skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"may not fully take in" is pretty clearly NOT making that assumption, so you're doing a lot of name-calling over something that doesn't appear to have been said.
> The original app, which was distributed by fb, installed a systemwide CA to MITM traffic after prompting the user.

Correct.

> Is this not available to regular apps distributed on the store ?

No, this is OK; VPN apps do exactly this, but they go through review to make sure that they are actually VPN apps and not, well, essentially what Facebook is trying to do here.

> This app was not on the app store but distributed out of band.

Yes.

> In order to sideload apps on iOS, they still need to be approved by Apple ? So Apple maintains a whitelist of developer certificates who can side load apps.

You haven't mentioned it, but I think it's important to make the distinction about the two ways to sideload apps on iOS: you can self sign your app yourself for your device (generally via Xcode), which Apple doesn't really check at all, or you can be a company, get an enterprise certificate, and use this to sign apps and distribute them to other iOS devices, as Facebook was doing here. The catch is that you are supposed to only do this internally inside your company.

> the article says, "Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working." How does this work exactly ? Apple triggers all the clients in the world to freeze/remove these apps ?

iOS, as of iOS 8.4, periodically checks for revoked certificates and will refuse to run apps that were signed with something that Apple has blacklisted.
He’s asking for $1 per month that you want to be co-ceo. He has a paypal link to send the money.
Aye, Things like that the G3000 (Garmin avionics suite for light aircraft) that now do real time 3D terrain generation so that less experienced pilots can avoid controlled flight into terrain (literally the way they describe when a pilot in control smashes into a mountain).

My suspicion is that modern computerised avionics are on balance a life saver but I'd love to know by how much.

I ended up watching videos of modern avionics in light aircraft on youtube a while back (as you do) and I find that kind of programming fascinating, couldn't find much out about the actual hardware/software side of things though I did gather it runs a custom OS.
I think the reason the internet isn't as fun and weird as it used to be is that it's now Important and it's been weaponized by powerful interests in pursuit of political ends. It's just non-stop ideological warfare, which is both stressful and boring.
All of my projects come from my day job in a large industry which is behind the ball technically so lots of opportunities. Basically I write software that replaces my job. It will happen eventually, so why not be the one to large a series of SaaS to do it.
The rules should not be applied the same to everyone. Apple needs to look out for its long term interests and it can deal with small companies in ways that it can not deal with Google or Facebook without harming said interests. It's sort of like the quip, "Owe the bank $10,000 and they control you. Owe the bank $1,000,000,000 and you control them." In the world of business there are unequal relationships.
I'll go ahead and play the Devil's advocate because every constructive conversation needs one.

People who signup for this already know what they are doing and the program has a privacy section[0] saying that the data is only shared with Google which is pretty much akin to having any Smart Speaker. Not only that but it also says that the data wouldn't be used to "advertise to you or sell you anything" which is not the case with Smart Speakers.

In essence, from a privacy point of view, when compared to having a Smart Speaker, this is better I'd say.

0.https://support.google.com/audiencemeasurement/answer/902874...
Yes, there are a couple of reasons;

1. Like you mention, if you don't receive a subscription in the last 6 months, it's probably not something you're bothered about.

2. Scanning some users inboxes is very bandwidth intensive, and time consuming (some people never delete an email). We experimented with 1 year scans and some users just give up waiting. We could probably improve the process, however due to point 1, we think 6 months is probably adequate.
Apple Is Planning 3-D Cameras for New iPhones in AR Push
Though it's difficult to technically fault what you say, I find it unsettling.

Here in AU we have some significant differences to elections - eg. compulsory voting, Saturday polls. The annoying thing is that this doesn't appear (on average) to deliver superior administration.
To add onto this - I have had my entire account shadow-banned when I wrote a popular technical article about blockchain technology (also about my startup). It looked fine to me when I was logged in, but it showed up as a 404 to people who clicked on it. No notice. No explanation. I wrote about this Kafkaesque expereince here. Make sure to post in multiple places.

https://honest.cash/chicken/mediumcom-is-engaging-in-ongoing...
Thanks. I hadn't really given much thought for any widespread practical use. I think the throughput would be the limiting factor, on average (using my encoding scheme, which could definitely be optimised) you average about 5.882 Bps. Would definitely be interested in hearing what uses people see for it though!
totally, I love most of the articles I‘ve read. But all the garbage medium needs to run. Really heavy pageload for a simple thing like blogging
The "middle of nowhere" location isn't just one city, but also a hub near the border of Kazakhstan which has been booming from abundant natural gas resources backed by a low population to land area density, and other useful exports such as a third of the world's uranium extraction.
The kicker is the robocallers now use phone numbers which match the first six of your own number (area code and first 3 digits). When I was in the process of interviewing with a company and therefore waiting for phone calls, this was incredibly frustrating.
I imagine Jim Carey (Liar, Liar) screaming....STOP RUNNING CLIENT SIDE ADVERTS ASSHOLE!
Half an hour a day isn't an issue
"Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your query to Google anonymously, then returns Google results to you privately. Google never sees you and does not know who made the request; they only see Startpage."

