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So some further Googling. Steve Jobs himself, quoted in WSJ:

(Google SB121842341491928977 to avoid the wall)

Apple raised hackles in computer-privacy and security circles when an independent engineer (NB: the wrong one you were talking about) discovered code inside the iPhone that suggested iPhones routinely check an Apple Web site that could, in theory trigger the removal of the undesirable software from the devices.

Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program -- one that stole users' personal data, for example -- to be distributed to iPhones through the App Store. "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull," he says.

You don't get too much more clear than a quote from the then-CEO.
We have been here before.

1. That is will be

2. This: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Schelte isn't quite as long, but quite a bit larger in tonnage (around 50%, IIRC) (pictures at http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/1376740/Pieter-Schelte-co...)

3. There is a small chance the container ship and the Pieter Schelte will meet in Rotterdam soon.
Check out http://cortical.io - their idea might offer better results.
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You might be interested in phage therapy. A phage is a virus that attacks bacteria. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy)
If you have this problem, you are in control of what DNS server you use, and can make sure it sends the appropriate records. We are talking about a “problem” which affects very few people, and those it affects have the budget to make sure this is the case.

Also, there is, by now, a lot of operational experience with both MX records and SRV records, and they are well understood. They are not the wild unknown you make them out to be.
good (but difficult) read, good reminder that not everywhere is SV, and not everywhere is the USA, and the old "1 in 10 succeed" pseudo-statistic is true.

I do my own side projects from time to time, and seeing what they went through is a real eye opener, maybe I'll be a little less naive when I do launches from now on.

I am glad that they got back to a lean startup model towards the end though, selling someone an idea is such a shaky way to do business (despite the fact that it's used so much), it makes so much more sense to bootstrap at least a little bit (even if it's just drumming up non-paying clientele).
I can understand information theory and systems theory, so maybe the question is whether there is anything in "hacking" that is separate from those two theories that is being explored?
If the to-camel-case function never changes or grows in scope, then you don't need to maintain or test it.

If it does change, then you need to integrate & test your dependencies, same as if it were part of your own codebase.

I think this point is often overlooked by the "I'll use someone else's code because I don't want to maintain it" folks. Code that is frozen doesn't rot: if you never change a piece of code and don't change its dependencies, it will continue working. Similarly, usually the reason you'd in-source a library is so you can change it at-will without getting some other maintainer to accept your patches. Most of the time, the effort that you save by using 3rd-party code is exactly equal to the time it would take to write & debug the library to get it to its current state, minus the time spent hunting for, learning, and integrating the library. Both of these are pretty easy to estimate when it's a one-line function; does it take you longer to find and npm install that one-line function than it does you to write a line of code?
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Hm :/ that's really possible. I wrote it for Czech startup scene not for international and obviously it makes more sense here then out there.
Is there anything interesting behind this story?

For every successful startup, there is hundreds or tens of thousands that failed and you've never heard of them.

In all seriousness, this article is not different than confessions of someone who happened to hit the jackpot.
You're both breaking the HN guidelines by being personally abrasive. Please don't.
There's much to be said for that. We used that for automatic driving, using the starting point of the trip as the pole. This works well for trips of moderate length. GPS coordinates in Earth-centered, earth-fixed form (a vector from the center of the earth, which what you really get out of GPS) map easily to this form.
Hah, you just want to get people to click that link to your article so you can get views and feel good about yourself.

[Cue reply to me saying I'm only replying so that I can see other people pay attention to me and reply to my comment.]
Coolness? I doubt "NES emulator in Java" would get any upvotes with the nowadays userbase of HN... :)
Thanks! I really don't hide that this is story more about how not to do your startup. And how entrepreneurs are not born.
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I've seen his response a million times but I've never seen anyone quote the actual question he was responding to. And I have it on extremely good authority (sorry, anecdotal, but the best I can do) that the blacklist under discussion was the CoreLocation blacklist I described.

My best guess is Steve was asked about the blacklist, didn't have any direct knowledge of what he was being asked about, so simply assumed that it was in fact an app blacklist as everyone else did, and came up with what was probably the best response he could under the circumstances.
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Nice. Im designing and redesigning pages often. So this comes in handy. Where does the data come from? What is the business model?

One thing: The way you intercept clicks is very annoying.

Clicks on the images don't work at all for me. Because I open everything with a middle-mouse-click in a new tab. And you intercept that and open an in-browser popup instead which I hate.

