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What privacy protection from Apple?

They refuse to show me how my data is being used. They refuse to allow me to control my own data. They refuse to set up their system in such a way that they can't abuse my data. They also have really close ties with at least one group that blatantly disregards privacy.

Dont get me wrong, Android is a dumpster fire, but at least they give me some control over my OS.
Which C++ projects have "mega dependencies"? There is no technical reason to have those (or any other kind of dependency management problems, for that matter). I'm not sure what it's like on Windows, but most other OSes support all of the major C++ dependencies in their default package managers (or things like MacPorts on Mac OS) and it's not difficult to install anything else manually.
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Rape is just yet another coerced and forced work for subsistence. Aside being 'sex', there's not much difference between other types of work that one is required to do to make money and eat and live in a shelter.

At the end, you're mentally and physically tired. And you used a good chunk of your day being productive for someone else so they can make even more money on that.
If you make steps to ensure that you're not servicing EU citizens, then I guess not. A little more clarification on that would be welcome.
If you clicked the link and found the amount of information they have on your surprising, and now feel a bit violated, then good; you should.

You'll probably try to do a bit of research and try to figure out how to opt out of all this and protect yourself. And you should. But you shouldn't just stop there.

Many of the people who are reading this right now are responsible for designing and implementing systems that collect massive amounts of data. I implore you to not just think about your own privacy moving forward, but the privacy of your users. Security and privacy should be two of your top level concerns when designing systems, not just tack-ons.

Simply hating of Google/Facebook/$$$Corp for invading your privacy and not doing anything to rememdy the general poor state of privacy in the modern connected world when you have the power to do so is hypocritical.

Next time you're given a project that has PII and the security user story gets deprioritized, raise it as an issue. Aside from being the right thing to do, many places, such as Canada and California, are looking at GDPR-like regulations. So it makes sense to do it now instead of later.

And if you're going to argue that it's hard, and it's time consuming, and you're a startup just trying to get on their feet so you can't be bothered, then consider that you may be part of the reason we find ourselves in this sorry state.

/rant
Not to pick on you but this is a common misconception of evolution. You don't outgrow your ancestry. You are and your descendants always will be human. Just as they will always be primates and mammals and animals.
> they can't compete against billions of dollars funded by well funded corporations.

How would getting rid of lobbying change that equation? If lobbying was gone, what mechanism would be used to discuss issues with legislators?
Doesn't that depend on who you ask?
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No. I'm talking about programming style. I am not talking about how certain JavaScript properties are implemented.
What legal agreement? It's not like they won't weasel out of it anyway. I'm fairly certain they were scanning emails for ad targeting up until the past year or so.

GSuite is ok when it works most times, when it doesn't it's a nightmare. Google is literally the worst company I've ever done business with. In fact, over the past decade I've had to reach out to various support levels on different products and can say they stand at a remarkable 0% solve rate. (Chromium's bug tracker I've had some success with but it's not 100% a Google product)

The latest contract breech I've had with them is regarding their SLA agreement. We had a client's account become inaccessible for a week. This caused them 2 days of work downtime as their quotes and business correspondence were all tied up in the account. The SLA defines a Downtime as:

"Downtime" means, for a domain, if there is more than a five percent user error rate. Downtime is measured based on server side error rate.

We wrote about the issue, figured out the cause was likely due to an error in the half-assed rollout of the new admin panel (they currently have two in production), and yet we were not granted a half-month credit for the downtime as the SLA stipulated.
That's one point of view, if you're a goodie two shoes who automatically follows and agrees with every law and rule you ever heard of, even if it violates your own basic ethical values.

Another point of view is that the state of arizona intentionally hates pedestrians and gratuitously creates roads that put their lives at risk when all they're trying to do is get home from the grocery store or whatever, a perfectly reasonable thing we oughtta all have the right to do without having to walk an extra mile out of our way or whatever.

