skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google sort of bundles this functionality into Firebase.

https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6317485?hl=en

Check under the "app_remove" section.

Also, a blog post of how this was used in conjunction with Firebase functions.

https://medium.com/@tarunkakkar/detecting-app-install-frauds...
My biggest difficulty is moving the edit cursor when trying to edit text. It takes too many tries to get it exactly where I want. I wish they'd add cursor keys...
We think repl.it is the C64 of the cloud era:

>Cloud-computing is one of the most significant paradigm shifts in our industry, yet it remains commandable only by relatively few professionals. It's similar to when, prior to microcomputers, only big corporations and universities had mainframes. We want Repl.it to be the microcomputer to the cloud's mainframe.
>While initial meetings and relationships at the beginning stages are most vulnerable to these biases, long-term acquaintances are no less susceptible.

Isn't this a straight up contradiction?
Not in terms of life origin (we exist regardless of the answer) but it seems that having life that early pushes back the boundary of a hellish earth versus a blue marble earth, which may have implications on other hypotheses and assumptions about the evolution of the Solar system.

Admittedly, this is far, far from my field. Just trying to think through potential implications.
`pwd` -- "where am i...?"
People always talk about Keynes but its really Hicks interpretation that got everybody on that track.
One of the most ironic parts is Meredith Perry's TEDx talk, where she's proud about not having any education in the field. "I was not an engineer, and I did not have Asperger's(!!)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c&feature=youtu.be...
I have become conscious during dreams that I would describe as "being in a river of disjointed thoughts and emotions" -- the experience is exactly like I was witness to the many thoughts being considered/happening in my brain rapidly and simultaneously.

It is much more intense than normal dreams and I usually wake up within a few moments, and there is never a narrative like normal dreams -- just an awareness of many concurrent thoughts in quick succession.
He's staying "past the launch of Oculus Quest" ... that speaks volumes.
not sure why you are so downvoted on this (maybe less drama next time) but more or less right.

More specifically though, the Snowden docs showed how the usa does this kind of stuff on a one-off basis.
I can name a few that are a couple of thousand years old and still kicking
> weren't aware of what questions to ask.

This seems completely fine to me.

The idea is to help people solve their problems. Not give them solutions for problems that never had in the first place.
Just because all companies handle the problem space really badly, doesn't mean we should excuse it.

Apple products, as far as I can remember, do not come with any sort of manual describing the nifty little shortcuts that they have. Even as someone who did IT support and handled a lot of iPhone troubleshooting constantly, I got blindsided by lots of small things, like when they switched the force reboot from power+home to power+volume down, or whatever it is now.

If you have a feature but nobody knows how to use it, is it really helpful?
Does anyone know of any good upgrade kits for a T410? I've got one thats still going strong but the screen is awful and I'd love to upgrade that and whatever else I can get away with. When I look online I don't usually see stuff for this particular model.
I suppose you are arguing that meritocratic communities aren't the best setup for a community - which is a pretty reasonable one. I mean, the big successful countries aren't meritocracies, they are democracies. So fair enough.

> Finally - if you allow abusive people to exist within a community, you by definition exclude everybody who they would abuse.

You are going directly to how a meritocratic society might fail. Meritocratic communities can fail, but so can communities with any ideological underpinning.

Sometimes you have a choice between someone who knows exactly what they are doing but has questionable behaviors vs. someone who doesn't know quite as much but is better behaved. A meritocracy gives power to the first person. We can have long conversations about whether that person should strive to improve themselves over time (pretty easy to answer that question), but change is slow and in the interim a choice has to be made.
You could be a business analyst or product owner at a tech company.

Basically, your job would be to translate what the client wants into pieces of work that your development team can do.

It’s not coding but it’s still a very interesting position.
Well that's the real problem, isn't it? People are way too lazy to actually do any kind of learning that is necessary to use a complicated device.
"You dismiss the idea of discrimination of whites and men upfront."

I'm saying I'm not seeing evidence of any.

"This is what I call bias in perception of discrimination."

You're exhibiting just as much bias as you're accusing others of having. You're picking and choosing what you're considering important to worry about, and dismissing other items.
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It's definitely not zero cost. Your time and maintenance efforts will cost you time.
Seems like it falls under COPPA
I agree on your critique of the growth mindset. It's hard to teach. I meant more that we're looking at small differences in innate ability and deciding that we've accomplished as much as we can.

I strongly disagree with that. We do not have a research-and outcome-backed educational system. Teachers wildly vary in quality and approach and get very little feedback in order to improve.

I firmly believe a person born of average intellect should be able to master calculus. Most don't.

From Patrick Collison's Questions:

> Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?

> Educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom found that one-on-one tutoring using mastery learning led to a two sigma(!) improvement in student performance. The results were replicated. He asks in his paper that identified the "2 Sigma Problem": how do we achieve these results in conditions more practical (i.e., more scalable) than one-to-one tutoring?
So if a newspaper wanted evidence that your company fucked up you would go and dismantle company property to discredit your employer knowing that it's likely to damage them and ruin you.
If you turn them down for that reason, will you state is as the reason? Otherwise, it doesn't seem nearly as effective.
Now remember, walk without rhythm, and we won't attract the worm.
iPhones (and all smartphones and tablets) are magic wands. You have to know the spells.

Any of the hundreds of capabilities that are made easy and obvious, cause other capabilities to become more obscure and harder to enable and even know about.
So just say will take too long and too much effort to evaluate. Or even more bluntly, that it doesn’t seem useful.

How does calling it garbage help anyway, except perhaps to give yourself an adrenaline kick?
The first amendment doesn't protect you against libel or ham to your reputation.
Very similar to trying to get support from a software company, when you're a one-off $19.95 customer, and their biggest enterprise clients are also calling.
Clearly Defcon needs a facial rec village next year, get through three rooms without having your face recognized to win :-)
"Apple never admits it makes mistakes."
Best sentence on the page.
What's the latest consensus on secondhand smoke and cancer/COPD issues? I thought the "I smelled cigarette smoke on the street" exposure was largely found to have negligible health effects. (I think the "my partner smokes and i live in a smokers house" exposure still causes issues)
I've not used the CLR, but the one thing I noted in Gilad Bracha's recent post on generics ( https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2018/10/reified-generics-search... ) was his claim that the CLR makes implementing and using dynamic languages difficult:

> In systems designed to support multiple programming languages, reification brings a different problem. All languages must deal with the complexity of reification; worse they must conform to the expectations of the reified generic type system of the "master language" (C# or Java, for example).

> Consider .Net, the poster child of generic reification. Originally, .Net was intended to be a multi-language system, but dynamic language support there has suffered, in no small part due to reification. Visual Basic was a huge success until .Net came along and made it conform to C#. And what Iron Ruby/Python programmer ever enjoyed being forced to feed type arguments (whatever those might be) into a collection they are creating?

Not saying CLR's approach is bad; just that it doesn't seem like an example of one-size-fits-all as is sometimes claimed (and the same goes for the JVM, etc. too)
Given that the page primarily defines "blood money" as "the reward for bringing a criminal to justice" as well as being weregild, it doesn't seem like strong evidence that weregild is the primary sense of the word. (Strong evidence for that would be hard to find, as it isn't true.)
Did you mean "Food Lion"?
> they have more incentive to lie than Bloomberg does

The other way around. Apple and Amazon have very strong incentives to tell the truth. This has significant implications for their business (i.e. stock price) and if there is one thing that executives want to avoid, it's SEC filings based on false information given to the market.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg has the reputation of journalists with patchy histories of security news reporting. Perhaps they've been fed a line by government sources, but there is little financial incentive to fix any errors.
> This article just has iPhone in the title to get more views.

This article has iPhone in the title because it talks specifically and exclusively about iPhones.

Of course there's always a lot of improve with UI and UX on all devices, but this article focuses on iPhones.
Funny that you say "machine learning", because that's exactly what you can use to replace tags with.
The lack of a manual is quite interesting.

They could easily include one but instead they encourage people to come to the Apple Stores and discuss the problem with a Genius. This in turn encourages people to look at at new products and get premium 1-1 support that you don't get from other vendors.
Isn't there at least some controversy about that (perhaps it's only a disgruntled competitor who jumps on every second post I see mentioning them, but I'm 99% sure I've seen a few questions/accusations levelled at them...)

Having said that - seeing them vouched for by the Mozilla Foundation seems to be a significantly better indicator of their trustworthiness than this post from a day or two ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18260920 - I _mostly_ trust Mozilla to not be guided just by whoever offers them money, and hopefully to have learnt from their dumb Mr Robot fuckup...
Given that 7nm is already shipping in iPhones, it shows how far behind has Intel fallen
Accessing the recent photos is now accessed directly as one of those "iMessage App" icons that appears in the ribbon above the keyboard. However, the UI change is annoying and I constantly open the camera (though you can also get to recent photos by tapping the icon at the upper left of the camera, when inside messages).
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For iPhone, you can force-press on the keyboard (on newer phones), or just long-press on the space bar. On an iPad, you can use two fingers on the keyboard
Except that most kernels for high integrity computing or hard real time deployments are microkernels.
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I wonder how much of the partnered sales of "VR Ready PCs" Oculus captures? Could they not just drive that up?

id is doing fine without Carmack. Though time will tell I suppose what happens when they need new engine tech. Agree with the sentiment though, I only support Oculus because of him.
>What can press-and-hold do that people don’t know about?
>Directly move a scrollbar. (Fails most of the time due to tiny narrow hotspots you’re expected to hit on the first go.)

