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I wonder what would have happened if the f.lux developers refused to take down the code, besides cancelling their developer account.
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>but legally you have agreed to follow the license //

I'd say "are bound by the license" - however if you download Xcode from the app store do you get "adequate notice" of the browse-wrap license?

Can't personally inspect the license from https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewEula?... as it redirects saying one needs the Mac App Store to do that.

A license can restrict use, but copyright concerns copying. They allow copying of the code, which is necessary for use, but attempt to acquire acquiescence to their license terms. I'm not sure however as there is no consideration how users can be considered to be under license. In short if the copying is fair-use, which it looks like it reasonably could be, then how can the use be controlled?
Most people buy cars without ever being asked to be fingerprinted. I don't think that's really on them so much as it is on the crazy dealer.

I don't understand why you call f.lux's inability to get in the App Store "drama." The reason it can't get in the app store is really simple: Apple provides no public API to do what that app does, and Apple prohibits the use of private API in the app store. It wouldn't matter who was doing it, Apple wouldn't allow it regardless.

So I really see no connection between being unable to get f.lux into the App Store and making the news for refusing to allow a BMW dealer to take fingerprints while buying a car.
There's a lightbulb in the bottom right you can click to give feedback. We have already gotten feedback that it's a little hard to find so we will fix that in the next day or so! And if you're a coder we would love comments and PRs in Github.
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I'd imagine they don't want to end up looking like they're encouraging this behavior in anyway (including tacitly). Flux may be relatively harmless, but that might not be the case with other apps.
It's pretty consistent. See for example my recent comment on a Parkinson's treatment where I said "there's fuck all evidence that it works", mentioning the placebo effect and overhyped science, which has -2. Perhaps people are offended by the swear word (which I thought was appropriate in the circumstances)? Perhaps I need to write a whole spiel explaining the placebo effect so I don't get instantly downvoted (I don't really have the time for that)?

This happens every time, and it's a little irritating.

I had a quick look at your comments and didn't see any comments such as this.

("downvoted into oblivion" is perhaps an exaggeration. I'm talking about -2 or -3 votes for a comment).
Is the restriction on JITs really a security thing? That seems so completely far out there on the list of concerns compared to common stuff like buffer overflows which Apple does pretty much nothing to prevent. It always looked to me to be a technological means of enforcing their rule that you weren't allowed to download new code to run (on purpose).
Probably the backlight leaking through?

There's an opportunity for Apple -- just include backlighting specially designed for nighttime with no blue light. Switch it at night. That would have been Jobs' approach to the problem.
This is not going to make a dent in prices. It would take developments of similar scale in every municipality in the region to begin to address the problem.
After they stuck a middle finger in Apple's face in public?

Surely Apple already has people who are smart enough to do this. They have some of the most color accurate screens in the world and worked really hard on that kind of thing there's no way they don't have people who would know how to do this.
It's sad that what you're describing sounds scandalous today.
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From the FAQ [1]:

> We have a version internally (it looks beautiful!)
> but it requires a very complicated installation
> process. We are working to simplify this and ship
> f.lux to the Android OS as soon as possible.

I'd have thought Android users would generally be more willing to do this "very complicated installation" than iOS users would be to sideload with XCode, but there you go.

[1] https://justgetflux.com/faq.html
Worse -- For developers. Apple's customers are users.

Users benefit from a secure system, mostly safe applications and consistent UI.

The consequence of Microsoft's fuck-the-user, go developer philosophy has been over a decade a pain for the users. That's why Dell and HP are giving away PCs under cost while giving up share, while Apple is growing and making a killing.
Have you looked at Nagios?
https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/
> I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome

I think Apple offers a deal that has it's good and bad points and you are free to buy from many competitors. And yet, dozens of times per year on HN, we're told that Apple is essentially executing William Wallace and freedom itself for routine decisions that seem entirely consistent with it's longstanding policies on private API's, sideloading, end runs around enterprise deployment, etc.

> We're heading for a world where advanced users might not be allowed to interact with their devices because They (et al.) Know Best.

Presumably if this is vital and important to advanced users they can choose a device that allows them to do this.

> Protecting knowledgeable users from running arbitrary code is generally a pretty solved problem.

