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I've had nothing but bad experiences with TaskEasy personally, so I'm not surprised that unsubscribing from their emails was such a poor experience.
> Am quite certain no app can monitor your location in the background on iOS.

Any application can do this on iOS, with a few caveats:

- iOS prompts you to grant permission when the application requests it for the first time. If you refuse, the application cannot keep prompting you.

- After a few days, it reminds you that the application has been accessing your location in the background and asks you if you want to keep allowing it or revoke access.

- There is an indicator in the status bar to let you know when an application is tracking your location.

- You can see which applications have access and which applications have used that access recently by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.

- You can revoke access at any time in the same place or by going to Settings > App Name.

- You can also only grant applications access to your location while you are using the application, as long as the application supports that.

- If an application doesn't intrinsically need location services to function and the developer tries to force users to grant permission by disabling functionality, the application is unlikely to be allowed in the App Store.

As others have mentioned, there are also other ways in which applications may be able to infer your location indirectly.
Not every company is like Intercom where they have enough funding to spend on 'outsourcing undifferentiated heavy lifting'. The only competitive advantage they have is that they are well funded and they have budget for marketing.

There are other software companies out there, smaller and leaner than Intercom that are eating their lunch by offering similar or a better product at a lower cost. Those companies aren't 'outsourcing undifferentiated heavy lifting' but rather have a lean and talented team that's able to do the heavy lifting themselves without sacrificing on product development.
It'd probably transition to something like a React Foundation governance model, still open source.

This is probably something that will happen anyway given enough time. So it would happen faster. Development would slow down for a while if Facebook pulls out engineering resources.
That was the first thing I looked for. Cool that it runs in browser instead of uploading all of my data to their server.
For sure. My point was just that it's the calculation that Hollywood studios should be thinking about internally when deciding how much spend on combatting piracy. At some point the expense becomes greater than the benefit. And I doubt they're so naive as to use the 1:1 calculation of each download being exactly equal to a lost ticket sale, except when it comes to press releases.
Gamb now responded with an official statement (german): http://pr0gramm.com/new/2445432
Fair point, I guess the question then remains: were they qualified to build those either?
>Evidence suggests that the park planned to delay maintenance until the park closed for the season.

When a safety feature was out of service, they decided to keep running it. That sounds like a director of operations decison.

And much easier case to prove than design deficiency.
I believe it is subsumption based with random walk added on top: bumper hit means turn around and wheel dangling means don't go farther. I think the more recent models have more intelligence added on top but still has the lower level systems acting as safe guards. Of course it doesn't run into the problems you mentioned because it doesn't have any learning (at least not one of the earlier models I had).
> you have to explicitly enable this feature, agreeing to "ongoing upload" of your "text and call history"

I don't remember this being explicitly asked of me in any obvious way. And even if it was, I would have assumed they only needed that permission to get a list of contacts on my phone, and that the rest of it would be unused.

> Apple runs a messaging service called iMessage

Yes, and it's all encrypted and none of it is sent to third-party advertisers or creepy voter manipulation firms.

> Facebook has never sold this data. There is no evidence they've even used the data for anything except its explicitly-stated purpose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambr...
I don't see evidence for that.

Particularly, I haven't seen any argument that Obama transferred information out of its app for other uses, instead of using it within the app in exactly the method allowed by FB’s public policies. While those policies may have been laxer than some would prefer, the Illinois lawsuit relied heavily on the fact that the info was used outside the parameters of those policies, while users were ensured it would be used only within the policies, and that FB was aware of the unauthorized use and failed to notify or arrest it, and indeed benefited from it.

The thing that is charged as a violation is not “using Facebook data in an election campaign”, but “using personal data without even the kind of consent that comes from acting within public policied on how data will be used.”
It takes some amazing engineering talent to build an app which drains your battery that slowly whilst uploading "everything" on your phone to Facebook's servers? :-)
are you arguing that a person is "making poor decisions" if they are unable to parlay smartphone ownership into enough money to buy a house?
https://vimeo.com/260417482

Check out this talk from Artsy.
Orta says that they'll continue supporting RN, even if Facebook drops it tomorrow.
They won't push it forward, but Facebook dropping it is extremely unlikely.
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and yet you wrote "now one of them thinks it’s a dog" as if sensors did image classification.
React may have changed to MIT but React-Native and other projects still use the BSD+Patents license.

EDIT: this apparently was fixed last month.
is it, actually? the broader context is him saying frontend is hard.
You have a valid point. Top talent existed in places like Silicon Graphics, Yahoo, etc. I guess you're right, the top probably got off the sinking ship long before the rest of the crew realized what was happening.

