skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all you have to do is get on the bad side of someone at the company and they'll try to effectively erase you from the internet

This is such ridiculous hyperbole and willfully ignores the reality of what Storm Front is and what they stand for. The CEO absolutely made the right call and Cloudflare has done just fine since then.
What are you reacting to in this case? Gmail has always 'scraped' your email.
I'm actually surprised by how good the wood pulp version tastes. Unless I'm buying straight up vanilla ice cream, I don't mind the wood pulp version of vanilla at all. If it's vanilla with stuff mixed into it, I won't really be able to tell the difference.
> You don't have any purchases

Any idea why I might not see any purchases here?
It seems like a system of phone money transfer (something like M-Pesa) would be pretty helpful there.
I guess the new design is curing the addiction to reddit.
Sure, but they're already reading your monthly payment data.

My point was just that Google gets and (probably) analyzes aggregate payment information but the user only gets what they already know. If Google is sucking up all of that data, they could at least give some insights to users too.

Now I'm curious to know if they're using this info to analyze competitor marketshare and/or set prices for competing services.
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Known to anyone using Google inbox...
For years I remember their about page offering an explanation of how they scrape the web and score links, and a phrase something like “this might sound a bit recursive; that’s because it is!” But I haven’t been able to find it on archive.org or this site.
Each woman has a different opinion, summarizing would alter the authors' statements.

I suggest skimming
> All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....

You know what, this could be said about a lot of people, including the freaking President. I'm beginning to wonder if the real problem is Twitter. Specifically the most fundamental aspect of its design -- the ability to blast off brief messages to thousands of people any time, anywhere.

Maybe we're learning that that this design leads people, even smart, well-meaning people, to publish crap. No one is crafting well thought out, quality content in 280 characters on their phone. The vast majority of Tweets and RTs are going to be total junk, lizard brain stuff. Sure enough Twitter has become the abuse hub of the Internet.

Sure, people love to use it. They love to use cocaine too once they get a taste. And drinking socially is fine, but booze too hard and the nicest person can turn into a monster. Maybe we just shouldn't have what Twitter provides.
Never underestimate the distribution of stupid. I worked at a hardware / software company where management distributed USB drives as a reward for something or other. The USB drives weren't even in blister packs they were just loose in plastic envelopes. I threw mine out, and wrote a complaint.
Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency. Bartering commodities is already a taxable event and the IRS handles that just fine. There's nothing really new here.
There was a whole thread on this recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574
Mooo. (Yes.)
When I see non uppercased SQL I think I’m reading it from some hipster that just discovered e e cummings and that makes me angry. Added to the fact that I’m writing SQL so I’m already angry (thanks poster above! I’m stealing that).

But seriously upper case helps my eyes focus on the sql commands so that I have some sort of hand hold on the wall of text.
Lookup Ramen Heads same inspiration but for ramen.
After so many years of Apple fans telling everyone that any cross platform technology demonstrated absolute laziness on the part of developers that resulted in unacceptable un-native feel, how fitting it is that now Apple, the largest company on Earth, and home to the makers of AppKit no less, can no longer be burdened to take the time to write real Mac apps anymore.

I know that people will say that this is Apple working hard to make the Mac viable again, but especially when considered in the context of the poor Mac hardware in the past two years, I think it’s clear that’s not the case.

Not mentioned in this article is that these apps look weird because they’re using 1.3x scaling from iOS too. Apple barely takes the time to differentiate iOS on the iPad, or even the XS Max. Owning either of these two devices constantly feels like there would be obvious places to make the experience feel better than just a big iPhone. Do we really think Apple is going to work that hard on making iOS software feel good in the Mac?

Remember, when the iPad first came out, everyone said “oh it’s new, I’m sure they’ll really make the software different soon”. It took 7 years to get multi-tasking in there. And this was the star product for a while. iOS still doesn’t really feel like iPad is it’s home.
Interesting interview. Where can we read the full version of this?
Let me know when gunpowder, glycerin, or ammonia is regulated.
There's something to be said about intent there. The distinction between "we are a dumb store for images" and "we process all of your images, extract facial recognition data, and match them to landmarks" is stark, but usually undefined. In general I'd argue that "you agreed to this" in regards to a TOS is utter nonsense, as they always contain language and descriptions of a product in such a way that nobody can really understand what's going on. I'd have to spend weeks per year reading the TOS I'd implicitly agreed to, supposedly.
> In reality, your 8” is already way overshooting it.

Given the body area of most these drones, I'm not so sure. I'd best the visible cross-section is pretty close to 64 sq. inches from most angles, if you include the small amount of area from the arms, but ignoring rotors.

