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"certain stories routinely get tons of upvotes regardless of how good they are for HN—e.g. anything sensational, indignant, or meta. If we didn't have a compensating factor, those stories would dominate the front page every day"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086
Except for it to be a black market illegality needs to be established and it isn't clandestine - the rules are freely available and there are other markets (android) available for apps.

This is a poor analogy.

I am still waiting for a real argument on HN as to what Apple is doing that is anti-competitive or illegal. Still have not found one.
So what do you want to do, establish a wholly separate admissions path that intentionally seeks out people from traditionally less powerful races, in order to counteract your personal perception that there is such a thing as a "white" resume?
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that you can ignore the return value.
Business as usual, then?
Dev with iOS experience here. Depends a bit on the case, but usually it means stuck in update limbo.

You can request faster reviews for critical security bugs, but as far as I know, if you're rejected for guideline violations, you're stuck until you alleviate those violations.

This is actually another problem with the whole review process: There often isn't a clear guideline/way to tell. You can submit an update that goes through quickly, or wait for months, without knowing why. Valve, the company that runs Steam, also had horror stories about this. They published the Steam Chat app (not a store) and had to wait for months for approval, apparently without being able to talk to anyone at Apple.
Yes and people still watch TV.

Did you think your feigned ignorance was insightful? Google has 86% market share.
Lawful actions conducted under whatever thinking is lawful, until the action itself no longer is. What you're describing is just euphemisms and excuses to start prosecuting thought crimes.
> That's the price of a CEO

Is it? I bet you'd get plenty of great candidates for a 250k salary.
What platform? I had to add code to retry for iOS and I'm sure there are other bugs. Thanks for trying it out.
Well, could it possibly be that people really don’t care about side loading apps?
I'm talking about the meta-level above what science is. There is no dispute that science is the scientific method, the rationalist process of inferring knowledge from formalised analysis of empirical evidence. I'm talking about the faith that society vests in science to explain things - to obtain knowledge - when weighed against other ways in which knowledge and an understanding of the world may be obtained.

Although he is far more sympathetic to the anti-rationalist case than I am, this [1] video by Philosophy Tube touches on some of these ideas (and he is much better read on this stuff than I am). Although he makes a quip against post-modernism about 6 minutes in, it is my understanding that in broad strokes, the analysis he presents is in the post-modern tradition.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmk47kh7fiE
I recently learned most Ivy League African-Americans are either biracial like Obama, or from Caribbean parents.
> 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.

The fact that Apple does not have this attitude is why their products are better for customers than alternatives that do have this attitude. A customer isn't any happier with a malware-ridden device if it got that way because they were tricked into clicking a fake software update button.

> PCs have always been like this and no one bats an eye.

Yes, lots of people bat eyes. As a very on-the-nose examples, lots of people buy Macs, for instance, because of their reputation for having less malware (that might be outdated now, but was certainly true for a large portion of the last 20 years). Malware has been a major problem for customers on PCs and Android phones for a long time. The fact that the problem has existed for a long time doesn't mean it's not a big problem.
The whole idea of an institution being "elite" is that it restricts access. The smaller the % of applicants to make it through, the more prestigious the placement. It's a high-end night club with VIP access for the rich, famous, and the connected. And with a long line outside the door to signal that many are fighting to get in.

Elite universities are luxury brands, and by definition a product is no longer a luxury if everybody gets one.

If you just want a quality education, you can get it anywhere else. What people are complaining about here is that don't get to access an intentionally carefully-restricted item.

I'm not going to be writing to my senator because you don't get to drive a Lamborghini. Get in a Corolla like the rest of us, you'll be just fine.
The more AAPL and GOOG lock down their platforms, the more basic features like installing software you want start to look like killer apps. There may be hope yet for a truly OSS phone.
You know, I may not remember all the pertinent details. It may have had something to do with going into a particular location? Would going into a synagogue or something with a head scarf be abnormal? The anecdote was mentioned though in the context of the generally tense relations and hostilities that he was arguing still plagued the region. He was a history professor with I think a relatively pro-Israel stance.
This got me wondering... What happens when the price of an in-app purchase is negative? Does Apple pay the developer 30%?
I wonder if you could build a model to assign handicaps to each applicant? Forget racial quotas, just assign a modifier to each applicant based on the difficulty they have likely faced in their lives. Race, but also household income, zip code, alma mater, siblings, how many parents, etc... Then just hide all that info from the review board.

In that way, you could get right at what is most interesting- which students are actually the most impressive.