However, I still think this event is not "bad" enough for the crew to start fleeing. This is a bump in the road. People may hate Facebook but people sure do love Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Facebook has a pretty strong moat (for now at least).
Yay, my ridiculous podcast made DevOps'ish!
Based on the data from the National Center for State Courts, there doesn't appear to be much of a correlation between coastal proximity and the rate of civil cases. http://www.ncsc.org/Sitecore/Content/Microsites/PopUp/Home/C...
Market has been choppy since February but FB moving down will bring other stocks down with it. Google was down over the same period BECAUSE of Facebook. Facebook is very much a bellwether company like it or not.
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In my eyes the OP seems almost like pity.

> VW

NSA seems topical regarding privacy. They should have a thing or two to say about security by obscurity (en lieu privacy) and open source.

CamAn is a strawman, not fake news, but only because it's not really news.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Clearly a lot of investors agree with you, as the stock recovered at the end of today to be exactly where it was at the start of the day. If you truly believe what you wrote, then you should invest in it. I disagree with you, but I could be wrong.
I don't agree its their right to do this. Slowly changing the ecosystem from one purporting to be open source to a walled garden is not what I signed up for. A big selling point of AOSP was to have an open place for people to develop that would be less encumbered by a single company like Apple. Sadly Google has been slowly moving code out of AOSP into the proprietary portion.
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LOL... that comment is hilarious because it touches one key truth about Vietnamese culture...

When you ask a Vietnamese person if they can do something, they ALWAYS say they can, even if they have no clue what it is. Especially Vietnamese men. We have this weird need to always pretend like we know everything.

It's similar to the TV sitcom stereotype of how all men think they can fix a leaking pipe, even if they have no clue how to do it.

Good stuff... I'll see you around jf.
If you can't go get -u all on your project at least you have done something 'wrong' or your upstreams have done something wrong.

First, the upstream behavior; not supporting the published interface (as it was and should therefore work forever) means they need to deprecate that interface and release another with the incompatible changes. However the PROPER way of handling this is to add new versions of exposed public methods and interfaces / constants with new names and only if such a major change is required that you can't support the old interfaces, at THAT point, release at least under a new inclusion path if not new dependency name.

Things local a developer might have done wrong: A) include an 'immature' upstream repository that behaves like above. B) use non-public components or other unsafe practices to go beyond the interface contract that was exposed.
> People are called out on their "whataboutery" when they point out hypocrisy. For example, if a father tells his child not to smoke, and the child says "what about you? You smoke several packs a day!" The argument is that one shouldn't smoke, not that the one making the argument is exempt from that rule. So a "what about you" response does not address the argument, thus, is fallacious. However, it is a valid question that does warrant a response. Perhaps the father would respond "I am an idiot with no self-control." But if the father simply responded "that's 'whataboutery,'" it would be akin to the fallacy fallacy, where the implication is that because the response is a fallacy, then it must be incorrect, unreasonable, or undeserving of a response. This is a deflection and an argumentative cop out. Feel free to point out the whataboutery, but respond to the accusation and don't stop dialog because you have your opponent on a technicality.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/qa/Bo/LogicalFalla...
One of them seems to have also been arrested: http://www.kansascity.com/news/article206886324.html
Doesn't matter. New users stopped going to Facebook years ago. Teenagers can't be where their parents are.

The hype is Instagram now, which was incidentally bought by Facebook. A brilliant move.
Facebook itself won't be meaningfully "deleted" for at least five years. It simply has too much money: even if its main product went kaput tomorrow (which it won't), it would find some other way to stay alive. That would almost certainly be via an acquisition spree, in which it would go to great lengths to tie its targets' platforms into facebook.com, which is based on React (AFAIK). So the answer is: nothing.

That said, what if, as a thought experiment, Facebook imploded tomorrow? It reminds me of the "what if the Sun disappeared" scenario -- it's not that it's _unlikely_; it's that it would require new physics to even get you there. So speculation is somewhat idle. That said, here's what I think would happen:

1) The core contributors would be snapped up by some open source-adjacent organization, like Mozilla, and given free reign to work on React in the majority of their time.

2) Some sort of new, independent governance would be formed. IME, new web projects seem to be more ad-hoc in this respect than, say, GNU brethren.

3) Development velocity would undoubtedly slow down. This happens naturally as projects mature, though, so let's not mourn the inevitable process of nature.

4) Some idealistic fork will pick up a bit of steam, and the sister projects will steal from each other liberally. Like bacteria, politicians (zing), or anything else that competes.

5) Something else will rise to take React's place.

But again, it doesn't matter, because Facebook won't disappear on a time scale that matters relative to the velocity of JS development.
What kind of counter point is that?

