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> Well it turns out, once the app has consent, the app, if its designers make it so, could read your email and then save your email elsewhere

Does that really qualify as an "it turns out"? Every technical person who saw this would understand that this was an obvious capability. No one was surprised. Be serious: were you surprised?

Note also that the article points out that this kind of storage is likely a violation of the developer's contract with Google, which contains the standard privacy requirements.
I'm going to be immortal.
For my own knowledge and perhaps others can understand your comment better, what's an IC?
A privacy policy that nobody ever reads is a poor place to put that. If you want informed consent, when they report an email thread parsing error specifically ask if including contents is ok.
Your cloud content is as protected as you choose it to be. That's a feature, not a bug.

If you choose not to share it with third parties (e.g. via additional app permissions)... then it's private and secure.

If you choose to share it with third parties... then it's only as private and secure as you deem those third parties to be.

I suppose cloud servers can be hacked by malicious actors, but so can your local machine, and chances are that Google is able to better defend its network than you are.
On the other hand it also indicates it might not be a big deal anyway.
Yeah, usually people don't put a timeline on such predictions because that'd mean a possibility of being proven wrong... And often the goal posts they use are subjective.
In a different article it says
"Based on figures revealed on Monday, he has been able to turn a 14 per cent stake in his old PC company, worth $3.5bn, into a 72 per cent interest worth $35bn in his enlarged tech conglomerate."

How did he do that?
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> It’s rapidly becoming clear that once you give your data to third parties in unencrypted form, all bets are off.

Wait, what did you expect? You're giving someone access to all your information, what were you expecting?

If you give someone the code to access your school locker, that person has access to your school locker. Seriously, a 9th grader understands this.

> Cloud computing is fundamentally incompatible with peivacy.

You're fundamentally wrong.
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Discussion from earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443056
You should try building your own rod as well. You can do it pretty cheap and it's a he'll of a good feeling when you get that fish on your own rod and fly.
There's more to computing than DB queries over a network.
Ugh, phone autocorrect has been killing me lately. ;)
Just curious: The article mentions V8 isolates. Do you actually also run all IO of the worker in the same isolate? Or in a different one, and the API calls are bridged (via some webworker-like API)?

I guess one of the main challenges is that all resources are properly released when a worker is shut down. Releasing memory sounds pretty easy, if V8 does it for you. But releasing all IO resources might be a bit harder, especially if they are shared between isolates.
I'm amazed nobody's talked about Reader. The Google bashing thread graph always terminates in a Reader cycle.
The cuts are all O(1). Nothing to worry about.
I use old.reddit.com for now but if they remove it I’ll just stop using the site. I only use it for procrastination anyway so not a big loss.
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Actually, this is my first app ever, so I think it's not optimized, there are probably bugs and missing features. Would love to hear feedback and suggestions from the community
Value deserts in the sense that no competitors can break into the market to capture share, because the market is essentially defined by the entrenched player. Yes it does happen.

Again, look at Wal-Mart and dairy. Alphabet\Google does the same with digital advertising.

I'm not saying people are crap investors either. I'm saying the definition of a "good investor" (maximize fimancial ROI) and a "good company" (maximize financial profit) leads inevitably to market behemoths forming which WILL degenerate the health of the economy as a whole, and drastically increase barriers to entry for smaller players.
A company as a collective stands as much as a danger when it becomes too large as it does a benefit.

A "good company" should not grow infinitely. It should grow as much as is needed to do what it needs to. That is providing it's service to it's community. No living system constrained by finite time and resources can support unceasing growth. The economy is just such a system.
I hadn't heard of interpassivity before. It's an interesting concept and I think that it fits my own experience. Interpassivity is truthy.
HIPPA is a standard negotiated by a lot of interested parties and approved by Congress with compliance monitored by regulators. Privacy policies are made up by one side, with compliance up to the same side. If both of those things work "fine", I'd consider it a miracle. Facebook has a privacy policy, for example, and I don't think that worked out quite as well as HIPPA does at your average hospital.
Saying Route53 takes “2 seconds” to resolve is pretty meaningless without a distribution or at least percentiles. Route53 obviously doesn’t take 2 seconds for all or most queries.
I wish him luck and better judgement this time 'round. I'm sure he's a talented guy and will add value to whoever has hired him. It'd be a shame if his talent went to waste.
I'm having trouble understanding the sentiment of your comment, but it seems you are deriding the "gifted" label bestowed by the NYC Department of Education. I agree that the label is unfortunate. From what I understand so far, the "gifted" curriculum is comparable to other high-achieving schools without the need for a "gifted" designation outside of the city and across the country.
If all governments do that, it will instantly raise humanity’s iq and eq up a notch and help govt get money too.
Well, ready to be amazed every day. It's pretty clear that one cant trust cloud providers with these sorts of things, especially when their business model depends on it...
Steve Jobs was responsible for the original Macintosh, the device that constantly over-heated and had the same repairability problems then as these Mac Book Pros.