From: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

More: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/...
Lyft and Juno are suing New York City after new minimum wage requirements
Well you have all proven my hypothesis wrong. Please stop upvoting this comment before you give me a complex :-P
It does; currently the cap is 10,000 users.
By all definitions, C is not strongly typed.

The author just points to selected links, without going to the links themselves. If you go to the link he points you to [1] where C typing is defined, you find that two of the three links there that claim C to be strongly typed are broken and the third link immediately qualifies the assertion with: "To be precise, relatively strongly-typed app-specific dialects of the not-very-strongly-typed language, C."

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?StronglyTyped
Scam Alert from eCommerce Fancy 73M dollars raised and 5M downloads
Phonon is a sound API, PulseAudio is a sound server. It is not the same thing.
Seems like you could implement all of that and still have the "fun and weird" from myspace, using html and css?
The thing is that with a CD, you can easily make backups.

With games with DRM stored on SD, who knows? If you copy the files then you'll probably be able to play it on the console... Provided it's the one you bought it on? I wouldn't even bet on it.
I use https://getpublii.com/ for this. Works really well.
Something we plan to do is name and shame companies that do this.

They're in breach of the CAN-SPAM act and should be punished appropriately.
User opt-in does not excuse violating Apple’s terms of use. Google _likely_ did not get Apple’s opt-in for this approach. If they did not, they will _likely_ see their enterprise certificate terminated for precisely the same reason.
> can you even get a decent vim extension like we had with vimperator

Just FYI, Qutebrowser[1] is a wonderful Vim-like chromium browser inspired by vimperator, VimFX, and the like. It is not extensible, unfortunately, and the web's worst websites will break its functionality. But it has Adblock built-in, and running in Firejail[2] it's about as secure as a browser can be.

[1] https://qutebrowser.org

[2] https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Can you further explain what you mean by "legitimate" in this sentence? In it's context, it could be taken a number of different ways.
Switched to DDG about two years ago. First, it was worse than Google. However in the meantime, DDG has improved a bit and Google got worse, showing a lot of performance devrading crap/boxes/large text instead of search results.

So DDG is now all around the better choice.
Facebook abused their enterprise certificate to bypass the App Store and distribute their app outside of their company, which is something that is explicitly disallowed by the agreement that governs such certificates.
Our company's phone system, or our provider, had a problem with outgoing calls once: you couldn't call users of a certain mobile provider, but only if they were currently using GSM. Anything newer would make it work. The symptom was that even when the cell user picked up, you'd still here the sound like their phone is still ringing. That alone was already mindboggling to me, but the crazy part was that with certain phone models (at our company), the cell user would be able to hear you while you still thought their phone was ringing.
Because you broke it.
Airplane pilot checking in. There are multiple. :)
Still the same theme, though. Leads you through a story then either issues a call to action or tries to sell you something. The whole thing is built to affect you enough emotionally to perform whatever action the author wants.
I don't think antitrust is relevant in this case, because Apple doesn't have a monopoly in smartphones. In fact, if anyone does, it's Google, since Android accounts for 75% of mobile phones worldwide [1].

[1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
How is he supposed to refer you to people not saying something?

This is most definitely a rather silly request.

Can you prove that magic doesn’t exist?
This is an inherent problem with city governments. I don’t know how rural Wisconsin city councils work but I know for damn sure Berkeley’s city council would be completely out of their depth negotiating a multi billion dollar deal with the likes of a Foxconn.
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything I said.

Honest question - when should any business or organization re-open after a tragedy happens on it's grounds? I doubt that the answer is "never".
I’ve been using the Skype web preview on my 2012 Retina MBP because Skype.app has become unusable on it. They must have recently switched video codecs or broken hardware acceleration, a video conference with 4-6 people chews up anywhere from 200%-400% of my Ivy Bridge i7. The same sized video conference using the Skype web preview in Chrome uses ~40%.
+1 - if I am reading hackernews and see a link that is from medium I will skip it. 99% if the time it will be some thinly-vieled marketing. I am sure there is a lot of perfectly good content on there, but the bullshit marketing crap has turned me off of the whole domain. It is basically as bad as seeing a wordpress link, except you can guarantee that 99 times out of 100 it will be someone peddling their startup (at least wordpress had some slightly out-of-left-field stuff on it)

There is nothing wrong with self-hosted blogs. If you still want to "blog" then go for it on your own domain, please don't feel like you have to publish through some random third party that exists to monetise your content.
By law we now have the ability to set up custom servers using from scratch code to run the games on after the company shuts down their servers.

