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CC processing and CDN is disingenuously reductive of the experience users have been subjected to buying digital software other ways.

Users don’t choose an app store based on how good the processor or download is, or even on discovery, but on trust. Some portion of this fee, arguably much of it, is a friction and trust gap between one experience and the experiences they have elsewhere.

Just as someone doesn’t choose their hospital based on patient outcomes but patient experience, normals buy from the app store because they believe it’s easy and pro user, while their experience buying software directly elsewhere has felt cumbersome or even user hostile.

All that said, I 100% agree that if people buy your app because of who you are, instead of what the app is, Apple’s app store model is not set up for you.
You're right about a lot of that, but there are huge problems with making mere policy violations into federal felonies. We want to stop people from hacking stuff, but at the same time, we can't do that by giving every random company the power to make things into federal felonies via their own complex and often-ignored rules.

I posted up thread too, but my own personal view is that unauthorized access should hinge on whether the person used deception to obtain access. That provides a clear separation between lawful and unlawful conduct without giving private parties the power to define new felonies.

With computers, I don't think that the proverbial "employees only" sign on a load of private data means anything and the incentive should be on the business to provide a proper access control there. Meanwhile, if they add a guard who asks "are you an employee?" and you lie to them to get access, I would say you're unauthorized.

That gives us some semblance of mens rea while not going to far in any direction, I believe.
As frustrating as it may be to receive downvotes for seemingly no reason, getting salty about it simply invites further downvotes.
It really seems that was the original plan.
An email from the Apple vs Epic trial where Steve Jobs gives the go ahead for the app store in October 2007. They had to rush to get the sdk done in three months.

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1400270458608664577
Yeah, my family member was told that she needed to bring her Camry in for a 5-month service at the dealer during the lockdowns, lest she void her warranty.

Ultimately when she pressed them on it, they agreed that the warranty would only be voided as to issues that would have been caught during such service call, but which were not caught and then got worse.
I've never seen Peter Norvig choose anything but the most elegant and perfect data model for the problem at hand. I wonder what it's like to be in his brain.
"For the best Spot experience, we recommend using Google Chrome on a non-mobile device."
And what do you recommend on mobile device?
IANAD, but I'm sure there are some medical contraindications for certain individuals, such as people who are immunocompromised, that may legitimately keep them from being vaccinated. That's why achieving herd immunity is important, and my understanding is that we aren't quite there yet.

Never change, HN.
The "Clojure for the Brave and True" ebook is a popular and free resource for beginners: https://www.braveclojure.com/
Interesting extreme measure. I wonder how effective it really is.
Presumably everything relevant in RHEL gets backported before the next RHEL cut, and everything is in a branch?
Any good website/app/project ideas you want to share?
I spend most days working on uninspired work. Then it comes to 6:30pm, I try to think of good ideas for a website/app/project to work on for myself that might one day turn into a business, but I can't think of any

Do you have any ideas which you are willing to share, maybe ones that you are not wanting to do/don't have time to do them/you are already busy with another project

Any suggestions are much appreciate

Thank you!
How do VCs still fall for this shit.

It is mind bogling.
I think we are confusing two concepts here.

The officer's actions were unauthorized on a system he was provided access to. He didn't gain unauthorized access to a system, he failed to follow the rules on a system he already had access to.
I mean.....surely she would have been given an invoice every time so she can prove the vehicle was serviced there?
I could see a law that has stricter terms for sensitive data, and civil servants with access to it. I'd be ok with that. Maybe even felonies depending on what occurred and whatever the law is.

It's just the law in this case doesn't fit what happened.
Clearly, the process goes as follows. My wife and I are driving somewhere and on the way we decide to stop and pick up a new socieconomic order. We usually stop some place where we can charge our EV and as it happens, they usually have a store serving communism within walking distance. So more often than not we charge our car and get some fresh communism to go.
I remember learning about this on the last day of Calculus class. It was probably the most dramatic classroom moment of any math class I took in college or high school

Lots of high schoolers who thought they knew math saw the first little hint that all these separate areas of the subject might be more related than they had imagined
the biggest current problem with Go and ProtoBuf is swagger support when using it for API returns. Enums are not supported for example. The leniency of protojson can't be used in other languages that built on top of the swagger docs.
Right, I wasn't asking what "single source of truth is" I was asking what a "dev command" is. If you have commands and you want to store them so that multiple people can run them then the solution is NOT make, using make to execute commands is really quite like using machine gun to turn your TV on. Make is a very big and complex tool with lots of nuance and lots of different and not-cross-compatible versions. Moreover, it doesn't always use the same shell on every machine you run it on so using it to store bash scripts (for example) isn't really portable either.

