skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't downvoted any comments here, but it's worth pointing out that the terms of service for any digital purchase are effectively impossible for most users to comprehensively read and understand. They're crazy long; I wish I could remember the estimate for how long each person would have to spend every year reading those agreements for all of their online services.

Anyway, people are free to be upset about terms and conditions even after they've "agreed" to them, particularly if those terms and conditions are widely recognized as onerous.

And, specifically to your point, courts have retroactively determined some conditions to be so flagrantly unfair that they've been stricken from contracts.
It is insane. I see the same argument in every thread about GDPR and I just can't wrap my mind around it. I can't imagine how well represented or identified by nation-state politics these people must be that they are willing to concede such degrees of discretionality to a government.
Exactly; seems like they fell prey to a sort of decision paralysis (perhaps due to revenue lost in implementing protection). A lot of companies are having this problem. Regulation is inevitable & required.
While you're not being "facetious" you're being "glib".

Inbox was obviously a place the gmail team used for experimentation and now they are folding it back in.

Besides you're making it sound like there was some huge cost involved in adopting or in abandoning Inbox, which there isn't.
Yup, and the lowest tier is 64Gb vs. the next tier at 256Gb. So $DEITY only knows what the phone you'll actually buy will cost. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this to be the largest gap between tiers yet, with the lowest being four times smaller than the next tier.

EDIT (all prices US): for the big one:

256: $1249

512: $1499

Little one:

256: $1149

512: $1349

R:

128: $799

256: $899
> They are simply no longer willing to disrupt the status quo, even to help their users.

This is just false.

I guess you're not aware of the content blocking work we've been focusing on lately?: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17800714/mozilla-firefox-...

Disclosure: I work for Mozilla on Firefox. I can say, without hesitation, that we definitely give a damn about protecting the user and protecting the health of the web.
Apologies for being heavy-handed. Sometimes this happens.
That's like saying I'm having a hard time becoming a billionaire. Of course I am...but that in no way implies I'm having a tough time paying my bills.
Yes. I'm guessing because drivers are so used to "forced merging", they don't know what to do when they have an appropriate amount of space.
A lot of the bronze coins claiming to be from the Romain era are fakes. It is fairly simple and cheap to make a fake Romain bronze coin and after selling it to a tourist for $5, fairly profitable. What I find funny is that when you tell a tourist they bought a fake bronze coin, the vast majority of them don't even care.
They killed the SE! Now we're stuck with screens too big to use with one hand. I really really dislike this.
>Unfortunately newer versions of iTunes don’t let you backup and restore IPA files anymore and even “iPhone backups” don’t include apps themselves anymore, only your app’s user data.

This was a real bummer, and feels mostly borne (like many modern big tech company moves recently) not so much out of any sort of monetization strategy or whatever as a basic but irritating bubble: a bunch of tech workers who simply can't comprehend being on a "broadband" connection of the 5/1 ADSL sort (or worse) that much of the world, including America, is still stuck on. It's not a security or DRM issue, the old backup system still signed/encrypted everything and still required calls into the mothership and the like. It's mainly sucked just because it makes it enormously slower to restore a phone for people with poor connections. I wish Apple had seen a chance to differentiate themselves there with more local support (presumably which could be leverage into hardware product sales) since unlike Google they are not dependent on ad/cloud revenue, but perhaps it was inevitable as they lost track of all SoHo efforts with the Mac. As a startup org structure it's just hard for Apple to multi-task as well for better and for worse.
That isn't the part i'm commenting on.

It's a general statement on the world that people hate all change :)

People have always argued literally every change has no value add for them (and i'm sure for large enough things, there are always people for which that is true).

So that part doesn't bug me.

But that's not what most of the comments seem to be.
Because honestly, if the only complaint people have is "i had to open a different app", that's actually really good for any transition.
A well-executed command line is a precise and efficient way to get work done. It is invaluable, and its value is unrelated to problems present in other interfaces.
Speaking broadly, nobody is afraid of Finland or Denmark genociding its own population (or large sections of it) and moving to a Mao or Stalin style authoritarian model.

Liberal democracies are generally given more of a benefit of the doubt when it comes to their anti-liberal policies (eg Patriot Act), as it pertains to the seriousness of the threat they represent to the well-being and freedom of the population. That is, it's not anticipated or widely feared that those policies will next lead to vast gulags and the near total elimination of all human rights.

Human Rights Watch just put out a hundred page report on what's going on in Xinjiang. To paraphrase their findings, what's going on in China is the most repressive large-scale effort seen in the country since the cultural revolution days of mass murder and purge.