Past student body provides the training dataset- just define what measures a successful student whom you are happy to have. College GPA, graduation date, post-graduation compensation, whatever.
You mean like people buy game consoles instead of gaming PCs?
"poor kids are just as bright as white kids" - joe biden
> No, Republicans are and have always been the corrupt ones. If at all anything, Democrats are too fair because you know they tend to be decent human beings. Republicans are too power hungry and want to win at all costs.

I'm a Democrat, and reasonably proud to be so—more proud than I would be to be a Republican, at any rate—but looking back through American history should make you very hesitant to claim anything about what Republicans and Democrats always have been. Democrats have often been the "big party" tent, and that's good; but it means, for example, that we embraced and welcome secessionists for a long time. That's a legacy we largely left behind with LBJ, and I'm glad we did, but it would be disingenuous to disown it.

It used to be meaningful to talk about liberal versus conservative Democrats, and liberal versus conservative Republicans; don't assume that how things are now is how they've always been, or even how they've been for more than a few decades.
Why would John Q. Public trust a third party over the manufacturer of their device?
Please provide anything to back up these claims. Until you provide something, here's a breakdown from Forbes of an estimate of Apple's App Store revenue in 2019: https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/7JGMQ7wT/Bre... (there's an adjustment to the take percentage to see their estimated revenue if it's lowered, feel free to play around with it)

Apple Services:

- AppStore $ 15 billion

- Licencing $ 10 billion

- Apple Care & Others $ 7.5 billion

- Apple Music $ 5.4 billion

- iCloud $ 4.5 billion

- Third-Party Subscriptions $ 3.6 billion

Total: $46 billion

Remember, you're stating that Apple isn't able break even at a 10% fee for the App Store. Recall that Apple charges developers a yearly subscription (99 USD for non-enterprise accounts per year) to be able to submit something to the App Store. And additionally remember that your "co-marketing" cost should include the money Apple makes from advertisers on its App Store [1].

The items you mentioned as costs are standard for many similar internet service (hosting, security, customer APIs, etc. etc,.) that do not make nearly the amount of revenue Apple does with its App Store.

Let's do a worst case and cut Apple's estimated App Store revenue from $15 billion to $5 billion a year to show how ridiculous the claim that they can't break even is.

1 - https://searchads.apple.com/
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Microsoft was dragged through court for it's aggressive browser install on windows back in the day. Now everybody is getting rich off apple stock and there's not much incentive to hold them to the same standard. They even started with a monopolistic policy - if it's duplicating functionality they'll remove it from the app store. People keep buying iPhones because they don't care.
You know, I'll take "yo-yo generations" over what we've got now. Right now we've got "a massive wealth divide". "yo-yo"ing would imply that some people that are right now stuck on the bottom would at least have some time a bit higher up.

That sounds like a strict improvement over the current system, where those that struggle adversity are stuck trying to pull themselves up by their bootstrap forever.

If that means my parents made decent money, but I can't get into a good school and have to struggle a bit? Sure, fine, that's still nothing compared to those who have parents with no money and also can't get into a decent school.
I don't see how you draw that path, but maybe you could try explaining it. It seems the story is clearly an extreme form of "equality of outcome," but there's no clear linguistic or conceptual path from capitalism to cannibalism.
Right, because it couldn’t possibly be that most people don’t care about side loading apps?
Considering that the Justic Dept has dropped cases against friends of the president (one of whom confessed to the crime of lying to the FBI to cover up for the president) and given that we're a couple months from an election where race is an issue, I also share your doubt about the Justice Dept being agnostic here.
I'm excited for transparent OLED's simply so that laptops and monitors will be able to put the webcam behind the display, ~1/3 from the top.

Then videoconferencing software can automatically move the image of the person you're talking to so their eyes are roughly centered on that point.

And finally everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!
That's kind of a rough calculation when you look at how many people there were in 1950 and why so many more are alive today.

Pick your path of suffering or something.

Which I guess is why the other poster winds the clock back before the industrial revolution.
I'm not sure about any of that. Android phones are ridiculously diverse, from overpowered "gaming" behemoths to tiny ones like Unihertz Jelly.

But in the end I guess what matters more is whether you want a single person to control what you view or not, like when they banned James Joyce because of an illustration of a man skinny dipping.
They are starting to exist, this is one thats already been produced and sold so has some real-world numbers: https://www.silent-yachts.com/silent55/

10kW of panels, 2x30kW motors (or 2x150kw for more $), 75kWh battery (150kWh for more $).

I forget where I saw it but iirc cruising at 5kts was less than 10kW out the screws. Meaning you can do 5kts for as long as the sun is up, and then for 7.5 hours more off the battery. If you want to do 9kts (on that short a hull) you're looking at like 50kW and therefore it would drain the bigger battery in 3 hours.