If Apple has top tier talent, why do they ship an OS with a huge security vulnerability? With a map framework that has memory leaks? With a messaging app that messes up the order of messages?

If Google has top tier talent, why did they create an OS that allowed a third party developer to siphon calls, contacts and messages?

If this is your argument, then no company has top talent.
It's not the quality of the code I'm concerned about. It's more a matter of principle, and the fact that every use of their software possibly contributes to their reputation and appeal to highly qualified developers.
It also says the device ID is regenerated at every factory reset, so it can't have been pre-registered with Google.
I was recently considering responding to the Facebook recruiter that keeps e-mailing me. Now I'm back to a definite no. These things start with people who are more on the fence.
What’s wrong with a possible universe where the iPhone is the only modern smartphone, ubuntu/sailfish/Firefox rules the low end, and Tizen or something is keeping one manufacturer alive in the medium end? There are very strong network effects to an app ecosystem, and you can imagine a future where all the high end users are on iOS.
One of the co-owners was arrested today.

http://fox4kc.com/2018/03/26/schlitterbahn-co-owner-arrested...

Edit: remove amp link
So it looks like Tim Bray is not refuting Yegge's central point: that Android is vulnerable to "stealing" due to someone else (the RN community, which i have to point out is much bigger than Facebook at this point) developing a true xplatform alternative. Thats a very non obvious conclusion and I went from total ignorance to completely agreeing with it in the span of one post. Do people actually agree that Android is that vulnerable?

and what -is- the deal with Flutter? Is it Dart 2.0?
Unless it becomes so uncool that you are lame if you still actively use it...

eg. like having a myspace, or a .hotmail, or a @aol email account

Social networks have to be both useful and trendy in order to fully succeed....

messenger and whatsup are both very useful, FB itself is less, and it needs to be somewhat trendy in order to survive

Personally I find fb very useful to keep up with family and friends, but that might be not be the same for other people, especially very young folks
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Out of ironic principle I wouldn't pay for the movie, and would pirate it instead.
Someone who's working two jobs would disagree with you.
openness isn't zero with Android, e.g. you can install alternative app stores.
Business Registration in San Francisco?
I received a letter from the Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector of San Francisco saying my business is required to register with the city (my business is based and operates in another city on the Peninsula).

I found this quite absurd, so I called the investigator to understand the situation. He points me to the website (http://sftreasurer.org/registration), one criteria which states any business that "Solicit business within San Francisco for all or part of any seven days during one fiscal year" is required to register with the city.

Being based in the Bay Area, I have definitely had meetings in San Francisco. I just find it absurd that I need to register with the city and pay to "solicit" business whether having meetings, doing sales, or reaching out to investors.

Am I crazy for finding this absurd?
React Native has been updated to MIT too: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE
Actually now React Native uses the MIT license, this was changed in February: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/26684cf3adf4...
I genuinely believe that advertisers are only pulling out because it's the PR thing to do. There are many other companies that would love to take advantage of a less competitive bid for Facebook ad space and I have no doubt they will be taking advantage of it and will continue to spend boats of money on Facebook.
This is what I do. It is awesomely simple. And works on mobile phones and all computers.
No, Facebook isn't going to die tomorrow. It'll still be around 5 years from now. After all, even AOL is still clinging to life.

But their valuation depends on extrapolating today's growth and cash flow into the future.

So even a slight slowdown in their growth rate or small reduction in margins can have a magnified effect on the company's valuation.

Since expectations of higher future valuation drives high compensation for strong performers, any hint of this unraveling will result in brain drain.

It's almost certainly already begun.

Yes, my mom will still be on Facebook in 5 years. But I won't be there, my kids won't be there, and my friends won't be there.

Since the network effect works in reverse, the users who remain will spend fewer minutes per day on Facebook and Instagram than they do today.

And ARPU is dismal for the fossils who think Facebook is the internet.
Would they even get to a 100B, let alone a half trillion, market cap by always doing the right thing?

(Because this is ripe to be picked by the "wow, look at the HN dudebros" crowd: this is not an apology of their practices, it's a real question about corporations and powerful institutions.)
Oh! Glad you commented about that, happy you found it though. Thanks.
The owner was just arrested as well,[1] and I'd bet that more will follow. My guess is the director of operations will get a plea deal in exchange for testifying against the others.