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but neither you nor your coworker know what make is if all you think it is is a way to store subcommands.

If you want shell scripts write shell scripts. If you want them all to stem from one command (as subcommands), use a switch statement. These solutions will actually likely be far more reliable and portable (if you know what you're doing, I would imagine it's easier with portable shell than portable shell in make since even most of the programmers I know who use make for the purpose it was designed for don't seem to understand it very well).
I've been using jenkins for over 10 years.

There is no finer system for turning quick CI hacks into entrenched technical debt.

Jenkins gives you the freedom to do things without the burden of asking whether you should do those things. Jenkins permits you to munge a whole lot of separate domains into a single, creaky system.

There are better tools available for most aspects of CICD and automated testing these days.
Jenkins (when it was still just Hudson) was the forerunner for CI. It made a lot of mistakes but only because nothing else was there at the time to learn from, in my humble opinion. The only alternative in the early days was CruiseControl (which became GoCD) and of the two, Jenkins was far better and more advanced.

I made extensive use of Hudson/Jenkins from 2007 to about 2015 and it has flaws, sure, but I know it made some pretty difficult tasks sane for me, and was pretty straightforward building CD pipelines.

I didn't (and still don't) like the decision to adopt groovy but it is better than configuring via UI and I like that it is imperative, at least.

Some of the jobs I built using Jenkins pretty rapidly include full CD from svn push/git commit to production with all the bells, whistles, gates, and stages in-between, to managing failovers, and even my early foray into IAC with rudimentary remote exec scripts and the likes of chef.

I think it became a victim of its own success. It was _flooded_ with contributions that yanked Jenkins in all kinds of directions with no clear owner for direction and maintenance, which lead to frankly some horrific (but "working") architecture within and a jumbled mess of extensions vs plugins vs patches and all kinds of horrific UI changes, often all conflicting.

I believe it was Gojko Adzic that wrote up a blog article (that I can't find) about 10 years ago listing some of the truly horrendous code in Jenkins source. Stuff like abstract classes typecasting themselves to derivatives to access members.

Looking back Jenkins was and is clunky, messy, uncertain of its purpose in life. But so was just about everything to do with CI at the time. Would I use Jenkins again in 2021 and beyond? Probably not but it definitely added value to the build technosphere.
I don't dispute that the regulatory climate has become far less responsive over the decades, but why forty years ago- during the Reagan administration?
The iPhone is certainly expensive, but it's a bit to abusive to its users to be called "premium."

Maybe if it had a self hosting dev environment like macs do but certainly not the way it is now.
I was able to bootstrap a SaaS business by working as a contract engineer half to three quarters time and building my company in the remaining time. I lowered expenses by moving in with family and eventually to SE Asia until profitability. This meant I had infinite runway but also it took longer . I prototyped for six months and then ran/tested the service for free for almost two years before it was ready for paid plans. Then it went from 0 to ~15k MRR in the first month. A couple of tricks like requiring Dropbox connection for users file storage and utilizing webrtc’s p2p capabilities helped keep running expenses manageable during the lead up to profitability.
ARIN will take down its RPKI for 30 minutes to test your BGP routes
Are you sure about that? Why wouldn't WebAssembly in Safari support JIT?
Clojure doesn't solve the expression problem and the expression problem tends to be trivial in dynamically typed languages.

Strictly speaking the expression problem is only defined for _static_ type systems because its concerned with _static_ type safety and extensions without recompilation.
Places that provide childcare seem to have fewer children. There is a reasonable mechanism of action: without that childcare, families with children quickly give up on having two incomes, and thus the extra children are less of a burden. Once you entirely give up on a career, the problem of career impact for an additional child is gone.

It's not as expensive as you think. I'm no 1%er, yet I have a dozen kids. Dual enrollment provides a nearly-free AA degree, knocking 2 years of a BS degree and eliminating all the general education requirements. With a spacing of 2 years from kid to kid, it's usually only one kid in college at a time. That assumes no scholarships.
I did indeed read the article, and actually read the study it was based on. You can find it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...

They ran an algorithm over a terrain altitude map to reach this figure. These aren't actual potential sites for hydroelectric stations. Much of these potential pumped hydro sites are in Tibet, which would be prohibitively expensive to carry out any sort of infrastructure project like this. The subset of these sites that are actually accessible for development is considerably smaller.