In strawmanville, every problem is 'generally pretty much solved'. 'Just let knowledgable users do it' is non-serious imho; anything 'knowledgable users' can do without a lot of effort/money you should assume anyone can and will do it. Jailbreaking has sometimes been associated with 'advanced users', unless you were in China and the guy who sold you the phone did it for you.
Let's say you wanted to implement a more modern, not (yet?) broken algorithm instead of RC4. Are there any which could fit into a similarly small amount of code?
And I've never met an iOS (or Android for that matter) user that could name if their game was built on top of Unity or Unreal, but what difference does that make to the end user?

The difference between these browsers is not the renderer (which should, ideally, be rendering the same content the same way anyways), but the features on top of the webview. The UI, Password, bookmarks, autofill, and history sync.
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Go learn. It's always best to learn on the job and start something, but not everyone is in that position. Take a hard job where you will learn the most, and get to where you want to be in the future.
There's a tonne of stuff available for OS X forever that they haven't cared to integrate though. Not true of iOS, mobile is somehow different, and as above - it started off completely closed to third-parties!
It was Apple's offering only during OS X, and only because its BSD underpinnings. If Apple had chosen to build OS X on a homegrown kernel, Apple wouldn't have been appealing to the skilled.
It's not vacuous, but there is a history of cryptosystems that have tried and failed to sidestep that RC4 weakness by burning off keystream, so it's worth being careful about it.
I was this kind of student, to the bemusement of people at my year. And I can say we like to tell ourselves that - that by honest learning we somehow gained more. But to be honest, what you do at work is so different than what you learn at university that in retrospect, you may just cheat your way through bullshit exams. If you're an autodidact, it could be even better for you, since you won't waste so much time learning nonsense to pass arbitrary performance bars.

I'm not encouraging cheating here. But I learned that sometimes you have to accept that you hold to some rules just because morality, and you don't need to invent practical reasons to justify it to yourself and others. Sometimes following the rules leaves you worse off, but the world where people follow those rules is better for everyone than the world where they don't, and I want to live in the former.
I'm pretty happy in Apple land, but the battle was lost years ago when it comes to the internet. Gmail tracks me. Facebook tracks me even though I'm not a member. YouTube tracks me because I use Gmail. Google tracks me because of Gmail. Everything tracks me.

And the only solution is to throw out every piece of electronics I own. That's not happening.

We need laws. Some day, perhaps. Too bad the TPP didn't include EU countries (I know), maybe there would have been ONE benefit.
It's important for vegans and advocates of veganism (like myself) to be cautious and intellectually honest about possible health benefits of a vegan diet. I'm particularly thinking about things like how John Robbins used to do it, where he threw out page after page of correlations between populations eating animal protein and populations suffering disease burdens. That may have persuaded some people, but there are so many other factors (even just dietary factors) that could have accounted for the correlations!

The gut biome topic is hot now, but our understanding of it is so new and so limited that it's going to take a while to be confident about what would be a "good" or "healthy" biome in particular ways. It's definitely easy to change it, but still kind of unclear about how to know when particular changes can reasonably be called good or bad or beneficial or harmful (with particular counterexamples like clostridium difficile infection -- that seems bad).
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Ah, yes that's true of course - I clearly wasn't thinking..

Well, then I can't even contrive an example! Still, it's interesting; I wish I had the background to understand it better.
In a US university I have noticed that some international students (I was one too) took a very liberal attitude towards cheating, I won't name any specific countries (think East though) and noticed students from those countries played fast loose when it came to cheating. Maybe I am being prejudiced or that particular school had a knack for picking cheaters from some countries but not from others. Anyway just my observation.
I can't speak for others, but I can tell you as someone with a larger home, who can afford a larger home, I've also replaced almost all of my lights with LEDs because I can also afford it and see the long-term benefits both from a power savings perspective, as well as a longevity perspective. I'd imagine my lights use less power than the average household.
Have you ever used OS X? I have never had a problem caused by running binaries I've downloaded from the internet. I understand how to read signals of trust and using my brain to vet sources. Why should my phone or tablet be any different? It's a risk, sure, but even Apple's approval isn't foolproof!
And that has saved them from a ton of complexity and security issues. Users (by and large, HN is very skewed from normal) don't seem to mind at all.
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Of course jokes are not against the HN guidelines.
Yes, those were unfair downvotes.