I know Jobs is Silicon Valley Jesus, but he did not walk on water.
Every other email provider also provides API access to email, typically via IMAP or POP. Your suggestion then is (instead of simply not authorizing third parties to have access to your email) to not use email at all?
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The results of policies like these is that people with money will take their kids out of public schools. Smart kids w/o money will get screwed.

Not everyone is going to have equal interests and abilities. Bright kids deserve an educational environment where they can be challenged and develop their full potential.
“Saying it’s correct in the semantic sense” = proving the code.

They found a bug in Java’s binary search after 10 years of it going unnoticed, so I think you’re overestimating your own ability to prove code correct in your head.

Generative testing/spec is absolutely useful. It doesn’t subsume static typing and much less theorem proving though, and you can QuickCheck your pre and postconditions in static languages as well.
The app can post your data to anywhere it has access to. This is commonly known as data exfiltration. The common way to prevent that is to run the app in a secure sandbox. Most OS don't provide such capability in a usable way.
Given that it was a professional photographer working for the Times, I think they probably did.
What would happen if you compress water using this method and then seal the container it's in and turn off the electricity? Anything interesting? Does the water stay compressed? Does the container explode? Does it depend on the strength of the container?
49 frontend dev here and the occasional happy hour is one of the things I look forward to most.
I mean they probably justify it with “the boss told me to do this, so I will because I live in San Francisco and my rent is $2500 a month and I want to keep my job”. It’s hard to make a stand when someone else will just do it.
In my case I'm referring to a regular/traditional engineer and not software engineer for my particular industry, but the concepts a as far as management go are the same. One thing that makes me glad I'm not in a software shop is that I see virtually zero age discrimination. It takes years and years to build up industry experience, so generally speaking, the older the better. Where young folks usually do better is with computers/programming/automation as it wasn't common place outside of college for older engineers. This doesn't mean that some older engineers can't write some Fortran though.
No. The star (PDS 70) is 370 light-years away from us. It's age is "about 5.4 million years old" [1]

[1] http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomical-birth-announcement...
When I first clicked through to your website and read its contents, based solely on what you had written, it was hard to come away with any impression that you had committed fraud. Reading the other court documents only reinforces that impression.

In the best possible light, I would assume that you believe yourself to have found a clever hack in a returns policy [1], and that what you're doing can't be fraud since everyone involved is making money off of it. But that's not really the basis of your appeal, especially not the SCOTUS petition. Instead, the thrust is more that the spreadsheet listing the amounts of what you allegedly defrauded was fabricated. Well, actually, that's not what you're appealing directly either. The appeal actually amounts to the spreadsheet could have been fabricated, so it should be excluded as evidence. That the claim being presented here is so narrow strongly prejudices me to believe that you (or at least your attorney) is conceding that you did commit fraud, and that you've got no reasonable basis to claim that the evidence is fabricated.

[1] My personal opinion of the evidence is that you in fact knew you were committing fraud when you did it, but for the sake of argument, let's assume that you were in fact innocent.
What about the ESPN sports complex do you dislike?
You're making the assumption that the company actually has a technical track (or one deep enough to match management) where the only way up isn't management.

It shouldn't be that way, but it commonly is.
> is it really that hard to have that as an option?

