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The app would have been trivially considered a malware if the same thing happened in Windows, where the app was traditionally allowed to access anything within the basic privilieges---just about anything. One can (rightly) blame Windows (and also Android) for allowing that, but more importantly, the Facebook app would have to be treated in the same way after all.
That's not as clear as you suggest. Some advertising restrictions are clearly constitutional (note the lack of cigarette ads, for example), and in the past courts have found that no commercial speech is protected under the constitution. Notably, that includes even the Supreme Court in Valentine v. Chrestensen.

All of which is beside the point, in that my aside was clearly meant as a "if I were in charge" hypothetical. And since it's my hypothetical, I can posit that your puny mortal constitution would not stand up to my hypnobeam powers. So there.
I didn’t like “static” and “dynamic” but they were the best words I could come up with quickly. Mostly I mean that the performative arts involve a physical skill component that will be hard to develop without the sheer hours. Introspection and character-building are also necessary but less primary, and the threshold for technical skill rises as the amount of originality required decreases. Compare standards for classical music and ballet to jazz and modern dance. The expectations for a top violinist or ballerina are essentially those of a figure skater or gymnast.

None of this is to say painting and sculpting don’t require skill, but I’m not sure Picasso or Van Gogh would’ve been able to show their genius if they had to be Bob Ross and do it live every time.
I read most of that press release with no idea if Godot was a real thing or if it was an eloborate riff on Waiting for Godot

It took clicking around their site a bit to realize it's actually a real thing. I think.
probably because speaking out would cause more trouble than its worth. i recall an Uber director decided to open his mouth during the incidents of last year...
Housing problems in cities are usually due to NIMBYs opposing high rise buildings.

It's a land shortage, rather than an actual housing shortage.
Weird but saw at least 3 tweets validating my existing app, likely to be frequency illusion.

Was definitely addicted in moving down to see more.

Im sharing this with my friend right now.
Yes, but taken in context it’s still a huge benefit. You have to keep in mind we have a lot of employees making much more median salaries, a medical biller or coder making in the mid 10’s to low 20’s an hour gets the same benefit I do as a $89K/yr DevOps engineer.
> Sandy Bridge, on the other hand, both in laptops like the ThinkPad T420 and X220 (which still have the best keyboard on any laptop) and off lease HP/Dell workstations sporting high frequency Xeons are an astonishing price/value bargain (the cheapest E3 1270 workstations with motherboard, CPU, cooler, chassis and PSU are about the same cost as the roughly equivalent i5 7400 CPU alone). Yes, the wattage has dropped significantly but the IPC only grew by 20% from Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake

The older laptops are fine if you are looking for something you can plug in and work on, and have fairly minimal requirements for a GPU. The newer laptops are much better for those who want to compute on the go, without being tethered to a wall plug, and have made huge strides in graphics capabilities/efficiency.

This is compounded by old/failing batteries and the fact that it's nigh-impossible to source high-quality aftermarket replacements. Most of the aftermarket batteries on eBay/Amazon will have cells start to die or drift out of balance within a month or less. Really the only option seems to be to buy the OEM part... but even from someone like Amazon it could be contaminated by commingling. There is a widely-acknowledged gap in the market here that some startup could exploit.

Going from a W510 with Nehalem and non-switchable discrete (circa-2006) Tesla uarch graphics, to a modern ultrabook or workstation laptop with a Kaby Lake and switchable Optimus graphics (or a reasonably capable iGPU) is like triple the battery life, and unlocks a whole world of applications that simply won't run without DX11 support. And if you want discrete graphics, Pascal alone is pretty much a game-changer.

There is finally a reasonable enough feature-increment to consider an upgrade from the old Sandy Bridge/Nehalem stuff.
One could argue from inspection that, when it comes to security, Equifax's talent is scarcely better than random schmoes, yes.

But it's not just about preventing the hiring of "random schmoes". It's about legally formalizing responsibility and accountability, and the incentive structure that arises from that. As before, this is well-tested in other professions.

Facebook might have made difference decisions if they had special legal obligations regarding "the handling of sensitive personal information." Perhaps their engineers would have thought twice about giving unfettered access to third party APIs if they knew that a breach down the line could ruin their careers.
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>I always had the impression the game is mostly not caring about the consequences at all

Then why does the pollution game mechanic exist, and why does pollution kill trees?
This opinion is the reason software quality is shit today.
What about reposts, especially to platforms that don't play the game? The only thing that will stop your naive friend, who thinks your slightly off-color remark about the hot-topic of the week is pure gold, from reposting will be potential threats of legal repercussions if they do (some kind of DMCA amongst friends). Who the hell wants that?