Check out http://freeinfantry.com/ Some awesome guys set up a custom from-scratch reverse engineered server for my favorite game of all time. You can play this game in pretty much the exact same way I did 20 years ago.
>I wonder what price this instrumentation is worth to them if $20/mo and PR risk was okay

Legitimate market research focus groups pay $100-200/hr, or more, to regular people for verbal approximations of their own behavior.
Some people are going to ask "How does Startpage make its money?" and fortunately they've put that info in their Privacy Policy:

Our search result pages may include a small number of
clearly labeled "sponsored links", which generate revenue
and cover our operational costs. Those links are retrieved
from platforms such as Google Adwords. In order to enable
the prevention of click fraud, some non-identifying system
information is shared, but because we never share personal
information or information that could uniquely identify
you, the ads we display are not connected to any
individual user."
Enterprise certificates are not meant for public distribution.
>...If people making more than $10 million a year or with a wealth of more than $50 million are going to leave the United States we have ways to handle this, namely the Expatriation Tax, which France doesn't have.

I wouldn’t necessarily expect many people giving up citizenship, but I would expect (as the article talks about) politically connected groups getting tax breaks. I would also expect lots of money spent in less productive ways to avoid the high rates and if people can’t avoid the tax, there will be dead weight losses from economic activity that isn't done.

>...You need to compare France to an equal situation like the US State of New Jersey applying a higher income tax and losing their state citizens to fellow states in the collective federal territory of the United States.

No state has ever tried such a bad policy, but if they did, I would imagine moving would be on the mind of everyone who might be affected by wealth taxes and 75% rates.
The material universe doesn't care about us, but we do, and we are not separate from the universe.

Consciousness is the important thing, why it all matters, why bad things are really actually bad. Pain may be expressed, but as all other consciousness itself or qualia, the experience itself cannot be measured, but is very real.
Another good curation
https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/mks/statmistakes/StatisticsM...

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
This is a Browser from DDG, not their search engine.

It claims to block trackers like Google and FB, and provides other privacy related features.

Does not say what it's built on...
Probably chromium.
Wow, markdown with markup ... and imports! inside it. I'm dizzy.
This is probably why use one-time-password via SMS is so rampant in many many services. This kind of auth has mostly eliminated large scale hacks, however OTP over SMS still won't help targeted hacking. But in general the public at large are rather safe primarily because of this.

Having said that, subscription based startups struggle due to the the compulsory use of OTP and therefore resort to yearly subscriptions rather than monthly (ex: Amazon Prime).
I have not used these services, but it's very likely that they are since that's basically how all beta testing outside of TestFlight works.
So it's totally okay when we block advertisers but when developers are the ones under scrutiny, suddenly the user-centric argument is out the window.

I think this is a great idea. It puts pressure on developers and makes experiences better for users. The average American Internet speed is sub-100 Mbps, but average LTE speeds are closer to 12 Mbps, with websites opting usually to use responsive layouts over separate mobile sites. This means you're downloading the full resources of a desktop site, and the mobile device is adjusting to media queries.

5 MB / 12 Mbps is over 3 seconds. That's bullshit. Put pressure on developers, make a better web.
A lot of us knew it was bullshit from the start. They didn't even bother disguising the smell.

I knew Rod Blagojevich was a heel about 5 minutes after moving into his congressional district, in Chicago. When he got elected governor, I moved across the border to Kenosha, and was not surprised one bit when he went to prison.

I first heard about Walker in 2006, as a primary candidate for governor, and thought he was an ass then. Wisconsin was still fine under Doyle and Kohl and Feingold, though, and Paul Ryan was basically a do-nothing nobody (in my humble constituent's opinion) long before he somehow became speaker, out of nowhere. I moved to Tammy Baldwin's district in 2005, and left the state entirely in 2010. When Walker got elected governor, I suspected his tenure would be bad for the state, and especially bad for progressives. When the recall failed, I declared Wisconsin done. My Wisconsinite in-laws (and ex-Wisconsinite Arizonan in-laws) grew more Trumpy. Then the state legislation and executive policy turned into an avalanche of conservative favorites: union busting, ACA undermining, abortion restrictions, voter suppression, anti-pollution undermining, gun defending, immigrant intimidation, gay-marriage opposition. Dane county might hold out for a while yet, but Wisconsin is now a red state until further notice.