So I work around that by clicking on the url. You intercept that too and show a "redirecting you to..." popup. Very annoying. When I browse examples of design, I want to go fast. Not be interrupted all the time.
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What you want re public keys in dnssec secured DNS is called Dane. Browsers are slow to implement it though.
Looks promising, but did I read correctly "each one harder than the next"? ;)
It is a good book for starters but they are talking a lot about tags. It was published in 2007 so a bit out of date
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Somehow reminds me of Stratechery's writeup about Pleco, a Chinese dictionary app: http://stratechery.com/2014/pleco-building-business-just-app.... There's something to identifying a problem and working relentlessly to solve it—and, of course, to being willing to experiment and find a business plan that works for your product.
> Imagine if even 5% or 10% of the 61,179 people who signed that petition instead organized rallies in their cities, or a kind of Leave The Internet Alone rally in DC. That might or may not accomplish something;

Well, but wasn't it actually exact purpose behind creating the site? So that people vent on it, instead of rallying on the streets? Of course, this is disgusting, but wouldn't surprise me...

> but Carmen Ortiz will leave for a seven-figure law

To those of us who believe in Higher Power, she will face much harsher consequences when she crosses to the other side.
You're absolutely right. Media presents startup scene with success story for every day. It kinda seems that you can make success out of everything. Obviously that's bullshit. But ofcourse it's not Califronia or SV's startup problem. This was just my idiocy to not to question why do exactly this and even if it makes sense.

Well, this was really expensive knowledge.
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We did most of the development and testing, but didn't get it 100% production ready after we decided we wouldn't release the app.

Since the main functionality of the app is the push notification service, having users compile their own apps wouldn't really be very helpful. Users need to subscribe to our push notification channel via APNS, and they can't do that if they're compiling themselves.

We could have ignored that and built our own, less-than-realtime push service, but even still, having users compile their own apps means that our users have to pay the $99 and sign the developer agreements instead of us, and I don't think that's a very reasonable request.

I think the best solution is for us to release on the Cydia marketplace, and I think it's pretty likely we'll do that.
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A simple comment but one of the best I've read on here
UPS does actually do something like this. If you buy a UPS label online without an account, you pay what's called "list price," which is the full advertised price for shipping. However, if you're a shipper with an account, UPS will discount your shipping below list price if you do a lot of business with them. I've seen up to a 20% discount for parcels shipped UPS Ground on a small company's account.

I don't have any data on this, but I suspect that some combination of the list price discount and some special contractual arrangements are what allow Amazon to offer services such as Prime for such a low price. List price for a 1 lb next day air shipment were on the order of $50.00 last time I shipped anything.
Good point, one that's solved in part by the general lack of Android updates on so many devices. Android devices (and sorry, I'm generalizing again based on what I see people around me say/do) are seen as a widget; buy this for exactly what it offers today and nothing more. iOS devices are, on the other hand, seen as future-proofed; buy this today and get everything new that's coming out over the next few years.
I totally understand. And good luck! :)
All right, I'll be the first one to admit that I don't know what the hell I'm looking at. Would some sort of explanation, or at the very least some source code, be too much to ask?
We still have our heads screwed on backwards and choke on food.
> If you want to do work that most people would rate as interesting, you're going to pay a very high "passion tax" for the privilege.

True. See game companies

Of course there's a whole spectrum between "boring" and "cool", and even games have some very boring parts
Yes.

Originator of the petition. Pressed enter. When I thought I could edit after. So PEBKAC
I find these articles about these massive boats just mind blowing. Really interesting stuff. My only issue is there is never enough pictures!
I'm a graphic designer. But my friend Premek ofcourse know how to code. But after many small „projects“ we wanted to make it the right way. Well obviously „the right way“ wasn't the right way, we only thought it is at that time.

And what we were doing? Well... we were stupid. We were able to produce but not to sell.
Maybe if we took some heroine we would deliver at least one good product.
> Imagine if even 5% or 10% of the 61,179 people who signed that petition instead organized rallies in their cities, or a kind of Leave The Internet Alone rally in DC.

Because the truth is that people generally don't care enough to do anything worth while ("signing" a petition is pretty minimal in terms of effort). There will always be the activists that are local to the cause who will do everything they can to fight, but everyone else, living their own lives, working, being parents, having hobbies or what have you have their own personal problems to take care of.

