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Title is clickbait and not very objective. Apple isn't "bullying". It sounds like reviewer was convinced a phone number was not needed. That's why you simply reply back to the reviewer or get it appealed.

Reviewers aren't 100% perfect. I've had apps that violated rules pass the review only to be rejected a few updates later. One app I had forced users to use their birthday (at the client's request) as the password. 1.0.0 passed the review, but 1.0.1 was rejected because birthday is not an acceptable form of a password.

Apple could absolutely do better with reviewers, but it's likely they had to lower the quality of reviews in some way to reduce the amount of time it takes to review an app (from 5-7 days to 24 hours). Regardless, I rather take the 24 hour app review time since any rejection can be quickly re-assessed again.
An “impolite no” is not just a ‘no’, and it’s the latter that was required and not the former. He could have ‘recommended’ that the whole patch-set be re-architected to avoid depending on the proprietary module. There was really no need (or any excuse really) for being so coarse.
My feeling is that getting a job is like dating, a mysterious mix of luck skill chemistry etc, there are some rules but you can follow the rules precisely and still end up losing just because of some odd misfortune. However if you try long enough and put in a solid good faith effort, long enough being unspecified and possibly after you die or go broke, you generally end up with something decent.

That long enough part is the kicker and that terrifies me in every job search (to the extent I have sometimes jumped at the first half decent opportunity, and agreed to salaries below my potential). I find it does help to apply often and everywhere and not be invested in any particular opportunity.

With dating they say every failed relationship is a step toward finding the right one, and I think that same principle applies to job interviews.

Anyways, that’s my two cents
I hadn't expected to find water powering a machine for making diffraction gratings. TIL about "aliquot part", and that previous centuries' surveyors were probably only one dimension short of having octrees.

https://www.blm.gov/or/programs/minerals/files/aliquot_parts...

https://thediggings.com/faq/define-aliquot-part
>The head of state wants to obstruct voting to usurp power

This accusation is littered throughout this thread. Are there any sources?

Where I've seen this covered by the usual partisan outlets, it has been the typical selective interpretation of his statements. Unsurprisingly, this is used to arrive at the widest possible exaggeration in a sensational fashion.
Yes, that is the principle. The probability of a single point is zero because an integral over a point is zero, hence “very close to it” (in an infinitesimal volume around the point).

The integral of the probability over the phase space is indeed 1. This is the purpose of the partition function, which is the normalisation factor. The weight function is not normalised a priori.
Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types
If you genuinely find that interpretation of my statement plausible then I don't really have anything to add.
You can find articulate and sometimes convincing “skeptics” to suit any scientific viewpoint you want - for example evolution denialism or Holocaust denialism - but that’s just an example of using selection bias to confirm your belief. No reasonable person, I believe, approaching the subject with an honest desire to learn about a subject would chose to ignore the 95%+ scientific consensus in order to form a balanced opinion of it.
This is partly a problem with the design trends. There have been an aversion to have a “Flash Of Unstyled Content / Text” (FOUC / FOUT) in designs, especially since the time when image replacements went out of time and dynamic solutions like sIFR and similar techniques to style headers emerged. Now we have the same with web fonts, we prevent display until the right font I loaded. It’s very bad for UX.
I went googling for some Raymond Chen examples of the great and terrible things Windows does in the name of back compat, and came up with this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450160
It isn't very interesting. Elon is an attention seeking narcissist. He looks for it. When he runs around Twitter calling people paedophiles he's going to have opinions formed about him. What other outcome would you expect?

Elon's latest pronouncement is that Americans are complacent and entitled, especially Californians and New Yorkers. It's not exactly a roadmap to having people think highly of him.
Or something is coming to Goldman Sachs.

With zero-interest rates and quantitative easing, there is no need for countries to borrow money because they can start printing it. At the same time, China controls more and more business processes which leaves less to companies that operate within Goldman Sachs' merger and acquisition world.

Taken even further, market economies could come to an end because they cannot exist in a world where China can be a loss-leader in every strategically important market. If China is poaching TSMC's engineers [1], what does stop them from doing that to all relevant production processes? Either TSMC and all the other companies need artificial profits to pay more to their engineers or there need to be other barriers. Either way, the importance of markets could decline and so could Goldman Sachs.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129861
There's not much utility to many things in daily life if you scrap it to its base components.

