skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're regulated. The problem is that our threshold for bad monopolistic behavior is that customers suffer, and it can be damn hard to prove when it's indirect, like in this case - how much do customers suffer from not having access to the app in question? But even then, when you aggregate all that across the entire store, I'd say that there's that aspect as well.

Back when our anti-monopoly legislation was first introduced, that wasn't the case - monopolies were busted just as well because they did something anti-competitive, even if that was presented as benefiting their customers (and even if it really did, short term).

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol81/iss5/6/
""trust" should depend on your own evaluation of the developer, based on metrics like how long their app has existed, customer reviews, what protections they have around handling data, etc. You have the ability to do a much better job evaluating trust than Apple or Google are likely to."

Wow - no, we do not have the ability to ascertain the overall trustworthiness of a dev, certainly not better than Google or Apple.

Reviews can be faked, and 'how long their app has existed' is not a very good measure of anything. Their T&C's on 'protections' don't mean anything if they are not already trustworthy.

So unfortunately, this is one of the valuable things that AppStores can provide.
The post adds value because it puts the China post into perspective. There's a trend right now to make China the political Boogeyman, when the geopolitical reality is more nuanced.
I have a few months of experience working with MobX and have read a lot of the community material. Since it's so flexible, there's a lot of different patterns you can do with MobX. I haven't been able to set on one, any suggestions?
"loses"? What about collecting, and even forcing private companies to give them your data without telling you? What was disclosed on 2013 is still running.

The reason I don't think this will work is because the government and related contractors are major players on collecting, distributing and hacking private data. And if this works, it won't be because the government will stop doing it, but because want to control who else does.
If you can’t read the ToS you are not qualified to participate in society at the level required to distribute software for people to use. There are other tests, but this is one of them.
The only reason I like fornite is the building + fighting. It instantly made the game click in a way no game has since quake 2.
Not just keep the car, but "you can never drive in country again."
Or if we all get together and decide a company shouldn't behave in a certain way, that's another option. We call that government regulation when we everyone gets together to do that. You can think of it as voting with your money, just without the money part.
I remember the 2001 busts. I was in college at the time and a friend of mine was busted as a part of it. I don't think they took any legal action, just confiscated his hardware.
Setting traps for cyber-thieves with ‘deception technology’
I agree with you.

I wrote about this 9 years ago (2010) when ReadWriteWeb noticed people were getting to Facebook by typing Facebook into Google. So many, that when ReadWriteWeb outranked Facebook for the term ‘facebook’, masses ended up on their article, and started complaining in the comments it wasn’t Facebook:

A decade ago, I switched to Google because it offered me a search box that led to nothing but results. That's all I wanted, and all it did. This match made in heaven catapulted Google ahead of Excite, Lycos, Altavista, and Inktomi.

While the search box has stayed the same, Google's users have not. Today's Googlers don't know the difference between a URL and a search term, or even between a browser and the Internet.

By focusing on features such as real time web search or categorized results for tech-savvy users, Google is stranding its mass audience – a mistake its advertising business model absolutely cannot afford. Google needs to cater to the folks who ended up on ReadWriteWeb through their typical use path, making Google work for them and get them where they're trying to go, instead of trying to retrain them to adapt to Google.

Google needs to refine the "I feel lucky" button until it's good enough to be the default, helping the Internet's least savvy users find where they want to be even if they're doing it wrong.

AOL was doing this before the turn of the millennium, so it’s not just you and your “late-millennials” friends, it’s also your grandparents.

Before the bookmark, you could type a single keyword in, and go directly there. BnL, these amount to the single word of a domain name. Last few years, browsers are gradually bringing back the keyword, even toying with URL bar to drop “www”, “.com”, and the path. So I agree with you, it’s not really about bookmarks.

Surely we can imagine another way of going directly to a trusted brand than the extra clicks needed at a “search engine” or “portal”.

For instance, Page Rank itself used to just be a meta view of which sites were most linked to as a proxy for most authoritative, meaning, the audience that followed references or links would organically find the most cited or linked sources, and then know to get back there by name or by bookmark.

The point is, high quality “destination” brands can benefit from fans reaching them directly, without having to play the SEO and SERPs traffic funnel game.
Induction is baked in the most “common” way of defining the naturals (Peano axioms). IIRC, it’s the definition I got for the “proper naturals” when I was in HS (but, my Maths teacher was a mathematician, and was who got me interested in them).
Exactly! For example I have hired a food taster to try my food, and I'm currently looking for someone willing to be a guinea pig next time I interview a bunch of surgeons for a job.

Of course I had the engineers stand under the bridge while my army was marching across.
Isn’t it about time we have a review of the legality of tos agreements? It seems anyone can put anything into this thing nobody reads and just point their finger at it “see, says here you agree you’re an idiot”.