Okay, so now you have a third party email app that...can't send and receive email? It's not that it's hard, it's that it's basically precluded by the nature of what we're trying to achieve. I installed a third party email app so that it could talk to the network. That's what email apps do! :)

The solution for you, I think, is to just not use anything but the official gmail app while on a trusted device and network. Very sensible! But not a good option for everyone.
I think the +1 button was a really nice feature and something they should've done a while ago, but it's hard to draw the line.

If everyone contributes their pet UI feature (e.g. custom theme, use XYZ monospace font), then there will be dozens of features that only 0.01% of users use, but it increases the overall complexity of the product and maintenance burden.
Social media has destroyed humanity. Turned everyone into attention deficit zombies.
I live in Oakland Chinatown. Too many car break-ins on the back side of Potrero Hill eventually got me down.

I'm really thinking about leaving. Not, as perhaps the other 95% of people do, for economic reasons, but just because I'm tired of how dysfunctional SF is. We pay through the nose in taxes and get what, a disgusting, dirty city, with barely-functional transit, do-nothing law enforcement, totally unaffordable housing, and insane traffic. It really does get under your skin after a while.

I'm optimistic with London Breed that we'll finally get some tech/lawyer/finance/other working professional-driven emphasis on accountability and RESULTS from the city government. Less grandstanding and speeches, more numbers, data, better schools, functioning transit, and cleanliness.
SMS and phone calls should never let the server see every file on your device, or every image
"You'd think only one of those is a joke. I don't know anymore."

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Sarcasm

Man I really learned something about what to do about this horrible issue of APIs.

I really hate articles like this that don't have a point or provide a solution. "Be scared of this please okay thanks bye" hit piece garbage.
I have an XPS 13 9360 that has had so many issues. I shall list them out:

- The WiFi was terrible for a long while until I managed to find a stable driver version from Killer instead of from Dell's website.

- There is no way to remove the 'Waves' audio software that comes preinstalled. Even if you just use plain Realtek audio drivers from Realtek's website, Waves will be automatically installed along with the Realtek drivers. I guess Waves is packaged along with Realtek's drivers and will force an install when it detects that the system is a Dell XPS 13. While I don't mind having an extra equalization software, if I plug in a webcam and then remove the webcam, Waves would go into a state where it consistently consumes 30% of CPU as it keeps checking for a missing registry key. It was only fixed months after I got the laptop.

- The coil whine is annoying. It's loud enough to hear over mild chatter. And this is coming from someone with some hearing damage.

- The touch screen developed this strange white spot in the middle of the screen. I got my screen replaced only to have the second one do the same thing at the very same spot. I suspect it's one of the keyboard keys putting pressure on the screen when the laptop is closed and sandwiched between items within a bag. The replacement screen also has a stuck pixel on it.

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On a separate note, right now I'm trying to convince Dell's customer service in my country to let me exchange my 5 month old U3415W monitor because it has developed small grey spots on one side of the screen. Initially I got told that they cannot do a replacement for those. So I offered to pay to have it repaired only to get told that Dell here doesn't do repairs for monitors, only warranty exchanges. So I'm shit out of luck.

I'm trying to reason with them further but it doesn't look like it's going to go anywhere.
Free speech is... an incredibly nuanced topic, and I apologise for phrasing this discussion poorly in the original post.

I don't particularly believe it's worth diving into the nuance of it here -- because I'll do a bad job! -- but I should make it clear that I wasn't intending to make any comment about whether the principle is right or wrong (I mean, the UN makes it pretty clear http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ :)); I'm merely pointing out that free speech/censorship exist on a spectrum, and our tolerances and interpretations of those principles shift over time. As an example, many democratic nations have decided that there are consequences, enshrined in law, for what they define as hate speech.

I suspect that even in the USA, a country that is extremely passionate about protecting the right to free speech, you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that sharing pirated content (... at the "less objectionable" end of the spectrum ;)) is an expression of free speech. As the content becomes more objectionable, that argument becomes more difficult.

I'm using "objectionable content" as an example here to simplify the argument; I'll freely admit that what scares me is the distortion of the principle of free speech by (as the sibling comment points out) bad actors. I don't know that I have the education or skillset to discuss that problem effectively, but it is an issue that is beginning to have widespread societal impacts.

