skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just checked with the native password manager, it offers to auto fill the username after using touchid and when you click next it does the same with the password field.
Wow that is repulsively scummy.
The whole point of his comment is that the government is what's enabling that kind of lobbying. There's no such thing as a government that is free of private interests pushing for their preferred policies; the closest you can even get to that is strict constitutional limits, restricting what the government can do in the first place. (And even those seem to have failed quite badly in the case of copyright or patent protection, which were originally supposed to be "limited in time" and to promote knowledge and the useful arts - none of which is the case today!)
Nope, you're absolutely right. The main difference between stock buybacks and dividends are the tax implications – and what they signal to the market.

Dividends tend to be "sticky" since changing them all the time gives investors little certainty over what they should expect to receive (and if there's anything investors like is certainty)

Buybacks signal management (a) has no better source for capital and (b) probably thinks the stock is currently undervalued (i.e. it's a good time to buy back cheap shares).

Companies very often do not have projects to invest with a return higher than their cost of capital, and any reasonable CFO who finds themselves on that position should pay back its equity holders who risked their money by investing in this company with a given expectation on returns
> GitHub is always at your disposal. NV doesn’t sell the consumer cards to enterprises. So on AWS a multi-GPU box will cost you about 12 dollars an hour.

I don’t see how this is related to the claim, since it doesn’t solve the problem. But the advertising company that I let run code on my website will certainly do the job pretty well, I’d say.
I guess there isn't much design needed in services and upselling of services anyway
I had company over last night, and brought out my iPhone 4S. I have my current 128GB SE, and we compared them to the iPhone 8 (which the owner’s children referred to as a small phone).

4S was the pinnacle of miniaturization tech. The SE screensize would fit in the 4S form-factor.

Most popular comment was “I can fit this in my pocket.”
I keep harping on that. Raising the gas tax punishes poor and working class people for decisions they (or other people made for them) back when there wasn't any rational choice.

Consider a working stiff driving a 10 year old car. Living in a place with no good public transportation. Raising the gas tax assumes he has/had options he doesn't not in fact have. And policy changes that would give him an alternative have time lines a 100 times longer than next months rent.

Opinion: Gas taxes are based on wishful ideologically driven thinking that free markets can solve public policy failures.
That's the sort of question that makes the GDPR regrettably ambiguous. It uses a lot of words like "legitimate", "undue" and "reasonable", but there could be genuine uncertainty about how those would apply in quite a lot of practical, everyday situations.

In this situation, however, we are talking about an organisation whose entire business model is built on personal data given by literally billions of people over a period of many years, with tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions in revenues, which is operating on a scale where it is demonstrably capable of designing and building replacements to its own specifications for standard infrastructure and deploying them throughout its own data centres. I don't think it would have much credibility if it claimed it couldn't guarantee to comply sooner than three months after a request because it regularly backs up possibly the largest database in the world on magnetic tape.
Apple's About Us page will be all smiles.
His work is great aesthetically but I'm guessing there has been some conflict at Apple for him to leave.

I wouldn't be surprised if all the latest Apple problems originated from engineering constraints imposed by his decisions. From the trashcan Mac Pro to the butterfly keyboard.
Agreed... My plan is to wait 1/2 second before processing any login, and add a bit more for failed attempts before lockout. Random amount of time between windows.

I've thought about doing a client-side challenge token and subtlecrypto to pbkdf2 that to generate a key, then sign the login request with the generated key. I could use a pool of precomputed keys on the server and associate the key source sent via http-only cookie for the key's id in the DB. Unfortunately still have to support the non-chrome edge browser which seems to have some gaps in browser crypto support.
I'm astonished that Microsoft is apparently just refunding the original purchase price of (everybody's?) books.

What's most mind boggling is the realization that apparently nobody sat down and planned this situation out - because if they did, the idea that someone could get an okay from their boss on the idea that even a mildly unsuccessful result and end of life of the product would end in full refunds for everybody.

What's the point of even doing business?

Am I misunderstanding this outcome? That means anyone who used this product got free book rentals for whatever they wanted to read?

...

Let's talk about DRM now.

DRM in itself as a concept is not bad (IMO), and it's probably necessary for a lot of products that obviously would not have been created had 100% of the customers decided not to pay.

However, I think what we fail to talk about is how there's no agreed upon standard regulating the end of life and transferral procedures involved with works sold under DRM.

I suspect that book publishers would not agree to allow Microsoft to say "the store is closed, your books can be unlocked once you follow this procedure." Even if they're okay with that, Microsoft probably didn't even have the foresight to implement that sort of thing on a technical level.

So, what we need in the digital goods industry is some kind of statement to the customer that's set in stone regarding what will happen with your content if the business ceases to exist and the platform is canceled.

