skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No question that iMessage and FaceTime are advantages for Apple out of the box.

But what happens when Facebook continues to enhance its messaging platform and people slowly find themselves in a hybrid situation where they are communicating with a mixture of WhatsApp, iMessage, and Instagram?

Anecdotally, I probably use iMessage for 80% of my texts with my girlfriend but we still regularly use Instagram and WhatsApp for chatting, depending on the situation. I could foresee us ending up swinging the other way and using Whatsapp for texting and then getting used to it. Sound unlikely?

Suppose we are discussing what we want to order for dinner and WhatsApp has our favorite delivery places and their menus available and we can order and pay through the app. Now instead of texting back and forth and then opening Grubhub to look at a menu and order and pay we can do it all in one place. Pretty soon we are using WhatsApp to communicate and haven’t used iMessage in months. I find myself using WhatsApp so much I replace iMessage in the dock with WhatsApp.

Six months later I’m in the market for a new phone. Since I use third party software for just about everything now, all these devices are on a level playing field and maybe I try a Pixel this time and find I like it just as much as my iPhone. This may sound far fetched but this is how disruption happens and is pretty much how Facebook destroyed MySpace- users finding themselves using two services for the same purpose and eventually scrapping the one they use the least.
In the situation with the jr dev, it works for 2-3 years, until they leave because they're not getting raises, and all of a sudden they realize that they don't know everything (a typical stage in becoming a mid-level) and now have nobody to learn from. Or, when they are getting older and realize they probably aren't long for the company because nobody has their family, values, lifestyle.
You always had to be in the same market with Aereo, they validated by your credit card billing address.
Problem of support for default server side decorations with Mutter is still not resolved. Toolkits like SDL and applications like mpv and the like can't make basic window controls (like title bar and title bar buttons) look consistent without it, unless they start depending on GTK.

The issue seems to be on both sides. SDL, mpv and etc. don't want to depend on GTK, but it looks like Mutter developers don't want to do that either. The end result is very messy.

Unlike Mutter, KWin for instance does depend on Qt, and provides server side decorations which allows such non GUI windows easily draw minimal controls and the title bar.
A good read, IMHO.
> In general, I didn’t understand what added value Aiven.io provides – we weren’t even warned when the database was running out of storage.

We have been considering using Aiven on GCP. Could you comment on the statement above ? cos that's a little worrying.
Somone handing you data does not remove any copyrights on this data. Which is where you can get in real trouble with your approach. That said, this kind of thing is detectable. If users of an application are far less likely to download common data it quickly looks odd.

And while that’s not conclusive, they can just look at how your application functions to see what’s going on.
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So, random people, non-employees, not QA testing, not bound by real business relationships, get a copy of some enterprise FAANG apps...

And that certainly is insteresting, and significant, but what circumstances does this confer to those who get the app? And are normal, ordinary commoners disadvantaged by this and missing out, or are the enterprise randos getting a hyperinvasive, buggy, flakey, nightly, crash prone, hazardous, insecure, warranty voiding piles of garbage?

I guess we can’t know, without seeing what the enterprise distributions look like, and the point is that there are consumers getting special treatment, when that’s not the way the game is supposed to be played, violating franchise rules...
You didn't mention that there are many existing projects (google 'cloud IDE') so I will say that you would need a strategy for competing with them.
The author is not a he.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Shriver
At least with the HD antenna, nobody knows you're watching (with a dumb TV anyway... and with the microphones ripped out of every inter-connected electronic device you have).
Perhaps you could have a ratcheting cost, where the first 100 domains are $10 each, the next 100 are $20 each, and so on up to some upper bound, with provisions for shell companies that solely register domains.
I hope all of the publicity this gets will somehow bring more attention to how much control Apple exerts over the iOS app ecosystem, and maybe bring change there.

I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn't represent the majority of the market, so they aren't as subject to monopoly/antitrust stuff.

I can still hope that Apple will open up their mobile platform further, one day.
“When Boorstin asked whether Facebook regretted not pulling the app before Apple had revoked its certificates, Sandberg replied by saying Facebook had done so as soon as it realized it was not “in compliance.”

Love the amount of ____ she says.
It's okay they knew he was lying.
It's not exactly clear what the actual offer was. From the end:

The final offer I signed was ~$300,000 in total yearly compensation (over four years, including a variable annual bonus, and amortizing the signing/relo package).
Ok, let's go down this road. Suppose a crime is discovered long after the event. Does that mean you take their house? They probably wouldn't have gotten a job good enough to buy one. Their possessions? Gone. How about their family? Probably wouldn't have gotten married. Probably wouldn't have had those children. Erase erase erase!