In NYC, which is actually a reasonable jurisdiction in the USA, that dumb fuck Giuliani tried to enforce anti jay walking laws one time in the '90s. You know what happened? NYPD cops went on the record telling the NY Times they planned to intentionally leave their ticket books in their precinct lockers so they had no way of writing such idiotic tickets. Police nullification, you could call it. Guliani immediately backed down and no one in recent memory has tried to do that again in downstate NYS.
If an employer expects you to be available at any time for any shift, regardless of the job, then you should be paid enough to live off of that paycheck. Full stop. Whether you’re feeding cats, flipping burgers, tending wounds, or just answering a phone, we have entire lines of work now where despite the fact that you’re expected to always be available and never turn down a shift, you get paid bare minimum wage, and never get enough hours for benefits. It’s disgusting and immoral.
In the old joke when you owe the bank a million dollars the bank has a problem it's not noted that sometimes the bank decides not to let you owe it 2 million dollars as a way of mitigating the problem.
At any rate the comment was regarding problems 20 years in the future. I don't know that the U.S will continue as the global currency standard for various reasons.
The investigation isn't complete, but Uber did disable the car's own safety features [0].

Both Volvo and Intel tested their software against the low-grade video that was released, and it was able to detect the impending accident and reduce the impact to where the pedestrian would likely have survived.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/uber-disa...
I too assumed this is exactly why Tesla pushed out all the hardware years in advance. To collect training data.
Hmm; if I understand correctly, in that link you show that if Uber’s AI has the same risk of killing people as a human driver, then the prior probability of an accident occurring when it did or earlier was 5%. That’s significant, but it’s not the same measure as the probability that the AI has a higher risk (which would require a prior distribution).
At the risk of sounding callous and uncaring, I will be blunt - I am wary of mental health advice that comes from a person who killed himself at age 26.

I admire Aaron for his technical ability, his unique perspective, his writing, his courage and passion. I sympathize with persecution he dealt with towards the end of his life, and I think that the prosecution against him was unjust. I find myself agreeing with most of his writing that I've encountered.

On the topic of following the news, I am tempted to agree with him as well. However, I wonder if keeping up with the news reinforces the idea that the world can be a scary place, and that if we stray too far outside of the bounds of normal human behavior, we might face hardship. One could argue that that idea is detrimental to human society as a whole, but I think it is generally has a net positive effect on a particular person's mental wellbeing.
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While I tend to agree with the article, I would note that news media does not scale well. Your local community news website will likely have more pertinent information for you, personally, than the NYT, so it's a bit unfair to compare their utility equally.
Same here. WTF! That's some next level bullshit. How does even Apple allow that? They must be leveraging a phone API because it's tracking the name of the binary. So not only Google has access to this data but virtually any app installed in my phone.
If YouTube is a private company that can act how it wants, how is a Christian bakery forced to bake a cake for a person who violates their religious beliefs? Were they not a private company who could act how they want?

Gun control is the religion of leftists, so I guess that’s okay, right?
A non-SAT system is understandable in the sense that you can, as a human, look at it and understand what the solution is should be. That's kind of cool.

It also seems within the realm of imaginable that having an easy-enough-to-implement scheme that you're not falling back on writing heuristic backtracking search might result in more tools being written.

Obviously, you are right that being NP-complete is clearly not a showstopper or a huuuge problem, in practice. Still, seems nice to avoid if you can!

By the way, that's interesting to hear about pip. I do my best to avoid python, but I inevitably end up reluctantly wanting to use some tool written in it, and inevitably it breaks. What a fucking shit-ass ecosystem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

> Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan.

This comment isn't too far from mistaking South Korea for North Korea.
If you want support for their software in production, get ready to pay for it, and generally, it's great.

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I really like her commentary and glad she is getting more attention.

I think the issue is the magic of free and the irrationality of humans. Free creates irrational responses. People will use a lot of a thing if its free even if its bad rather than dealing with the perceived loss of paying 2 cents for something better.

So as long as no one figures out how to make micro-transactions cognitively easier than free stuff then free tech will prevail. And payment will be harvested via information and attention.

The dystopia we are building is not because we want free stuff, but because we are too lazy to make the choice about spending 2 cents.

I am trying to change that with oalrus.com but we shall see if i mange to build a large enough of a list of alpha users to give the network a chance.
You are correct, it does not. It works OK, but I know I have a ton of minor issues with it
Sorry for their loss...

Preordering from a soon to be bankrupt company isn’t a great business idea. But then again the Fed is always there to rescue everyone.