There's some semblance of this concept around. For example, Ultraviolet is shutting down in July - so, you have the option to transfer movies to other services for most movies on that platform (it should be all movies).

MoviesAnywhere is also a DRM service making an attempt at avoiding platform lock-in for digitally purchased movies.

But beyond that, there needs to be some sort of guarantee that you'll get perpetual access or a refund. The fact that Microsoft is dishing out refunds since that's cheaper than getting sued by every customer they've ever sold a book to is not a given - imagine if Valve were to go bankrupt and simply shut down their servers one day. That's where DRM should have a sort of mandatory living will.
At a previous job my first week included 4 people telling me they were sorry I had to work with the person I was working with and several more explaining the political undercurrent / power holds.

And that’s really hard to shrug off.
Is it really that humidity in the air is classified as steam?
Umm, assuming they have equity (they couldn’t afford a mortgage today right?) then why would losing a few percent on the home value matter?
Old Usenet
I completely agree. Instead of adding to the ever-expanding pavement, we could use that money smarter for free or greatly reduced public transit, and tons of it.
Every single one is a bit harsh. There is also survivor bias here, a bit like MiB, when nothing happens no one knows. Not to say they are that good but unlimited resources is difficult to best, even if they are rubbish in general.
I think the reason why now only the iphone has symmetry is patents.
Which it might not actually be. His consulting might be in name only.
Depends on your economy. Specifically what he does is of course illegal but the general principle of removing drm from your own purchase isn't

That the bitstream of semantically meaningful content is identical appears to be the key issue. Why does it matter how you get there?
My argument is that maybe not for you, but for many people the exhaust from one diesel bus is worse than the exhaust from 10 or 20 gasoline / petrol cars. The article I linked to makes no mention of any kind of pollution except for diesel exhaust.

(In California, where I live, the vast majority of cars are gasoline / petrol cars.)
I think this may well be true. I've argued for years that what Steve Jobs was exceptionally good at was acting as a kind of "product editor": he could look at a program or a device and very quickly pinpoint problems. He wasn't perfect at this -- it's easy to point out big flubs and minor misfeatures -- but he was clearly better at it than most people at most companies, and sure seems to be better at than anyone left at Apple.

(More than one long-time Apple employee has told me that they think Scott Forstall was nearly as good at this as Jobs was, and that it's quite possible some of Apple's more egregious form-over-function blunders in the last five or six years would have been avoided if Forstall was still on board. Forstall was admittedly the champion of skueomorphism, but I'd accept the silly linen backgrounds if it meant better keyswitches.)
That’s been my experience when I’ve tried to get help from management. It’s super frustrating because I know managers don’t want to be babysitters but the smart jerk type only really answer to authority.
He’s making more money at Apple than he will leading his own design agency.

This makes me think that he no longer finds his work compelling at Apple. Or Apple decided it’s time for a new leader, but wants things to have a soft landing.
I think they were suggesting that you could save fuel for once you're out of atmosphere, so that you're not fighting air resistance when you start a burn to get into orbit.
> I think by "loss of books" he means the extinction of a text.

And that is exactly how I've interpreted it in all of my comments.

> The printing press means more copies of a book can be printed, thus lowering the chance that we lose the text altogether

As I point out in response to your sibling comment, Mesopotamian works, which had to be copied by hand 3000 years ago, have been much better preserved than Chinese works that were mass produced 1000 years ago, simply because clay tablets are much more robust than paper is.

If you want your text to last, inscribe it high on a cliff: the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription is still around and almost as good as new.

Though note that after the cultural upheaval brought by Islam, the Persians forgot how to read that inscription, which is a different form of book loss.
Nope... that would break accessibility for visually impared users.
not at the moment, is something that I am formalizing, it just the general idea, Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, it will take time, but I feel that I am in the right path
> when HN users complain about being spied on I smell a FAANG rejection letter

I work at a FAANG: here’s my complaint about being spied on.
Maybe there will be others that are happy to give it a go. Maybe it's best to have a monopoly, and forever get rid of rushing planes to market to beat the competition. Maybe in aviation, that would be a good thing, who knows.
It's great he has been such a strong contributor to the community, but that doesn't mean people can't object to a twitter rant.

> CEO picked a personal fight

Did he though? That's not evident. Maybe you know differently?

Honestly, I don't really care, but I see one guy ranting in public, throwing around angry insults and accusations without backup and I'm OK if people don't give him what he wants.
Hmm I see. I think I was getting confused since I searched for browser app in settings and ended up setting browser app as well as Voice and Assist app as Firefox as they are in the same submenu.

If I choose Voice and Assist app as Firefox instead of Google then active edge, Ok Google does not work. May be I could just try setting browser app to firefox.