> But the post I replied to used a very vague wording which implies a majority of cameras would do it

I don't read what I said that way. I said a digital camera, as in there exists a camera or type of camera that would work. I mean, there's some pretty crappy digital cameras out there, if you want to go really cheap.

> Happy to provide real photos to inspect this weekend (assuming it’s not still raining) at 100, 200, 300, and 350ft at whatever megapixel you’d like (up to 22mp) and focal length (from 8-1600mm, 35mm equivalent) so you can see what I mean.

Sure, I would be interested in see how it looks in practice. I purposefully limited myself to a little over 8 megapixels (4k) as I assumed video, and that's fairly easy to get with consumer grade hardware, which sets a nice precedent. If cheap consumer grade hardware can do it, a government solution with possibly special purpose hardware would have no problem.

Knowing how a decent still camera views it at full res with little or no zoom would be a good way to look at is, as I think that would approximate a high-end video system, or a mid-range one in a couple years.

I get emails on replies, so I shouldn't miss it even if it's a few days later.
An Apple Arm laptop would compete with Chromebook & Surface Go, both of which are "locked down" and optimized for Arm, similar to iPads.

- iOS is Apple's primary revenue focus
- iOS is already optimized for Arm
- iOS itself was derived from MacOS
- iOS new derivative can support KB/mouse
- Arm + macOS = no 3rd-party apps compiled for Arm
- Arm + iOS = million existing apps
- Arm + iOS does not conflict with expensive MacBook Pros
I'm a huge Blackwell fan. I think they categorize their games as "Urban Fantasy".

Unavowed is sitting in my review queue...
Worn controllers can allow it to happen, however, so I don't think it's worth discounting.
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> In this case, I suspect the Marzipan system houses apps in a window with a titlebar, and it automatically populates the window with the display name of the bundle.

It creates a window for each app, and the titlebar is set to the app name pulled from Launch Services.
> Now I'm curious to know if they're using this info to analyze competitor marketshare and/or set prices for competing services.

We already know they do... They'll even milk companies for money, bet against them, etc. It's clearly they should have their company broken up IMO (and I'm typically a libertarian)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053819
Your IT department probably is likely to follow a document retention policy relating to archiving emails (an archive you don't get access to).

Your document retention policy should be included in your onboarding training and accessible to all staff, not doing this would cause all kinds of compliance problems.
Well, honestly I’m not entirely sure but overall the feeling was they had impressive resumes (big tech backgrounds) but really just seemed like they skated along as I just curiously asked what they did/worked on and it was really like a mile wide, inch deep responses.

I dunno, it was also really weird to have tech people show up to a large tech company’s office in full suits during the summer. Felt really out of touch honestly.
The idea that Tesla is drastically missing its production targets is overstated. It originally claimed that what was later named the Model 3 would begin production in 2017. This claim was made as far back as 2014. This occurred as projected. It has since been ramping up steadily. The rate of that ramp up has been slower than initially projected, but is well within the long-term projected numbers.

Critically, Tesla ramp up is already high enough that it is now leading the US in sales of electric vehicles. The numbers are decidedly in favor of Tesla, who sells almost as many vehicles a month as the other electric providers sell in a year.

This should be a good thing in your eyes, considering the impact of climate change which will be felt by this generation. However, the legacy of effect of sowing doubt about climate change and automobiles is bearing itself out. The seeds were sown and they now sprout. Enough idiots were convinced to bet against renewable energy and now they're going to do their best to damn the rest us.

This seems to me like a woe to the world moment. The world is trying to take down someone seeking its good. It reminds me of the persecution of Jesus Christ. Read through this thread and see the false witnesses being refuted by his co-laborers and friends. Read the testimony of the people saying that his product is good. Read the empirical reports on the quality of his work.

When the righteous are persecuted, it is done, not because they are evil, but because they are good. Nobody is afraid of the incompetent fool, but rival automaker executives line up to plead that Elon Musk should be removed from his position, now that they realize the danger they are in.
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Neat monitor, it looks extremely pretty.
> Apple … can no longer be burdened to take the time to write real Mac apps anymore

I have no doubt that Apple could have written these from scratch and they'd be fantastic. They're just testing out the new Marzipan platform so that they can work out the kinks in it before launching it next year.
This immediate matter was never about jail. The SEC doesn’t jail you, they just make you poor.

What’s triggering the discussion of jail is the rumor that the SEC referred some of this to the DOJ. That’s when you start talking about jail.
You require 0 of those things to buy or build a car, you only need those things for driving on public roads.
FWIW, I think it's a great idea :) Just post here again when you have something people can try out and give you feedback.
I don't even know what we are discussing at this point. As far as I can see, it would be a debate over various meanings of the word "shitty." If we brought it back to something tangible, I doubt we've even have any real disagreement. I don't like just bickering with people on the internet for its own sake. Cheers
See my post in parent, this is nowhere in the terms of service.
From June 2017:
"Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
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I care because he’s wrecking Tesla with dumb decisions that a bit of good advice would have fixed. Now he’s dragged his own company into unnecessary legal risk to soothe his own ego.