It’d be hilarious if Trump bailed out Tesla. Trump too his his Solyndra or whatever that crony piece of shot company that Obama rescued was called.
Shame that CS people seem among the least interested in ethics, as it's just such a bummer when you have to consider anything else but technical solutions. It's why the field really needs the humanities.
Not surprising at all. I've been actively logging into Google and confirming my visits at various restaurants. I've been using it to track my past activities, and I hope it can provide more accurate restaurant recommendations for me. It has been quite useful. Video recommendations on Youtube are also way more accurate than any other service I've ever seen. If you don't mind sharing your personal data, you do get better service over time.
The main HQ isn't actually on top of a superfund site, but an ex-dump. We derive a fair amount of methane from the decaying matter underneath shoreline...
I remain interested in why the lidar didn't work in this case and I hope more details emerge so we can learn what happened.

But it seems logical that Uber would disable the onboard built-in volvo crash detection feature, it would be adding another variable for a car that is intended to test one thing at a time. Its hard to see this solely as the "uber is being reckless" narrative instead of "maybe this is just how all self-driving cars are tested".

I am happy to be proven wrong certainly
> but the absence of it is pretty terrifying as well. Whatever is left of little accountability will pretty much vanish.

Did you read the article? It critiques the fast-paced nature of the news and the choice of topics, it doesn't call for abolishing the news.

> But on the other extreme, state run media that do not have the same objective of making profit are even worse.

Incorrect. For instance, here in Australia, we have a state run media channel, the ABC (abc.net.au), and the quality of the news and reporting is much better than the commercial news.

What is it about Americans that make them believe that things that work perfectly well in many other countries (publicly funded television, gun control, universal healthcare) are impossible?
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And only one hacker, one statistician and one washed-up old psychologist would notice and grudgingly team up to save the world?
Great products, but the only problem is (almost) nobody wants them.

Hence we need the State to steal via taxes and spend on whatever the intellectual elite determines is in our best interest.
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I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
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I'm going to take your post apart because I enjoyed it very much...

> For all of the theoretical moral questions that have been brought up around self driving cars (the proverbial lever that lets you kill one person instead of a handful, for example), it's interesting/inevitable that this one came up first.

Your talking about the "trolley problem" and it is a ethical question as opposed to moral. This is literally a fuckup, bad programing or poor design. We are going to have real ethical concerns because at some point a car is going to have to make a choice pedestrian or occupant - and I know that my elderly father would choose himself if he were in the car, but I might make a different choice.... will the cars ethics ever reflect my own?

> I'm sure lots of people will argue that self-driving cars will, in the long run, save a lot of lives, and therefore we can justify some loss of life in the process. They are probably right about self-driving cars saving more lives in the long run, but I don't know that the conclusion follows.

It is a tough one, and if there is more loss of life does using a self driving car a bit of fruit off a poison tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Pernkopf springs to mind when you bring this up.

> From what has been released so far, this feels like a case where a human would have had a high likelihood of doing the same thing

Except the fact that when you look at footage of the road when driven on with a decent camera recording rather than the crapy low quality and very much artificially dark uber footage this looks to have been very avoidable. If the guy who was supposed to be there to take over had been looking up right then, we might not be talking about this at all...

> As someone with a little bit of experience with the machine learning side of things, I understand how this stuff is really hard, and I can imagine a handful of ways the system could have been confused, which makes it all the more important to understand what went wrong and how we could prevent it from happening in the future.

Were talking about uber here... it is also just as likely that they are in way over their heads.

> As self-driving cars become more prevalent, things like this will happen and it will be tough to walk the line between over-reacting to every incident and killing progress in this area and designing safe cars that don't make the problem worse.

When I read this bit I felt compelled to respond - the life of one victim is too many. In the early days of aviation people knew the risks... But this wasn't the test pilot who died this was a woman walking down the road. I look forward to the NTSB report - they tend to be the adults in these situations.
> From what has been released so far, this feels like a case where a human would have had a high likelihood of doing the same thing and would not have been at-fault in the collision. But self-driving cars have more sensors and, in theory, more capabilities to prevent something like this, and we absolutely should expect them to do better.

Intel and Volvo tested against the terrible dashcam footage. If Uber hadn't disabled the XC90's safety systems, this wouldn't have happened. [0]

The systems today can do better.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/uber-disa...
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Lots of Mac users wait before they upgrade. (Myself included)

I recently looked at stats for my app, and only around 60% of my users are on 10.13, 30% on 10.12, and 10% on older versions.