It's just routine. With the added regular news from the regular sources, who knows how manipulated they are, they're just so removed from what's actually going on. Not to mention, many people won't ask "What can the people do?" but "What can I do?" and their answer will be: "Nothing!"

We live in a world where people are told to live their lives, handle their business and the rest will be taken care of.

Maybe that's just common in Canada.

I don't like this situation, but this is what I'm seeing.
Of course you are right re environmental pollution with either certificate type. Phk is also speaking about caching reverse proxies. Why should you encrypt everything when being in your own private network.
> you're being DISHONEST

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
Looks like you were going to paste a link but it didn't stic. . . .
Cydia requires jail breaking and that's a decidedly user-hostile thing to suggest, especially when it comes from a respected name like the EFF. Jailbreaking disables crucial security measures on iOS, and many things people like to install after jailbreaking destabilize the OS (granted, you can jailbreak without installing those hacks). It's not a coincidence that every time there has been news of malware affecting iOS, it only affected jail broken devices.

All in all, I would vastly prefer that the EFF not encourage users to jailbreak.
> It causes specific measurable changes to brain function and anatomy.

So does learning The Knowledge.
No, I haven't seen this one! That's incredible how similar the designs are. I just really enjoy the narrow column as it makes the article more readable. I'll reach out to them. Thanks!
So, I am the person who wrote that petition. (and yes I'm aware of the issues with the wording )

The decision to name Carmen Ortiz was deliberate; she is a political appointee and thus could be dismissed at the administrations pleasure. That they chose to hide behind the 'cannot discuss personnel matters' figleaf is to put it plainly; bullshit. Political appointees are just that, political; and the fact that the administration is too cowardly to defend their choice in this matter speaks volumes.

It doesn't really matter; Aaron is still dead, Carmen Ortiz still has her job (although hopefully her political career has topped out) and we carry on.
The core issues here, as they seem to always be, are:

1. Getting people organized and calling them to action.

Frankly, Aaron got this, and he could blend code, politics, and organize people around causes. Down deep, I suspect some people who would not benefit from those attributes took notice. Call me out on that being a conspiracy theory, and I may not even argue. But, I found that aspect of Aaron compelling. Hard to imagine others didn't take notice.

He left some great models. There doesn't seem to be anybody out there picking up those pieces, or if they are, it's not apparent --or as apparent as Aaron's efforts were.

Maybe it takes a group to do what he did. I don't know, but I sure liked what he was doing. It got people thinking, talking, contributing, doing more.

Rallies and such get attention. I like seeing them, and I like participating in them. What I don't know is how effective they are in the current media climate. One distinctive aspect of how Aaron chose to move people and set things in motion is it worked through non-mainstream / traditional / old media channels.

I do know for sure that we need more of that. If it's connected to citizen action events, great! Maybe that helps actualize it for people or keep them motivated.

2. Money in the politics.

We've all hashed this out. Let's just say I agree with Lessig in that we are going to have to somehow work this system to change it. I don't know if Mayday is the right kind of effort, but I support it, because we will learn things from it at the very least.

Others differ in their goals, and again, it's really hard to get people centered in on this, and we need to. We need to, because darn near every issue we care about is linked to it, and we are always making trade-offs, instead of actually getting things resolved to a better state we all would live better with.

And living better is really the goal, isn't it? I don't care who is right, or who has it perfect. I just want things better.

Seems to me, we should be able to center in on "better" and not worry so much about perfect, or "right", just better and maybe keep doing that so that we get to "right" or "just" or "perfect" over time, incrementally.

Until we see significant and sustained action on these fronts, I'm afraid it's more deals, not any meaningful changes we can feel good about. And those deals can be really ugly, or somewhat ugly, or maybe just sort of OK too. Depends on our voice and who we've got in the legislative role at the time.

My .02 anyway.
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Crap... I should add we also seem to be caught up in transactional politics.

Vote this, get that. When that breaks down, people do too, and we don't get movements moving.

We need movement politics, and the points I made in the parent post speak right to that. Significant, sustained efforts that don't go away easily and that can grow over time.

Movements, not transactions.

To me, the petition thing is just a warm fuzzy as declan put out there. "Hey, I did something, where is that beer and TeeVee..."
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CT scan time is ~0.2-0.5 seconds for a 160mm slice, so a whole body can probably be scanned fairly quickly. However, CT scanning is only done for the body parts of interest, to keep radiation exposure low.