It reminds me of the story of how Steve Jobs got John Sculley, then CEO of Pepsi, to join Apple: “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?”
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> I'd still consider MS the gold standard for back-compat

No way! IBM mainframe (zSeries) is the gold standard for backward compatibility in IT.
Buffett spent the last six months panic selling. "Be fearful when others are fearful" is his new motto. He doesn't have the same political connections he had during the GFC to get in on the sweet government-backed bailout deals this time around.
"Why another download manager?" section describes it as if there are no other open source download managers.
For a gold miner* misleading title
No, the difference between python2 and python3 in the managed services goes much beyond unicode in the Google universe.
The most obvious example is that in app engine standard python 2 you can send and receive emails while you need a third party service in python 3.
In my other comment I've mentioned some other issues when Google start neglecting stuff.
Here's your statement:

> And it's pretty disingenuous to go out of your way to take quarks to mean what he called atoms just so you can claim he's wrong.

You can try to identify atoms by his description of them, in which case you'd have to choose fundamental particles. But you've already explicitly chosen to interpret Democritus' "atoms" as identical with our "atoms", despite the fact that they do not exhibit any of the characteristics Democritus described. What can I conclude except that you think Democritus, in the past, named his concept after ours, in the future?
> Information travels with some speed and there will always be people with access to better information making better decisions.

Insider trading is not about having better information than others. People spending effort to figure out better data sources and better ways to value stock is one of the reasons why we even have public financial markets in the first place.

No, the crime of insider trading is about breach of trust: it's only a crime if you obtained the information in some sort of confidence relationship with the company. So, trading based on your intelligence on how much inventory a company moves, obtained through analysis of non-public satellite photos is completely legal, however, doing the same when you have access to the same data as a data center tech is not.
i think this is the key point of the article:

it actually winds up being less DevOps work, on average, to support open-source systems running on bare VMs, than to try to keep up with Google’s deprecation treadmill.
Here we go

"2°C warming would imply [...] average
GDP per capita would be reduced by 13% by 2100.
By comparison, economic impacts at 1.5°C on GDP
growth would be almost indistinguishable from
current conditions (1°C)." https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The_Peoples_Dossi...

13% is like setting the global economy back 10 years by 2100. If we stop using oil, how much will it reduce GDP?

Other predictions are pretty tame, like a 60% increase in fires by 2100. So what? That's not as bad as HIV or cigarettes.
In a sense, it is simple: simple to understand.

Not simple to solve.

Like to win a race Usain Bolt, it's simple, run faster!

Fortunately, Python is well equipped for that. If you open a file with Python that you know it might contains mixed encoded text, you can use try/except to inform the user or open in binary mode, and just store the binary.

But my favorite way of doing it is:

open('file', error=strategy)

Strategy can be:

- "ignore": undecodable text is skipped

- "replace": undecodable text is replace with "?"

- "surrogateescape" (you need to use utf8): undecodable text is decoded to a special representation which makes no human sense, but can en rencoded back to it's original value.

It's kinda ironic because people bashed Python for separating bytes/text, forcing them to deal with encoding correctly in Python 3. After all, this problem of "slamming bytes together" comes from languages that treat text as a bytes array, allowing this stupid mistake.
I'm not sure how the author found these queries, but looking at Google Search Console, I definitely see quite a few queries that I could write content around.
If you make insider trading fully legal you eventually won’t really have public markets. That’s OK, many advanced economies don’t really have huge public markets, but that will be a consequence.
It's relevant to item 5.
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Because it's a bad idea to replace a private monopoly with a regulated state monopoly.

Regulation should instead focus on ensuring that consumers have multiple choices, as is the case in other countries.
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The idea of memory being a shared scratch space for multiple cpus makes a lot of sense for a first order design perspective, but it really no longer holds. CPUs are now distributed systems and should acknowledge that.

What do you think about each CPU owning its own memory region and that to send values to other CPUs, one would have to do a send, either symbolically or physically, that could be implementation dependent.

Abstractions that aren't total and sound are insufficient and should be flagged by the compiler.
Why not embrace both individualism and collectivism?

Entrepreneurship and the military completely embodies this. We allow the individual to prosper and the collective pays to be protect us and our right to individually prosper.

Arguing which one is better seems like arguing if the hammer or the screwdriver is bet. Why not treat individualism and collectivism as tools?
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Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.mozilla.org/is/about/manifesto/. Thanks! Strange!
Don’t they have Service Book shenanigans on BlackBerry?

