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> Most of the so called news / journalism isn't news / journalism any more than Aspartame is sugar.

News was never news. It was actually branding by the news industry in the 20th century that duped everyone into thinking that news was objective. If you are interested, go look at what newspapers were in the 1800s. They were propaganda outfits created by wealthy individuals to push agenda. The oldest newspaper in the US ( NY Post ) was a propaganda organization created by Madison to attack Thomas Jefferson and his agrarian ideals. The highest prize in journalism is the pulitzer prize which is named for the founder of yellow journalism.

I think we are better off removing the lie that news is objective and go back to the truth. News is propaganda. I think it'll be healthy for the nation to accept reality rather than blindly accepting an idealized falsehood.

> Call me crazy but it's time for a legal definition of news (vs editorial) and then have that definition forced.

How? That's an impossibility. For example, when CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, WaPo write favorable anti-2nd amendment "news" articles and Foxnews write favorable pro-2nd amendment "news" articles, how are you going to define objectivity?

Are we going to have biased government officials deciding what objective news is? Do you trust obama or trump to decide what is biased and what isn't biased? I certainly don't.

I think all news should contain labeling informing the public that these organizations are all propaganda organizations with heavy biases and let the public consume as they see fit. Just like with cigarettes, alcohol, soda, etc.

I certainly don't want government deciding what is objective.
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I'm talking about the pitfalls of human perception, and the low-hanging fruit of ways that self-driving systems can potentially outperform humans.

I'm not claiming Tesla's system is currently better than a human, just that there is plenty of potential for a machine to outperform humans perceptually. As it is, Tesla's system isn't exactly the gold standard.
I thought fake stuff on Amazon was money laundering?
> Wouldn't using their software without a license also be illegal?

Which law?

Copying software without permission might be illegal - loading it from disk into memory isn't counted as copying btw - but running the software?
And registered their domain in Russia? They're smart...

Or scammers. Off cause it's scammers.
I hear you, but do you remember CNN Headline News when it started? It was perfect with no analysis needed.

You got facts ... the who, what when, where. No analysis, no spin, no entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGJh8VnHZGw

If someone were to do this today in print, audio or video, I would gladly pay $50 a month. Information only with no opinion or analysis.
What I find baffling is the difference in leaks pre and post Jobs era.

Perhaps management should look at themselves also why people are leaking now and weren’t before.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act casts a pretty wide net, stealing credentials, abusing shared access, etc.
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Exactly what is the purpose of a standard reference for web developers that fails to track the documented behavior of browsers?
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Yeh why do you think TLA's have used journalistic cover in the past its a similar sort of job when it comes down to it.
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This is freaking perfect. Thank you
Not sure if you know about this but I use this whenever i shop on Amazon now: https://www.fakespot.com/

Amazon should just find some change and buy this company and integrate them.
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in case you never saw them, Louis Rossman has many videos about apple products. I can accept a bit of excentric design when you're pushing the boundaries of style and thinness but some things are just mindblowingly flabbergasting (fragile keyboard and rivetted to chassis; as repairable as a renaissance painting)
It's a start. My rub isn't news or editorial per se, but how they are not the same thing. Yet are so often not at all differentiated.

What some thinks (editorial) is not the same as facts, based on investigation.
you mean because of the crypto rewards model? We appear to be entering the early stages of an era of splintering into dozens of locations to interact again and away from the giant centralized networks
They had little to no influence on yoghurt tho :P
Make a lot of money and buy a newspaper. It won't be piracy for you after that.
My understanding is that judges will lean towards admitting the evidence, and if the lawyers want to bring forth experts or witnesses to undermine the evidence they are welcome to. So a screenshot of a conversation might be admitted, and the opposing lawyer would have to argue or bring forth witnesses arguing that the screenshot was faked.
If there's any copy-protection, you'd need to circumvent it, so plausibly the DMCA.
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It's actually 16 billion.
Man that site is bad. First thing on mobile is a full ad.
maybe not, but those technologies are spreading everywhere... including license plate readers at every corners... which is why Steve Jobs didn't have one on his car... But he could have been tracked some other ways... with the wireless sensors in his tires for example (and most cars communicate wirelessly with the manufacturer)
Ask HN: Do we still need native apps?
Just wanted to know what's everyone opinion on whether we need mobile apps?
My position is for the majority of the cases, we don't based on 1. Browser, CPU & GPU performance across mobiles, even laptops. Most 'native' apps and simple puzzle games or runners can be played well in a browser. Given that we've new browser APIs such as device orientation and game controls etc ?
Then they're notorious sites like Reddit who try push you to download their app, so they can serve you ADS.
Ok, no worries, thanks for the feedback and reminder :)
I’m a guy who builds search engines incorporating some human curation and editorial policies, ... I’m pretty sure I could make a strong case that the 1st Amendment covers me in the US.
Not sure about that. I mean a number of video games have been successfully recompiled to JavaScript, e.g. Doom or Quake 3. I guess you one would need to be able to target some sort of Framebuffer, Frameworks like Qt know how to do that already.

