skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until a month or two ago, I was believing that Apple was committed to protecting its customers' privacy. Sure, it had been caving to the Chinese government. But I accepted that it had to, or stop doing business in China.

And then I learned that Apple does not guarantee that apps from its online store respect users' privacy. That rather gives the lie to its commitment to privacy.

I mean, it did (along with Google) take down that Facebook app that exploited the enterprise loophole to basically log all phone usage. And it has taken down apps that block ads in other apps.

So why has it been more-or-less lying by omission about tracking by third-party apps? Apps that it has supposedly vetted.
I have a bunch of screenshots I shared in our work slack channel. First of all I am talking about Visual Studio Code rather than Visual Studio. I should have mentioned that, sorry. Intellicode is also available for VSC so I figured it would be relevant here.

The screenshot I posted a while back showed me exporting something at the of the file and I had typed `Det` at which point it suggested some random functions from random APIs. Then I had `Detail` at which point no suggestions were offered. At `Detaile` it finally gave me `DetailedProgress` from the same file about 50 lines higher up.

This is a frequently recurring theme that it takes so long to actually suggest mere names (~ strings).
How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
That's an over-generalization. No country is one entity in the context of "what it thinks".
Yes, but while I can choose to log in with facebook, or google, or whatever, it appears that Apple are mandating that app providers use the Apple sign-in, which means app users no longer get to choose.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what the mandatory part is.
Nonsense, everything is normal. Look;

>"I believe that if people stoped[sic] using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News! Why wouldn’t they act. When the World watches @CNN, it gets a false picture of USA. Sad!"

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11354990026261544...
Just anecdotal data but I for one am very happy to be switching to apple this year after almost a decade of android.

I'm only too happy to pay a premium if that gives me some control over my own privacy.
what a polite way to describe someones typing? :D i'm more of a wack-a-mole typer
In pathology we call issue a "preliminary autopsy report" within the first 48 hours and a "final autopsy report" within 30-60 days. A final report may be followed by additional addenda (new information, e.g. toxicology reports) and amendments (significant changes to the original report, e.g. "I was wrong")
Why is that cynical?
What can prevent this from happening in the future? Why was the config change required?
In addition, please note that Apple's motto is 'Privacy for the rich'. Please do a Privacy for all - iPhone.

Sorry HN-users, there are another 5 billion people that cant afford your > $ 200 products. Mind you even in ebay/second hand in the poor markets iPhones are expensive.

Edit: Why down votes? Please remember there are other too in the world that deserve technology + privacy.
The Oracle Java Trap
Programmers of HN, next time when you think about downloading Java from Oracle's website, just have a look at this license[1] first. Hint: you aren't allowed a commercial use.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/javase-license.html
A lot of Gingery's stuff is obsolete in terms of not being 'expensive'. The books were based around the fact that scrap/metal were pretty cheap around that time.

Nowadays you're better of surfing Craiglist or buying an Import machine for most of his builds.
Have you looked at the keynote? They'll now be blocking a bunch of the tracking techniques that these apps use. Yes, you're right about the past, but they're making changes to be better in the future.
>from a development standpoint

>I'm confident most of the .NET community is very happy with Visual Studio

.NET is not the only ecosystem people develop for. There are embedded C/Forth, web frontend/backend, written in Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, other stuff. VS sucks for nearly everything safe C#/C++ for windows.

Besides, even for C# people use an additional plugin, resharper, so VS is not enough even for its target ecosystem.
based on "bad extrapolation of trends by eye": we should expect to hit saturation point with a proportion of 1.0 cs papers containing colons by 2180.

this leaves directions for future research: "Colons in paper-titles: are other characters even necessary?"
A lot more goes into braking than simply having enough clamping force to lock the wheels.

In a situation when you completely lock the wheels, you're trading the friction between the brake pads and brake discs, for the friction between the tires and the road surface. In other words, instead of the hydraulic clamping force on the discs, you're relying solely on the weight of the car. The interface between tire and road is not nearly as good as the interface between brake pads and brake discs, which wear to match each other exactly, as they're used.

So as a good rule of thumb, you never ever want to lock up your brakes. That's why anti-lock brakes are standard.

(The main exception is when driving on relatively deep and loose surfaces, such as sand or deep snow, where a locked tire builds up material in front of it.)

Undersized discs and pads have less thermal capacity, so they will tend to overheat and lose braking ability. A lot of lower-spec and economy cars will be perfectly capable emergency braking from full speed once, but you absolutely have to let the brakes cool off afterwards, especially if it has unventilated discs and rear drum brakes. That's fine, as long as you're aware of the limitations.