I thought the carrier had to have BB specific APN or something to download MDM config, even for personally owned phones, much like iOS activation but can only be done over cellular.
If ants were able to determine that you and your efforts were causing pollution, and could understand that it was you doing it, then organize in mass to attack you to stop it, and when their efforts weren't effective evolve new forms of themselves solely to stop you, I certainly think I would give pause when seeing them in my kitchen, wouldn't you?
A thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770461
> Trump loves authoritarians, he has deep authoritarian instincts

The left keeps saying that but I have never understood why. Why would an "authoritarian" be defending people's right to bear arms (2A), their freedom of speech (1A), States rights (federalism 10A) etc. I would even go as far as to say that the left is the one which is authoritarian and simply enjoys name calling assigning labels to the right as described as a tactic by Saul Alinsky which also happens to be loved by Hillary and Obama.
not surprising at all. His goal is to make money (legally) so if people drive the price of gold up, he will profit if possible. Very simple.

He will also sell if he thinks it no longer makes investment sense.
I saw that he mentioned a few of them in the article. He writes:

I can tell you that virtually everything I’ve used, from networking (legacy to VPC) to storage (Cloud SQL v1 to v2) to Firebase (now Firestore with a totally different API) to App Engine (don’t even get me started) to Cloud Endpoints to... I dunno, _everything_, has forced me to rewrite it all after at most 2–3 years.
> Insider trading is one of those crimes where it is a bit ambiguous as to what the crime is (at least to me). Information travels with some speed and there will always be people with access to better information making better decisions.

If you exploit information assymetry to make a profit, then your profit is coming at the expense of whoever had less information than you and made the transaction nonetheless. The argument goes, if you had perfect information symmetry, then the transaction would not have occurred, as the person who was willing to buy or sell the stock (for your profit, with information assymetry) would rather keep the profit for themselves.

If insider trading occurs at a large enough scale, then market players begin to assume that the only plays available to them are offered by people seeking to exploit information assymetry, therefore all plays are losing plays. The result is that nobody participates in the market, and the market as a whole becomes worthless. Stop trying to think of insider trading as a crime that victimizes whoever bought or sold the shares from the person with more information, and try to see it as a crime that undermines the common infrastructure that the economy relies upon.
A bit off topic: I always wondered how people Laplace and his likes made a living. How could he think about these things and get through life? does anyone know?
Sounds great. I guess since MS is doing this, they will stop collecting the 30% on games for Xbox?
Not connections, this time the FED bailed out companies. Last time they had no government cash or was very scarce so they had to call the one person with a purse. And Buffet made the rules, accordingly to the power he held over the borrowers.
Moving less than 5% of one's portfolio can hardly be considered panic selling. The long equity exposure is over $215bn.
That's OK as far as it goes but ultimately we are destroying yet another resource that people rely on. You can make a choice to change direction or get forced to further down the road. Being forced to do something is more painful than making a choice.
> The 2011 census recorded that 2,998,264 people or 36.7% of London's population are foreign-born [0]

The politics of the situation would be brutal; but the UK has a pretty reasonable tolerance for migrants. Strategically the numbers in the article are not a global threat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London
That's a good observation. Come to think of it, according to Google's Search Console[0], most frequently searched for / visited posts on my blog are a) some very specific stuff about numerical methods that I wrote during my university years, b) a decade-old post about fixing issues with Polish diacritics and Y/Z swap on Windows - i.e. explaining how to use CTRL+SHIFT/ALT+SHIFT to fix keyboard layout/language, and how to disable it entirely.

I might start doing it - instead of trying to think of large topics to write, just describe results of any research I needed to do where I had trouble finding reasonable answers. Not for fame or SEO - but as a service to random strangers. Judging by unending stream of searches for over 10 years, I suspect that this post about keyboard layouts/language switch is the single most useful thing I've done in my entire life.

(As context for non-Americans: language & keyboard layout switches are all too easy to hit by accident, and suddenly your keyboard "isn't typing" some characters, or swaps Z and Y, or whatnot. This doesn't go away on restart (or at least it didn't use to), and completely confuses regular people, making them think their computer is broken. Those non-tech-savvy people usually resort to manually copy-pasting problematic characters from a file or from a website whenever they want to type them. You can imagine the impact on productivity and sanity, particularly at work.)