Let me give this combination a try for a few days. Browser is firefox and assist app is google which as you say still renders some links in android webview.
I love the address bar at the bottom. It feels so much better on a mobile device. As a whole, this version is much nicer to use than the previous versions.

My two main gripes are the default search engine and telemetry. Both of these options should be set by the user on first launch. I don't want to use Google and I don't want to send data to Mozilla.
Many things were illegal until they weren't, but we don't go around suggesting there's a nefarious reason behind their legality.

The really honest argument is that buybacks are taxed in a special manner, and this difference between taxes on income and taxes on capital gains is what's really driving income inequality in the U.S.
It’d be interesting to see the results of a survey on this I think, I and I know many of my peers are of the exact opposite opinion. I like the move to usb-c, I like the new keyboard, I don’t mind (but also don’t really use) the Touch Bar but I can’t live without Touch ID at this point. The big trackpad is magical to me, and the thickness and weight of the 13” is just right. I have an older MBP as well, 2013 maybe, and it’s lovely too but it feels like an old truck next to my sleek sports car that is my 2016 MBP.

I for one would be sad if they went back on some of the supposedly bold moves they’ve pulled, to be honest. The only thing I wish is that they’d kill that silly lightning connector for the phones so I could have usb-c goodness there too!

I guess that’s just design for ya – it’s often divisive, especially if decisive.
Ive had enough!
If you did it as an income tax credit it would reduce driving because a lot of the poor people who would get money don't drive, and more importantly, people are much more psychologically motivated by a $100 fill-up than a year-end tax credit.
Ars Technica seems to disagree with you:

> Brave will replace blocked ads with its own ads, taking a 15% cut of revenues.

> In practice, Brave just sounds like a cash-grab. Brave isn't just a glorified adblocker: after removing ads from a webpage, Brave then inserts its own programmatic ads. It sounds like these ads will be filled by ad networks that work with Brave directly, and Brave will somehow police these ads to make sure they're less invasive/malevolent than the original ads that were stripped out. In exchange, Brave will take a 15 percent cut of the ad revenue. Instead of using tracking cookies that follow you around the Internet, Brave will use your local browsing history to target ads.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozil...

From my point of view it's essentially a scam on multiple levels:

1. It doesn't significantly change the Web - users will still look at ads.

2. Without providing anything of value (see 1), Brave gets a cut of publisher's ad revenue.

3. As incentive not to sue them into oblivion, Brave offers publishers a cut of the stolen revenue.

4. The whole thing is built on top of a sketchy cryptocoin system where a significant stake is owned by the developers.
My guess is that he is leaving Apple specifically to work on non-computing projects. I think he wants to work on a wide range of design challenges, and he probably has done everything he can with Apple.
Every 2020 Democrat, Roasted by Haiku
That's fair, unfortunately, displaying the password field and for SSO users triggering onblur would be weird accessibility and weird behavior... though better for user/password accounts. Also, as mentioned in TFA does allow for captcha for a non-2fa account as a catch step with the password.
Use client side hashing. With every page requiring Javascript it's no excuse to send passwords in plaintext.
I think there's a reasonble amount of both but large bureaucracies like gov, banks or multinationals have finance departments that set salary bands.

These usually don't reflect that skilled IT is vastly different from desktop jocky, and that it's a well paid field, thus they're forced to use contractors or outsource.

Skill wise, they're probably same same.
Choose your authentication method before entering the login details then. What are they going to do if they need to add support for electronic id cards? Add a 3rd page into the login step?
He's been irrelevant for a few years now and is working mainly on the architecture of the new headquarters.
Besides the eMate 300, iMac "hockey puck" mouse, and G4 Cube, don't forget Apple's 20th Anniversary Macintosh!

20th Anniversary Mac, in Sir Jony's own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFdBp8rbtA
Do you use these libraries? I see them around from time to time, but I've never been tempted to borrow from them. Usually there's nothing more than a random selection of popular novels from the last 20 years.
IIRC, gmail was once invite-only
> My hands are probably bigger than 95% of all humans,

As a bunch of other people have said in different ways, it's not about hand size. Using my phone (other than scrolling or pressing play / pause) with one hand is a minor convenience, and I don't care about dramatically expanding the number of situations in which I can use it one handed.

On the other hand, I have an iPhone 8 Plus right now, and I wish the screen was bigger almost every day. There's just not enough room for readably-sized content.
Yep. This is why I don't have a cloud-based digital library. UV offered a way to migrate to other providers, but will the next one? I don't know that they're legally allowed to. What if the other provider doesn't have the content, am I SOL?

I so badly wish I could buy a license to get a specific piece of content, get a copy to play on my own computer, then also have the ability to "upload" (aka, unlock) that content on a cloud streaming service of my choice.
I'm saddened at the lack of modern Usenet clients. I still use slrn (which isn't bad, honestly) to browse Usenet from time to time, but I have yet to find a suitable replacement that utilizes modern GUIs.
> For novels, poems, and other non-textbook books without tons of graphics, ebooks are great.