Probably I prefer "native" Web Apps over recompiled "native apps" but like it or not, this will come more and more as people ask for more performance and more variety of programming languages.
Yes, especially them. Let the state own all the apartment buildings, then at least the rent can go for something useful to the masses rather than just enriching some person who was already rich enough to own two pieces of property.
Fuck off diversity hire, not everyone is from Silicon Valley. Your mouth smells like cum
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I was confused as well, as Apple literally invented <canvas>.

I think what he meant to say was "Remember that Apple just went ahead and implemented the Canvas tag. [without waiting on any standards organisation]"
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Many such companies can well afford to take on more employees. They just don't want to.

So, you have to draw a legislative line in the sand. Redefine the "level playing field" -- and its boundaries -- within which they compete.

In order to give people their lives back.

We see enormous displays of wealth, at the high end of compensation. It doesn't all have to go to the individuals who find ways to squeeze their employees ever harder. Make them spend some of it on more employees.

P.S. Yeah, employees aren't simply "fungible". But there needs to be some balance against "always on" employment. Also, at the lower end of the workforce, against last-minute varying and fragmented scheduling -- keeping employees essentially at your beck and call while paying them only for the hours you actually call them in. Destroying family time and planning, sleep schedules, etc.
What I meant was happens if hardware passes such a test on release but then after months of use develops a fault?
I've been thinking about some kind of transparent DRM system for all digital assets that's organized as a mutual company.

I would start as a for profit company with a contractual agreement with users to be sold to a mutual company(where users own it) once it hits $1 billion dollar valuation. Mainly to solve the chicken and egg problem for VCs. Assuming network effects kick in at that size.

Source control, version control is open but no one person had access to all of the assets. So, similar to how controls in a company work for accounting.

Probably operate like some kind of liquid democracy where you can you can vote or assign your votes to others. Contracts between you and the mutual company would require you to actual agree to the changes, but you could always revert to the old version.

changes would be proposed. users could follow the proposals. users could fork the version and run a forked version.

It would be just code there would be use cases and test cases etc. So that users could fork at the use case level.

Your data would be open, available to groups, private and super private. super private data is only available local in un-encrypted form.

Content, services could be sponsored as well.

It wouldn't need to be block chain just multiple servers with core items replicated. the more sensitive the data the more servers to replicate it.
Oh, my. Just now I've seen second biggest federal news channel reporting on the issue and... and advertising TamTam messenger (created less than 6 months ago) or "even a better alternative" -- ICQ, both of which, surprisingly, are products of Mail.ru group.

That is __really weird__.
Well, it's technically a software exploit. They are clearly loading custom firmware onto the phone which the secure boot chain is supposed to prevent. On top of that the SEP coprocessor has its own secure boot chain and is supposed to be even more locked down.

I guess I can't speak to how the SEP implements its security features, i.e. which pieces are physically burned into hardware or just implemented in firmware with a secure boot chain. But either way this exploit points to a major flaw in the SEP, bigger than your average OS vuln.
>VC from Asia is skyrocketing, threatening to shift power over innovation

Thats what the OP thinks it is. The actual title of the article is " Silicon Valley Powered American Tech Dominance—Now It Has a Challenger "

Perhaps the western world sees challenges from Asia as threats now.
The landing page is so busy that I don't trust this to be legit.
This is a good idea. I don't want to subscribe to 20 different web sites and journals, but on the other hand, I would like to be able to pay for article that are informative and important.
There has always been a perception amoung many techies and ents that "wall street" represented the old, entrenched, 'rent-seeking' capitolism, while SV style was 'changing the world', dispuptive, and somehow more egalitarian. It seems to mirror the political divide somewhat, with many younger more visionary types going for broke out west, and the more risk adverse finding a reliable income in finance. Its a matter of perspective as much as philosophy.
Is this[1] what you call "memory management"?

