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What does this have to do with executive orders?

A lot of people here are switching over to Apple's side, but I wouldn't be so quick to throw Kapeli under the bus.

Imagine this scenario:

You buy your cousin a fancy sword for his birthday one year, which he later uses as a murder weapon against his girlfriend. The police look up the serial number and see that although it's registered under your cousin's name, your credit card was used to purchase it.

They arrest your cousin, give him a fair trial, convict him of murder, and place him on death row. You're not in touch with your cousin, so you are completely oblivious to everything which has happened. At this point, SWAT officers storm your home and arrest you, refusing to tell you why. You're thrown in a cell and told you have been placed you on death row, and that their decision is final and can’t be appealed.

Your only saving grace is the fact that you happen to be mildly influential in a small community with ties to the government, and you're able to get your side of the story out.

Articles are written about you. People are outraged at the government. Others come forward to tell of their dead relatives who had been wrongly executed as well.

The Attorney General reads one of these articles and scrambles to do PR damage control.

Se has her aid call you and demand that you make a public statement saying that The Government did nothing wrong, that you were the one who purchased the weapon so they were justified in their actions, and that they are so graciously working with you to clear your name. Of course, they completely ignore the part about their negligence and what would have happened if you were just some no-name.

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I believe Apple desperately needs to change their policies. These statements like "We can't provide you with any more information.", "This decision is final.", and lack of communication are wrong. Sure, they are a private company and have the legal right to remove anything from their platform at any time for any reason without any notice or explanation, but that doesn't mean that their actions should be supported and endorsed by the communities of users and developers.

Their actions should have consequences in the form of diminished trust, which may be the straw the breaks the camel's back in many developer's and user's choices to continue developing for and using their platform.

I will say that it was not smart of Kapeli to publish the phone call; at least not yet. He should have waited a bit longer, and only published it if Apple didn't follow through on their word. However, I still believe Apple is in the wrong here, and Kapeli's only real crime is that of naivety.

On a positive note, this post introduced me to Dash and I have purchased the MacOS app directly through the developer.

And I'm sure I am not the only one :)

I struggled with severe hypochondria for about two years.

I had been feeling tingling/numbness/buzzing all over my body, coming on in waves and lasting anywhere from minutes to over a week at a time. I was ~~worried~~ convinced that it was MS.

My (awesome) doctor told me that it was super unlikely to be something as serious as MS, and that it was most likely my anxiety. I had always avoided medications in the past; even though I knew I had anxiety, I thought I could continue coping with it on my own. I finally took his advice and started taking an SSRI (Paxil) and my very physical symptoms disappeared almost immediately even at the lowest dose, after lingering for months.

Before I started on the medication, I was unable to read the news or search Google about anything health related because the simple mention of any random disease would send me into a near panic attack. Now, I can research any disease in depth and feel zero anxiety.

Oh, and did I mention that prior to being worried about MS, I was convinced that I had some type of heart defect. My doctor at the time was not nearly as good as my current one, and she indulged in my anxiety and we went through the whole battery of tests: EKG, Holter monitor, echocardiogram. Everything came back normal, but my worry just shifted to a new thing.

I guess my experience has led me to two conclusions: treat your anxiety first, and try to find a great doctor.

Check the infographic[1] again, it states $14.3m all-time revenue.

[1] https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1600/1*OnCkdwQnNOO...

They raised $35.5k on Kickstarter, and I'm assuming they have spent all of that plus $7.5k out of their own pocket before shipping a single unit.

I'm not really an OSX developer, but shouldn't it be possible to bypass the sandbox in a way by offering the user to install an unsandboxed auxiliary application via a download from your website which then communicates with the main sandboxed App Store application using some protocol and performs any actions which the MAS version would be otherwise unable to?

For example, perhaps the auxiliary application runs a local HTTP server with a REST API. The MAS application simply makes HTTP requests to the auxiliary application such as `POST /applescript/doStuff`.

Japan has a pervasive air of safety. As a foreigner who can speak a total of 4 words of Japanese, I felt completely safe wandering the streets alone at night, anywhere from the alleyways of Tokyo to the suburbs. There were surprisingly many people outside late at night, yet I never got a "sketchy" feeling from them like I would even in the most safe/affluent parts of America.