There should be some limits as to what you can and cannot put into TOS.
Hah, yes, that’s true, but you could just have a country selector mechanism before showing the price, prepopulated from IP, then validate that for regulatory purposes using the credit card.
Bombas founders wanted to help the homeless – by giving them socks
Agency plus automation: Designing AI into interactive systems [pdf]
Make medical imaging devices that can be used at home for low cost.

MRIs, ultrasounds, xrays, etc would all need at-home or cheap replacements.
Theres been a wave of these articles and I think it's mainly due to the journalists having grown up and having children who play computer games.

In other words, it's a topic of the chattering clases trying to understand the youth.
I don't think so. I don't see why someone would choose this subscription model over a standard contracting model, billed by the hour. Or, billed by the hour with a 30 hour/month minimum and maximum.

I would also question the ethics - if three customers want the same thing, do I bill each of them? Or each of them at 1/3? After all, they are paying for hours.

I charge a yearly support fee for my product, which covers any questions (rare) and funds additional development. Support customers get free upgrades, so I don't need to figure out the hourly billing.
Veto is available in limited number of cases otherwise unelected body can force member states to implement law such as this provided this will be accepted in European Parliament. People elected to parliament are not the brightest so this is likely going to pass with a bit of lobbying. I am so happy UK leaves this circus.
The moral of the story is, don't allow monopolies. Break them down, and be aggressive about it. Don't fall for the "but it's in the best interest of the users" BS.
This made me interested what Weekly Robotics is about and just did a search on it. It seems useful. I put link for you: https://weeklyrobotics.com/
We should help change the conversation on that.
Yes I'm sure targeted advertising is the worst thing that can happen from mass profiling.
If you buy the ticket to a Gallagher show, pay extra for front row seats, and are handed a cagoul... yes. That is literally the point, just like people in the front row of a comedy set with Frankie Boyle, or in the front row of a Sea World show.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.
We have a paper accepted to NSDI, so this will hopefully shed some light on things. A conference paper is, sadly, too small to fit more than a few subsystems so a writeup of Teddy isn't included.

As I don't work for Intel any more, it's unlikely that I will put in the effort for anything significantly more comprehensive. I am considering another building another regex matcher but it wouldn't be the encyclopedic list of optimizations approach. Paul Terra refers to Hyperscan as the "Dwarf Fortress of regular expression matchers". I have some new ideas I'd like to try out, in any case.

I wasn't suggesting that your use of literal factoring comes from Hyperscan, only the Teddy matcher. Literal factoring seems an old technique and I don't know the genuinely first cite of that.
Actually it's fine if businesses actually move to Ireland. The problem is not a guy running a machine shop in Antwerp moving it to Dublin. It's Apple claiming they should only pay Irish taxes on the profits of selling an iPhone developed in California, manufactured in China and sold in Italy because they have opened an office full of accountants in Ireland.
Shodan indexes both MQTT and CoAP if you want to see the current exposure for those protocols:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=CoAP+Resources

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=mqtt
Great work is rarely easy.
I don’t understand, a mail server sends an email and it has an ip address. There’s no website associated with that. Sure, there’s an email address, and a load of rules about how to help avoid spam by setting up SPF and DKIM and DMARC to prove that the mail server is allowed to send on behalf of the domain. And if the specific IP address of the mail server ends up on a spam list, you can try to get it removed or start sending from another ip.

I don’t get what it means for the entire website to be blocked from an SEO perspective. Google don’t remove you from the index because an IP address ends up on a spam list and that’s also where you website is hosted, right?

Also, you’re only hosting on s3 if you’re hosting a totally static website, which very few people do.
My google ads account has been suspended for 19 years. I'm still waiting for the results of my appeal...
This was pretty much my reasoning as well, but I missed that you can generate a floating-point integer in [0,2^53) and then scale down to [0,1) with a multiply, which gets you one additional significant bit for free or cheaper, and simplifys the code.

Edit: I think for the general case you want something like:

uint64 x = rand64() & 0x001F'FFFF'FFFF'FFFF
double xf = .5 * 1p-52 * x
// return xf; /* 53 bits of entropy */
if(xf < .5)
{
y = rand64() & 0x000F'FFFF'FFFF'FFFF
double yf = .5 * 1p-52 * 1p-52 * y
xf += yf
if(xf < .5 * 1p-52) ... /* loop about 20 times */
}
Gotya. Thanks for the clarification! I look forward to reading your paper! I'll hold out hope for the folks working on Hyperscan at Intel to do some more in depth write ups.
Fortnite isn't near/first of anything except the mix of existing motifs they mixed together and executed on exceedingly well. It's not a novel format like the first sandbox or rpg or fps or anything
Translating this kind of thinking back to the 90s it'd be something like, "I run random executables I get emailed." As all those browsers expose more and more hardware directly the security evaporates. It's already bad.
For an overview of Internet exposure by country I created a bunch of dashboards, including Austria:

https://exposure.shodan.io/#/AT
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It is always the case. Problem is that this is not illegal and where it is illegal it is being ignored. Another fact of life. What is wrong though is that EU maintains the PR of do-gooders meanwhile doing same evil stuff as other regimes.
> that data is meta data and it's not yours, it was generated by machines you don't own and have no claim over