In short, it's a lot easier to write a paper claiming 23 million GWh of storage than it is to actually build that storage.
This person sold access to restricted data and abused his privileged position as civil servant to do so. Maybe it's not CFAA, but I'm sure it should be a felony of some sort.
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I had an extremelysimilar upbringing, and I'm in senior tech management in a systemically-relevant bank now and will be retiring at 40 (in 1.5 years). I didn't need anyone's luck to learn and succeed. I had an end-goal, and I did what was necessary to get there. Drive is the decider, not compliance.
I’m not really interested in devolving the conversation into an argument over what it means to “need” something. We obviously don’t need NFTs in the same way we need breathable air and water, but this just isn’t an interesting discussion.
A cynical person might say that such activities are done because HR (or keepers of company culture) needs to demonstrate their value.
"If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself" is a straight quote from the last paragaraph of the post in question, not a paraphrase or elided excerpt. https://web.archive.org/web/20210602000424/https://www.kamau...
Similar to if someone does something they aren't supposed to in a business, they aren't immediately charged with breaking and entering or trespass.
In real life, a 5 minute gas fill-up and a 15 minute charge are approximately equal. You don't have to wait at the charger like you do for gas, so it can charge while use use the bathroom and buy a coffee.

But unfortunately 20-80 is only 3-4 minutes faster than 0-80, just over 25 minutes give or take a few minutes depending on temperature etc. Like cell phones, car batteries can charge a lot faster when they're empty.
I'm not conflating them. I think collective blame is generally a bad thing in itself and it is the way of thinking that begets racist and tribal attitudes. It is also inaccurate.

Bernie Sanders is an American who was advocating against the Iraq War. He was clearly not culpable for it, and his causal role was to lower the probability that it would go ahead. This is an example of why it would then be wrong to blame "Americans" as a collective for the Iraq War. Bernie Sanders, a member of that collective, deserves either zero blame or negative blame (if that even exists).
What is the current thinking for trying to price-in the pandemic-spreading-externalities of intercontinental flights?
Because the order exists even if it doesn't matter (at least for two children, maybe not for two quantum particles).

With the risk of being accused of binarism, there are four distinct possibilities with (close to) equal a priory probability of 25%: older boy/younger boy, older boy/younger girl, older girl/younger boy, and older girl/younger girl.

Discarding the girl/girl case leaves three equally probable cases.
Hi, not who you asked but I didn't want to sign up.

I'm replying because a video overview would go a long way to explaining/demonstrating your idea. Not everyone wants the ordeal of signup to see what it's gonna look like.

Hope this helps.
Make the transit ship spin. Surround the habitable parts with water and other materials. It’s so simple but nobody seems to be aware that these are solved problems.
The object and guarantee of uniqueness are one and the same, there's no required group trust. I have the comic, I own the comic. The comic is unique and the rareness and desirability of the comic assigns it value. The NFT is divorced from the thing it owns, but somehow the NFT is the thing that assigns ownership and value. A perfect copy of "Charlie bit my finger" can be replicated trivially nearly instantly. There is no value there. The NFT is the thing that carries the value in that situation because the video being collected isn't rare, unique, or special.
Show HN: Communicate with your social media contacts via text message
but two-thirds of the Tesla site is located in a designated drinking water protection zone

Lack of due diligence, combined with an utter disregard for law and custom. Sounds like Elon Musk.
* Please note this is a work in progress and please make sure you understand the security implications before using.

The idea is to have one place to communicate with all your contacts on various platforms. You can send and receive messages to your contacts on Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Telegram, etc. all as if you're sending a text to one of your phone contacts without needing to install an app (it also works with old feature phones.) Once you connect your various accounts a list of new contacts is sent to your phone to add to your existing contacts. This includes your friends' avatars and an icon in the bottom right corner to indicate which social media platform they're from.

This is implemented on top of Matrix, using modified bridges to push messages to the backend server.

We would love to receive any feedback and possible ways to improve this. Currently you must login or provide your cookies to different platforms to use this service. This is a major downside that we're working on fixing, any suggestions would be welcome.

Is this something you would use? What are some of the use cases you can think of (personal/professional)?
Using Tesla's "autopilot" isnt very different than working as an unpaid driving instructor to keep an eye on the "autopilot" trainee. To make things worse, the trainee is tripping on mushrooms and sees nonexistent cars appearing from nowhere, trees morphing into pedestrians and pedestrians morphing into traffic lights. The trainee also has a problem with epilepsy and youre expected to take control on a second notice. Edit: also, the trainee has cognitive ability of a mentally challenged frog.
Every 16+ year old in the Bay Area has had access to a vaccine for 6 weeks.
The poorest mainly have a negative net worth so I'm not sure the inflation would hurt them as long an min wage and/or UBI kept up...

