skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Firebase and Azure Mobile App Service already offer offline sync. This is a catch-up move.
If I'm being honest, I'm willing to buy that argument. You're right in that censorship of any type is dangerous -- it draws a line in the sand, and once there's a line it can always be moved to block viewpoints that the censor disagrees with.

But true free speech isn't an option either -- it's well-established that someone falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded room should be held accountable if someone gets injured in the frenzy that follows. The implication there (as I see it) is you can be held accountable for speech that hurts others.

So how then do you define "hurting others"? That's where I feel the real debate begins, and those who dislike Reddit/Facebook/others' actions dislike their definition of "hurting others".
Can anyone explain what a URL parser does and why it's so complex? I feel like there's a whole interesting story lurking there.
Private Disclosure does not prevent you from publicly disclosing it after a grace period.
So transcode for Safari, and be explicit that they are getting lesser quality simply because Apple refuses to let Safari play better content.
It’s not an example of security by obscurity, it’s a straight out security flaw and bug.

If it’s not publicly known and is a security risk it is far more effective to directly contact the developers / companies security team so they can immediately work on actually protecting people by developing a patch. If they don’t respond quickly (subjective, I’d call it within 12 hours) or fail to issue a fix in a timely manor (subjective, I’d say 24 hours) then yes - go public, start by logging a bug report and link to that bug report or if you can’t - the bug number / reference.
I use Mac OS, Linux and Windows to roughly the same degree. It's all fine.

I spend most of my time developing (server) software in Mac OS, and I'd rather do it in Linux, since it seems obviously more suited to it. I'm glad I don't have to do it in Windows, since it seems obviously less suited to it.

But it's all minor stuff. Overall it's all fine.
Maybe closer to 35000, but yeah, that's the scale of ReInvent, last year AWS reported 24000 attendees. I was there last year, that's a lot of people

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/why-sponsor-aws-reinvent-20...
> or their employees are required to be more discrete?

Yes, I believe so. I've heard there are strict requirements on even internal discussion. (Who you can talk to; about what; where.)
Thank you

I imagine a Twilight Zone episode... Go back in time to before cars were invented and imagine some Mephistopheles offering the bargain: "You'll fly like the wind over hills and mountains, making a journey of days in mere hours!" What the catch? "For each mile traveled a certain number of people chosen at random must be put to death or maimed."

He would go on about how the chances of someone you love being chosen for sacrifice were infinitesimal, and the benefits to all were so great and so obvious...

("Also, it will poison the air and water, and force you to become dependent on fuel sources that destroy life and engender wars.")
Unrelated to Mac OS but I used to wonder all the time why iTunes connect was so shoddy. I got my answer when I learned Apple had outsourced a ton of backend work including iTunes Connect, App Store backend to Infosys in India.

They’re now retreating from that strategy: https://factordaily.com/apple-to-pull-back-development-work-...
Russia will build its own DNS, cites US information warfare
We don't know precisely what the ideal concoction is for life to get started, nor can we measure how close to ideal our planet is relative to others. So maybe Earth is not the most efficient planet at developing life, and in that case, the probability equation could tip back to panspermia.
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Not the attitude of the people reporting the issue have put "millions of apple customers" at risk, but the company which allowed to let issues like this one slip through their Q&A process.

IMO, this behaviour is part of the problem, the reason why tech companies take security only on a superfiscial level seriously.

Don't kill the Messenger.
This is a management issue. It shouldn't be possible for such a mistake to slip into production code. It has happened more than once in recent times.
The panspermia idea is, that it started somewhere and somewhen, and has been planet hopping ever since. We only need one nearby life-bearing planet to seed earth; it got seeded from further away and so on.

Similar to how ancient Romans wore silk but didn't have trade with China. It only took each trader to trade with their neighbor, and silk could travel thousands of miles.
I whole-heartedly agree that ISP's shouldn't be outright blocking anything. I'm Pro-Net Neutrality Net-whatever to keep the pipes open and unfettered by greedy corporations.

I'm just pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of the recent campaigns talking about censorship as a possibility when the right has been getting attacked/censored by every big SV company in recent years. Now they're crying about possibility when they're engaged in the very act themselves. I guess they're right, they would know, so yeah i'm pro-NN.
I use the bullet journal [1], except I don't really report for each day. I mostly like the notation to distinguish todo vs ideas vs other stuff.

Other times I use notes (typically Apple Notes just because it's auto-synced between mac and iphone, but I don't really care about the app) to create small lists of things I really have to do in order, and then I check them along the way.

