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In '98-'99 I was working on this one:

https://metalab.at/wiki/Freepad

While it's sad, one of my biggest lessons from it was that the greatest genius with the iPhone and iPad was understanding the market.

Showing our tablet to techies worked great. People were excited about the hardware, about the fact it ran Linux, about it running Opera, and in general geeked out over it.

But it was tethered to your house - few places had more than 9600 bps GSM data, so it used a DECT extension (wifi was not well established) to provide an internet connection tied to your house.

And it had a crappy resistive touch screen. Low resolution. Too slow CPU. Too little RAM. Too little flash.

Imagine a slow, heavy tablet with low resolution and janky touch that you could take no further than your garden (if you were lucky).

So what we use today superficially looks like more modern versions (that bezel size...) of things on offer back then. But really a lot of the time while they worked well as prototypes, we just didn't have the sense (or opportunity) to say "the time isn't right for this product yet, let's pick it up again when x,y,z has happened."
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Only 100 km up, no orbit. Kind of neat and I wouldn't turn down a chance to do it, but travel to space to me means something quite different than this.
You may be right. There are some photos out there of him looking pretty swole
lol you don’t know what you’re talking about in the least
There is now Swift Playgrounds as light XCode.
JP Morgan Chase made $1.5 billion from overdraft fees last year.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jamie-di...
Show HN: Policing the Police with Scraped Data – Started on Reddit/HN
Predictive policing is rampant and growing. Why not try and do predictive policing on the Police themselves?

The road block isnt data availability, it is data accessibility.

PDAP.io started on Reddit and Hackernews, and as of last month we've accomplished a lot:

1. Became a legal entity
2. Pro-bono legal representation by Arnold & Porter
3. Leadership team, roles, processes stood up
4. Launched our first paid data bounty with Dolthub
5. 37 Pull requests merged into our scrapers repository (dozens of scrapers written)
6. 67 datasets scraped so far
7. Nearly complete dataset of all known American police records links (from the Dolthub bounty).

What we need now are more volunteers, specifically people who can write scrapers. Things are moving quickly, but with just a dozen or so people writing scrapers, we could accellerate this substantially with more help.

So, HN, if you have wanted to do something tangible to improve Police accountability, this is a concrete way to do it.
What about the really basic stuff:

* Broken contact list (it's worse than Skype!).

* Broken screen orientation.

* Ringing on every Apple device you own under the sun.

With their A-Team now on the case I'm sure that it'll get fixed.
> expressing raw emotion and fantasy. Akin to wanting to kill your boss.

And also very racist, because she's only targeting white people.
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United Launch Alliance (ULA), sells launches. ULA sells launches for Delta IV Heavy and Atlas V. ULA is Boeing/Lockheed joint venture.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, New Horizons, Starliner crew capsule ... basically all NASA and DoD launches come from ULA.
You cannot copy the actual source code.

Designs may or may not be covered by copyright depending on how specific they are.

There is no protection on ideas.

You can most definitely leave a company and start a competitor doing exactly what you were doing in your previous role. California laws specifically encourage that, and that is the main reason why Silicon Valley exists.
Various sessions of Congress in the early 80s noted that digital artifacts lacked inherent privacy of other properties and would make it harder for people to retain their expectations and rights.

This is just a reversion to the mean 30-40 years ago. The last 15 years weren't different than now, aside from more of the state being behind the curve.

The state will have to learn how to navigate its default state again with actual investigations and new tools, or not be able to stop behaviors it doesn't like.
Any numerous things having to do with copyright/intellectual property, or something related to any of that general category of stuff.

The person used to work at that company, and then they built a similar project, that looks really similar to that other product.

So something to do with design copyright. You can't just copy someone else's designs, in a similar space, at a company that you used to work for. You probably run afoul of something having to do with intellectual property or design copyright.
I once met a Polish Jew who had barely escaped being deported to Auschwitz. He had been in the Polish army, escaped to France through Switzerland (a whole movie could be made about that) with his father to fight here, didn't go too well either. They got arrested by the Vichy police. The policemen guarding them told them, "you know, we're not looking wink wink" His father was too sick to run away, he had to leave him behind. He was deported and died in Auschwitz. He managed to join the maquis. He was a distant relative of a friend who told me, "he never told that story, I think he may be dying." And he did, a few weeks later, I learned.
There's not really a way to disambiguate the two though - the fact that there are lots of medical technology startups and new drugs coming out of the US is because of the costs involved and how much can be harvested by being a little better. This creates new technologies that the US can't really protect against proliferation - so all of the money has to be harvested from the US market.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing - I for one happen to think it's great that our expensive medical system is financing all kinds of wonderful new technologies that benefit the world overall. However, the major problem here is that things that would be useful for other places simply don't have the market to support it, so most medical innovation exists in the context of the US medical system and it's problems - some of which are widespread, some of which are not. I do wish there were some other testbed healthcare systems out there for companies to try to disrupt, but I don't think it is (by itself) a call for medical reform.

