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This has happened to me. I was learning Haskell until finally the pressure of "how will this help me pay bills" persuaded me to stop and learn Python instead. Even with Python there's the pressure of "I can't make an online sideproject by it" which has tempted me at times to switch to JS, but I've resisted that so far.

This.

I studied Electrical Engineering and in my experience, the only thing my classmates cared about was the technical aspects of the field, and often they couldn't see the big picture. Great talents of course, but more like robots, not even capable of understanding the humanitarian aspects of life. Such a waste.

Disclaimer: It's just my experience, not necessarily true for all engineers and engineering schools.

TL;DR:

Sell it per download.

Why?

If it is to be run in areas that rarely have access to the internet, then your target market isn't probably interested in buying a license or any thing that even remotely makes the app hard to use.

Go easy on your customers. From the moment they visit your website to the moment they have the app up and running should not take more than 3 clicks. Just my 2 cents.

> The internet is based on trust.

Maybe that's why we need to move towards blockchain-based networks since trust is not required on blockchain, only proof.

Thanks, I need a curated list of all such websites :)

Actually it's not just that. I believe sometimes people forget what enormous achievement it was to have _one_ centralized repo for all the apps a fragile, mobile device can have. Without AppStore, the dark ages of Symbian suddenly come into mind. And sure, Apple has had a number of flaws when it comes to AppStore policies and regulations, but part of Apple's sternness and rigidness is well justified, given the myriad of apps it has to serve, and safety and security of billions of devices that run those apps.

Thank you so much, it really was helpful.

I was wondering, has anyone here applied cluster analysis techniques for anomaly detection?

I read a paper that used it for insurance fraud detection, but I don't know what other fields are using clustering to detect frauds and abnormalities?

I'd be grateful if someone can help.

I mostly agree with you. But really, who needs +16GB RAM on their laptop?! I think the need for more RAM is correlated with the need for more CPU clock, more powerful graphic card, and a better Motherboard, all of which result in a huge decrease in battery life (which is supposed to be a laptop's main strength over heavy, power-consuming PC).

From Game Theory perspective, "not using Linux" is actually the game's equilibrium. Because if you have to choose between a proprietary OS (Windows, macOS) and an FOSS (GNU/Linux, BSD, ...), you'd have to choose the former in order to increase your own utility. If people said they're gonna start using Linux from now on, that wouldn't work, since at least some are willing to "unilaterally deviate" from that decision and use Windows/macOS to gain a boost against others.

If you want people to start using FOSS, you'd have to offer them something they can't have on non-FOSS alternatives.

It's was about time we moved on to the next energy-storage technology for mobile devices. I can't believe in 2018, battery is still the main issue of all flagships.

> Lifted most of these food ideas from a thread on reddit btw.

Do you remember which thread it was?

I've heard that Kaggle data sets encourage people to do "supervised" ML only. Is that true?

Can these datasets be used for academic and research purposes?

Another reason: Stylus (FF-only) vs. Stylish (which works on both FF and Chrome, but collects your data).

It'd be great if there was a service that you could sign up for, which would "deceive" Facebook, Twitter, and other social media websites by producing false information about you. For example, if I don't want FB to know what movies I'm interested in, how about liking "random" movie pages on FB? If I don't want FB to know about my political orientations, how about run with the hare and hunt with the hounds?

I know, I didn't mean that you criticized NASA, I was talking about other people.

I know a bunch of mysterious Mars images were debunked in the past, but I'd very much like to know real explanations about these:

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150828091203-mars-pyr...

https://i0.wp.com/planetaria.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3...

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/ox53f235bf.jpg

Well, I believe NASA is one of those few organizations in the world that's actually doing the humanity a favor. Despite that, it has been criticized for decades. Remember how people complained about millions of dollars that NASA used for Apollo missions? Some even argue(d) that space missions are pointless, and that there are more important issues on the Earth that we should cut NASA's funds. In my view, this view is just outrageous and disgraceful. Astronomy and space exploration is a very humbling science that not only will help us survive our disastrous extinction on this planet, but also makes us realize how unimportant we are in this vast universe, and what issues really matter in the world.