I'm pretty sure that, for example, the list of grocery brands someone buys using a store loyalty card isn't "metadata", and while "stealing" is hyperbole, I'm pretty sure most people would be upset upon realizing how far and wide that information is being sold.
Not a right to be reinstated, necessarily, but at least the right to be heard.
I was born in 1987, but I think I can appreciate a throwback to the early 80s or the 70s when I see one.
I see the confusion here: "champion" in this context is an economic term meaning a leading company that's the pride of it's home nation.
You can if you distribute separately and the CMS binaries aren't embedding the DB software. You would ship an installer for the AGPL portion to comply with those terms, and your CMS would use a REST interface to interact with the AGPL-licensed backend
There are Play Store alternatives, such as F-Droid, Aptoide and ApkMirror.

But it still comes down to discoverability and trust - you need to know about and trust these alternatives, and you need to change a setting on your device to "allow untrusted sources".
I'm surprised how few of these problems show up in HN and most of the time the ones I've read the developer has been at fault. The resolution is to push for third-party arbitration as an option for resolution. Arbitration will give developers a chance against the giant that Google is.
I’m really enjoying watching tech transform before my eyes from regulatory optimism to hardened regulatory pessimism.
Another way to deal with that (which e.g. Amazon uses in Europe for international Prime Video and Music Unlimited) is to use a fixed inc.VAT price and then just have the exc.VAT price vary by country.
Yes, that Oliver Sacks. Yes, he did die.

Strange of the New Yorker to publish this 3.5 years posthumously with no explanation.
Any language that doesn't have generics, including C and Go, have to work around that limitation. In C, people get around this by using void* (equivalent to using interface{} in Go) or code generation via macros.

I'd flip what you said and say that most of the people arguing against generics in Go don't have much or any experience with them. Which makes sense because a large number of users came from dynamically typed languages.
This is in a business context. If you think you don't have to read the TOS, then you better have your lawyers doing that for you.
Stories like this make me wonder how come SMEs still use Google's other products like their cloud solution. You could have your entire business on Google Cloud and suddenly everything becomes out of your reach with no valid response or action coming back from Google. It's crazy how some people still put their trust in this company's business-related products.
Is personal information really a kind of property, that can be stolen? If it is, aren’t we doing this all the time, any time we perceive anything about anyone?

How is this different than taking a picture of someone? The image is owned by the photographer, not the subject(s) according to current laws.

if I meet someone on the street, and record their name, the conversation we had, and the location where I met them, and their phone number, have I “taken their data”?

Do they have the right to demand that I not record that information?

Does my perspective or interpretation of that information give me some ownership to that data?

What if I use that information for commercial gain? Is that what makes this illegal?

Or is it only if I do this at a scale beyond which humans are not capable, and store it digitally, is that what makes this illegal?
So Google is learning from Amazon that was doing this for ages, terminating accounts of their sellers if they e.g. resided in the same building as somebody that was banned from their platform already or if they created multiple accounts, with no recourse.

We really need an open mobile platform, "Personal Mobile" like what "Personal Computer" used to be, even if only by an accident.
It's not a hobby board and it's not a product. The SoC is "engineering sample", made in runs of 100 and probably costing about $300 to $400 for each one sold assuming most of them work. That's before you count the board, which also has non-cheap components. The cost of 8 GB of DDR4 2400 is all by itself several times what a Pi (with 1 GB of 900 MHz LPDDR2) retails for.

None of this matters if you're a company that wants to get into RISC-V and you're paying an engineer $10k+ a month to evaluate RISC-V and get a head start on developing your OS or application for it. The hardware cost (including expansion board) is maybe a week's salary.
Is it _ever_ easy? I can't think of any instance.
Which seems like a reasonable policy IMO. Its encouraging companies to be forthcoming with their data breaches .... or else.
Google took money from the developer in exchange for the performance of a service. The developer is a customer of Google's.
Enough for Fortnite to get players on Android
That's interesting! There is a HikVision office in town too. Thinking about the possible deployment scenarios, you're probably right. Municipal project, hospitals, even a large supermarket chain with 20+ cameras per store. I was just surprised by the sheer volume. I reckon if I compile some stats it'll be one of the most popular devices in the city. That and Alien DVR. Hundreds of those too.

I'm surprised so many of these at internet connected, with their own public IP. No NAT, no VPN, no firewall. I'd expect that on one-off DIY deployments at grocery stores but this was pretty surprising.
1. I remember when it was in style to be a Google fanboi. Those days have gone as Google became more evil.

