skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bugs are not the same as intentions.
yes, I imagine if you are interested in masking this information it's absolutely possible but requires some effort. Still interesting to have this as a tool when investigating companies.
I agree. You can tell how confident they are in their blockchain technology that the only nodes they allow on the NEO network are operated by the company. Decentralized trust is supposed to be the single selling point of a blockchain. If we give that up, we might as well make a REST API for a SQL database and claim that it's the fastest blockchain in the world.
Can you highlight the parts you'd consider dirty? All I see is sex and drugs, I'm much more concerned about the questionable labour practices.
Not if that data is encrypted with a key that they don’t have. Which is what Apple does.
Can you clarify this term - “de-anonymized”? It reads like the word “anonymised” is what’s meant.
> I believe Tim Cook is a good human who really does want what he says and leave the world in a better place than what they found it.

I believe that all those CEOs want to leave the world in a better place than what they found it.
Even Larry Ellison, although his metric for "a better place" might look a bit weird for anybody not Larry Ellison.

>> "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI."

Accessibility is a matter of being able to sell devices into the public sector, something that Apple is quite interested in (eg public schools).

That's directly ROI driven, and the quality of new apps working with VoiceOver makes their engagement with accessibility sometimes feel like a checkbox item: it takes a while of updating until new first-party apps are usable, and sometimes they degrade in favor of the latest fluffy UI redesign.

> they've always been staunchly pro-privacy even when it was unpopular to do so during the FBI terrorist attack

They did what ever other company does: Give them the data they had (the most recent, yet still too old, iCloud backup) and push back on any extra work, both because it's work and because it creates precedent. The main thing unusual in that case was that FBI and Apple discussed these matters through the media.
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Awesome Job. Looks like it was an iterative effort

https://github.com/xem/ama/issues/14
> If only I had asked the employees what they thought of the founders, I would have saved myself a lot of headache, heartache, and stomach ache.

The problem is, if you asked current employees what they think of the founders during an interview, they're going to give you a party-line everything here is awesome drinking the kool-aid answer. The only way to really be privy to the honest answer is to back channel it, but hard if you don't have a large network or don't have any contacts there. I don't know the solution.
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Wow, this is pretty significant. Does it work on all recent versions of IE?
> What does a 'good human' mean in your context?

He routinely stands up for human rights, equality, accessibility, pro-privacy, pro-environment, etc.

> I'm not sure if the people that make Apple products would be convinced

You mean employees working for Chinese suppliers? You can read what steps Apple's doing to ensure Supplier responsibility at: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

> Or the people mining minerals for chips.

So you believe people would be better off not working at all and the world would be a better place if it didn't have enough minerals to make chips so the price for owning a computing device is only accessible to the super wealthy?

> And you can make similar arguments about the billions he's avoiding paying to democratic governments in taxes, to pay for education, healthcare etc., for the poors.

I agree the tax laws should be changed so multi nationals pay their fare share of taxes at the same time Corporations have a duty to their shareholders to maximize their returns. It would be uncompetitive and fiscally irresponsible for corporations not to minimize their taxes to the extent that's legally allowed whilst their competitors don't. Ideally all companies would voluntarily pay the appropriate company tax in each country they operate in and if their major competitors weren't also minimizing their taxes than Apple should absolutely follow in kind, but that's realistically not going to happen until laws are changed and tax loop-holes are closed, until that happens I don't fault them for minimizing their tax liability.

> But does "good person"/"good human" ever mean anything more than "their self-interest appears to be aligned with my own, and I assume yours"?

No I think it's pretty clear what's right and just which is also where I find most of Cook's public political stance lies. These views aren't universally shared and are often contra to the political views of other powerful and elected figures we have at the moment, who I don't think is a good person.
I'm not quit sure that by providing an answer, you could remove any doubt.

While they are required by the license to opensource their code, this is perhaps the most user unfriendly method ( multiple builds per version per device, no code history, ... - it's a mess)

Here is Chromium as you requested:

- https://cs.chromium.org/

Here's the source code: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/?sq
Here's the git: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git
> And for those who have more discerning needs they ship a dongle with the phone that you can leave permanently attached to your wired headphones.

But only one at a time - charger, or your dongle connected wired headphone. At some point, that phone's going to run out of battery. My normal use case is that I go on long drives with the phone getting charged using the car charger, while the audio output being sent to the car stereo. This change breaks my workflow even with their free included accessories.
are they as grossly incompetent, infuriating and without a grain of common sense as much as First Advantage?
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Not paying users you mean, mostly using the consoles to run some variation of MAME.