I'd rather see my money go to NASA and be spent on space discovery than see it spent to make useless products, or worse yet, to shed blood.

Be it as it may, I believe some actions can benefit both users and companies. Maybe taking privacy seriously is going to benefit Apple's business, but it is going to benefit millions of users, too. So I guess it's a clever move by Apple.

> We are evolved to survive and reproduce, but not necessarily to be healthy, comfortable, or happy

This. Unless, we interfere with the fcking evolution and make necessary alterations ourselves.

Interesting points! In Ancient Aliens documentary, they claim these "intelligent creators" are the so-called ETs (aliens). But regardless of whether that's true or not, one could ask "ok, who created those ETs?" and again, you'd go one level back and should try to find some older intelligent beings who designed our creators, etc., etc.

But this has to stop at some point, because the universe - to the best of my knowledge - is only (!) 13.8 billion years old, thus, some intelligent beings must have appeared some where in the universe long time ago. The question is: "how did THAT happen?" It could be that mere _chance_ resulted in a very early development of intelligent life on a planet in a galaxy far far away. The same process could have helped shape life on the earth too.

Or, maybe there really was an intelligent _being_ in charge of things that designed the whole universe such that exactly a few billion years after the Big Bang, in a specific galaxy and on a specific planet, some certain type of life would appear which would later create other forms of life, and maybe we are created by those people, thus, indirectly, created by that "intelligent being". You may call that "intelligent being" God.

> Would you agree to those terms if you had a realistic alternative?

What do you mean? If one doesn't want to agree with such terms, there are quite many android alternatives, some of which even better than iPhone/iPad in certain aspects.

I refer you to read Apple's Software License Agreements carefully. They're here: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

Specifically it states: " The software (including Boot ROM code, embedded software and third party software), documentation, interfaces, content, fonts and any data that came with your iOS Device (“Original iOS Software”), as may be updated or replaced by feature enhancements, software updates or system restore software provided by Apple (“iOS Software Updates”), whether in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (the Original iOS Software and iOS Software Updates are collectively referred to as the “iOS Software”) are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Inc. (“Apple”) for use only under the terms of this License. Apple and its licensors retain ownership of the iOS Software itself and reserve all rights not expressly granted to you."

If a person has agreed to these terms, I don't see how they can complain about Apple's policies in the future. The same software that isn't owned by the person, but is Apple's, now refuses to run Steam Link. The person who agreed to such terms had it coming, you can't blame Apple for that.

Given that Apple - as a private company - is the owner of iOS, no one can blame them for what they wish to include/exclude from their ecosystem. A mistake many people make these days is they think just because some services are so prevalent and worldwide, they ought to be under control of the law and government. The same thing happens when people complain about Google/Amazon/Facebook for their policies. They're private companies! If you don't like them, fine, quit using their services, simple as that.

The day we give a person the right to sue a private company over their policies, we will essentially kill the free market.

Some of the saved backgrounds in PNG format have noises and lines in them, see for example:

https://imgur.com/a/HDroZP1

Otherwise, it's a very nice and neat website, kudos!

Does any one please know a curated list of all lawsuits between Apple and Samsung?

I've checked the Wikipedia page, but it's missing some trials and lawsuits.

How is Fuchsia pronounced? Is it like "f*ck+sia"? Or more like "fushia"?

Edit: looking up in dictionay, it's actually /fjuːʃə/.

Great post. I welcome any alternative to HTML+CSS+JS. It's time we moved on from these [in my opinion] garbages.

Sorry I'm sending you this here, I actually found this post of yours here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877297

I'd be thankful if you could elaborate on the process. Apparently, there's still not enough progress made in importing IPFS to iOS.