I'm guessing the shortness of your comment and the negativity without sources made a difference? But that's just a guess.
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The -2 means that a couple of people (out of an unknown number) didn't like something. For example, some people don't agree with you and think that it's never appropriate to use foul language.

Most of the time you get downvotes on something, the number of downvotes is small. Only the cases where something is massively downvoted and flagged out of existence can be readily explained.

Suppose 5000 people look at your posting and almost all of them agree that sometimes it is appropriate to swear, and your posting is one of those occasions: but two out of those 5000 don't agree, and downvote you. Well, there you go: you have the tacit support of 4998/5000 readers (just not enough to give you an upvote for it) and two downvotes.

Being acceptable to the majority in some "common sense" way is not enough to spare your comment. Either your comment has to have appeal so that it attracts upvotes from a significant segment of the site readers who come across it, or, failing that, a comment which doesn't attract upvotes, has to avoid raising the ire of minorities.

(Regarding the use "minorities": I'm using that here to denote absolutely any rare trait, background or world outlook whatsoever (where "rare" doesn't mean "odd" or "strange"); I am not specifically referring to "ethnic minorities".)

For the above reasons, situations where a comment is reduced to 0, -1 or even -2 are not always easily explained, other than by the general remark that it is probably less than "spotlessly inoffensive". (Imagine the ways in which some element in the comment might rub someone somewhere the wrong way, and you have a halfway plausible explanation.)

Only when some comment is massively flagged out of existence is there an obvious plausible explanation.
I agree. Energy efficiency is a big scam -- I had the bad fortune of buying Maytag appliances in 2006. The company was going bankrupt, and their strategy to meet energy quotas was to undersize motors... Leading to dead appliances. Ditto with things like boilers who routine service requirements eat up most of the efficiency savings.

Light bulbs are worse. Shopping for a bulb is like buying a car.

And the focus on stupid efficiency gimmicks that save minimal resources (an efficient washing machine saves $30/year) distracts from more useful retrofits like insulation, windows, solar hot water, etc.
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At a minimum, Apple's review process includes a scan to ensure your app submission doesn't include private API usage.

Like private APIs that can screw with color output, outside of the app. And so on. The security comes from

1. Defining a set of APIs that you're allowed to use

2. Ensuring that you only use those APIs

Sideloading apps skips that important security check.
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Please stop.

People love to imagine that their uncivil and unsubstantive comments have value, and therefore that we must be against them for ideological reasons (e.g. political correctness). But that is self-flattery. It's really just that such comments lower the signal-noise ratio.

Flip all the ideological bits and none of this changes. For example, replace "right-wing" with "left-wing" upthread and that comment would be just as uncivil; replace "the PC crowd" in your own comments with whatever the opposite construct is and they would be just as unsubstantive.
On Android we already have dimming/warming apps like Twilight. Why is f.lux any more complicated?
> My friends who don't use facebook will regularly miss (or not get invited to) parties, book club, skiing trips, etc. This isn't because no one likes them or thinks to invite them...

Clearly it is, unless you make a conscious decision for every gathering to only include people via Facebook. Does no one ever stop and think "Hey, Jake is pretty cool but he doesn't use Facebook. Maybe someone should call him?" I'd guess that no one thinks like this, and that his omission comes from simply not thinking to invite people who aren't on Facebook.

I'd love it if you could explain that I'm wrong and that you are making this conscious decision to exclude them. The justification for this would be even more interesting.
>1. Why is facebook required?

Because Facebook has a searchable, discoverable database of real names. Many people skip or haven't gotten to the "write down each others' contact information" step but still want to talk to each other. Actually there is a deliberate, important progression in a relationship from using Facebook Messenger to exchanging cell phone numbers.

>2. Are many people you know actually going exclusively to facebook as their sole communication method?

Yes. Some people have international friends or care about proper handling of long messages, delivery confirmation, read receipts, etc. excluding SMS. Some people have friends with Androids, excluding iMessage. Some people have friends with Outlook.com or Yahoo email addresses, which excludes GChat/Hangouts. People are too scattered around Whatsapp/Telegram/WeChat for any of them to be worth anything. Everyone has Facebook. The cognitive overhead of "Which of 8 different services do I use to talk to this particular friend?" is fucking annoying and people avoid it by just using Facebook.