I couldn’t get this to work.

>Show a magnified absolute-centred duplicate of nearly anything onscreen you cannot actually manipulate, like whatever is in the title bar. (Try pressing and holding on the battery icon.)

Neither this one.

Do I need some obscure accessibility setting for these?
I'm still on iOS 10 (I know, I know) because I can't handle how they butchered that perfect control center.
Let’s size up the options.

Bloomberg is wrong. Apple and Amazing have every incentive to strongly deny the story.

Bloomberg is right. Multiple employees up to executive level at 30 US companies and the government know about it and are actively leaking to Bloomberg about it. Numerous boards are out there at 30+ companies as physical evidence. There’s no way Apple and Amazon could risk denying this so strongly. It’s already being widely leaked - according to Bloomberg - the cat is well and truly out of the bag and wailing it’s ass off.

It just doesn’t make any sense for Apple and Amazon to put their reputations on the line in that second scenario.
Another hidden UX: you can long press the keyboard and it'll turn into a touchpad that you can use to move the cursor (still not as easy as cursor keys but much better than the long press and drag method).
Thanks for the link. I did search quite a bit, but I did not find that one.

I noticed a few things from the link: the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 support is "not stable", and it does not appear to be usable via Bluetooth.
Aye, only when the incentives align. The proliferation of clickbait, native ads, and lack of consequences (social or otherwise) for poor vetting or lying outright...

“Journalistic integrity” is quickly on its way to becoming a pejorative term, if it’s not already there.
> If Apple actually cared about accessibility (it does not), on the setup screen for every iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch would be a step you could not skip wherein you have to choose your preferred text size.

iPhones literally do have an unskippable screen during setup that prompts you to choose a text size

https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/xlarge/pu...
Most people don't even know that they have a problem because they are unaware of what they should be able to do. They think that any preventable annoying behavior is the natural state of the machine. I was spending time with my parents awhile back and happened to look over to watch my mom try to communicate some content from a website she was looking at to a friend. She would go back and forth from the browser, to the message, to the browser, to the message, reading and typing. I asked her "Does that site block copy paste? Why aren't you copy pasting?" She gave me a blank look. I showed her that copy paste was a feature and it blew her mind.

She didn't think that she had a problem because she didn't expect copy paste to even be a function on a phone (as she is not a confident computer user either).
This may sound snobbish, but I love the barebones design of HN.

Makes it very inaccessible, and the only ones who stay are those that really want the content.

Acts like an artificial barrier that keeps the more trigger happy out.
Tangent: I just love how it links to a diff with his name added. There's something about that.
This is really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Toward the end of the article they go on to explain that these rocks that aren't fossils fail to exhibit a number of traits that they expect from rocks that are fossils.
The “Tips” feature (Swipe left from home) points you right to the User Guide downloadable from the Books app for the device. It also prompts you with this info shortly after you finish setting up the device. It’s a 600+ page manual that describes every single button, gesture, function, menu, for every preinstalled app on the phone.

There’s a section that describes most everything that has changed in the newest iOS release.
They don't choose their own fate. Gerrymandering and voter suppression is very real. That's very true in the southern states, where minority rule is the norm.
Yup! perfect example of what the blog post author is talking about (I knew force touch but not space bar / two fingers- thanks for that, super useful on iPad )
> This one is controversial, but I think a visible always available back button is a huge accessibility win even if it's sometimes inconsistant in behaviour.

I not only agree, I'm still disappointed they got rid of the menu button. Used to be a single consistent, visible, always-there interface across apps that now is done in several different ways.

And now in the newest Android, the back button will be appearing/disappearing/changing direction. Not nice.
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Fair enough, I should have worded more carefully - it's an area I'm largely uninformed in and should have worded it more as a question; re-reading it sounds like an assertion so i added a tweak.

It makes sense to me that farmers are best placed to optimize for current outputs (and probably poorly placed to optimize outputs).
It's sort of ridiculous to use the word violence in that context. Unless someone shouts into the ears of other person to induce hearing damage, it's clearly redefining the language to suit ones agenda and should be condemned. You can not be violent with words, you can use them for verbal abuse, incite violence, etc but the words themselves can't be violent.
How can Bitcoin stabilize if it's a Keynesian Beauty Contest?
According to Bloomberg Apple and AWS had already investigated thoroughly, had talked to the government, and their executives were the ones who had leaked to Bloomberg in the first place.
But "more hassle" by an order of magnitude that gradualy reduces when growing the number of instances.
I'm the same way. I've gotten used to using a Mac for work; there are the few things I need to know how to run, and I've more or less figured those out. Even after that, though, I was utterly useless last week trying to send an email for my mom on her iPhone.
"The problem is that it is often turned into a politics."