In comparison, a larger midrange car (such as a VW Passat) can reasonably handle repeated emergency braking situations without losing any significant amount of braking power, thanks to larger discs and pads.

There is also the matter of pedal feel, how confident the brakes feel or if they feel mushy and imprecise, and how the ABS system works.

So yes, of course the contact patch matters, but only if the brakes are adequately capable.
there is nothing new in that , even a simple rnn can recite lyrics that good. But given that it was built by a "teen" it is good. media people are obsessed with highlighting teenagers anyway.
Inaccurate title? Link mentions a discussion on a "hypothetical" situation. Nowhere do I see that they will add links or listings.
I clicked away as soon as this site asked for permission to send notifications.

I haven nothing against content marketing, but please don't ruin the reading experience.
> As long as users will balk at paying even 4.99 for an app

Out of interest, what is the refund policy in the app store? I know, for example, I'm way more chilled about paying for "unknown" steam games when I can refund them after an hour of play if I don't like them.
This reason doesn't make sense, though: I can modify, replace, and overwrite the bash that comes with the system, and self sign it with a certificate of my choosing.
Engine braking is completely irrelevant on a RWD car during hard braking. The weight transfer means barely any braking is needed on the rear wheels, aside from a token amount to keep the car going straight.
A tweet from some random is not typically how we define concepts.

Especially when the words are internationally agreed upon already.
It was part this, but also big part social engineering. Here's a podcast about it:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/34/?utm_source=share&utm_...
>the article says demand for electric cars is not there

I'd see it more as, the demand for electric utility vehicles and industrial transportation systems (truck, etc.) is so great that the demand for personal EV transportation cannot supplant the economies of maintaining an ICE production line.

But, as the article explains this may change in the close to near future, and indeed the technology to supplant the former segments of transportation is definitely on the horizon.

Take this with a grain of salt, but I happen to know that automobile clubs around the world expect that within 5 years, the automotive industry will be radically different to what it is today - they, too, are hedging their bets, and investing in social-sharing technology for the clubs to be promoting when the tech, and consumer expectations around personal transportation, inevitably changes.
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What does that even mean? Apple is monopolizing their product. Yes, all companies monopolize their own products. That’s the basics of product protection. McDonalds monopolizes their BigMacs and they are miss using that monopoly because you can’t buy a menu that includes Burger Kings Twister fries?

Apple isn’t forced to provide alternative app stores like hacker news isn’t forced to provide third-party plugin support support in their backend, and amazon isn’t forced to allow you to place arbitrary products on their market place. That’s not abuse of monopolies, that’s just having a product and deciding not to be as open some users or nonusers want them to be.

Now if Apple went and told app developers that they will not accept apps that have android versions on the App Store, that would be miss-use of their market position.(and their market position is not a monopoly, there are tons of competitors and Apple only has around 15% market share.)
anecdata: smartphone keyboards do this invisibly, no visual change but the most probable next keys get larger input geometry so that even if you don't hit it right, it will register.
If infidelity is a valid cause for divorce, the state acknowledges that there's something wrong with it.

Moreover, actively tricking somebody into taking on the social obligations of fatherhood, is a dramatic violation of most major moral obligations that humans have. It also violate the child's right to know both parents.

Aside, there is an easy way out of this conundrum: mandatory paternity test at birth.
No? You just resign the binary with your key.
MvRx: Android on Autopilot
Related https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/do-not-fall-into-oracles-java-... (on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074727)
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Yeah, right. And I'm Napoleon.

There is no privacy with proprietary software.
> they are working poor who mostly sleep in their cars

How can you work full-time and not afford even the shantiest room somewhere?
Well, someone makes that decision. Today is Trump and his advisers (if he listens to anyone :)) and Congress. No polls or votes are taken on things like banning Chinese students or not.

Frankly, I don't think we should educate anyone that goes back to a hostile country. China is rising, and that can cause a lot of problems for us, see China Sea for one. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/china-army-colonel-says-beij...
So, this settles it. The egg comes first.
GateKeeper only applies to software you download from the internet, and only then in a couple of very specific cases.
70 hours a week? What the actual fuck. How can you even handle it? How can you even do a quality job working 70h week?
Thank you for this. Your comment is useful to me, especially the point on DIY, novelty and Dropbox.
If hurt feelings are going to make someone fight for a totalitarian regime, that itself would be plenty reason to be suspicious. Of course, assuming that's even true -- it's not like you provided a source or anything.
As far as I’m aware (caveat: my knowledge may be slightly out of date here), none of the older .NET async patterns - APM, event based async - have been marked obsolete despite the task based versions being preferable for a long time.
Every time I read about increased efficiency I have to think about Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
The next logical step would be to look inside the groups.