This is why major studios mostly ignore GNU/Linux gamers, as many feel entitled to have nice stuff for free.
My mistake. Actually it is Spanish and French that use different colors for the middle light -- not English.

The middle light is "amarillo" (yellow) in spanish, while it's "orange" in French.
Doesn't work with decimals.
If I had a dollar for every time I watched someone turn their Android phone around to look for the fingerprint sensor on the back, I would have a lot more free time to post on HN.
"de-personalized" or "anonymized" would both work as valid interpretations in that paragraph, in case that helps you gain understanding while waiting for a reply.
Some of it is, yes. But some of it depends on nitrogen fertilizer, which is made using energy from petroleum.

CH4 + H2O → CO + 3H2

CO + H2O → CO2 + H2

3H2 + N2 → 2NH3
That's not the security vulnerability this article is talking about. The pages in iframes get live access of the URL in the address bar at all times, which can effectively send your search queries to whoever even with search suggestions disabled.
Or they just blatantly lie. I had a founder triple their runway when I asked... three months later we ran out of runway and everyone was like, "what happened, why were you lying about this?" Turns out founder was factoring in POTENTIAL runway in their head that they thought would happen but never came through.
The same amount that moved from Windows XP to GNU/Linux, because Windows gaming was doomed with DX 10 being Vista/Windows 7 only.
Yup! But what’s cool is the iPhone does all of that locally on the phone instead of on the cloud.
Open cryptomaps.org in a web browser and you're good.
Yet our browsers blow the page up to 100 or 1000 times that.
Yep, until we eventually move everything into `pyproject.toml` which is explicitly documented to support `[tool.foo]` config namespaces.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/
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I actually found this Amazon review of the book to be particularly enlightening https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/3319258877/R36M2YLHIMTBL...
The New Amazon Echo
I could maybe believe this more if my iPhone stopped asking me to enable iCloud every time I turn it on, I'm pretty sure I never ever said yes to that thing.
the etherdelta owner can change the js code then send you
founds to faker contract:)
hmm, no i think the first quote is probably closer to reality.
- Setting alarms and reminders.

- Ask whether

- Very occasionally, play music.

I use it every day, it is not as important to me as a phone, but it cannot be replaced either.
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Same here, next phone iPhone 8 is going to be my phone of choice.
This is the feature I’m paying for. And the one where it basically just works.
Just curious, but what's to stop them from handing over data to the US government? It's well know US companies have been forced to cooperate in the past, it's also known the NSA has collected data in secret. How do we know this isn't the case with Apple?
> How often do such charges not even get filed?

Probably a lot, but the availability of prosecutorial discretion is a very different thing than the availability of a legal defense.

While the defense is enshrined in statute in many states or firmly established in state case law, that's not true in the federal system, where it may exist based on inherited common law, but is neither established in federal statute nor firmly attested in the case law.
True, but alas not for every service as far as I have understood it.

I am particularly interested in storing my photos somewhere, but the details about the encryption have not led me to believe that Apple can't access my photos, which is a must-have requirement to me.

Source:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

It says 'encryption-server: yes' for photos, but around this table you have the text:

" For certain sensitive information, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed in to iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information."

and

"These features and their data are transmitted and stored in iCloud using end-to-end encryption:
- iCloud Keychain (Includes all of your saved accounts and passwords)
- Payment information
- Wi-Fi network information
- Home data
- Siri information"

So alas, no photos.
"Paired with wireless earphones, you don't need a headphone jack or a charging port"

(facepalm)
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HN is so very educational. Where it impresses me most, where it matters to me most, is when it is a subject I not only know nothing about, but is also a subject I'd have never been interested in seeking out.

In this case, I had no idea there was cursive Chinese. I've since gone on a search and learned more. I'd have never done that, had I not seen your comment.

Thanks.
Judging by some of the comments one can regularly find on HN about the size of apps, this may be considered a pinnacle internet technology to be standardized mainstream

Tongue in cheek aside, very creative code. Thank you for sharing
At the moment it's one step removed from vaporware. None of the features they brag about exist yet, and the codebase is in fact a complete untested / untestable mess primarily maintained by 1 dev. Their white paper is awful even by "crypto" standards. Security issues are inevitable.

If you're investing, be wary of the pump cycles - particularly now. October is when the first of the "reserved" shares unlock (50% of the total circulation is earmarked for the founders), so there is significant incentive to fan the hype and artificially drive up the price.
Having just had my first child, I can tell you how odd it is to feel joy in home life, while be horrified by the decay of the outside world.