Honestly, the response here is downright frightening, and I fear for our future...
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Hmm, .corn would be even better. With modified kerning, links will look like .com.
Yes. Because it is technically almost impossible, if not completely impossible, to build a system that gives your code absolute freedom while not giving other code running on the system absolute freedom as well.

There will always be the possibility that some company will ask users to their absolute freedom ability to give them absolute freedom. Which is basically exactly what happened in this case. The only difference is, in this case, Apple built in a mechanism where they can stop individual actors.

And, to protect their users, they used it.
Devils advocate here but who would still use an iPhone if Google and Facebook pulled their apps?

It’s all sunshine and rainbows if this ends here but if it escalated it would be worse for Apple than they think.
Users care if the table is broken because it's taking too long to find the bug from endpoint-only tests
C++ circa 1995 was a lot more like Java with manual memory management, really. Templates were a rare sight, STL was not yet a thing, and it was still considered an impure OO language rather than multi-paradigm.
Very good. Intelligent tech people don't use those inferior consumerist fashion accessories anyway.
Agreed. Ease of use, a more intuitive interface, etc. would be strategies for competition. Codetasty, one of the popular cloud IDEs, has about 25k users, which is a very small percent of the total number of developers in the world. So I would think there is still a large number of potential users who aren't already using a competitor's product.
OTA picture quality varies. Each physical channel gets 20mbps of mpeg transport stream, almost always with mpeg2 video. If the physical channel has one or two streams, and a good multiplexer, the quality is pretty nice. If they're running 12 streams of video, it's going to be awful.

ATSC 3, if it's ever deployed, has a lot higher data rate and requires support for h.265 deciding, so it could be really high quality, or full of even more crappy substreams.
Unless Apple found it sufficient to make an example of Facebook and Google. The statement would be pretty clear: if you think we won't do it to you because you're a big company and a valued partner, just look at the size of the company who tried it on and think again.
I don't think you even need a developer license. IIRC, I think if you just plug your iPhone into Xcode, you can load whatever code you want on to it.
Crinkling News [1] was a surprisingly good Australian newspaper. It ceased publication in January 2018, but I gather they would reopen if they could find the money (Costs $200k/year to run?).

It was written for children, essentially the print equivalent of ABC's Behind The News bulletin [2]. The writing level wasn't too far removed from the "adult" papers (I gather broadsheets are written to a 12 year old reading level and tabloids lower than that). Articles were a mix of mainstream news and kid specific stuff. There were fewer articles than an adult paper, but was basically all there with the extraneous stuff removed. It was completely independent.

[1] https://www.crinklingnews.com.au/

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/btn/
Gibson Biddle has some great articles and resources for PMs to develop their careers. http://www.gibsonbiddle.com/
I probably would, but only because I have managed to keep my reliance on Google's services to things that follow open protocols, don't use Facebook, and have far too many eggs in the "Apple" basket.
https://fossbytes.com/why-2700-apple-lisa-computers-are-buri...
Do iPhone users lack the ability to have control over their device by adding their own certificates?
They seem to be the only body capable (and willing) to enforce privacy measures, so god I hope your wrong.
My apologies, I appreciate the correction.
Developers are able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store, on Android.

There is a lot about Apple's restrictive approach I don't care for, most notably forcing digital subscriptions to run through App Store billing, but being the single point of entry for apps onto the phone is a feature, not a bug. I trust the content on Apple devices far more than I would those on an Android device.
Is there a filter that captures all contaminents, providing 100% clean air?
That's the whole point of enterprise certificates. However, everything must still be rooted at Apple's WWDR authority, including these certificates.
One big problem with your approach is when one person's value depends on another. Say I build the app but marketing doesn't sell it?
The article is about an experiment to periodically reconstitute two species of bacteria for the next 500 years. The instructions for the experiment are stored on a USB disk and on paper. Talking about how to keep the instructions up to date the article states:

"No strategy is likely to be completely foolproof 500 years later. So the team asks that researchers at each 25-year time point copy the instructions so that they remain linguistically and technologically up to date."

Seems like - if they also keep each version from today through 500 years - this may be almost as interesting as the bacteria longevity itself. Seems like this would be an interesting experiment in itself.
You can't discredit it universally, that'd be like disproving God.

More exactly, it is the psychological trait "Belief in a Just World" (BJW.)

One doesn't have to look far in our actual civilization to see innocent victims, injustice, but that still doesn't penetrate the existential strata of the universe eventually righting all wrongs.

Here's a good analysis of the psychological studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ0lR23T7FA

If you don't have time to watch the video, the most significant points are:

1) Believing in a Just World / Meritocracy, is an evolved emotional buffer to the chaos and reality of ever-present injustice.