Say, we found that Chinese, on average, got better off, Mexicans, on average, got worse. Excellent. But surely some Chinese got worse and some Mexicans got better. That's where the answer may be. What did these people do that might explain the difference?
You can run your own code on iPad these days: I don't see this change happening anytime soon.
[–]drewdevault[S] 26 points 17 hours ago

I work on free software full-time now thanks to the support of the many people who donate to my work :)

https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.h...

Lots of people help with these projects, too. aerc 0.1.0 includes contributions from a total of 16 authors.

From:
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bwao4d/aerc_an_email...
Yeah, wrong.

Someone said "I want to know end to end latency", to which I comment that it isn't important to know this to consider this a positive improvement, given that there's a measurable marked reduction in latency.

Never said improving performance isn't important. Maybe read the comments carefully top to bottom once more after the morning coffee?
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That's an interesting perspective about the behavior not being unique to tech. Thank you, I found it helpful to consider.
Much more thought needs to be given to the AST and the public API(s). See here: https://github.com/chrismsimpson/Meta.

If it's going to be 'the final system' there really has to be legion compelling reason to switch. I just don't see it.

Also, and I honestly mean no offence, but do we really want to call it Monkey? It's a tad childish. We're going to be asking Governments, Banks, public services etc. to being using this thing.
I don't want to be rude, but I think you're going to have a hard time attracting any developers with an £18k salary. Are there any perks people should be aware of to make up for the low pay?
~$200M/year, and it isn't a strategic cash infusion, they have to.

"Tesla has generated almost $2 billion in revenue from selling regulatory credits since 2010"

"If [other car-] manufacturers don’t sell enough non-polluting vehicles, they have to purchase credits from competitors like Tesla to make up the difference."

How much is that relatively?

TLSA 2018 revenue: $21B net income: -$1B
(with a terrible russian accent) USA can be the opened center of the free world or it can be the closed and most powerful contry in the world. If USA uses its position as the opened center of free world to become closed contry that rules the world, we all will have a hard time.
>it is not the opinion or mainstream theology of the religions themselves, which is my point.

Depends what you mean. I described this take on the bible many years ago to my local minister, who was also the minister attached to my primary school and so would have been the person to give me my first bible, and he admitted that he was agnostic, but felt he did a lot of good in the community and if he went around telling people that he wasn't sure if God existed then they would probably stop listening to him.
Most of the glued pieces I'll see fail after a decade were using your standard yellow carpenter's glue. It's fine, strong stuff that lasts a while, but it will still soften if it absorbs some water. Some older glues will also brittle over time. There's been a big push recently to waterproof glues that fully cure and can't be re-wet. While it's disheartening to throw out a bottle of clumpy glue (when I've had bottles of the yellow stuff sit around for over a decade and are still good), glues like titebond 2 or 3 should last as long as the wood itself.

I'll still use the yellow glue for anything that doesn't hold a load, like thin panelling. These days my yellow glue mostly gets used to repair pop up books my toddler tore apart.
Its in their financial interest because it casts a halo on the brand and incentivizes people to buy iphones.
What information have I used?

Besides Dart v1.0, Dartium, Angular Dart when they were still relevant to Chrome and Angular teams, and following up on Flutter?

I usually only criticize stuff that I actually have some level of experience with.

AdWords team rescued Flutter, after Chrome and Angular teams stop caring, which even caused Dart designers like Gilad to leave in disagreement.

I believe that they found out some internal management support that is willing to give them a time frame, of lets say 5 years to prove themselves worthy of such support.

Android has more political power ChromeOS has adopted Android and not the other way around, the two commercial OSes from Google.

While their experimental OS, Fuchsia is now adding support to run ART, while at the same time via Scenic, decoupling themselves from the UI framework.

You want to believe in Dart/Flutter, go for it.