With China, given they're already an authoritarian dictatorship with few human rights, and they're regressing rapidly from the small gains they had made, there's a built-in legitimate fear of its surveillence programs being directly used for terrifying things. Indeed, it's happening right now.
Apple Watch 4: Bigger display and built-in EKG scanner
How have privacy concerns over the facial recognition panned out?
Yeah, that tends to be around the consensus.
Fast, yes.

Really bad on my mobile (equally bad as a number of mobile web sites today, only different).

Web site I dealt with earlier today: lose state when I go back.

This page: unreadable small fonts (and it takes months between every time I complain about that). And when I zoom it doesn't reflow the text so I have to scroll back and forth to read it.
I believe the comment could be summed up as "maybe the UK should leave the EU after all" because of how overreaching the legislation looks to be.
> Outside of bundling

Bundling is the main development that Inbox brought to the table.
The Apple Watch announcements were intriguing.

The iPhone announcements were, I agree, quite tiresome. So much so, I closed the window a few minutes into Schiller's discussion of the chips in the new models.

I suspect it's because I can only do so much with a phone and nothing in the "smartphone" space jumps out to me as "revolutionary". It seems that innovational leaps in mobile computing will depend on what software becomes available.
A new internet where Brave gets a cut of the advertising, apparently. Yay?
Again, i don't see most comments saying that here.
Nim is hiring
Is it just me, or was there not a very specific arab overtone to the marketing in the videos on this announcement: In the sand, the desert, the oasis village, the gold...

They must really want every Saudi to overspend on the 512gb S Max gold++++
Scrolling through the comments, the focus seems to be mostly on Apple, but this isn't about Apple. This is about the entertainment companies, copyright law, and the fact that these industries are so large and protected by regulatory capture that they can dictate to companies the size of APPLE how they should enforce their will on customers. The same caveats apply to Steam or Comcast or anyone else who is "selling" you something they can yank back away from you

(And, for the purposes of my comment, I make no distinction between removing the ability to re-download, or reach into your hard drive and delete.)
The same goes for every other company in that line of business, in the US as well as in Europe. The data in their databases has immense value for state actors and allows them to help identify those that could be easily compromised.
If your linter is TSLint, aren't you using TypeScript?

That's actually my solution. I don't code directly in JS anymore; I always approach it from TypeScript. I do not have time to track down bugs resulting from typos (or brain burps) causing me to mis-assign values to the wrong variables, and static typechecking coupled with variables with immutable type specifications eliminates about 80% of those instances for me.

(Going that road, backwards compatibility in JS isn't a concern for me as a web app developer, because it's pushed into the realm of "Things compiler and browser writers care about." ;) )
Yes, I've had to delete my most played IOS game, Wurdle. It doesn't run on IOS 11 and the developer has never updated it. It was a remarkably simple game, finding as many paths on a 5x5 grid of letters that formed words in two minutes.

It was the perfect way to pass the time while standing in line, and with practice some people (like my wife) could get almost supernaturally fast at finding words (I could never beat her). Sadly, there is nothing quite like it on the current App Store.

To be fair, it was an inexpensive game and I got a lot of use out of it.
Would you like files with that?
Keep is really handy.
Apple iPhone XR
There's a reason I said "Apple Watch" and not "iPhone SE". :-(
You might if you find yourself developing duplicate features in parallel in two different codebases.
Inbox was the first tool that helped me reach "inbox zero". I really liked the feel of seeing the cute landscape after I was done with my email. Anyways I saw this coming since they took a lot of time to update their app for the iPhone X.
> The real future is fully-decentralized websites, and it doesn't require new browsers.

Let's say I want to run a forum. Something equivalent to, hmm, https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/

How do I do that as a decentralized website?
I had a HUGE expectation on a new MacBook Air! I've watched til the end expecting "one more thing" (which would be unlikely, given it isn't a exactly a new product)
When the original iPhone launched there was no other product like it; nowadays they need to be able to compete with Android on price.
What you are essentially describing is "pay to compete". Many sports have a barrier to entry to compete at the top levels. For example, take a look at Magic the Gathering. A top tier deck can cost thousands of dollars, but it only puts you on an even playing field with other top players. Past that point your success as a Magic player is based upon your skill and consistency.
Will this be in the real release? Looks like a anti-trust case for other browser vendors, like MS got fined for including IE with Win 98.
BA had a file they hosted compromised through their CMS.