A rough rule of thumb for solar panels is they're worth four hours of full output a day, so that panel setup is good for about 40kWh/day. You can either use that to travel 200 miles, or use it to charge up the battery. It very neatly fits the 100 mile/day + 2 - 5 days at anchor travel lifestyle of most "cruising" catamarans (sailboats).

This guys youtube channel is cataloguing all the electric and solar boats he can find:
https://www.youtube.com/c/JimWaltz/videos

Whats most interesting to me is all the indian/thai/phillipine solar ferry's that are getting built. Those are not eco projects, those are people finding niches where this really is the more economical choice.
They aren't - and as much as I'd like to avoid being political, this is just an example of the White House using the department of justice as a vehicle to carry out its agenda. It's purely politically motivated - another example of an attempt of legislation from the bench.
Indeed, one of the major precedents in favor of affirmative action (Grutter v. Bollinger) anticipated that it would no longer be needed after 2028.
Steve Jobs was at the heart of Apple as a distribution monopoly.
i’m not sure it’s fair to equate a general computing platform to a game system
I'm not 100% sure it is the same phenomenon but growing up in a very cold climate where I had to park my car outside in high school I remember many times getting into the car where a half full Poland Spring plastic water bottle would sit with water. If I tapped the bottle - the entire thing would freeze in under a second. It looked amazing.

(I always thought it was a pressure thing - but not positive if that is what the article is describing or something more nuanced)
This is really impressive, streaming video + audio on a what is essentially a beefy microcontroller.
Pretty much, absentee ballots = mail-in ballots.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trumps-absentee-vs-mail-in...
I’m sure my 75 year old parents don’t really care about in app purchases in Fortnite....
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If you are making money why are you complaining?

If you can’t make money on Android, how will you make money on iOS when the “monopoly” is broken?
> They're about developers not having any choice. Developers have to release on iOS. There's no other option, because that's where most users are.

They do have a choice. You target Apple users and agree upon Apple's terms, or you don't, and publish your app in F-droid/Jolla store, hoping somebody would pay.

The reality is that apple has built an infrastructure which allow you to gain profits and deliver to a huge amount of customers.

> The reality is "a billion people use this thing.

Because Apple put quite a lot of resources to build it. It's their right to operate it as they do.

> Fuck Their Rights

Sure, but let's start with turning your home into a shelter for homeless people for the sake of the society, Fucking your Right, and then we'll fuck theirs. People are always quick to deprive others of their rights as I see.
You're not wrong, but you're taking the textbook definition too far.

This whole topics rests on the premise that "positive discrimination" is acceptable or even necessary due to historical injustice.

An analysis that reverts to "racism is always and everywhere bad" will fail to reconcile, even if you believe it.
Having worked on games that used pooled allocation techniques like this, and others that just had tons of tiny allocations in a single heap, my experience is that the latter pain is much worse.
It's actually not very hard to see how discimination-in-favor can be compatible with overall low numbers. The simplest way is if they comprise less than 7.4% of the applicant pool. Another way is if they comprise less than 7.4% of "qualified" applicants, in some definition of qualified. But those breakdowns of the applicant pool are typically not shared except from lawsuits.
In order to attract more developers to develop on Linux or at least make it work through Proton, Valve is taking the path of least resistance. Proton seems to be a good step toward that end.
If you assume all groups are on average equal but certain groups are underrepresented you must assume that the selection process is flawed. If the process is flawed than correcting the process can be seen as removing bias, not adding it.

Do you feel like any correction at all is discrimination, the correction of is flawed in some specific way, or do you feel like its a matter of overcorrection?
Potassium? Did you check cellular potassium rather than serum?

Further, vitamin K is a vitamin. Potassium is a mineral. Search online for "vitamin K2 MK-4" and "vitamin K2 MK-7"..
I think the line is “does this harm a human who does not consent.” Regulating autonomous vehicles? Apple being able to reject apps that steal user data? Both within reason.

But rejecting simply because it lets someone pay in an alternate manner crosses a line.
>Your argument is "When you choose a technology provider you must accept everything that they do without complaining" which is so obviously wrong it's actually hard to know where to start with formulating a response.

That may be how you've decided to interpret it, but, no, that's not my argument.