Everything is politics. Politics is part of everyone's life, and affects everyone's life. Some more than others, and some have the good fortune to not have to face that fact every day.
> appealing to the 1/6th of the people in the world who consider themselves to be Christians

I don’t consider myself Christians but I like CoC a lot. It even made me think why I only used sqlite when I had to.

To me the CoC doesn’t say I’m excluded. It says a couple of other things however, that author’s not ashamed of who he is, he’s sincere, and he knows about 1st amendment. I think all of these things are good.
Im convinced smoking is a Netflix ad.

Their protagonists are always smoking in their originals.

Now you wont be able to unsee.
I'm not sure the last time iOS bugged you about wireless networks by default. 8 years ago?
Just like designer jeans , people will be buying laptops with factory made scuffs and wear and tear in 20 years. Mark my words . There will maybe even be apple iPhones with designer scuffs in the year 2035
As someone who has done both, in enterprise internal tech rather than a tech firm—at times simultaneously, on different projects—business/system/domain analysis tends, IME, to be no less numerical/analytical than coding on the same system.
Nope...

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-gu...

That's the basis of eg Kernel enforcement, the most-distributed project out there by far.
If I remember correctly, something like this likely won't void the warranty, except maybe the warranty for electronics in the car. There are pretty strong laws in the US regarding car warranties.
They don’t - the state environment regulator goes to the oil and gas lobby industry dinner and says “Jump? How high?” With a Democratic governor.
> But you're still trusting someone to handle your connections reliably and fairly.

Some of us live in tinpot totalitarian reigemes[x] where ISPs are required by the government to retain "meta data" records of all customer connections and traffic.

It's a privacy win for me just to move the endpoint where my unencrypted traffic (and dns lookups) out of my local jurisdiction, since at least that way I'm not using a service that's required by law to snitch me out to any curious local cop... (Hopefully my chosen VPN provider really isn't keeping logs or snooping y traffic, but even if they are - moving that out of my local legal jurisdiction is an improvement for me...)

[x] That's a little intentionally overhyperboled - but fuck me our Australian politicians are making some insane laws around internet use by the whole population...
Display Zoom is a different setting than Text Size.
I couldn’t get either to work too. Maybe they took them out in iOS 12? I have scrollbarred before on prior Ios releases
64 bit addressed cannot come soon enough. In certain domains the entire data set you want to work with is many times the 4GB limit, and JS has no such restriction so it’s a PITA that WASM does.
Okay, let's revise the claim slightly for clarity: Making "diversity" a goal is identity politics.
They quoted the parent, and referred to what they said as being an "insipid attitude". To me, that's close enough as makes no difference.
Is Mozilla very short on cash? Why is the supposed steward of an open internet suddenly partnering with all these proprietary services?
Crimes are committed by individuals, not companies. If execs at VW break the law, you go after the execs, you don’t put the whole company in jail or turf out all it’s employees on the streets.
A lot of this seems valid. At the same time, I think massive customer misuse/misunderstanding is the reality for almost all widely used software.

Maybe I'm projecting, but the "solutions people" at the company where I work have endless horror stories of how "people actually use our software".
(disclaimer: I worked at AWS from 2008 to 2014 as Technology Evangelist, and know Andy Jassy personally)

I know nothing specific about the issue per se, but I am convinced that Andy Jassy is speaking the truth here, for two reasons:

1) I've never seen a company as obsessed with security as AWS, and/or with such a big budget for security.

2) There's so many actors/employees involved in the audits, security, etc, that convincing some of them to "hide" a fact like this would be just too risky for a company that big. If that were really the case, I would rather work on a contingency plan, assuming that sooner or later the "leak" would come out.

There is a tiny chance that something bad happened, and that Amazon's magic PR twist managed to still provide a truthful statement (Steve Schmidt) while hiding that. "A chance", because of the various back and forth business between AWS and Chinese companies. "Tiny", because other scenarios are much more probable and plausible.

This looks like a very poor example of journalism, on Bloomberg's side.

On a different note, I still believe that weird/illegal stuff keeps going on between companies and governments worldwide, for the simple reason that these things keep coming up when there's a new leak, or when secrecy on certain classified documents gets lifted or expires.
This article just has iPhone in the title to get more views

While I don't disagree with you, in the United States it feels like more and more the term "iPhone" is used to mean "smart phone." Like how people use the brands TelePrompTer and Dumpster as generic terms.

I don't know if this is good or bad, but I've heard the phrase "Android iPhone" twice in public.