[1] http://www.kansascity.com/news/article206886324.html
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Wow! Clearly nuanced, this is a fantastic answer, I did not expect a worthwhile reply, let alone such a great synopsis. Thank you for typing it out. This quality dialogue is why I, and so many others frequent this forum! It's definately not an either or situation, and I hate how our regulators have, for about a half century now, sold out to the ISP/Telco mafia, which enables their continually shitty operations and service while holding on to their anti-competitive market positions. AT&T figured out quite long ago that excelling at cronyism was their most effective long-term business model. I am worried the tech giants will embrace regulation and skate the same path.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40520529/big-tech-lobbying-spree...
I don't know if buying call options makes sense at this IV however.
They went up on the app stores over the last week
I think its likely that its an easier case to prove, but they are charging him with some things that take quite a high bar to prove.

For instance, the involuntary manslaughter charge is going to be hard to proof when the evidence that he was planning on going on the ride the same day is presented. They have to prove recklessness which includes proving the person knew their actions were likely to cause harm.

Also worth noting they are basically throwing the book at him with the number and severity of charges on the indictment.
Particularly, I haven't seen any argument that Obama transferred information out of its app for other uses, instead of using it within the app in exactly the method allowed by FB’s public policies.

That is actually not the case. The public policies at the time stated that the data gleaned from any app was to be used solely for the purpose of operating the app. Obama, however, with the full knowledge and consent of Facebook, used this data for campaign strategy and ad targeting. They downloaded the entire US social graph (also something no other app was allowed to do), and then used that data far outside of the publicly disclosed purposes.

So if they can legitimately be sued for failing to do enough to stop Kogan/CA from using the data in violation of publicly stated policies, they suffer even more liability in the Obama case, as they were active and willing participants in Obama's activities that also violated the publicly stated policies.
Wow. If there was any warning sign short of a dead customer that could have persuaded them to not open/close down this ride, they had it. Repeatedly.
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especially since its still up a decent amount in the past year.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-mocks-trump-but-has...
Yes NASCAR and IndyCar oval tracks have catch fences around a at least part of the tracks. These are for the safety of the fans, not the drivers. Crashing into the fence will shred the car. This is how Dan Wheldon died.
> AFAIK the licenses are ok

What about that patent license noncompetition thing? That's cool? Or did that get pulled?
I read that as meaning risks like "if my product isn't caught killing anyone in the next year, I'll be a billionaire!" type risks, not personal risks.
Thanks, I missed that this came out today. This is what I was expecting.
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, the latter largely based on poor response (which, along with some of Facebooks marketing, is used to suggest willful cooperation) when the abuse by the former was discovered.
If you're into that, check out our core project, https://www.textile.photos/. The idea is to give you control of all your data (starting with photos) doing backup not on our servers but on a decentralized service called IPFS, so you can maintain control and ownership of your data, always.
> But why weren't there mass protests or resistance of any note against all the book burnings

Why right now there aren't mass protests against free speech restrictions on university campuses? Because a) a lot of people agree with them and b) people that don't agree with them and want to protest get intimidated and scared into silence (ironically, often by being called "nazis") by threats ranging from being stalked, boycotted, forced out of the job, bullied online to the direct physical violence. See how "free speech week" in Berkeley worked out.

You say "oh, that's different - now it's for the right cause!". Surely, the Germans thought exactly the same. Their cause was stability, economic prosperity, security and restoration of the pride and the glory of German nation. Why wouldn't one - without the knowledge of what followed - disagree with it? They weren't ignorant of the freedoms they are sacrificing - they thought the goal is worth it. Hopefully, now we know better.

> all the targeting of jews in the 30s

Louis Farrakhan is ranting about "the Jews" right now, all the time, has been doing the shtick for years. Still on Twitter and even has the blue checkmark, interviewed, hand-shaked, etc. People still go and take photo with him (yes, including Obama, in 2005). DC city council member just days ago ranted about "Jews controlling the weather". Still DC council member, and his half-hearted apology was shrugged off by his supporters as "we all talk about in private, why can't we talk about it in public?" Why there are no mass protests? Because people think nothing will come out of it, it's just some crackpots bullshitting. German people thought the same. They weren't politically apathetic, they just didn't see the threat and thought the good things Nazis promised (security, stability, order, etc.) are much more important than occasional crackpot mouthing off. They were very wrong, obviously, but they didn't know it back then.
Not to mention that UIs are visual, i.e. defining what is “correct” in terms a computer can understand is very hard. There are dozens of criterias (colors, spacing, borders, shadows, fonts, behavior, etc.), and often what is accetable is fuzzy and sometimes even subjective.

Take spacing: if something moves 200px it's probably broken. But a couple pixels off are usually fine. Unless those 2px are the vertical position of an icon inside a button or two things that need to align. Where do you draw the line? Humans are pretty good at spotting when things look off just by looking at a screen. Computers, not so much (yet).
I mixed the numbers up. 10down/1up.
Do you have a link to this experiment?