[1] http://bulletjournal.com
Apple probably doesn't take too kindly to their employees talking about their work. I'd imagine it's a fire-able offense.
So you found one niche that suits your argument. What should writers do, throw 'writing concerts'? How about photographers? Filmographers?
Exposing your friends to risk of rare or unknown side-effects for humor value alone. Awesome! /s
How long ago was this? The last time I had problems with suspend or WiFi, even on brand-new laptops, was maybe 8 years ago.
Yes, they did the research for prior art to make sure that is the case for their instruction set.
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I keep all my e-mail in gmail forever, and it's delivered substantial business benefits. If someone asks me for details of something I did fifteen years ago, I can pull it up with ease.

Other than covering up crimes, what advantage do you imagine would be worth the loss of those benefits?
Tell that to Dish Network.
Are you sure she didn't just mistype? There's nothing that supports Waymo being in trouble.
Difference? MacOS userbase hasn’t changed much since 2011, I thought?
No, there are two threads about this.
Probably we won't be seeing RISC-V application processors for quite a while. There's a lot of stuff that can just be recompiled but there's also a lot of hand-tuned assembly that goes into making a JIT or media codec fast. That's why we're seeing initial adoption in the embedded space, where either there's just a small amount of code to recompile or you were going to rewrite the assembly anyways for the next product.

In the long run using RISC-V in a laptop is a possibility. And there might be some limited production $2000 500MHz FOSS laptop soonish. But in 15 years, say, I could see RISC-V being where ARM is now.
Why does it need to create a lot of negative publicity for Apple? Is there something you don't like about them? Responsible disclosure needs to be valued given the number of macs out there in the wild that could potentially be susceptible to issues like this, and the impact it could have on people (including you) not just directly but indirectly.

How would you feel if someone discovered a 0day at a company that exposes credit card and identity info, published the 0day, then hackers steal all that info (including yours)? I'm sure 'creating a thunderstorm of negative publicity' would be the last thing you would want.
Though rather old now, Erlang and OTP in Action is probably still a good intro to the basics of using OTP.

https://www.manning.com/books/erlang-and-otp-in-action
Hah. Are you aware that there used to be a phrase everyone knew referred to as a 'speed-up'? It was the opposite side of the coin of a work slowdown. Everyone knows what a slowdown is. It's when workers try to get higher wages or apply pressure on their employer by intentionally working more slowly. And it used to be equally universally known that the opposite side of the coin was equally immoral and disgusting - for an employer to expect a worker to produce more value without the employer having to pay more for it.

That used to be something that society would spit in the face of the fat pigs for. But, now, it's considered sensible everyday practice that none would question. Of course Walmart lets the government shoulder a portion of the compensation of their workers through food stamps. Of course the fact technology enabled employees to produce 40% more value this year results in a raise of 1 or 2%, less than the cost of living increased. Of course they take and take and feel absolutely entitled to every penny of the billions in profit.

At the same time they claim to believe in the principles of a free market. At the same time the free market principles declare that all profit is a mistake, that all profit should quickly go to zero in any sensible market. Huh. Imagine that.
Could it be the level of secrecy around Apple? I see responses for Google and Facebook devs on HN a lot but never Apple.

The only people I know locally that work for Apple are remote customer support folks.
I think this incorrectly interprets my comment. I am not defending apple or blaming the individual that disclosed the vulnerability on Twitter. I am simply pointing out that putting users at additional risk because you want to see Apple hurt may be misguided. We have responsible disclosures in place for a reason.

EDIT: putting users at _additional_ risk
This is the plot device for an actual novel about a detective hired to solve a casino scam. Don't want to completely spoil it, but it's the main plotline.
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I have not been able to trigger this with ssh, but certainly have been able to with Screen Sharing, even after explicitly re-disabling the root account.
Or Telehash: http://telehash.org/
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He doesn't make a valid point, though. He makes a completely orthogonal point. If you believe his point, that what Twitter is doing is bad, then how can you justify expanding the ability to do that to other, unavoidable actors? If I don't like what Twitter is doing, I can choose to instead go to Gab or Mastodon or even just start my own blog. If Cox decides to get in on the censoring game, and I don't like what they're doing, I can't do a thing about it.
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I cannot say this enough times, but these landing pages are just terrible, as well as mixed results in how well it does or does not work.
This AWS announcement is quite exciting. For those wondering what else is available, I can share some recent research into available graphQL backend systems (but I have not used them past demo yet).

These 3 hosted solutions all have a similar feature set. That includes support for enum types, uniqueness, required, and relations

* GraphCMS
* Scaphold
* Graphcool

GraphCMS is probably the most user friendly around schema creation, but that may not matter to you if you are an app developer. If you just want to declare a GraphQL schema there is Graph Front.

There are also open source GraphQL backends

* https://github.com/jscomplete/graphfront (Postgres)
* https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql (Postgres)
* http://join-monster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* https://rest-layer.io/ (MongoDB, Sqlite3, Google DataStore)

You can also now run Graphcool on your own infrastructure.