We're either asking for the same thing media companies have been seeking for decades, perfect DRM (billions of dollars haven't found that solutions yet), or we're admitting that none of this works unless everyone you share things with, and the people they share your thing with, completely agree with you about who should see the thing you just shared with them, and know how to prevent software from automatically doing it, perfect trust (most can't even keep their contact lists from leaking). I don't see either happening, ever.

The goal here is to prevent powerful groups from building a profile so they can target ads/guns at you when they decide they want your money/life whenever they decide they deserve it. The only ways I can think of to do that are post anonymously, hope not to get doxed; or STFU and stop broadcasting your life. You can make laws that might make it unprofitable (most likely just for new-comers, the current players will just pay the fines), but that won't stop the guns.
Used to do this as a "sleeping pill". Doesn't work anymore.
A good way to think about regulation and Facebook might be, would you rather continue using Facebook, knowing the government is supposedly regulating them, but you can never know for sure, or would you rather move on to a new and more interesting platform where privacy and security defaults are integrated into the platform from day one? Regulation that Facebook can point to and say, "See, we are following to rules!" will make it harder to convince your friends to leave Facebook.
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"Our efforts to protect our company data or the information we receive may also be unsuccessful due to software bugs or other technical malfunctions, employee error or malfeasance, government surveillance, or other factors.

"In addition, third parties may attempt to fraudulently induce employees or users to disclose information in order to gain access to our data or our users' data."

"Although we have developed systems and processes that are designed to protect our data and user data and to prevent data loss and other security breaches, we cannot assure you that such measures will provide absolute security."

"In addition, some of our developers or other partners, such as those that help us measure the effectiveness of ads, may receive or store information provided by us or by our users through mobile or web applications integrated with Facebook. We provide limited information to such third parties based on the scope of services provided to us. However, if these third parties or developers fail to adopt or adhere to adequate data security practices, or in the event of a breach of their networks, our data or our users' data may be improperly accessed, used, or disclosed."

Source: MD&A, 2015 Facebook annual report
Doesn't Zuckerberg have full control of the board?
I've been very interested lately in the idea of monochromatic interfaces.

Aside from being easier on the eyes (especially an amber or red interface), they force UI designers to make careful choices, and potentially result in a cleaner, more useable interface.

It's not a project for me yet, just a series of notes and concepts, but I'd like to turn it into a proof of concept at the very least.
You might want to look into putting some of that money into a 529 plan; that allows the kid to pay for college without paying taxes on the gains.

It's a risk if the kid doesn't end up going to college; you end up paying, I think, regular taxes on the earnings plus like 10% penalty.

Still, 17 years of tax free growth would be a pretty good reward if the kid does go to school.
Facebook should split into Facebook the aggregator and Facebook the content hoster. You could talk about a third piece that is Facebook the content provider, which is for providing things like gifs, templates, memes, emoji, games, and other stuff like that. Because Facebook hasn't completely broken from open web standards those types of content providers already exist today.

Aggregators would be where you go to set up your friend list and see your feed. It could look and feel like Facebook does now. It would have an open standard protocol that content hosters would use if they wanted to be aggregated. This could still be an add driven business, but subscription, self hosted, and DIY solutions could exist too.

Content hosters could either charge a monthly hosting fee, or they could serve up their own adds. Self hosted and DIY solutions could also exist.

The big benefit to this would of course be the competition. Since it's an open standard anyone could be a content host, and anyone could be an aggregator.

To make extra sure there is competition, and this could come in a phase two after the initial splitting up of Facebook, there should be open standards for exporting and importing friends, follows, likes, etc. to and from aggregators, and open standards for importing and exporting content from the hosters.

Speaking of follows and likes, there could also be aggregator aggregators (AAs). People could opt in to publicly and anonymously share their likes and follows and the AAs would consume those and report on trends that cross aggregator boundaries. Anonymity could be much more protected this way while still giving us that interesting information about what is trending.

One tricky part of this is how do I as a content author only allow my friends to see certain posts of mine? It would have to be with encryption. My content provider could keep public keys of my friends and only my friends (well, their aggregators) would be able to decrypt my posts using my friends' private keys. I can see some challenges and holes in this, but it doesn't seem any worse overall than how Facebook protects privacy now. Open implementations and peer review could get us to better-than-Facebook privacy quickly.
> I'm not sure if Google even has an internal red team, last time I talked with someone there they didn't (was 18 months ago though).

2012: Google staffs up ‘Red Team’

And this was literally just a Google away: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/24/google-red-team-...
They have very flashy, AAA-style graphics now. Check out Konami's pivot:

https://www.casino-review.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CR16...
Ask HN: Do you think companies should pay applicants for interviewing them?
The reason I am asking this is many times companies interview candidates and give them no result. This frustrates the candidates both mentally and physically. I think there should be a contract which not only reimburses the candidate but also gives proper details about compensation, result timeline etc.