I have a lot of millenarianists in my family who think of the chaos today as being signs of the "end times". I can't really buy into that, given that we're not in a crisis of WWII-level carnage. The fact that a human being today is far less likely than ever before to die a violent death is absolutely remarkable.

On the other hand, humananity is quickly evolving more ways of plausibly extinguishing or crippling itself, either by action of a small number of humans or prisoner's dilemma-like failure of large numbers of human to cooperate. Nuclear weapons were first, but it will soon be joined by other technologies.

What's depressing to me is that we're clearly not evolving the means to manage our power, wasting that energy on extremely petty concerns, instead. In fact, we seem to be moving backwards.
Without the profs' guidance most grad students would take too long converge on an interesting topic and still have time to see it through in a standard length grad school stay.
I’m using it with a 45Gb photo library between a phone, a Mac and an iPad with zero problems.

It does take a while for things to arrive at all destinations due to my crappy internet connection but for me it works quite well.
What about PRISM? Apple has said it co-operates with law enforcement to give information about suspects. How much privacy do we really have on the web?
You can refuse to give out a password or claim you forgot, but with biometrics there is not much of an option.
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Difference is that on Android you can use pretty much any photo app/service that you want. Nothing's forcing you into the arms of Google. I don't know much about iPhones, but as far as I understand you don't have much of a choice.
Did you intend that offense?
Time to start optimizing Android and iOS, haha...
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«pull reload» or «pull refresh» AFAIK
I have over 30,000 photos/videos in iCloud (357GB). Synced between my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad.

Works extremely well for me. Set it and forget it.
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Microsoft Research has a group which explores tooling for software engineering:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/research-in-s...
iPhone 8 turned out to be more expensive than iPhone 7 in production
Refusing to add a right mouse button?
> Relative deprivation occurs when people learn about other cultures where people have access to greater wealth

That's one of many places where it occurs, yes (it also happens locally.) Trade can exacerbate it, because even superficially mutually beneficial trade doesn't advance the wealth on both sides equally, and the degree of difference in material position, not merely it's binary existence or not, is a key factor in the magnitude of the resulting disutility.
Which usually don't have OS upgrades beyond what they were sold with, and Project Treble won't change that, because OEMs are the ones expected to ship OS updates.

So headphone jacks without updates, hurray!
I used to think that was a huge issue. But my friend bought an iPhone 7 and he says it's just not a problem in practice. He keeps the adaptor permanently attached to his (non-Apple) headphones. It's not like you have to fiddle around with the adaptor every time you use your headphones.

Obviously I'd prefer to keep the jack socket on my phone, I'm just saying it's a minor issue. I think people like to focus on it because it feels like the prototypical Apple dick-move, but it's not that big a deal e.g. compared to the walled garden thing.
But with passwords that is not the case.
That is true, their picture indexing is magical and I don't have any issue if they knew I went to SFO, I mean whats the big deal?

Just a story, I took a picture of my car three months ago, someone asked me to show a picture of my car, I just went to google photos, typed "Grey car" and voila ... This is the future.
I think post the Snowden revelations, and considering the cheapness of hardware, we have to assume that pretty much any email, or online interaction can be intercepted (although not necessarily decrypted) by the NSA or government officials. Plus there’s the PRISM program whereby companies merely hand over their records. Apple have said they comply with such requests, and therefore your iCloud account is not private in that respect.
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> they sell the ability to manipulate you to the highest bidder

This seems more like a description of Amazon. I understand Google and Facebook to be data hoarders: they build up the ability to manipulate you and use it in putting together the ads they serve, but they jealously guard it, rather than sell the ability on.
It's pretty similar to that really.
Yep. They also co-operate with the US government requests for information.
Because it's cool example how to make something semi-complex and interesting in very short code?
It's only OK if you also describe somewhere that this gesture exists and what it does. Gestures are absolutely non-discoverable on their own. Occasionally, I try to show someone something on their Macbook, and I always have to experiment with the number of fingers on the touchpad, because nothing about the interface helps me remember the options. I guess it could be printed directly on the touchpad, but then that wouldn't be as slick.
I’m going to be honest, I bought a 6s instead of a 7 because of the 3.5 jack and within a week managed to shut the earphones in a car door. This lead to a trip to my local electronics retailer to get some replacements. They only had lightning ones so I reluctantly bought them.