2. I had two GMail accounts closed on me for no obvious reason. Both were eventually reopened, but one several years later because I got enough media attention to get their attention.

3. I know one company that lost all their mails because their paid App Engine account was closed on them. I know another company which lost its biggest customer when the CEO's personal Gmail account was suddenly closed. And I know two other people who has lost access to all the stuff on Drive.

Considering that each problem is a real disaster for the person experiencing it, and that you don't hear about such stories with Microsoft, Apple or even Amazon.

The fact is, that even though you only hear the horror stories, there shouldn't be so many of them that you here them all over. I am just one person, and I trust Google as much as I trust the Chinese government.
Amazing results using a proven therapy, wretched article. Here’s the actual study: https://twin.sci-hub.tw/6319/73863883d6bd8895505fcc8581dfc0e...

Abstract: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy (PDT), using δ‐aminolevulinic acid (5‐ALA), in the elimination of premalignant cervical lesions in Mexican patients with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and/or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Thirty women diagnosed with CIN I and/or positive for HPV participated in the study. Topical 6% 5‐ALA in gel form was applied to the uterine cervix; after 4 h, the lesion area was irradiated with a light dose of 200 J cm−2 at 635 nm. This procedure was performed three times at 48‐h intervals. Clinical follow‐up was performed at 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial PDT administration, by colposcopy, cervical cytology, histopathological analysis, polymerase chain reaction, and hybrid capture. Of HPV‐infected patients without evidence of CIN I, 80% cleared the infection, while HPV associated with CIN I was eliminated in 83% of patients (P < 0.05). At 12 months, CIN I had regressed in 57% of patients, although this response was not statistically significant. PDT using 6% 5‐ALA is concluded to be effective in eliminating HPV infection associated or not with CIN I.
WoW expansions don't come every year.
Completely remote company, where everyone was based on Slack.

We were on throughout the day. There were no formal meetings. Just a long stream of discussion on the future, and everyone was always synced on what to do.

Nobody bugged or interrupted each other unless it was really important and they had to drop everything.
The piece of the puzzle that you're missing is that people use accounts for fraud, and if they find out why an account got banned, they'll know which behavior triggered it and will learn to avoid that behavior in the rest of their accounts and future accounts.

It sucks, but automating sharing reasons for flagged actions will be self-defeating.

Ultimately it needs to be reviewed by a person at the company who is equipped to judge the situation with more intelligence and discretion to determine if it's really fraud or not.
Caprices of TOS details, reviews, algorithms, service quality, or whatever are not the real problem. The real problem is when you can't reasonably choose to do business with someone else and move on, as they are free to do with you.

Network effects are causing more and more important things to both expand into great significance and to be dominated by a single company (or pair of gatekeepers, both of whom must be appeased, as in the phone platform.) Your business can be utterly wiped out with no realistic recourse by any of a thousand actions that could be taken at any time by the giant, like an elephant stepping on an ant.

I'm afraid that the only real recourse is to have certain anticompetitive regulations automatically kick in once a business rises above a certain percentage control of access to some market or medium that has become significant. They lose the ability to unilaterally ban, for example, except in narrow cases involving fraud or suspected criminal activity, which will eventually have to be proved to some official. If they fail to prove it, the official will order compensation without the banned party having to fight the giant's lawyers.
There’s a lot of Javascript on the Internet. If you disable it in your browser, there’s going to be some content you can’t use. It’s a trade off. Not every website has no-JS users designed in mind. I’m not defending the lack of accessibility. It’s just a reality at this point.
Can he not create a new account for his company, not the developers, and be the one to publish the app? It's not like he has a history to preserve (ratings, reviews, etc).

I imagine he has a contract with the devs so he can get the app in some form (hopefully access to source too) and publish it himself. Of course, publishing to mobile phone stores can be difficult for non technical people, but if that is the case he can request "over the shoulder" assistance with screen sharing so he ends up being the one logging in and doing the actions.

In the iTunesConnect portal, you can assign roles to various parties, including roles that have permissions to publish apps, without having to give the admin's account credentials.

I don't remember if the Play Store has similar features.
This is good to see. I don't usually see a lot in the press about Mexico accept for the cartel-related news. Hard to believe I forget that Mexico is more or less a normal country, not some dystopian war zone.
The state of Indiana’s investment of $10 million in tax credits, along with $2 million in worker training grants, comes with the condition that U.S. Steel retain at least 3,875 jobs at Gary Works. But a state spokesperson declined comment on whether the company could still collect part of the incentives if the number of jobs falls below that threshold.

Why is a secret deal paid using public funds even legal? No one should have to rely on what a "state spokesman" says, the terms of the deal should be public so the public knows what they are paying for.