2) BJW trait correlates with higher measures of happyness after traumatic events like natural disasters - and seems to be a trait that remains relatively static among persons regardless of the tradgedies they suffer or windfall they receive.
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I would, in a heartbeat. Facebook was uninstalled the moment the last round of spying was announced on android. I love maps and google music/youtube, but I could live without them, neither are deal breakers.
Is social isolation the right response? Does it produce a good outcome?

Does it result in anyone deeply learning the lessons of history behind it all? Or do they just learn to keep their mouth shut?

If someone is expressing bad ideas, then you can use their comments a an opportunity to teach a deeper lesson. If they just shut up, the conversation never happens and no learning takes place.

I suspect that a lot of well-meaning people do not really understand much about racism. How could they? It's such a dangerous topic that you can't even ask basic questions without putting yourself at risk.

Maybe that's fine in the sense that fewer people are offended. But I am not convinced that such a shallow lesson will last more than a couple generations, and the "shut up" lesson creates a lot of collateral damage to the overall culture.
You're story is absolutely amazing...and relateable... Also love your app. Will be sharing that.
My linux machines don't have a lot of privacy problems and don't have the overbearing corporate control.

Walled gardens are great, but so are gates.
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I believe Apple will do everything they can to keep them from abusing the ToS, but I also believe Facebook will try to work around any and every restriction applied to them.
This is an interesting idea. I'd like to see more of this in the future. Large news orgs only existed before because of the necessity of combining resources. These days I bet you can do the same thing with only a couple of people or even solo given the advent of high technology.
This is an interesting point. The first several years of my career, I was an engineer working on low level operating system stuff. I later switched to product and my technical chops really helped me earlier in my product career. As I got more senior however, the business, strategy, and product vision components of the PM role became more important and my technical skillset was less "directly" useful. It was more helpful in getting me trust with senior engineers, and therefore transitive trust with executives (because eng directors are often the first people a new exec will turn to to "read" the org in a large company)
Not really. Give me your code, and I can upload it on to any iPhone I want, without paying a cent to Apple.
Cancelling an Amazon account takes about an hour of redirects and customer retention chats and emails. I decided not to subscribe to some papers for that reason yesterday
The parents were not neglectful, they took care of their daughter and took her to the hospital as soon as they noticed the trouble.

Parents were not charged with neglect until after the article was written saying they neglected their daughter. There was no neglect just dirty laundry.
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Catholics worldwide are confused by that headline.
Presumably if the ability was present, Google or anyone could easily get around this.
Shriver's thesis is not that Spacey et al. are victims. She lays it out in the section that starts, "Which brings us to the party that really pays for the new puritanism:...".

Did the fans of House of Cards use their power to subjugate?

Did Louis C.K.'s co-stars use their power to subjugate?

Did Ian Buruma's editor?

Once you cast off whatever simplistic lens you might have, e.g. "it's all about power", it turns out the world is pretty interesting and complicated. Embrace the complexity.
I would, because I don’t use Facebook at all and don’t care about Google’s native apps.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/111

This is the statute Locast is relying on. “(5) the secondary transmission is not made by a cable system but is made by a governmental body, or other nonprofit organization, without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage, and without charge to the recipients of the secondary transmission other than assessments necessary to defray the actual and reasonable costs of maintaining and operating the secondary transmission service.”

Aereo obviously couldn’t take advantage of this since they were for profit.
The difference between all the things that you listed is that works of art are able to give royalties to a person. If you continue to buy or consume their products they still profit.

Obviously ex post facto law is bad for society. However, if an artist is receiving royalties for a work they made during which they raped several people, why should they still profit?
Those are actually controlled by magnet strips in the floor.
The clearance rate for property crimes isn't quite as bad as I thought: https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-r...
firebaser here Completely agreed that we should do a better job in documenting the security rules. They're very powerful, but a huge paradigm shift for most developers, one that is too easily ignored (at your own and your user's peril). We've already released a bunch of improvements on the documentation, and continue to work on adding new documentation, video tutorials, and console improvements. Please keep telling us where we can/should improve security rules further though.

And yes, also agreed on needing a solution for presence system, either in Firestore itself, or separate from it.
I don't understand how allowing people the option to download things outside of the App Store mitigates the iPhone's ability to enforce privacy measures. It's completely possible to sandbox apps that don't come from the App Store, and they could even default to only allowing you to install apps from the App Store, with a secondary security tier of "allow installation of signed apps" and a third security tier of "allow installation of unsigned apps". If you choose to install things outside of the App Store, you would be in the minority. Very, very few people have ever installed anything outside of the Play Store on Android... with the exception of Fortnite.

