confirm, 380 points, 2 hours ago. Position 36. Why?
You seem to prefer giving people less option, because multiple stores are an inconvenience to YOU.

You know what would be a better solution for that? The same one that happens with some applications now on Android: publishing an app in multiple stores. Many apps are simultaneously published in Play Store and other stores.

For example, you could have a game published on the publisher's store. If you buy it there, the price is X. Simultaneously, you could have the same app published on Apple store for $X + 30%.

Then, you let the market decide. Increasing competition is better for consumers.

If you prefer the convenience of buying from just one store, it's OK, you can buy everything from the Apple store, and pay the premium for that. But that would also let the door open for people who want to choose where else to buy their stuff.
I've submitted multiple apps to the ios store and I can guarantee they are not looking at it very closely.
He was killed by the state during an arrest for counterfeiting $20. The militarization, misbehavior, and accountability of the police has been a national issue for most of the last century and all of this one.

Further, Floyd's death was not a national story until the video spread online, protests began, and national media were forced to cover it.

Breonna Taylor, by contrast, was not a national story until over a month after her death.
It was a consequence of type conversion in a loosely typed language. There are consequences to loose typing, one of them is edge cases. PHP also has strict typing capabilities. If you need strict typing, then use it, it's right there for you.

My criticism isn't the valid criticisms of PHP, it's that no matter how much progress the language makes people are quick to find reasons to be dismissive.

The language is good, people do good work with it. Lots of good work. How Javascript became the golden child in a community that can't forgive PHP is beyond me.
So that we'll have the negative impact of the satelites, but no benefit? How is that supposed to solve anything?
> But not every computer need be one. There are advantages to a locked-down ecosystem.

I agree with it. But I think game consoles should be locked but smartphones shouldn't. Finally I predict that smartphones to be the Computer for citizen.
Is there some reason you specifically omitted the White category?

- White alone, percent 76.3%
Well Apple does distribute Apple Music via the Play Store, and it follows all of Google’s rules around payment processing.

> They provide the exact same thing. Review process is not related to the service they provide.

The review process is a part of the service they provide to their paying customers, and it is a key market differentiator for Apple.

> Apple does the same thing with Amazon.

Apple doesn’t take a cut of any sale of physical goods via apps.

> A quick search gave me this number 1-877-355-5787

There actually is no number, because Google doesn’t offer that level of support (unlike Apple). That is the phone number for premium G Suite and Cloud Identity customers.
Thanks for your comment. I want to clarify some things.

> There's no central gatekeeper for the web, and sure, it has its dark corners, but it has not devolved into absolute chaos as you so adamantly suggest all such ecosystems would, and continues to deliver such an incredible amount value to consumers and businesses alike.

I never stated that all open systems would turn into chaos. What I suggested is that systems with unchecked advanced AI capabilities probably will. Technology is changing and old paradigms are not guaranteed to work in the future.

You seem to be looking only at the present and there I find your sentiment somewhat reasonable. However, looking at the future, safety will become much more important. If the software you are deploying has the potential to (unintentionally) kill people, shut down cities, or otherwise wrack havoc because you haven’t completely mastered the art of training machine intelligence in a safe way... you simply don’t want this to be openly sold, same as you don’t want to buy medicine or medical technology from a 5 year old kid you just met on the subway. You also don’t have the right to hurt people to fulfill your desire to make things.

I know what I am referring to requires some looking down the road but we will get there in due time. More regulation is (hopefully) inevitable.

What I still think is open for discussion are the exact terms of such vetting/control. It might very well be that terms will get less onerous. That there will be requirements for gate keepers to implement. However, freedom from control is not going to be the long term solution and this is not a bad thing!