If I was in distress for any reason I am confident that I would be able to get assistance from any random stranger nearby. In fact, while on the train, I witnessed a girl collapse and start seizing. The train was relatively busy at that time but everyone sort of just reacted as if they shared a hive mind. 2-3 people kneeled down to try and help her, a few people got the attention of the conductor, and everyone was very respectful and helpful. I can just imagine what would happen if this occurred on Bart. You would probably either be ignored or people would record you on their phones and upload the video to Facebook.

Stereotypes such as?

Just buy three and give them all different names!

What if you linked pages together in a sort of map.

In Minecraft, the world is segmented into 16x16 block "chunks". In this analogy, a chunk would be a web page.

Create a front-end application like Google Maps that allows you to navigate the map of web pages. You can submit a request for a web page at a specific location, e.g. I want the page located at (13, 37). Hyperlinks could be used to teleport users around the map.

Random thought of the day.

I can't comment on it being correct or incorrect, but I believe that it is acceptable in informal speech, at least in American English.

It looks like both co-founders are engineers (or technical, at least), maybe they just want additional help and are offering a "founder" title in return for the risk of joining such a young startup? http://algorithmia.com/about

Done. Sorry, was AFK. http://i.imgur.com/dHqqlkV.png

If anyone wants to complete the last step, if you send me the 1000 Stellars, I'll send 900 back. Username is Davv. The first person to do it will get 1000 back (since I need to do it too)

Well, that's quite disappointing.

I'm imagining this is in preparation for a refresh/upgrade of the MBP this fall?

The thought of even touching systems at such scales terrifies me.

What is "TYOOL 2014"?

"...generate it's own unique..." should be "...generate its own unique..."

Seems to be very unstable on Yosemite Beta 2. I tried loading this thread, and it the HTML view froze immediately. I then tried to load up Reddit, and it just wouldn't load.

It's a really cool concept, though, I look forward to seeing where it goes. It would be super cool if it became stable enough to be my main browser, because I love the customizability.

I just bought your MacBeacon app the other day. Works like a charm, thanks!

Panic always makes such beautiful and cool things.

Wow, that's so cool - are there any other examples of these audio illusions?

I saw this on Reddit [1], I have no idea what's inside so proceed at your own risk.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/272zxf/i_managed_to_g...

Three months after my high school graduation, I moved to Silicon Valley. It was one of the best choices I could have made.

I grew up in a small desert town with not much room to grow. The opportunities there were limited for what I wanted to do, and I knew that if I was still living in that town when I was 40, or even 30, I wouldn't be happy.

Being the procrastinator that I am, I knew that I had to take action immediately, or I would inevitably fall into a lull of complacence: a mediocre job, a girlfriend, a dog? And then I would be stuck; eternally glued to this town that I hated by second-rate obligations. (Not entirely true, people make drastic changes even with other obligations all the time, but it's not common.)

I was (and still am) young, and I believe that you should take as many calculated risks as possible when you're young. Do it before you have a mortgage, a spouse, a kid. It's so much easier then, because failing doesn't mean letting your child go hungry, or losing your home and living on the streets. Worst case, you have to move back in with your parents (assuming they're supportive).

When I'm laying on my deathbed and analyzing my life, I would rather regret trying and failing to achieve my dreams than regret not trying at all. When it gets right down to it, I don't think I would regret failing one bit. Failure is part of life, and since I've moved here I've failed plenty of times. Probably more times than I've succeeded. But the value of my few successes outweighs my many failures, and that's the key.

I've gotten a good job, learned and grown more than I would have imagined possible, met dozens of amazing people, made lifelong friends, co-founded an organization, and I'm happier than I've ever been. Not only that, but I'm excited for the future.

I've still got a long way to go, but I'm so glad that I had the courage and drive to go out of my comfort zone, into a completely foreign situation, all alone, and just do it. Granted, I was extremely lucky to have the full support of my parents and family, but even if I hadn't I think I still would have gone out and done it.

Of course, this is not advice for everyone. It's not really advice at all, just my own experience. Yours may vary. Best of luck.

LastPass, Spotify, DigitalOcean, GitHub, Netflix, Amazon Prime

Would this work with standard JavaScript as well?

Wow, this looks awesome. Unfortunately the site was hugged to death, anyone know if it's on Github?

You seem to have learned a lot in the process. Can you point to any good resources that helped you, specifically with security concerns and outgoing mail reliability? I've already got a mailserver running with a similar setup as you, but I haven't invested much effort into security or making sure mail providers accept my emails (Gmail sometimes marks them as spam and AOL rejects them all together).