When the Foxconn thing came up, I guessed that it was all hot air and corruption, and that my Republican-supporting in-laws in the 1st would finally see first hand what they had all been voting for over the last 20 years.

Walker and company didn't fall for it. They engineered it for their own gain. Follow the money.
>improve your privacy by downloading another app
I don't see how piling even more technology onto privacy unfriendly internet habits helps. You're not going to get more privacy by using this on a site like Facebook. The real solution is to simply remove them from your life. See if there's something you can remove to improve the situation first instead of adding stuff.
The way you put it seems to suggest you're disappointed it isn't still male-dominated.

As one of the women who was online back then, I didn't perceive it as "masculine", fwiw.
Those who didn't vote cannot be counted - they have decided that they don't care one way or the other. Likewise those who are not eligible cannot be counted - they cannot vote because their voice is being intentionally ignored as not relevant (it is fair to argue they shouldn't be excluded but that is a different issue).
Why do you want any of those things to run inside a browser? Those all sound like great candidates for being actual installed software. Do we even remember how to write that?

This everything-is-a-website mentality is a disaster for privacy, security, and the future of decentralized general-purpose computing.
Definitely can't generalize, but the average macbook pro sporting web dev often forgets what their users deal with. I had conversations at work where I pointed out the data we had on our users (and how they weren't even close to having that kind of hardware and internet connection), and no one would believe me until they saw the data themselves.
That seems to imply that the products people are selling aren't products people are willing to buy. Spending millions trying to figure out how to get people to buy things they don't want can only go so far.
The author's name is on the proposal, Craig Hockenberry. To avoid making folks Google for him, he's been running the Iconfactory, a design and programming consultancy that does, yes, icons, as well as web sites and applications. They're most famous for Twitterrific, the very first Twitter client (and the one that gave us the word "tweet" for Twitter posts as well as the blue bird icon). They've been in business over twenty years. Hockenberry is himself both an app developer and a long-time web developer.

I'm not sure I particularly agree with this proposal, either, for a lot of reasons outlined in comments here (most broadly that this is putting too much of a burden on users, and that it's just likely to create a new round of cat-and-mouse games with bad actors to find ways around it), but the author certainly isn't inexperienced in web and application matters.
The question was not about batching, it was about join queries over more than one resource type.
In 2018, 53% of votes for Wisconsin State Assembly went to Democrats, and Republicans won 64% of the seats (see https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/blogs/wisconsin-voter/20...). So in this case it's not true that "if that party stays in power, it's because a majority of the people in that state have voted for that party".
> As it stands, even after the store officially closes, Wii users will be able download any past titles they’ve purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel, provided they can fit them on either the Wii’s internal storage or an additional SD card. However, Nintendo said that in a yet unknown point in the future, the company will close all services relating to the Wii Shop Channel, "including the ability to redownload WiiWare and Virtual Console games, as well as the Wii System Transfer Tool, which transfers data from Wii to the Wii U system."

Seems understandable. At some point you'll hit end of life with software and support will end. I'm sure they'll give plenty of notice, and I'd imagine it's 5-10 years out. I'm sure if you called support and told them that your NES cartridges didn't work any more they'd probably just tell you to blow on it.

* Myth debunked: Blowing in your Nintendo games never actually fixed anything – GeekWire || https://www.geekwire.com/2014/blow-nintendo-games/
I agree on that one, but still do not like that Apple has the power to require having an "enterprise certificate" in the first place.
Autonomous Mrinal Wadhwa, Digital Plumbing [pdf]
I agree, and I don't think this is a bad trend, once upon a time I think static vs. dynamic was a clear distinction, that distinction is being worn down as we learn more about the value and costs of those approaches - and as that happens we're compromising the approaches to gain more of the value.

In PHP the (mostly) JIT interpretation exposed a weakness where infrequently executed pieces of code were harder to have confidence in. Unit tests and such have raised our confidence but explicit typing can also raise our confidence in an easier manner, both are good to have but having access to more tools just makes our lives easier.

In fact PHP can be pre-cached in bytecode now (which is basically just a traditional compiled approach) and in the default run mode PHP code files are interpreted and then cached to minimize the number of times code needs to be interpreted. The lines between compiled vs. interpreted are getting really fuzzy now and were pretty fuzzy as far back as Java bytecode (which is as far as my memory goes, others may have a better handle on earlier experiments in partial compilation)
Can you elaborate more on Lyft? Been using it instead of Uber due to their issues but I wasn't aware of problems with them. Not entirely shocked, however.