As a disclaimer, GraphQL was not designed to not be mapped to a data store like this. However, these technologies are at least a great way to prototype a backend.
Nah you don't need sudo for that anymore, now you're root
I think this is ignoring the many people that grew up poor, where your parents weren't writing emails or stressed about work. But rather weren't constantly stressed about not paying the bills putting food on the table, or keeping the heat on.
Still not as big as Facebook in the SAR. Also, none of the other functions work beyond mobile payments for mainland tourists.
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Yes, in time there won't be any XUL extenions. But what do they say we are all supposed do with that tiny nagging:'it worked yesterday, but not today' problem?
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Yes. And from his personal site [http://www.lemiorhanergin.com/]:

He's a manager. CSM, PSM1, PSD1, Scrum Master, Kanban Practitioner. Code retreat facilitator. Translated Agile Manifesto into Turkish. The only thing that immediately makes me think he even touches code is "git trainer and lover." Notably lacking from his résumé: references to specific open source projects he's worked on or code he's written (though personally, I'd be concerned because his résumé does list "Restful Services" and I'd expect that to have given him a taste of infosec basics, but maybe it's a bit of résumé padding... shouldn't it be spelled "RESTful services?" ;) ).

It feels weird to say for those of us deeply immersed in the internet / telecoms / web app side of software development, but depending on your focus, you can do an awful lot of software development without ever brushing up against the sharp edge of infosec.
This article is half-baked. How were parents spending less time with their children? Day-care facilities have greater attendance than ever.

Were relatives watching the children?

What age ranges were covered?

Without more information, the graphs are meaningless.

Maybe it's due to children having more unsupervised, outdoor play. Maybe it's due to relatives watching children more. If the age range is 0-5 years, the results are astonishing. If the age range is 0-18 years, then perhaps it's just a remnant of the shift from rural to urban populations, and the decrease of outside-the-home time by teenagers.
If every car is using LIDAR, won't there be interference between every car's LIDAR, with color changes from reflections?
> I've two factor authentication on my Apple account and now every time I use a new browser (or after clearing the Cache) and try to log into one of the Apple developer sites it sends me the authentication code to the same machine that I'm using. How is that two factor?

Your password is something you know. Your computer (which is associated with your Apple ID) is something you have.

If someone tries to log in using your password from another computer, your account is safe. If someone steals your computer but doesn't know your password, your account is safe. You're only in trouble if someone steals your computer _and_ knows your password.
For me, the most painful is that this time they managed to screw up the damn keyboard while bringing absolutely nothing new. I can't even use hangout or chat on my iPad Air , i have to wait 3 seconds for my words to appear.

That's just wrong. There's no excuse for that. We're not talking about fancy animation or new features that we think aren't a great idea. Just a basic regression on one of the most fundamental things you can do with this device (the other being displaying things).

Another thing is that they usually fix slowdowns and stability with the following release soon after. Not this time, so my guess is that it'll be a "change your device" kind of upgrade.
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supposedly used Samsung cells so doubtful: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Tesla-taps-Samsun...
> Safari couldn't even render apples website correctly. Nor could Safari connect to any site with HTTPS.

Sounds like something's wrong with your friend's computer, because neither of those issues are reasonable to expect no matter what your opinion of Apple's software is.

> But the submit button on their developer site is broken

Given the number of people who've successfully gone through that form, I'm willing to bet it's a content blocker extension that's blocking some dependency the form needs.

> And now shipping an operating system with a root account with no password by default.

The OS actually ships with root disabled. The bug isn't that there's no password (after all, a factory-set password isn't any more secure), the bug is that the login form is somehow re-enabling the root user when it's not supposed to be able to do so.
Tim O'Reilly's WTF - What's the future. The single best part was where he details how O'Reilly forecasts the future. But great chapters on open data and also the clearest explanation on how and why the economy has changed in the past fifty years.
It's not paying to block competitors... It forcing a company to pay for their users traffic to not be throttled by the ISP.
There have been some really horrible bugs at Apple lately. I'm still waiting on them to patch the camera bug in iOS 11 where if you try to use the camera in a web app pinned to the home screen, it shows the camera UI on a black screen. This dates back to June. How can it be that hard to patch such a glaring and embarrassing problem?
You can serve website as video (and on scroll just seek the video), but that would be very expensive since advertisements would need to be included in the video which means videos generated on-the-fly (incompatible with today's CDN's) or no personalized ads
Are you arguing that privilege escalation is the equivalent to passwordless root login? I mean, I guess you squint just right you could say that a logged out user having zero privileges being able to login as a user with all privileges is an "escalation" but that's one hell of a stretch. We haven't even gotten to snark yet though.