What do you think?
Do you have any examples of OS'es which have "Allow just this one picture"?
In that case yes, but not with converting JPY to EUR say, or selling and buying shares of a European company which trades in EUR not USD. Only some assets have cross markets.
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That certainly is an ideal, however, consider it in an economics point of view:

There's no need to spend more money on transportation if there's not the amount of people to pay and ride on it. The unknown here is if the population density will ever go up to support a new system being paid for, now.

Adding density first proves demand, and although messy, transportation would NEED to improve somehow.
Red team is an overloaded term: "Analyze software and services from a privacy perspective, ensuring they are in line with Google's stated privacy policies, practices, and the expectations of our users." Doesn't sound like adversary simulation to me.
Intents are alive and well, but they've been broadly crippled until recently-ish (well. they still are, but at least now you can read/write stuff in a user-defined folder... kinda.). And the fancier stuff is totally broken on a large number of devices. And it's fairly complicated to support all of it and still be backwards compatible for older OSes that don't have it.

But yes! It exists, and most applications could pretty easily use it instead.

But most of it seems to be laziness / misunderstanding. And Android's broadly terrible documentation does not help this at all. E.g. a huge number of apps that want external storage permissions just use it to store external caches outside your system partition, which is very nice for people with an SD card / limited internal space. Many companies don't seem aware that this no longer requires any permissions though - you can store internal and external data in your app-sandboxed folders by default.
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This is my first experience with HyperCard and I love it!
There's nothing anti-intellectual about questioning your phrasing. You're just pissed that anyone is calling attention to your rhetorical tactics, because that blunts their effect. And without the flowery language, your comment has almost no substance.

Stripping your comment of its rhetorical content to get at the logical meat of the argument is required in order to have an honest intellectual discussion.
I like the sounds of this:

"Executor -- The BlockingAdaptiveExecutor adapts the size of an internal thread pool to match the concurrency limit based on measured latencies of Runnable commands and will block when the limit has been reached."

I'm often surprised this kind of auto-scaling thread pool is not a more common thing in Java land.
Sounds like a good origin story for Kaiju
This is of limited utility on HN. It is indeed “inside baseball” if that means what I think it does. Wait for another tech post.
that sounds like a fun little project; way less privacy concerns than your usual tax application, as all the data is public. just a "find the data for a 1099-B for the following wallets"

it actually seems like it would be pretty easy to do if the user stayed within bitcoin and did all the transactions themselves.

Seems like it would be harder/impossible if they used a broker with a common wallet, which is I thought how most of the brokerages worked.
Thanks! Yeah I think I would've never gotten the idea out of my idea without the support from Co-Lab.
There is no silver bullet in health care. The field is too large for any one single solution to cover everyone (3 Trillion USD per year is spent on health care). There needs to be a lot of innovation in a lot of different areas in order to solve the problem.

I started a company with my brother that is attempting to drastically lower costs for primary care. (https://scalpel.com) We build software that allows physicians to set up their own direct primary care clinics. Our beta clinic in South Carolina charges $49 / month for unlimited visits and charges people at cost for things like labs and procedures. So instead of dealing with a labyrinthine medical system people are just working directly with a doctor. We really only care about making money off our memberships which we charge what we believe is a reasonable amount.
Hmm I suppose static site generators actually are more secure and stable too right?

If it's just a static server, then it won't require the maintenance of core, plugin updates that WordPress and other CMS's need, just the web server updates.
I already have elsewhere in this thread, but here goes: Google's primary business model is contingent on user data collection. Apple has the most profitable business in the world, which is not contingent on user data collection. Yes, you are absolutely correct that Apple is leaving a few billion dollars on the table by not doing this. However, that's only true in a fairly narrow, greedy (in the sense of a 'greedy algorithm') sense.

Taking a more strategic perspective, you would look around and see that your competitors have to collect this data to survive. But you don't. That makes this a weakness for them, which means that it's a differentiating factor for your product that they can never copy. This strategic advantage is worth much more than the few billion in quick cash they might pick up by monetizing their user data.
Public transit and density is a chicken and egg problem. Without adequate transit, density is impossible (everyone can't fit their cars in a dense neighborhood), and without adequate density, public transit is unprofitable.