This isn't an all-or-nothing proposition... and I'm definitely not suggesting "iOS should run all code encountered on the internet as root".
You sure about that? IIRC this came as part of the combined developer program in 2015.
I looked at the first two, they both appear to be aimed at people making deliveries for Amazon and Door Dash. It doesn't sound like the apps do anything unrelated to delivery work, much less analyze all web traffic from the mobile device 24/7.

If the only point you're making is about employees vs. contractors, the 24/7 interception of non-work internet traffic seems to be far more important than employment classification.
I think we Brits are finding Brexit extremely tedious right about now, with no sign of an end to it. Our government tried for unicorns and rainbows to achieve a better deal in leaving than we had as a member. The EU, obviously, have to ensure it's a worse deal than being a member.

I used to subscribe to the FT. It's pretty balanced in its reporting, with good news coverage. Surprisingly perhaps, without the bias you might expect of a financial paper. For a while I'd be surprised to see well argued pieces making a case for less inequality, higher taxes, or a universal basic income. Then you stop being surprised they're not just a vehicle of the Tory party, like the Telegraph and Times mostly now are.
Luckily there wasn't any suffering that went into making my iPhone, so I'm all clear to enjoy that, right?
Some of us already use our phones as if that's the case.
I had one of these for a while: https://www.amazon.com/Wilson-Electronics-Signal-Booster-Off... Worked well enough. Looks like 4G models are more expensive. (No longer need it as I'm with Republic Wireless now.)
You get a black tracking box installed at your house.

TV-tracking is done by sound signatures and web-tracking is done with a router which has custom firmware installed.
Somewhat ironically, a major secondary reason we used custom allocators in games (performance bring the primary reason) was to find and diagnose memory bugs. Long before ASAN existed I worked with some very powerful in house memory debugging tools at EA, some of the functionality of which I still haven't seen matched in commercial or open source tools.

Security wasn't the primary concern back then, it was avoiding memory leaks on platforms with no virtual memory and tight memory constraints and squashing bugs.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, and Louis C.K. has never been funny.
This is how macOS works currently. Unfortunately, macOS has also had more aggressive malware because of this: it's easy to socially engineer users into removing security barriers.
Yes, because there is no way I'm answering what city I was married in. It is public record.
A password-like "nonsense" answer is the only way to go.
Most of the offenses given (exposing yourself to subordinates for example) are not in the category of things you’re talking about. Well meaning people are racist and say racist things and when they are called out, they apologize and try to make it right. Someone who has a pattern of abusing their superior position to force people to be a part of things against their will is anathema to a free society.
A quick look at the audit trail would have prevented this leak;
Could you replace/change your implementation bugs into types bugs?
I have created a GraphQL layer over the top of Firebase and while it was pretty easy to do so using Cloud Functions, I agree that it would be great if Firebase offered this out of the box without needing to do all of the work you currently have to, to use it.
Last I checked it was way more low tech than you’d expect for a company people put a lot of stock in. Basically, they put scanners on some people’s TV’s (with their permission, which is good but introduces a lot of selection bias) and try to correlate what gets watched with the ages of the people in the house (while not knowing whos watching what and hoping the TV doesn’t just get left on for hours with no one watching).
Uber, DoorDash, and all the others actually issue 1099's to their drivers. I'd be surprised if users of the research apps were issued tax forms that show a similar relationship.
Anybody who is interested by the economics of domain names should read Henry George who laid all this out over one hundred years ago in Progress and Poverty. Domains are just the new frontier since we discovered and claimed all physical land. The 1990's were a land grab and now we are entering the period of calcification.
> Somone handing you data does not remove any copyrights on this data.

Oh, I'm not making any claim that it's legal. I'm just noting that if you've decided you want to scrape and are disregarding the ToS, there are ways to make it less likely to get you blocked.

> That said, this kind of thing is detectable. If users of an application are far less likely to download common data it quickly looks odd.

In the approach I outlined, you either load the Google JS payload and use it entirely as normal (and just do something extra with the data it provides), or you don't load it at all and run entirely locally. There are things they can do, such as embed analytical code in their payload to test for certain things, but it's just a cat and mouse game at that point.

> And while that’s not conclusive, they can just look at how your application functions to see what’s going on.

Assuming it's a public application (in this case it is), and that they have reason to look at it. If it's just spiky load, where sometimes there is load and other times there isn't or it's less, that's not really indicative of something odd going on, especially if you're relatively small.
I don't think google voice showed you a transcript in real time or allowed you to interact with the caller.