E-readers suck for poetry. They are often incapable of maintaining the same graphic layout that the poet had in mind when creating the poems. Even when the poet is not one of those poets who intentionally makes the visual formatting a part of his work, e-readers cannot display the text according to the conventions for breaking lines that have been around for ages. Some poetry ebooks are in fact preceded by a publisher’s warning to this effect.
Isn't that what they're saying?
Yeah, Dieter Rams' influence was far beyond Braun, wasn't it? Ive's additions were OK.

The iconic designs were nearly direct lifts of Rams' work, and even extended to the apps.
Done it for 10 years from programmer to os support to dba. It taught you some discipline but as one poster said you can learn that using any large system environment. The problem of that Env is its too protected and limited in its variety. Good luck live out of the glass room.
Dijkstra was very much interested in keeping programs cognitively manageable. I can’t imagine he’d object to a program being readable. He’d see it as mathematical elegance.

That said, for readers untrained in the predicate calculus, his work can be impenetrable. Fortunately anyone smart enough to program is smart enough to learn the predicate calculus. I use it regularly in real work. I don’t bother constructing fully formally correct programs, but I use invariants to write all but the most trivial loops.
And what about the other 99.99999% of people that use the web? Do they also understand what is going on behind the scenes?
I'll sell you my currently unused 2015 MacBook Pro if you want it.
This amounts to far less than "slapping Google tracking into everything they do", which reasonable people would interpret to include just using the browser. Reasonable people also understand that performing Google searches sends data to Google.

Safe Browsing DOES NOT reveal URLs to Google. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing#Privacy and read the protocol spec or Firefox source code if you doubt this.

> Google Location Services, which sends your WiFi router SSID, SSIDs of routers in range, and hardware details, to Google. This is less clear cut as Mozilla's use of this service has been on-off over time, and varies per device.

Mozilla has made a significant investment to try to get away from this by building the Mozilla Location Service. In the meantime it's a straight tradeoff between quality of user experience and information leakage. Experience shows that degrading the user experience for some invisible and small privacy benefit is not a winning strategy.
Crossing into personal attack like this is a bannable offense on HN. I don't want to ban you, but if you keep posting flamewar comments, we're going to have to. We've already asked you repeatedly to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No users means no one left to object when the band is taken away and given to someone else.

I have zero interest in unencrypted over-the-air communications. The Internet can already trivially reach stations all the way out to the antipode of the planet, at any time of day or night, with my choice of public or private messaging. I can't wait until the spectrum-protectionist people die off and yield the bandwidth to the SDR robot builders that can use it for a digital transport layer.

Once the technical capabilities surpass the administrative permissions, the fun of hacking anything dies, for exactly the reason mentioned. Rather than the hardware saying "you can't do that", it's some old-guard buttinsky, and when the hacker says "wanna bet?", rather than slowly yielding to relentless experimentation, they make a call or two and then the hacker gets fined or their equipment is seized.

When every interesting application I can think of for ham radio has a regulation explicitly saying "no, that's not allowed", people just find another hobby to get into.
I'm confused. Doesn't Firefox use Freetype on Linux? Freetype has subpixel rendering.
Every piece of DRM'd content will end up like this. Every book, movie, show, album, and game will be dead in a few decades (or sooner) if it relies on some company maintaining it's servers.

It's good that there's alternatives, but it seems like the alternatives are slowly diminishing.
Thankfully the redshift outage was just on APIs, not existing machines. Our cluster was fine today, but external schema which rely on glue/athena did time out.
If this product brings us from a world of venmo, paypal, facebook payments, wechat etc to one where I can use any of their clients to send money to any of the other clients, I consider it a huge win. It's so silly that my friends and I have to agree on the same money app to send money to each other. Imagine if I had to convince every person to use firefox before I could send them a url, or if they needed hotmail and gmail to receive messages.

Calibra vs Zelle here we come.
> can Indian expats also send money to India via this gateway?

Not yet, but I've heard that this is in the works.
The hardest part of trying to use UPI right now as an Indian expat is that you need an Indian phone number and your bank account should be linked to it.
“I think a very small percentage of people alive at the time of using nuclear weapons on Japan would have actually done so.”

The 300,000 innocent Chinese civilians dying PER MONTH, the estimated 1,000,000 US soldiers estimated to die in the invasion, the countless Soviet soldiers who might have joined them in an invasion, the 10’s of millions of innocent Japanese citizens who would have died in an invasion, all might disagree with you.

And weird how you mention Tibet without mentioning the slow rolling genocide taking place there thanks to their Pacifist leaders.