If you use your Mac professionally, there‘s no point in updating every year — it‘s always a hassle and a few weeks of upgrading 3rd party software and fixing random things that don‘t work any more.
That's Cisco's R&D model. Buy smaller companies with interesting tech and see if their products stick. If they do, great. If not, spit them out via sale or shut them down.
What can I say? It happened to me a lot before I started using the pass trick.
>And the truth is that if this was hosted in almost any country other than the US, that would not be true. The US is extremely flexible in that regard.

What? In a large part of Europe prostitution is fully legal[1]. For example, in Poland we have very popular websites solely dedicated for sexual services advertisements[2], with photos and price lists.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_law#/media/File:P...

[2] - like roksa.pl or odloty.pl
I include “security patch” in “behavior”, subject to both conditions above.

If B isn’t otherwise updated at a similar time, then yes, I advocate dependency update-only releases. I think this is as it should be. A project should be able to know what code it runs, specifically.

And yes, if a project is abandoned then security patches don’t get magically applied. Again, as it should be. The fact that you have an unmaintained dependency is itself a problem. You can’t just auto-apply security patches and expect things to keep working, ask any Linux distro. What needs to happen is a fork (or dropping the dependency). Tools warning you encourages this; silently auto-applying patches encourages everybody to separately do their own fixes and workarounds.
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Outside of Hacker News, I have never encountered anyone who followed, was fully aware of, or cared about Uber scandals. From my conversations, it seems that people in my city hate taxi companies so much that it takes more than a couple of manslaughters to make them stop using Uber.
In other discussions we've had, I know you've chosen not to use Apple (and not even using Google's services, IIRC). That's fine, and completely your choice. In the interest of keeping the conversation as civil as possible (we all know how inflammatory OS and privacy matters can get even without added fuel), can we lower the rhetoric level a bit? You want the option to compile and install your own OS. You choose not to trust what Apple says they do (such as encrypting most (admittedly not all) of the data in flight and at rest, making it inaccessible to them. I don't think there are any reasonable people that would disagree with your choice to not use Apple because of your priorities.

You can choose to phrase these things in the much more aggressive "They refuse...", or, if you're interested in reasonable, constructive discussion, you can choose to phrase it in a way that shows a bit more respect for the choices others may make based on their priorities and values, that they might reasonably make those decisions, just as I think you would want them to consider yours. As one HN member to another, please? (Don't worry: this is the last time I'll ask. I just hate watching conversations derail into people talking past each other.)
They always have been disgusting and will always be. I have ceased all activity on Facebook and my life has never been better. F#ck Facebook and f#ck Zuckerberg.
> "What legal agreement?"

This is the agreement that I was referring to: https://gsuite.google.com/terms/dpa_terms.html

Specifically, see section 5.2.

Also, Google advertises this as a feature to G Suite users: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650?hl=en
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In practice, yes.

In theory, as is obvious from all these comment threads, people seem to think the "safety drivers" (think about that name...) are there to actually, like, you know, improve safety.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16684316
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I recently started actively using profiles feature in Chrome. At first because it was convenient to keep each profile on each own KDE activity, but after awhile I started to use separate profiles for anonymous browsing, testing various chrome extension testing, throwaway-ish social accounts, etc.

Highly recommend it - super convenient.
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I do that too. I probably wouldn't if I hadn't learned on a shell server where that was how you found out who else was up.
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Ugh, that stuff destroys the fourth wall. Save it for the DVD extras or put it on YouTube.
Two of the largest advertisers don’t think Facebook ads are effective. The latest, P&G, specifically call out how narrow targeting is ineffective.

> After cutting back on certain digital ads, “we didn’t see a reduction in the growth rate,” said Mr. Moeller during the call. “What that tells me is that the spending we cut was largely ineffective.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304192704577406...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-to-scale-back-targeted-face...
While your statement is true, it's best to talk probabilties.

If you calculate the likelihood that companyX is a) hoarding sensitive data about you AND b) isn't competent at securing said data, I'd rate Google as less of a threat because I estimate (b) is much less likely.

The best way to win is not to play. I block cookies, scripts and also don't use FB or much of Google except search & email.
Why is "car's built-in system took control" harder to handle than "human safety driver took control"? Seems like they are exactly the same: "external system took control".
Almost every release of Android Studio has succeeded in breaking every single Android app I wrote. I have always had to cut and paste every class, resource, layout, one by one into a new project in order to get it to compile. I always fear pressing the "update" button.
Facebook deserves to die. That's really all there is to say.