> It's a strong statement in that it uses absolutes, but it's pretty obvious.

Two can play at that game.

You are completely wrong. If your best example of an environment where a GC might not be a good fit is game development, then you are in no position to use such absolute statements.

Personally, I tend to add "I think" or "I believe" whenever I am making statements that are outside of my realm of expertise. This prevents me from making a fool of myself ;)

> In other cases, you can just mind your allocations.

Good luck getting Go to run efficiently on a microcontroller without a ton of weird hacks.

Whether you like it or not, there are areas where Go will simply never be able to compete with proper systems languages like C or C++. This is by design: Go simply has different goals.

> as opposed to picking one at random

?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19848413/can-you-dealloc...
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>In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested.

And what happened to the other 17 (the majority)?

Were they "just" fired, were they hot iron branded or obliged to wear at all times a scarlet L ?
> At least the pgp spec has (had?) an "eyes only" flag that,

Yes, there is a flag that means "for your eyes only", see RFC [0] and GPG esoteric options [1].

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.9

[1]: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Esoter...
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To play devil's advocate, in the U.S. privacy extends, legally, to the degree to which a person has a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

CCTV cameras on public streets (and license plate scanners for that matter) don't, for me, appear to violate that. I suspect that this level of surveillance has done a lot of public good (finding abductors for example).

Are there a significant number of instances when it has done the opposite?
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Here are some of Diaspora* federated instances.

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The filters are so biased it isnt even funny anymore. My lense to the net varies on my anonymity tools utilized and it makes me kinda disappointed
Somewhere on there should be personal vendettas. More than once I’ve seen screenshots of internal conversations on Business Insider that were clearly motivated by a desire to get that person fired.
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First two points - semantics.

The point is that once the physical product was sold, consumers have the right to do whatever the hell they like with it, including sell it.

As to your latter statements, opinions will vary on this, but I believe it is well known that this guy's shop is not official / authorized by apple. People coming to this guy's shop are doing so to specifically avoid the drastically higher costs of seeking an authorized repair / replacement from apple. It'd be much easier to just mail it to apple, so I think there is an implied cognizance in seeking his services as an alternative. So I personally think as long as he is honest about not being an official apple repair shop, doesn't brandish their logos or in any way affirmatively hijack their brand, he should be safe from penalty of law.
I’m trying to figure out if either everyone is autistic on this site or if I’m horrible at sarcasm. It could equally be either
There are criminal penalties for violation of the DMCA as well, including jailtime.
Just today one of the top r/funny posts had comments with people totally shocked and amazed that shadow profiles exist and actively in use. What is obvious to us is so not obvious for most of the people.
> The first thing you are being told when becoming Apple Authorized Service provider is UP-SELL. Your main function and profit source is telling people "cant be repaired/repair will cost as much as new one, would you like this new model?"

I had water damage to a 2013 MBP, minor but nonetheless.

It passed all diagnostics. Ran fine on AC power. Battery diagnostics were fine too. But it wouldn't charge. "Charge circuit error".

No problem, I think. That's where the water damage was, no doubt. So I take it to Apple (in 2014, probably 18 months after purchase). I set my expectations, hmm, maybe $200-300? Let's go with $300, after labor, etc.

Haha.

"Sir, the charge circuitry is damaged and we need to replace that. You're looking at $899. Perhaps we should talk about you buying a new MacBook? Have you seen the latest?"

So, there's labor, etc. But you're going to tell me that to repair something, that by your own diagnostics, is fine except for this one part costs 70% of the new purchase price? I paid $1300, if I recall for the MBP. Take away something for labor, etc, and apparently the charging circuit is worth more than the CPU, the memory, the SSD, the screen?

No, now it serves as a driver for my step daughter's Garage Brand / Logic Pro setup with MIDI drums, keyboard, etc., remains on AC and has worked fine for several more years.
I addressed that in a comment below. It makes sense for an employee of a supplier in Asia to leak for money, it makes less sense for an employee in Cupertino.

Also somehow I doubt that newsrooms are making enough money to pay $100,000 (or any money for that matter) for random tidbits about products that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Describing a startup-happy billionaire-loving site like HN as "anti-bourgeois" is comical.
> The part about the book's author being sacked by the guy he's critiquing is never mentioned.