Many, many websites have 3rd party JS that updates at will.

Only doing the check when you do a deployment wouldn't catch either one.
Western countries indeed have functional democracies, but freedom of speech is not sacred here either. Consider Britain for an extreme example. And you're only talking about the current situation, while I am making a pessimistic prediction based on the current attitude towards freedom of information exchange and some past experience.
I think the various 'soft' versions of the 6502 would serve that purpose better, but yes, you could use it as a teaching aid.
Ha, as a funny opposite example I once had insurance (when I was in the US) that had 100% out of pocket drug coverage (i.e. no insurance) but the price of my drug when from 300$/30 to 120$/30 because of a "preferred rate" for the insurer, which is wonderful because the flipside was that simply having an insurance card saves you money so those unfortunate enough to lack insurance end up being burdened with a completely arbitrary higher price.

FYI, a few years down the line a generic of my drug came out and my price went down to 3$/90, so these costs are just 100% BS and caused by artificially enforced monopolies, as soon as actual competition was allowed in the prices quickly leveled out to a sane amount.

(Aside, I'd prefer a socialized system in the guise of Medicare for all or what-have-you, but it amuses me that this market is so messed up that even just letting crazy free-wheeling laissez faire market effects to work radically reduces costs)
Interesting! Never expected smartwatches to be anything more than trendy fads, but that makes a lot of sense. I do think a lot of phone anxiety comes from the screen being obscured from vision and the wondering that follows about whether I am "missing out". Limiting the use case by only having essential notifications on your wrist might be a good alternative to switching to a regular phone.
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Mobile apps for Windows are completely dead, aren't they. Remote robo testing is the smallest problem you have.
Was looking for this in the comments.

The ambiguity there is abused by many companies on the fringes of consumer health and cosmetic products.

> A 510(k) is a premarketing submission made to FDA to demonstrate that the device to be marketed is as safe and effective, that is, substantially equivalent (SE), to a legally marketed device that is not subject to premarket approval
If you embed third-party code, you expose your users to dangers like this. Please at least use
Subresource Integrity (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...) but best host the code yourself, as that also protects your users' privacy.
Especially the iPhone xr was a very annoying tiresome repeat of a repeat. After 15 minutes they named about three specs that are different: color, lcd, camera, size.
So long, iPhone home button and TouchID
Expected in October along with a new iPad Pro and iMac. It's been some time since they launched any new Macs at an iPhone event.
Thats because those millions of obese parents mostly sit on their couch, play video games and drive kids around. Start actually chasing them.
> I'll add another point: if the reason to not do this is the effort, then why is effort being put into generative art in redis?

Seemed to me like it was a subtle middle finger to the complainers.
> Outside of some of the bundling features, i'm curious what actual difference people are complaining about here.

Gmail’s horribly cluttered interface compared to Inbox, both on web and mobile.
Tim Armstrong is out at Oath
Are you referring to Lightro?
In this case, my interpretation of the OP was that the venture in question was defunct. Who’s being harmed and how?
Going to the video tape:

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for...

Three things are highlighted:

Extraction of info from items and display (now in gmail)

Bundles (some made it into gmail)

Reminders, assists, and Snooze (now mostly in gmail)

So i'm not sure i'd agree with you here, but i definitely would agree that of the big three, bundling made it in the least :)
In what sense is it not equally horrible?

Combine it with these observations:

1) Trials are increasingly rare, most criminals in prison never had one, they made a plea deal

2) The difference between a maximum sentence and a plea deal can be an order of magnitude (2 years instead of 20)

3) Dark skinned people
can rationally expect that they won’t receive a fair trial, given bias in police investigations, DA practices, and juries.

... That adds up to a lot of innocent dark skinned people in prison, who quite rationally traded their civic rights for a smaller variability in their risk profile.

I guess what’s “better” about that than chattel slavery is that person had a possibility of release. So instead of 100% chance of incarceration and loss of civil rights, they had only an 80% chance of incarceration. Is that your position?

Personally, that doesn’t feel like a qualitative difference. Seems like the same situation just moved to a different psychic plane. But, interested in your thoughts.
If you're using a third party cdn to serve js assets then you have no chance to assure security.
The ability to mark emails as done or to pin them were hallmark features of the Inbox interface and they both take significantly more work in Gmail. I'm severely disappointed that they've decided to axe Inbox without at least pretending to care - by eg. providing a user survey.
Clock is ticking for e-cig companies to block underage users
Your release branch wouldn't have any 3rd party JS, so diffing it vs the live stuff would catch a BA style attack, but not a TicketMaster style attack, which is more prevalent.
While I liked the smaller size, the fact is that the vast majority of people prefer a larger screen for all sorts of reasons. The solution is for app developers to move as much as possible to the bottom section of the screen, which is happening relatively quickly on iOS.