That aside, the real point is that solving the problem of centralization vs. decentralization does not make the choice of totalitarianism vs. anarchism, or determine/enforce the behaviours we determine to be socially acceptable on whichever platform we use. The technical underpinnings may favour one end of the spectrum or the other, but do not replace a genuine, social discussion about the governance of our social networks -- whether we replace the current batch or not.
Does anyone have a PDF of this? Google docs has disabled most functionality due to traffic volume.
People are complaining about reddit here, but it applies equally to every other online company, especially bloody Medium!

It's the main reason I wish people would stop using Medium to host their blogs, because there's an uncloseable "open in app" button in the middle of the content.
Can you explain how that sandboxing would work? Can the malicious app not just transcode/encrypt email, and transmit it back to their server? How would that be detected?

Also, depending on the email client and its purpose, siphoning the email to the server might as well be a valid use case. e.g., I can think of an app which manages my email by smartly figuring out which email is important and/or urgent. For the app to achieve this, having access to the email body is critical and a valid use case.
It seems designed to keep you from leaving the site. I’ve noticed on the desktop I have to go through extra steps to leave Reddit and actually follow the link. It’s frustrsting.
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Fishing as a hobbie/sport in unethical
>Yes. I expect the author's mother would seek out school districts with the lowest test scores (perhaps the lowest population of Asian-Americans) and send her daughter there instead.

In that situation, the parents of a child who might be considered academically bright will need to contend with the additional burden of trying to motivate their child to be different (i.e. higher test scores) than the rest of their peers who, for various reasons, don't test as well.

Peer pressure is a thing, and is sometimes seen by parents as a blessing if it gives their child an incentive to study.
I often do basically that. I love fly fishing the pond on my parents property but the weeds and algae blooms make cleaning the hook annoying chore every few casts. So I just cut the hooks off. I have fished that pond so many years I just don't really have any need to reel in a fish there. I know exactly how big of bass and bluegill the pond supports and simply love perfecting the art and watching the fish slam the flies I learned to tie by catching the insects I have seen there growing up.
If your function is IO heavy and your datastore isn’t globalized (as most aren’t, save Spanner and its ilk), you may prefer your function running in the same region as your data to minimize DB latency and transfer cost.
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The improvement I'm talking about is objective: in the former case, by competing down spreads and minimizing the cost to execute any given trade, and in both by expediting price discovery.

You can disagree that these are things worth optimizing (though if you weren't careful you'd risk arguing in some sense against the premise of a market), but it's less clear to me how you'd argue that the causality is other than what my argument says it is.
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I've been writing C on and off since 1990, across embedded systems, game consoles, massive SGI supercomputers, and modern kernels.

C is not fading away because of it's portability and low overhead. It has some nasty behaviors, as the original post shows, but you hit those once in a blue moon. The language is not unsound because of it, it just has some warts like any other language.

I don't particularly enjoy writing C, as it's too low level for my liking and I have to write too much code to do basic things (slist_* makes me shudder), but the reason that I have used it is due to its tremendous portability and direct compilation to machine code. That still matters in some places.

In places where memory is precious, or realtime performance precludes things like memory managers, C will continue to thrive, beside languages like Rust which are great for different goals. There's room for both.

C, in my opinion, has stood the test of time on its simplicity, portability, and the ubiquity of the C standard library, tiny as it may be.
Ebates does this apparently.

> Connect with Google

> When you connect your Google accounts, Ebates automatically matches email receipts and displays them in your Cash Back Activity.

And then the permissions required are:

* View/Send/Delete Email
My body temperature is 35.5°C. If I move slowly and do not sweat, I am very much mosquito proof.

This property is not always such a joy -- I had to be really sick to be admitted to the hospital in the army, where the limit was 37.5°C.
+1 button could work as voting system to reduce that maintenance burden too. Semi-democratic method can be introduced to merge most voted and looks good to MS.
I wonder what the conversion rate is for users who see the pop up for the 100th time.
Are you concerned that meditation might increase egotism? This concern was posted recently.

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Somewhat cynical but true answer: Because practicality is not a priority with SF politics.

You can understand quite a lot about this place if you really internalize that realization.
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I don't understand a legitimate use case where an app needs to have an access to a user's inbox. I understand, when you need to send email, access contacts, but not inbox.
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Except it really, really isn't.