The only solution is decades of highly subsidized public transit and pro-density policies, until it fills the profit gap.
Because they’re paid well. Very well. Everyone I know that works at FB for 2+ years is making 300-500k (including stock) and already owns or is on their way to purchasing a home. That makes it a lot easier to ignore the reality of FB. Meanwhile chumps like me that consider the ethics of their employer will be renting forever. I honestly don’t blame them.
The market would work better if everyone was paying the same prices without "denial-based" inflation.

I think the solution would be to give citizens disease/disorder "endowments." i.e. a yearly health stipend account - it's money they can spend at doctors, but they can't spend on unrelated goods/services (i.e. food). On top of that, additional "stipends" for major life ailments. The trick would be in finding budgets for those stipends. Once individuals have money, though, they have the ability to do the relative value assessment for various treatments.
Or recall the HP leaks.
By the way, isn't there something like this for launcher icon based indicators? Many apps show some status (e.g. number of unread messages, operation progress etc) as an overlay to their icons in the Unity launcher panel. Many apps (e.g. Krusader) do the same in KDE. Some (e.g. Chrome) do this in both the mentioned DEs but many non-KDE apps (e.g. Telegram) fail to do this in KDE.
This is why they’re being “calmed” and kept comfortable. In the immortal words of Pickle Rick, I think it's helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind we value in the animals we eat, but not something I want for myself.

Plus they can bury any qualms they have in piles of money and rationalizations.
On the plus side, it's good to know that Facebook has employees who care about being ethical citizens of the Internet ecosystem. Hopefully they can exert pressure on the upper ranks in some way to bring things under control. Facebook has the opportunity to be a force for good, while also accomplishing its business model, but it won't naturally lean in that direction.
> so little to gain

wait, what?

There's quite a lot to be gained. Enough to incentivize a very powerful attacker, possibly even a nation-state level actor who can extract the mole and protect / reward them.

The stakes are not low here; I can't imagine why you've said that.
It's basically an anti-protectionism web site. The book, "The Box" covers this subject very well.

Two things made international trade really work - containers and faxes. Faxes made it possible to do business efficiently across language boundaries. Invoices and purchase order forms make it across language barriers with some struggling on both sides, and if there's a problem, there's reasonably quick feedback. Trying to do that by phone or telegram or paper mail is much tougher. At last, the paperwork got there before the cargo did, which made shipping work far batter.
https://careers.google.com/jobs#!t=jo&jid=/google/security-e...

The job even lists insider threat as part of their responsibility.
>ACA exchanges up 34% YoY

Stating "YoY" gives the false impression that this is the average increase over some number of years. However, this was simply the projection for 2018 and the article provides the reason:

"The price increases are fuelled by market uncertainty and the elimination of key federal payments to insurers."
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Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome work you've done with those projects. I've been using the Flask/SQLAlchemy/Alembic stack to run many, many projects over the last 4 or 5 years.
> You would be surprised at what /doesn't/ happen if you stop filing taxes.

You are right: the sun would still rise everything morning, life would continue pretty much unchanged, no one would break down the door to haul you away for not filing your return. This is not Hollywood. But a little envelope could show up in a year, two years -- or twenty years. If you do not file there is no time limit on collection of taxes, interest and penalties. https://www.irs.gov/irm/part5/irm_05-001-019 Maybe you are living in a van now and getting cash on the nail and can't care less. But... what if you clean up in ten years and want to live better? Even a zero return is better than no return.

And if you do not live in a van but have an actual income with a paper trail, the IRS might just file a Substitution for Return on your behalf and then, if you do not respond, they will, with the full force of the law, come after what they think you owe them, putting a federal tax lien on your real property, garnishing your wages and so on.

Once you or they filed a return, there's a ten year time limit on collecting the money, but, again, that doesn't apply if you do not file.

What really doesn't happen is criminal tax evasion charges. That's truly rare and reserved for the heavy hitters.
Having made extensive use of amber and green and b&w monitors, I much prefer full color.

Though I dislike the recent low-contrast efforts. Keep high contrast, reduce brightness as desired for your environment.
Yes, takes good design to make it work, though. 8 feet wide is sort of restrictive when you start laying things out.

My experience is this: Up at my weekend mountain cabin, I have a 40 foot container that is my "tool shed". Weather-tight but no-longer-seaworthy containers can be had at reasonable prices. They make excellent secure tool/stuff storage. But laying out an efficient and effective floor plan with shelves, an aisle, and out-of-they-way parking for things like a wood splitter takes a bit of thought.

I've thought off-and-on about how to turn the 320 ft^2 of a container into a cabin. In the end, I think I'd rather work with CMU blocks, unless I wanted something portable ("Portable" in the Army sense of the word.....)
False, as a self-employed person you can consider this a business expense. I have for two years with no issues. One-person LLC.
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I love hacker news right now. Been a long time since I felt "home".