Me, I am betting it will be joining the list of abandoned Google projects in a couple of years.
Funny how the thread even mentions how the discussion itself can start rumors.
You're telling me you wouldn't use NSSM?
Its awesome.
A Brief History of Slime
Talking of scams, someone I know does Architecture studies in Europe with some Chinese people. There's a couple who speak very little English, too little to be able to properly participate in group projects. Which is surprising at first, because there's a selection process there, which should filter that out. Apparently, in China, there's a thriving industry for fabricating portfolios and ghost writing motivation letters, and it's a common way of climbing the diploma ladder. I'm not sure how those people manage to not fail their exams though, because from the stories I heard they can understand very little and express very little.
And if they did, what’s wrong with it? People are not allowed to make money? As long as they don’t prioritize based on affiliation I don’t see a problem.
Human languages are not code. Statements have meaning within a context.
It's a win-win thing for the U.S. and the students. (arguably a loss for the country of origin who sees their best and brightest fly away.) No one here is denying the impact of restrictions on students, we are pointing out it is also bad for the US.
> but in reality then deleted a bunch of records, before failing […] before it could create new ones.

lifecycle {
create_before_destroy = true
}

may be your friend :) (not sure if applicable though)
It depends on how you're calculating it: if you have fixed costs, then yes, your profit drops 50%; if your costs scale with number of users then you go down 10%.
If screws snap from shear - you undersized the screw diameter.

If nails are in a joint so that they experience pulling-out forces - use barbed nails (and encourage them to rust).

It's all about choosing the right fastener for the job.
The ‘service’ here is the apple developer subscription of $100/year. Apple is pandering to its beloved developers here, because, let s be real, the public doeskin care.
It was Pugs. :-)
You can refund purchases for up to 14 days. I consider this a somewhat well-kept secret, because nobody seems to make use of this.
That would seem to indicate that Americans who want to do STEM courses cannot currently do them? That doesn't sound right to me.
>"The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web" was originally released in 2005 and I'm afraid some of the advice may be stuck there. This advice being among that advice. In 2005 many displays were still 4:3 ratio and this advice more applicable. With modern 16:9 ratio screens 66 character line lengths can seem extremely short and require unnecessary vertical scrolling to view a message with such line length.

The advice given wasn't based on the technology of the era, but on the optimal line length for reading in general.

That's invariant to how more wide a screen one has (or to whether the "text" looks not wide enough compared to the screen), and based on how far the eyes should go to read something, and whether the reader loses their place (line they are in etc) by the time the roll back and forth at the end of a line to start the new one.

>Instead of being fixed width the text should be reflowed to properly fill the viewing window.

That's the worst possible situation, and not found to be good by any reading research (on paper or screen).
> There isn’t much of a difference between Flutter controls and native controls

Except that they behave quite differently…
I think German readers are used to read oe and ae and ue instead of ö, ä, ü etc.

Decreases parsability slighty because you might not be used to the visual pattern of the whole word, but unless you are writing a book, nobody will bother. Germans themselves would write it that way if the font has no umlauts or they are stuck with ASCII for other reasons.

I mapped right alt + a to ä, right alt + s to ß etc, which works quite well. The thing I like best is right alt + number for superscript number, because you can quickly make footnotes in any text that way.

What I liked about the neo layout is the concept of having different “layers”, for mathematical notations, greek letters etc. and this only shows how little thought actually went into most official layouts..
Yep, that should be updated.

While I understand the desire to make some money, as soon as you mix an altruistic effort with a moneymaking one, the former is muddled.

Sure, maybe it would 100% have no impact on decisions. The real problem is ... how would a user know? I struggle with this when listening to NPR and hearing the programming is "possible due to [huge corporate sponsor]" I want to believe NPR would not be influenced to not run or minimize a story about a sponsor, but the uncertainty makes their coverage less trustworthy to me.

That applies here. Sure, you're telling me Brave is the best choice and maybe that's true, but I also know you have a financial benefit from convincing me of that.

Private donations from users via crowdfunding is the only system that mitigates this. Maybe they just need to better promote those.
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It’s a standard SSO flow with JWT token and a REST API. Any website or Android app can add it.
Don’t use it with RxSwift, use it with Swift Combine! https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine
As a complete non-techie (anesthesiologist) I thought at first glance at the OP title this was a new rival of Amazon Prime.
Can Block.One’s social media gamble take on Facebook?
It's always been the egg. The egg is laid by a proto-chicken and has the genetic mutation required to tip it into the "chicken" classification.
Not that it isn't a good university, I mean I hear decent things, but two Nobel laureates is really not that much for a top university. Many local European universities have more.
Sure, but that's the always-acknowledged reality. Either you're paying for the product, or you are the product.