Secondary actions may still require a second hand, but most primary actions should not.
It looked like they intentionally hid the notch in iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max during the keynote with the background they chose, maybe to differentiate it from iPhone Xr.
Who to blame when the incompetence of the Trump administration runs up against the incompetence of the Puerto Rican government?
>Merely because you got an email at night.

As mentioned multiple times, if they did this the judge would simply deny the entire fine and suit and they'd have to pay you damages and they'd likely receive a cease&desist order from the court.

You must inform parties of violations and allow for adequate time to react to them. Sending an email is already a nono for legal notices as there is no guarantee that the other party even received the mail properly.

The only way to properly and legally verifiably send them is to have a write-in mail which the receiver must sign with their signature before receiving. For everything else you might as well send money in an envelope ahead of time.

This is not a mere fact this is established procedure.

>Besides there's no guarantee the parties will automatically act rationally and drop the claims of infringement before threatening court, merely because you claim you were sleeping.

That's not what I've been saying, I've been saying that the infringement still needs to be dealt with but you can obviously not react when you are asleep.
> but this is just tiresome.

Especially the exaggerated adjectives. Everything's "gorgeous," "beautiful," or "stunning," even if it's just a featureless black slab like every other phone for the last 5 years.
I hate everything about this but I still up-voted.
Article 4.1 itself, as it goes on, defines personal data in a way that it relates specifically to that which can identify someone, so it doesn't mean literally anything about the ad placement simply because a person is seeing the ad. Definition of personal data: "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person."
I have iPhone X. I use the Reachability function often, and find it fairly easy to use the phone with one hand.
Complete decentralization as a philosophical and absolute goal misses the point. There are great benefits to decentralization, for sure, just as there are benefits to centralization. Projects that aim to decentralize everything “for the sake of it” are doomed to failure. I want control over my privacy, my spending, my choice of content. But at the same time, I want a great user interface; I want curated content; I want performance. I want a service, and I’m willing to pay for it. I don’t have a fundamental problem that there are big companies out there who provide that service to me, and who make money doing so. Even, in some cases, a whole lot of money. Good for them.

It boils down to: what’s the best way to provide services that I want?

I’m working on a project to provide a decentralized marketplace for software and infrastructure services, competing with AWS and Azure. The marketplace itself is blockchain-based: partially decentralized, but with a permissioned blockchain that still allows governance, legal compliance, removal of bad actors, KYC compliance, etc. The kind of things that customers (corporations) need for them to use the marketplace.

I think we need to be pragmatic about it and figure out where technologies like blockchains can help build better services, instead of trying to cram decentralized systems into everything whether it makes sense or not.
Including fabrication and production? Or just their office buildings?
New iPhone will deal blow to phone carriers as classic SIM cards face extinction
I went from 10000+ unread emails to inbox-zero. I honestly don’t think I could have taken the leap without Inbox. True, I don’t need the bundling feature as much any more, but I’m sad the product is going away.
> shittier phone

> taking photos

I value my candid photos too much to trust that a shittier phone is still great at taking adequate photos.
Hypothetically, you could use something akin to Usenet's technical model (as that was a fully-decentralized message board collection).

But that will have implications for latency of post updates, security, and complexity of maintaining the system.
How can I get bundles in Gmail? Am I missing something?
Yes, you can save the files to a separate hard drive. Also, they would be backed up via Time Machine, if you use it.
Their lack of vocabulary is INCREDIBLE.
Don't forget that Caracalla had Geta murdered while at a meeting called by their mother to mediate their feud. She was injured in the attack.
Specializing Ropes for Ruby [pdf]
I disagree... for the purpose of editing documents from a nontechnical mindset, Word is fine.
Oh no, pinning! I've so thoroughly integrated that into my expectations and behavior that I didn't even think about it.
The reason I still use Inbox on Android, even when GMail has most of the same features is its interface design. I much prefer Inbox's approach where the emphesis is on the email subject instead of GMail's emphesis on sender. 90% of my emails are with the same 2-3 colleauges. They represent different threads for different projects and tasks. Gmail interface makes finding the right email cumbersome. I will continue using Inbox until it stops working.