I've yet to see any news piece on Comey, whether or not the context involved his book, since the firing not mention the firing, and, since the appointment of Mueller, also mention that the firing is widely perceived as instrumental in leasing to the Special Counsel being appointed.

The idea that the coverage of the book never mentions the firing is laughable.
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Actions like fighting right-to-repair bills in many states.

While you may have the right to do that yourself, they don't want you to have the right to hire someone else to do it for you.

They also don't want you to have the right to get those parts for your iPhone.

Apple goes after producers and technicians, and not so much end-users. For one, I think end-users have rights, like the first-sale doctrine, which makes it harder for Apple to do anything to you other than terminate your warranty coverage.

Though I think they really would have preferred if they could sue you for jailbreaking an iPhone - they lost that court case.
5. Personal profit. In a lot of such leaks the employee is paid by an outside source.
> Apple also wants 100% control over that experience and how that experience is deployed, including how and what can be repaired.

They can want it all they like, they just have no implicit right to it.
> And with rumours of Apple moving to ARM chips for their laptops, they could well try to take the opportunity to lock out unsigned code entirely...

Why do these two things have any relationship to each other? They can and do lock down x86-64 machines, you're just able to "opt-out" right now[1].

[1] https://it.nmu.edu/docs/allowing-third-party-applications-in...
This has happened multiple times:

1. Users swap parts in a way Apple didn't account for in software

2. Something goes wrong, users blame Apple for intentionally breaking third party repairs

3. Apple deals with it

Touch ID mismatch: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/19/error-53-...

Third party screens: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208067#1103

Third party screens, again: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/10/iphone-8-...
Sure, my point was why use FB for internal communication in the first place.

There are tools specifically made for that, and they are made by companies that respect their clients (the ones that pays the bills, instead of advertisers).
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Wouldn't car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though? Apple isn't suing anyone for not using Apple-branded electricity to power their phone.
Are you doing the writing or are you aggregating or something else?
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It's really more like getting a Ford vs third-party part for your car, which yes, every car manufacturer will recommend. It's not like Apple is trying to sell you Apple electricity.

Regardless, this is a pretty low-effort attempt to make a point.
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I think others seeking a minimalist youtube experience might enjoy youtube-dl: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Is it feasible to interoperate with Facebook? Use a disporia client and still see Facebook friends in your feed and messenger?
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I'm pretty sure Ian Hickson is no longer involved with the WHATWG. I think he's working on Flutter now (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Hixie).

In fact, I would say that it's not quite like a cathedral and bazaar here.

The W3C is like a legislative committee. Lots of things done by committee vote. Formal process that must be gone through to advance beyond committee. Petty politics that screw with actually getting things done. The committee chair having the ability to block work by procedural means.

The WHATWG is more like an open forum. The work happens out in the open. Anyone can participate in the discussion (the W3C committees frequently have private meetings, there have been private mailing lists, and so on). There are a few people who have commit rights to the repo, so who actually control what goes in and what doesn't, but they are generally willing to let in changes that have broad support, and are implementable, rather than letting such features get held up by political processes.

Besides the difference in structure, there's just a difference in attitudes. The W3C tends to strongly favor certain principles, like accessibility and modularity, but to the exclusion of compromise for technical reasons or real-world reasons. They also seem to have a tendency to get very attached to particular ways of doing things, without being willing to compromise. I think the biggest example of this was longdesc; it was never implemented properly in pretty much any browser, and very few people actually followed the spec and had it point to a URL (many people just copied the alt tag, or provided a longer description in the attribute instead of a URL), so even if browsers or screen readers had implemented it, the content wouldn't be useful. But people in the W3C made a big stink about removing this, and spent a lot of time and effort fighting and litigating over that, rather than actually trying to work on a different feature that could gain wider adoption.

The WHATWG tends to take a more pragmatic approach; pave the cowpaths, if there are differences between implementations do it in the most sensible way that preserved compatibility.

Now, what the WHATWG has produced hasn't always been the best; there are times when it's made mistakes in its approach. The drag and drop spec, which had been reverse-engineered from IE's drag and drop support, was a pretty bad; not sure if it's gotten better since.

But overall, the WHATWG has been a lot more productive in getting standards done that are actually used on the web, because they involve the implementers, and don't override them with tedious, drawn out, political battles over obscure features that no one uses.