So far, this isn’t really crippling. I use some sennheisers when at home with the mac and use the earphones when I’m out. If they remove the 3.5 jack from the Mac I’ll be more pissed.
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Fits in a tweet!
> Hermetic means reproducible.

Hermetic is a subset of reproducible builds (bit-identical results). You can have a hermetic build and it calls getrandom() as a side-effect that ends up in the binary.

The only thing that bazel prevents is that your build rules do something like that accidentally, without it being glaringly obvious (eg. accessing $RANDOM, $$, /dev/urandom, time, ... in a shell script)
All those things you didn't know are irrelevant if you spend more than you earn, this is the situation most people are in. It applies whether you are a student or coming to the end of your career. Most people need to absorb that simple message.
I wouldn't be so sure. It's not implausible that we could effectively wipe out complex life by setting off feedback loops that progress faster than ecosystems evolve.

Can we kill all life on the planet? Certainly not. But we could make the long-term carrying capacity for humans so low that we'd enter terminal decline. So maybe "killing the earth" isn't precisely true, but what's the difference if there's no one around to understand the distinction?
I don't know if I'm the only one but I don't feel comfortable with Eclipse. It's a little bit bloated for my concern. But then again, under the hood VS Code uses eclipse as well
Firstly, I’m not aware of any such vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, because their Bluetooth capabilities are quite sparse (no file transfers etc). Also their power management seems to be smart enough, that the power usage is quite negligible, in my experience.
De-anonymising would be detecting/creating a person's identity from sets of "anonymised" information, I'd assume.
Well, that's usually not the case in the other 96% of the world.

And even there, would this stop a police force who routinely abuses, beats up, or even kills innocent people on the street for no or imagined provocation?
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A merkle tree could be used for verifying a tree of data (e.g. a JSON state object) that is updated in pieces.

The root hash would be sent as part of each update, to validate that you have the right state. If it's different, a hard update isn't necessarily required - you can find missing items in log time.

In addition, for large states (e.g. say all cars in a region/partition for Uber), you can use merkle trees to partition and validate that the client has one area right, without downloading all the data.

There are many other approaches, but I think a merkle tree isn't a bad method for the use case of client state validation in the use cases I described.

What are your thoughts? How would you architect it?
But that's in a single tribe. What about between tribes?
One brain same as another but cheaper?
Yes but it’s not just a naked signal of the audio as this is.
It's crazy how accurate this article was. How far along were mobile phones during 1992?

Also,

> Once in the meeting, the executive could take notes on the device, and even order pizza for the group using a combination of custom electronic forms and wireless fax

Close enough :P
You should watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8
(throws caution to the wind...)

DNSSec is not dumb. The gap you're pointing out is valid for most standard user OS's that are not performing DNSSec validation and/or are not using private/secure/authenticated channels to their upstream resolver. DNSCrypt and DNS over TLS solve the later. But, there's no reason that users can't run validating Resolvers locally as well, thus filling in the gap you point out.

Now, most users and OS' out there don't provide these capabilities, so the gap you point out is 100% accurate based on the current state of the world. But, shouldn't we fix this and start bringing the validation to the end user OS'?

tptacek's criticism's are more on point, b/c they get to the heart of some issues in the deployment and actual security of the DNSSec network, and these are foundational issues that we need to resolve. I'm optimistic that we can solve them and I don't think we should give up just b/c it's non-ideal today.
Very creative, I like it and it creeps me out a lot! Whenever I am on my computer and I upload something to most places I try to remember to wipe the metadata, never thought of apps pulling this data straight out of the library on my phone. Luckily I don't have many apps with access to photos to begin with.
And it does not allow any app to export it once you archive your photos - oh, except for iCloud which is a super-expensive pay-to-play service beyond the first few photos.
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> At the other end is Andrew Grove, the chairman of the Intel Corporation, the huge chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. He says the idea of a wireless personal communicator in every pocket is "a pipe dream driven by greed."

Well, Intel never really made a mark in the smartphone era too. Atom processors were a dud.
If your work does not require you to use the proprietary exchange stuff in Outlook I would say that Thunderbird with Enigmail is a really convenient solution for encrypted and signed email. Once set up there is very little overhead involved, and if a recipient's email address is in your local gpg database Enigmail will happily encrypt content by default.
There is no need for that prophecy to fulfill itself, because it is a fact that users don't read documentation. As Joel Spolsky noted, they rarely read even anything: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
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If they got out all of the bugs in the tech this would be an amazing business model