Most fascinating here is the ability to capture a beating heart!
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The response is pretty shitty as well. They randomly capitalized several words and don't get me started on the last sentence. It hardly looks as if it was edited.
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> I think the parent commenter's question was whether it would be illegal to publish something that was the subject of a credible terrorist threat, not to make a credible terrorist threat.

Oh. Sorry. I guess I didn't even consider that, because it would be obvious to me: Yes, of course you can publish something that was the subject of a threat. That isn't even mildly controversial here; in fact, not publishing something because you were threatened would be seen as rank cowardice. Look at what happened to Sony for what was ultimately a brief delay in releasing The Interview.

> You addressed whether people are allowed to make threats (no) rather than whether the government can use the threats as a reason to prevent the thing that is the target of the threats (generally also no).

Right. Exactly.
Yes I agree very nice images. The article was light on detail, but looking at the results it appears, in common with other x-ray imaging, to be most effective with dense tissue, like bone where it reveals fine detail.

Soft tissue isn't as well delineated. No doubt that the vascular images were made using contrast media. The value of the new device may well be most evident in the images of vessels in the brain, a region notoriously difficult to visualize adequately. Those images are things of beauty and I can see how the technology could translate to saved lives. (Think about enhanced ability to find a brain aneurism or small bleed.)

MRI is complementary as more effective with soft tissue than x-ray, but less useful for dense matter like bone. Amazing how much the world of medicine has changed in the last 40 years. It's a domain where digital technologies have made a startling difference. Great to see these wonderful technologies put to such good use.
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Expecting anything more than this kind of response from an online petition is naive.
Might not be as long as you think, Android smartphones are making steady in-grounds on market share and the open-ness of the ecosystem makes it much more business and school friendly. The apple stamp of approval process that requires everything to be pg-13 and closely monitors and restricts app's control of the device is crippling it for a variety of applications.

For example, it's kind of sad that the only way to capture high quality screen recordings is to jailbreak your device and install DisplayRecorder, and it's been that way for 5+ years. Hardware supports been there, apple policy has not.
Does anyone know if the containers interlock in some way? I figure that they don't, because that would make it more difficult during unloading.

I get that the bottom and middle containers are held in place by the hull or the "racks", but the top contains seems to just be sitting there held in place only by their own weight.
Exactly. This is called slacktivism. Which is also a major reason why none of these online petitions which require a simple mouse click and nothing more are not taken seriously by most folks.
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You can do one command, `go get -u github.com/nwidger/nintengo` and it will be installed. No Makefiles, no header files when developing, the code is nice and clean. Those are some off the top of my head.
Honestly, I felt that there would be a difference because Aaron is Jewish and attended a good University - while the waterboarded and tortured CIA prisoners were of "lessor" ethnic and educational pedigrees.
There are much better options in the UK. I have been attending an evening clinic once a month for the past couple of years where I'm given 2 x two-week prescriptions for buprenorphine which are dispensed by a pharmacy once a week. When I first attended I had to collect the prescription every day - which I did after work - but after a month or so they trusted me enough to move to once-a-month. It doesn't affect my job as it's all done in the evening and the only time I had to visit during the day was my first session there where I met with a doctor to assess my condition and that was a saturday.

I've also been on holiday a number of times and they provide enough to cover me while I'm away as long as I give them 2-weeks notice and provide proof of the holiday and it's duration.

I have been slowly reducing my daily dose and I'm now close to stopping entirely and it's been totally painless. The staff are always friendly and I can't express how much they've changed my life.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this just looks like a modern CT scan. Impressive, of course, but definitely not a revolution. These machines have been steadily improving for thirty years.
I find that there are two extremes--never enough pictures or too many pictures and not enough description of what I'm looking at. D'oh!
Haters gonna hate. Microsoft, Intel, Google - these brands are never cool for some ungrateful as where we are today is in big part thanks to those three.
First of all, thanks for your detailed response!

1. Yes! That's exact.

2. You're right, of course. There was always bad reasons why to do some of the projects. The term „spray & pray“ is accurate.

3. Today I would do it differently. We made mistake on every corner we took.

4., 5. We wanted to go out of the Czech Republic, but that phase never happened. Of course, it should be the phase one.

6. This was an ego problem. We thought we're ready. How foolish of us.

You're right. That's actually why I left the WeLoveMail (last project that is still in progress). There have to be some real change.

But hey, thanks again for your advice! I really appreciate it.
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