If you want Tesla to live, you would cheer about his immature ass being kicked out to the curb.
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Fastmail rocks.

And Apple keeps the old domains, so my me.com email works fine. I never use icloud.com.
You can't think up a single reason why you might not want every purchase you've made in your entire life to be logged in a centralized database completely outside of your control and view which will be kept forever and shared with an unknowable amount of unknown powerful entities that do not care about your well-being?

Some people are going to have a very rough time when reality finally strikes them with all of its might. Perhaps it won't be you, but it will happen.
I’d add Fastmail + Mailroute. It’s working well for me, with spam protection that’s just a tiny step below GMails.
>“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.”

Do you know how useful a Javelin is? I think it's worth that much if it will save the life of the soldier firing it. I'd sure pay that much for it if I had the money and I thought it would save my life, or the lives of my comrades.
> iOS is Apple's primary revenue focus

> iOS is already optimized for Arm

> iOS itself was derived from MacOS

All true…

> iOS new derivative can support KB/mouse

iOS can support the keyboard currently, but not very well. And it can't support the mouse at all.

> Arm + macOS = no 3rd-party apps compiled for Arm

That's what an emulation layer is for.

> Arm + iOS = million existing apps

That's a nice bonus.

> Arm + iOS does not conflict with expensive MacBook Pros

Apple is no stranger to cannibalizing itself.

So, overall, I'm still not sold that they won't just make a ARM MacBook that runs macOS, rather than iOS.
That’s not the bar for this case, since it’s civil. Proving negligence is enough, and the burden of proof is “preponderance of evidence”, not “presumption of innocence.”
Thank you for the info. I did not know that.

Also, on closer inspection today, I realised that Namesilo does indeed increase renewal fee after the first year. The fee stays the same thereafter, and it's still the cheapest around, but it's worth keeping in mind.

I caught onto this when I realised their registration price is actually below the wholesale cost for .com domains, according to this Cloudflare blog post.

I might move my domains to Cloudflare when they make this available.
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I use PrismCipher to protect sensitive messages. I can't stop Google from reading my email, but I sure can stop them from getting anything out of it. I don't want to switch to another provider because as fitzroy stated, it's "hella reliable."
I was actually wondering if the ease of regaining access to his account was because he was Allen Downey.

I wonder if Google maintains a do not f* with list.
You shell out money to your bank, and they still sell your information.

> Why is this so hard to understand for people?

Because an extremely large amount of money is spent on UX and PR conducted by some of our brightest minds, to make it as hard to understand as possible.

Conflating security and privacy to use 2FA to get phone numbers out of people is a great example. HN and tech news sites were/are awash with security experts telling people to protect their personal information by enriching their identifiers for surveillance companies.
If all they're doing is presenting your data in a better way then it's great.

However, it's very likely that they're also selling adverts based on that data, and possibly selling the data itself. Do you really want your health insurance provider to be able to buy a list of restaurant bookings you've made? Or how about the airline you're about to book with knowing what you paid a competitor last time so they don't need to discount their prices for you to buy?

Would you be happy paying more for things because you use Gmail?
I'm not arguing either way, but it's worth noting that's actually a relatively low compensation compared to the average fortune 500 CEO which makes about $13mm salary[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianahembree/2018/05/22/ceo-pay...
Wrong on two levels.

Intent doesn’t matter here, the SEC is alleging negligence (read the actual complaint). Remember that this is a civil case, not a criminal one.

Second is that he’s being accused of securities fraud, not insider trading. So the SEC doesn’t actually need to prove that he benefited, only that rules were broken.
This is one of my favorite features of Inbox. Sounds like more transparency is required but overall this is pretty nice to have.
Invading afganistan is one of the worst ideas ever...
You need zero of those things to own or drive a vehicle on private property. It has merit for flying in public parks and the like, but flying around some private property would be comparable to driving around your house/field/private track.
Why can't this be done offline?
I think he's talking about OFF grid.
I agree. I'm usually the first to jump on lazy design or the near complete sacrifice of form and function just to release a few hours earlier to save more of daddy's precious investment capital ... but these are clearly just toys. It's a demo of the underlying tech.

I think the better argument is that giving such tech to 3rd part devs will encourage them to be lazy.
This is an asinine, Deference to authority, nanny state garbage take..