>There was an alternative then though - MacOS. And a lot of people defended Microsoft on the basis that they couldn't possibly have a monopoly because you could always buy an Apple computer instead, just as you're arguing that people can switch to Android now

Macintosh computers were only accessible for consumers that were willing to spend an astronomical amount of money on computers. Unless you were loaded with cash, the typical consumer had no choice but to buy from Microsoft if they wanted a PC. That is not the case with smartphones. I'm sure you can go find a very capable Android phone for $50, if you wish. Ultimately nobody has been in a position where they've been forced to purchase an iOS device in order to access a smartphone
Although archaeology is certainly informed by scientific theory and uses the work of scientific fields like geology, it’s not truly a science. Crucially, archaeological excavations are not reproducible, and archaeological theories are not experimentally falsifiable. The same is true of cultural anthropology.
We're already consuming less. In California for example despite the growing population our electricity demand peaked in 2006. But we still need to replace our fossil inputs. After we have abundant peak generating capacity, we can use the excess to remove carbon from the atmosphere, which needs a large energy input.
Fair, I misread the discussion.
The article actually is clear:

"As of right now, those who have already downloaded Fortnite on iOS are still able to access the game; only new downloads are disabled as a result of Apple pulling the game from the App Store."
Google Play is allowing Epic to do it. Fortnite is still on the Google Play store.

(The writing has been on the wall and Google is already adapting - they sent out surveys last month to some developers about dropping the 30% fee and charging developers an annual listing fee instead - possibly also fees for bandwidth/storage used like a hosting company does. The survey also mentioned plans to spin off the Google Play store as a separate non-Google company.)
> If you extrapolate a pure meritocratic approach - the demographics of admissions will likely continue to skew white/asian into perpetuity

If this is the case -- which I believe it is not -- then you are arguing that a meritocratic approach (normalized for factors that affect access to education) would skew toward white and Asian people. I recognize that you're speculating, but I don't believe there to exist a top-tier university that has actually put such a filter into practice for its admissions process, so there's insufficient data to verify your claim.

In response to your speculation, I speculate what you would find is that, normalizing for economic and social factors, race makes little difference....If a pure merit-based approach actually skewed the playing field toward whites and Asians, it would already have been put into place long ago. The whole problem with racism is that it damages the ability for people to be judged on their merits.
The difference is market share. There was no effective alternative to Windows ecosystem at the time (arguably there still isn’t). The issue was also broader than just bundling the browsers: there were contracts with OEMs that effectively entrenched Windows as the only OS they were practically shipping (not dissimilar to Android contracts with the OEMs). Last time I checked most people don’t even have iPhones.
Not really true until physical goes away (which we're pretty close to...)
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And then we fall into the uncanny valley and go back to how it used to be with no eye contact.
This is a peeve of mine as well, but in the other direction: the American right is motivated by appeals to American exceptionalism, and should be hitting everyone over the head with how exceptional our citizenship law is. We have universal birthright citizenship! It's in the Constitution! That is an amazing thing that we should all be proud of.

(I acknowledge as well that the American left is motivated by appeals to transcending our history of racism, and agree with your implication that American antiracism is itself exceptional among nations of our global stature. You're right, we focus almost entirely on the negative, in the mistaken belief that only negative appeals will persuade.)
Sony doesn't demand a cut of Netflix subscriptions, for example, despite having a Netflix app available for download. Similarly, it doesn't get a cut of Spotify revenue either.

Well, neither does Apple seeing that neither Netflix (for new customers) or Spotify allow in app purchases.

Sony actually often pays developers to develop for their store (e.g. PubFund [1]),

So does Apple - Apple Arcade.

Could Fortnite have in app purchases for the game consoles and bypass the stores?
> It's less bad than burning fossil fuels

How do you think that electricity will be mainly produced?
Yeah, I find this kind of abbreviation annoying. But there's a few words that are commonly abbreviated like this:

i18n -> internationalization

l10n -> localization

g11n -> globalization

l12y -> localizability

a11y -> accessibility

It bothers me because my brain does not jump from the abbreviation to the underlying word. I really need to stop and think about each one. And I get the numbers wrong when writing them.
Why would anyone want to download Firefox or Chrome when you can just surf with IE?
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But what percentage of college students are black? (sincere question, couldn't find the answer from a quick search). Without knowing that I don't think it's fair to say they aren't doing a great job. Just because other colleges are doing better, doesn't mean Yale is doing bad.

edit: This report says 14% of college enrolled U.S. residents were black in 2017. But that makes it sound like it doesn't include international students.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
“As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat inherited values as variables, and do math on them…”

As per the article, this would have been a lot to implement back then, but sigh, what a wonderful world that wold have been.
I wonder what impact the ordering of those clauses has on people reading/voting. I didn't even notice "or grant preferential treatment to" until the ~third read through, still trying to figure out why anyone would vote to repeal this.

Alternative ordering for comparison:

>The State shall not grant preferential treatment to, or discriminate against, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
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