We can point to avenues for remote root all day but I don't recall any that are/were as simple as "just hit [enter] to get root" that impacts the shared attack surface that impacts all Linux systems.

NOTE: I did not go and search NVD before writing this reply but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.
> Is there anything specific about Rust that you don’t think a commercial organisation would do?

A good job. Most commercial PL efforts kind of suck. There are a small number of exceptions, and Rust is one of them.
Equally interesting is the claim of increased capacity. I wonder how impractical this is to manufacture?

Edit: better source here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01823-7
it is everywhere else too, but people do quit...
Because Mac?

Also, Pale Moon forked much longer ago and has diverged more significantly from Firefox, AFAICT.
Do they have less software engineers, or their employees are required to be more discrete?

I know but a few that work at Apple, and of those few they strike me as less forthcoming than the multitudes I've worked with and know at Microsoft. I've wondered if part of that is because Microsoft previews/pre-announces just about everything, whereas Apple (mostly, and not so much anymore) announces it when the shipping trucks show up at the local Apple store.

So the outcome from the Microsoftie is, "it'll do this that and the other, but that's all I can say right now." From a recent conversation with an Apple employee: "they make me go in a special room to use the hardware, and I can't work from home. That's all I can say."

Probably more so, last I looked, Apple has considerably fewer software employees than the other big companies.
Practicality aside, benefit #4 of open source is just this. That you can fork and with some dexterity include things that fit your purpose like Security fixes, while leaving out those you don't
You misunderstood. He's talking about a password hash storage system, not a filesystem.
To block this, set a random password for root:

sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/root $(uuidgen)
So, I can have any kind of water in my house, but Pai wants to control whether I have crushed ice or cubes?
With all due respect, you are not getting it, and you do not understand libertarianism nearly as well as you think you do.
Anyone else google Luka_Magnotta ?
The fact is that the devs certainly do know about it by now, yet users do not have a fix yet. Users do, however, have a workaround, and knowledge that the security flaw exists in the first place.

Waiting for a fix before disclosing a security flaw is security by obscurity, even if it is to be replaced soon.

It is best for users to know that their system is vulnerable, and how to fix that without waiting for a system update.
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> I have seen more colorable censorship from the Reddits/Googles/Twitters of the world than from the various satellite cos, ISPs, telcos

As it should be! People have the freedom to use bandwidth to go to any site they like to.

Hypocrisy of the highest order. "We like the free market, except when we do not agree with it."
"sudo foo" with no other arguments runs "foo" as root. "passwd" with no other arguments changes the password of the user it is running as.

"sudo passwd" unambiguously changes the password of root.
Why do none of these projects manage to publish a usable embeddable library (+ docs)? That could be so much more impactful than all the minimal demo-chat apps built on top of the mesh network tech...
I've no information on how good this site's data is, but https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... seems to show that from 2013-2017 global macOS market share has increased from 7.95% to 11.3%.
As a Tester myself, I cannot understand why this is not covered by either unit tests or behavioral tests.
Clicking dialog buttons in rapid succession is what we (should) do once in a while. Especially in core functionalities such as the login screen.
It's one of the first screens you see as a tester. And you have default usernames, be it enabled or not.

For example, I do not own an iPhone, but at work, I made a bet with my colleague (jokingly) that I could break _something_ on his phone in a few minutes.

I did not have his finger print or pin-code, so I was very limited, I even joked "I don't need that, give it here!"

Finding out I only had a hand full of options, I focused on the emergency dialer.
As any good tester would be curious about, I wanted to check the max field length, so I entered digits, copy/paste it a few times, copy/paste that string, ("wait, no limit? Not even at 1000? why?") and so on, until I noticed the interface became laggy, so of course, I kept going.

Boom, suddenly back at the login screen, tried to open the emergency dialer, but got a full blank white screen, in the meantime the phone started heating up substantially.
Since it was a new Phone (iPhone 7 with iOS 10.x I believe) and the dev getting nervous, we decided to reboot it. That fixed the issue.
(Curious if this is still an issue in iOS 11.x)

TL;DR: As a tester this simple curiosity should be in your blood, and especially covered in behavioral tests when your software has been around for 5+ years.
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It was partly a marketing thing, but Edge is not IE, and Edge has never supported any plugins (which Silverlight is).
Good thing too. In some other countries the mere fact of being under suspicion for some crime can ruin your life.
Clearly there are fewer and fewer people selling now causing prices to go up?
Sounds interesting, but I'm pretty sure we need to keep out ActiveMQ instance in local machines because of medical data. We're also pretty tied to GCS...
> If the argument is that a few key monopoly-like players dictate what content we can access

I can see how Comcast/Verizon/AT&T can dictate content, but Twitter? Really?