Many people in my (millennial) generation touch their emails as little as possible. Email is for bosses, professors, receipts, and annoying mailing lists. People I know are as likely to write a social email as they are to walk to their local Western Union office and ask to send a telegram.

>3. Is it a conscious calculation for you/most people you know?

Yes. Facebook is the only option inclusive of everyone, even those with the cheapest, broken phones that are out of free space.
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That's how the site works. If thousands of users think nothing of your comment, but two downvote it, there you go: two downvotes.

On HN, bland comments which attract no upvotes have to be spotlessly inoffensive to every imaginable mindset so that they survive the 24 hour "statute of limitations" for downvotes.

... keeping in mind that some people punish blandness itself with a downvote!
> I also find it emotionally draining to be in constant contact with people you never actually see... it feels as if Facebook allows fake or weak friendships to continue that would naturally die off without it.

I agree. One of the reasons I left is because constantly checking FB (ironically) made me feel really lonely.
A controlled, consistently awful experience IMO.
No, you're misunderstanding my proposal (w.r.t. Generative Models). This is different from deniable encryption (where an eavesdropper will detect you may be encrypting something), this is traffic literally indistinguishable from normal traffic.

It only fails if the government knows a priori you are a criminal and inspects your hardware.

I thought about making a few proof of concept models for this, but I don't think there's real demand for it (and I'm lazy) -- steganography is probably sufficient for what most people use.
The same thing can be said for the Charles River.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-se...
Business school deans say some students who consider themselves "highly ethical" are avoiding careers in finance because they consider the field beneath their standards.

Hasn't this always been the case? You go in to it for the money, for the thrill, because that's what you're in to. Or you go in to it for any number of reasons. Maybe you consider yourself highly ethical and go in to finance because you think you can make a difference.

Christine Lagarde ... said ... one of her sons had told her he might not talk to her if she were to work for a large investment bank.

Right. And one of her daughters told her she wouldn't speak to her if she bought that dress. So what?
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Have you setup a network of computers at home? Do you run & manage a server somewhere (could be VPS, colo, or at home) with common services like SSH and VPN?
Step 2 doesn't happen. The private API scan is superficial and basically only catches accidental use (for example, maybe somebody discovered the API in a StackOverflow post and didn't realize it was private). It doesn't catch use that people deliberately want to get through. Getting through the check is as easy as some string obfuscation and a dynamic symbol lookup.

If a given private API is a security problem (and I agree that altering the screen's gamma settings system-wide may well qualify) then that private API needs to be actually secured, by taking it out of process and gating it on a sandbox entitlement.

The private API check is done to allow Apple the flexibility to change those APIs without potentially breaking a ton of apps and pissing off their users. It does nothing whatsoever for security, unless your threat model is programmers capable of writing malware but incapable of obfuscating function calls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A

Seriously. As others on the thread have pointed out, it's not as hard to live without as you think.

Don't believe me? Well... why don't you just try it for one week? If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Isn't it worth a try, though?

Try a step out of the social Skinner box.
That's a pretty uncharitable reading of what people are saying about their experiences.
It never ceases to amaze[1] me that whenever the left gets close to getting their voices heard in any broad sense, you start seeing these sort of polemics attacking them for not practicing absolute tolerance and freedom of speech whenever and wherever they assemble. Yes, there are intolerant assholes on the left, same as with any large group of people, and PC/SJW culture is fucking stupid, no doubt. But compared to our national media in the large, it is small potatoes.

Maybe students are sick to death of the status quo eating their future and wrecking their society and poisoning the Earth. They have grown up in a popular culture totally dominated by a right-wing media machine, wholly owned by the ruling class and which has successfully kept the Overton window so damned narrow we can hardly have a conversation anymore. It is completely understandable that they would want journalists to get the fuck out, rather than letting them get away with yet another hit piece attacking them on style rather than substance and completely ignoring their message. Look at the coverage of anything from OWS to Ferguson if you're curious why the left wants to tear the national media limb from rotten limb.

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