(And I just can't fathom how this is still a problem in 2020. Microsoft, WTF?)

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[0] - I don't use Analytics or any other tracking script on my site. Search Console gives you access to data on performance of your site on Google's search engine, and includes the only two things I ever cared about wrt. any analytics - how do people end up on my site, and what posts do they visit.)
100% correct article. The compiler/runtime does not care if all of your variables are global and all functions modify all of them. Almost all program structure is there for humans and not for computers.
> energy and position come in discrete units

This is not true; position/time are not quantized in the standard model. String theory is not canonical. I think a better way to think about it is not in terms of size, but in terms of time. A particle in a bigger box, on average, can go on a random walk for longer without hitting a wall. It will take longer for a particle to sufficiently (arbitrarily close) exhaust the phase space of a bigger box.
This is a nice story, but the reality is that popular languages and libraries tend to expose API surfaces that are broad and shallow, not ones that are narrow and deep.

For example, a Python string object has something like 40 methods. I counted about 85 instance methods on org.joda.time.DateTime from Java.[1] Turning to JavaScript, every method in Underscore.js lives in a single gigantic namespace.[2]

Experience suggests two related factors that favor the proliferation of big, shallow APIs.

Modern IDEs offer rich auto-completion with pop-up docs. This makes it much easier to look at the available list of fields and methods and choose the one that's appropriate.

A second, related reason is that IDEs generally don't have tooling that is nearly as rich to help you identify the chain of calls you need to make to obtain an instance of some type that has the method you want. Do you get a Connection from a ConnectionContext, a ConnectionContextManager, or a ConnectionContextManagerCache? And how do you get one of those?

Shallow APIs and big namespaces tend to favor easy lookup. Deep APIs where every type only has a handful of methods make you memorize them.

[1] http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/DateT...

[2] https://underscorejs.org/
7 attributes could be too much. Those attributes belong to a class, not an object. If those attributes are binary, there can already be 128 objects within that class. If you have to think about their interaction, you are already well beyond 9 elements.
They could literally Kiat scatter it on the land. It’s a fertiliser
the ticket symbol of barrick is GOLD
Weak typing and generics, isn't that the worst of both worlds?
Assuming the options grant was coordinated with the loan deal (so we don’t need any innuendo about the suspicious timing), would that be insider trading? Couldn’t a company explicitly give a bonus to an executive as a reward for winning some business? Matt Levine makes a similar point in the article you linked.
> "As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country."
But there often are forms of opt-out, such as becoming a business owner (mild), or moving country (drastic).
I constantly hear Robinhood type traders (errr, I mean investors) saying a wave of inflation is coming. While true that an inflationary environment is good for gold, I am not sold on massive inflation coming. Also does not help that gold is at all time highs. I sold out of my position of Barrack about two months ago; perhaps I was a bit early, but I'll take the profits.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find JDownloader2 to be very scammy feeling. It feels like adware software.

However, it truly is the most powerful download manager I’ve found. Combined with multi part downloads, I can easily max out my internet speed.
Ask HN: As a CS student with free time, what can I do to further prospects?
Hi all,

basically the title says it all. I'm currently a CS student working towards my Bachelor's. Since I have plenty of free time (for the most part), I was thinking of picking up other skills/domains to further my prospects of acquiring an internship/job once I graduate.

I was thinking along the lines of:

1. Learning about other topics such as security, distributed systems, graphics which I may not have the chance to formally take a course on (given limited elective choices).

2. Developing expertise in a particular development 'domain', e.g. web development, mobile development through various side projects.

Otherwise, I was thinking of devoting the extra time to going more in-depth than what the module may demand i.e. dive into the textbooks/relevant material and cover content beyond what may be officially covered by the course, but I am not sure to what ends this will help to improve my skillset. What do you guys think?
Is there a case to be made for developing new software on VMS or is this purely for legacy applications?
In the first few paragraphs, he explains that this advice applies only to solo niche writers and not companies or products.
I’ve been using MacBook Pro 2019 on charger most of the time for around 6 months now. The BH is at 98% for me.
I bought a hard case and keyboard cover, but ended up not using it as the case makes the display fall of a sudden while closing due to the additional weight. I also noticed any time I unplug and watch some YouTube without any background tasks,the fans start kicking in.