Realistically we need a private debt jubilee - inflation is just one way to get there.
How would that prove no one else ever worked on it?
perfect, thank you.
The people who argue that aesthetics and beauty aren't required for art basically reduce art to novelty. Whatever rubbish you throw together, as long as it's a new arrangement of rubbish and you have some pretentious GPT3-esque word salad to describe it, is enough to get modern art fans off. Or you get the modern art fans who say art is just about 'creating a reaction', but wouldn't be quick to support Confederate statues or other things that happen to not align with their personal views, despite it causing quite a reaction. For some reason beauty and aesthetics get bashed more and more in recent years.
Compensation changes are hidden in “cost of living” adjustments.
Civil and criminal law are distinct for a reason. In criminal law the consequences for your wrongs are much more dire-- you face the power of the state against you and you can be denied your freedom.

Triggering the CFAA on policy violations creates a general tool to convert civil matters into not just a crime, but a relatively serious one! It essentially lets system operators write private law with criminal enforcement without the oversight of the public.

To give a silly example: Your landlord prohibits you from painting your walls. Their payments website has some terms of US that makes it a CFAA violation to use their site with painted walls. Suddenly what otherwise might be a lawsuit over the $500 cost to repaint is a state funded attack where you face ten years in prison.

It's clearly wrong to use the CFAA that way in the silly example, but it's no less wrong in less silly cases. Saying the CFAA can't be used to create private criminal law doesn't mean that policy violations can't be prosecuted-- but it means they should be prosecuted under other laws (with intentionally matched terms and penalties) or as civil matters.
Abomination!
Wait, are you saying that because technological progress is too fast, technological progress is slow?
I would consider this a feature. Most new cars would be non starters for me based on being crammed with junk tech that presents long term maintenance issues.
Your shell file with a switch isn't going to do incremental parallel builds.

If you understand make, your makefile will behave as you expect it to. If you try to read a makefile as a shell script you'll constantly be surprised.
I know that software patents and licenses are a murky field, but I was wondering if anyone knows of any licenses or ideas that fit a situation I am in. I can't go into much detail but this is a general description of my situation:

I am working on a startup idea that has a component that I would like to 'defend'. I am trying to improve a process for developers and I think this new component is a big piece of solving the problem. The component is a unique/new part of a pipeline, but there are already established companies working on pipelines to solve the same problem. This component executes on the client side, so it can not be kept as a secret process that happens server side. I know that once it is viewed by competitors, they could reimplement the idea without directly using the 'source code' and add it to their pipeline/product. I want to be able to distribute my project to potential users and allow them to use it freely while also preventing competitors from copying the ideas into their own products.

I know that patents were originally created to incentivize innovation by preventing established competitors from simply copying ideas/processes from new competitors, and I feel that I am in that situation.

One idea I had is to separate the unique component into its own library then give my own project the right to license/distribute the library, but I do not know if there are any off the shelf licenses that support that.
On that we agree - if there's one thing in short supply on the internet, it's nuance.
But then he should be charged under the set of laws pertaining to bribery or corruption. I don't think anyone here disagrees with that. The question is should this crime of corruption get a massive additional pentaly specifically because it was committed on a computer.

The supreme court says that this law has a purpose: to catch people who gain unauthorized access to computers. If laws are interpreted too broadly, they can be used to overcharge people. The example given by the supreme court is that if this law covers unauthorized use of a computer you are authorized to have access to, then sending a personal email on a work computer can be a felony.
Also gives you something to do, while you are waiting. By the time you plugged in the 5th wire, the first 4 charged you halfway :D
I'm finding there are a certain group of people who are really struggling socially, and to them this is a good thing, even with the risks. Some people lost their whole social network when the office went home, and they long for it to come back.

As a person who can only handle so much social interaction, it is baffling, but to others, it is baffling to stay home all the time.
Modeling API Traffic to Catch Breaking Changes
Imagine if they tried to cram a bunch of people in a literal metal tube with no windows and send them to the bottom of the ocean for months as a time. How could anyone be stupid enough to think that would work?
nclnqq@mail.com write there are a lot of ideas.
> And doing things dynamically means we can enforce stronger constraints than possible with static type systems.

Can someone please explain this to a novice like me?