No-one is forced to give all their info to fb. Better yet, no one is forced to use fb.. Of your using these services, and you give all your info to them, that's on you, not engineers just earning a check.
Because it stays even if you delete the email
> I think the one downside of Haxe (which is also is strength) is that it doesn’t only support compiling to C/C++, but to every major language possible (Java, C#, PHP, Javascript), so the language ends up being too complex.

I don't understand --- I would think it's quite the opposite. Implementing too many unique target-language -specific features in Haxe would mean lots more compilation acrobatics to make those features work across every target language, correct?

> the main developer is working on Hashlink, which can run Haxe code on a virtual machine but can also transpile it to C for production builds

Yes, very excited about HashLink!
Companies routinely distribute software/presentations/etc. on USB drives. I suppose it's poor security hygiene these days but it's still routine.
Yeah indeed -- though I'd prefer to write all lowercase for the sake of ease, I too stick to the 'uppercasing' norms mainly to help with ease of readability -- especially in shell-only environments where syntax highlighting isn't available [e.g., using psql]
I bought the DVD after it was released, but could never bring myself to watch it. The few clips I watched were extremely disturbing for me.
The topic of making UIKit available to developers on the Mac comes up from time to time.

People seem to go back and forth on it, as in this post from a couple of years ago.

>The thing is, UIKit "just works" (most of the time at least). AppKit has so much historical garbage that it's become a pain to work with for modern macOS apps. It's still really hard to make simple things like customizing system controls and Core Animation doesn't work as well on it as it does on UIKit.

https://medium.com/@guilhermerambo/why-uikit-for-macos-is-im...
Wealthy narcissistic attention seekers should be subject to the law just like the rest of us.
Here's the actual filing: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-2...
Is there actually anyone on HN that is surprised by this?
I agree with the former. Hard to starve yourself to greatness.

The latter makes some sense. Make departments compete for capital. Give capital to those with the best return.

This doesn’t change that in the today Sears is just a land grab for the hedge fund who owns most of it.
On the plus-side, that money has bought him the choice to build whatever, whenever, almost never having to beg for financing ever again and the choice to not sell.

DHH often talks like bootstrapping and not selling is The One True Way™ but,
financing trades equity for time: accelerating traction or traction-ability that can beat someone else to market (T2M). It's a slower path, but it's not rushed either. Pluses and minuses to both, and it depend on the category and circumstances
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/9h6cwt/is_usenet_on...
Hasn't gmail done this since their 2004 beta release? There was even opposition to it at the time. https://www.privacyrights.org/blog/thirty-one-privacy-and-ci...
It's ironic given that putty's entire purpose is for dealing with a securely encrypted protocol.
> "14,391 people bought this for an average of $1.08 less" or "you pay $7.44 per month more than the average Comcast customer in your area" etc.

This is not how it works. More like "we see you desperately need something because of your circumstances and we offer you only the premium price". Not explicitly of course.
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Uh, it is pretty much all over the news, man. Unless you are living under a rock...
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy
If a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. So today you don't see a major problem. Even though every single purchase you made in your entire life is being logged in a central database that's out of your control. OK. You are slowly being brought to a boil, and you're not perceiving the danger.
Really? You want to blame cocaine and hard booze?

1 to many communications is useful. Many to many communications (email) is useful. Push comms are useful.

People are responsible for what they do, and what they say. Be it drugs or (I can't believe I'm saying this), Twitter.

The most interesting thing is that many would blame Trump more for his Twitter mis-use than people who mis-use substances. And, conversely, many blame drug abusers but excuse Trump.

In the end, we are either responsible for our actions or we are not. I believe the former is a crucial piece for functioning society; it needs to be tempered with a non-judgemental attitude and treated as a public health issue if it spreads too far.
I am 100% certain these apps will not be fantastic in 1 year. Or 2, or 3.

Let’s look at another cross-platform app that Apple has had years to perfect, iTunes: terrible since they’ve had to make it work on Mac and Windows. Apple Music being the latest proof point that they cannot make a nice experience. The track record isn’t good.

But honestly, what’s the latest fantastic new Mac app you’ve used? I can’t think of any. The days of something like Keynote being released are behind us.
Duh, they host your email and are easily the best functionality- and reliability-wise email provider. For free, yet the money has to come from somewhere. It's hard to find paying email provider matching the Gmail.
What assurances do you have that those paid services are actually respecting your privacy? It wasn’t that long ago that we found out that telecom companies were selling fine location data of all their paying customers.

The reality is that irresponsibility and disrespect for users are rampant in the tech world. That’s entirely companies’ doing.
I recall the first training class I had where I connected relational tables with the theory I learned in school. Life never was the same after.

On Codd we trust.
No engineer's certificate?