My preferred medical reform is to "legalize insurance markets" (ie: repeal laws that state that insurance companies operating in state Y cannot sell insurance to people in state X because state Y policies are not legally compatible) and try to break the monopoly that doctors and nurses enjoy....somehow. Telehealth? Maybe?
I think you're missing the point who FaceTime is made for.

Jitsi - heard of it once ages ago, never used it

Zoom - for business

Discord - gamers/teens?

They can carry on "killing it", but I'm not going to ask my mom to install and signup for Discord. I'll FaceTime her or send her a link she can 1-click join.
That is correct

So an Apple user creates a facetime call and sends the invite link to Android & Windows user. They then join on to the call using their browsers.

Non iOS devices wont be able to make a call. The web interface is just a way to join a call.
Freedom of speech isn't freedom to acquire private information.
The attorney is bound to act in their client's best interest. A bad lawyer might do that, but a good lawyer will indeed tell their client when something isn't worth the cost, despite their own financial interest.
> However, decentralized immutability means that nothing can be done should an unintended action occur with your account.

The alternative is the current state of affairs. In Canada this means banks unilaterally decide what is mutable and what is not depending on what suits them.

Merchant accepting payments? 100% mutable, merchant beware.

Someone's bank account was compromised via credential-stuffing and money was wired to an offshore account? Sorry, immutable - pick a better password next time, dummy. It's not the bank's responsibility to, say, implement modern 2FA.

Hacks and compromises are forcing these systems to improve at a rapid rate, whereas banks have been able to largely avoid such wholesale improvements via legal and political means. If it's in the contract, you're out of luck.
I think you have way too much faith that a legal proceeding will reveal the "truth" about your intentions and actions. It's about competing narratives and interpretations of "facts".

If it goes to a legal proceeding, it is about convincing a stranger and lay-person (i.e. Judge, or perhaps even worse a group of jurors), that you didn't violate the law. You have to do this while the other side is doing their very best to convince the same stranger that you are a devious thief who did irreparable harm to their company and cost them millions in damages (or some other absurdly large number). They will paint everything you did and say as part of your plan to steal from and damage their company. They will have highly qualified experts submit very convincing reports, and testify, that what you did was trade secrete theft, and caused immense damage. Your only defense will be to push your own narrative that can counter all of this, sufficiently to get you off the hook. You'll need at least a lawyer, perhaps experts of your own, and all the cost that this entails. This will be a big deal to your life, but will be a business expense (i.e. before taxes) for the company suing you.
So I gave you a real-world example of a situation where someone could be harmed by loss of privacy, and then asked if you thought it was OK to advocate the destruction of a person's privacy in that situation.

Your response was that you would "much prefer the actual issue to be fixed" and that "When you fix the actual problem, the privacy become irrelevant".

Which (presumably intentionally) sidesteps the question of whether you think it is reasonable to advocate for the destruction of someone's privacy when it is likely to cause them harm.

In your advocacy for the destruction of privacy in this thread, you haven't proposed anything which could minimize harm for people who rely on privacy; in fact you have taken great steps to even acknowledge that there are people who could be harmed by the destruction of their privacy.

At the same time, you're willing to acknowledge that you don't want to post comments here using anything other than a pseudonym because "the problem is right now I can't". So you are admitting that you'd prefer to keep some privacy around your identity.

This could be a reasonable position if you were willing to acknowledge that people (other than you) could be harmed by the loss of their privacy. You have refused to acknowledge this and so that argument is untenable.

Finally, you stated that your argument was that "the loss of privacy by itself is not a problem". You haven't provided any evidence nor explanation of why you believe this to be the case and have refused to acknowledge the value of privacy, despite multiple examples and the obvious hypocrisy of not "practicing what you preach" (though I'd be willing to accept this if you didn't claim that privacy has no value whatsoever)

I did give an example of a situation where someone could be harmed and you didn't bother to address it.

I think you're just being disingenuous and I don't see the point in engaging any further in this discussion.
This wouldn't be an issue of non-compete, but of intellectual property - and I can't imagine there was no intellectual property agreement signed. I've never had a job that didn't have one...
App names are getting out of hand these days.
What makes iCloud a consumer service but iPhones not a consumer product in the same way?

Unless they are, in which case we should get out the megaphones and warn all businesses that those expensive phones they're buying can't be relied upon.
That's a good point, also Netflix rarely has bad press as far as I know.

MAAAF for Mafia of MAGAF (Make Google Great Again, F...) are nicer.
No idea is original and belongs to anyone. Even airplane was possibly derived by looking at birds flying. If you hire an intern and they want to use the understanding to open another company, it is the best thing that can happen to your business. Customers would not start coding online unless they see 20 options to do so.
I hope you will understand that there are also people in the world who truly love the German people today, and consider their lives enriched by the experience of modern Germany.

I am grateful for what the Germans are today. Your society kicks ass in so many ways.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the database guy actually implements things in an environment that can be manipulated at will.

Doctors don't implement things in an environment that they control. Patients come to them with a chief complaint, and the doctor tries to resolve or manage it to the best of their ability with a minimal intervention according to a set of guidelines someone else wrote down.

A doctor can't sit there and play with the diagnostic/treatment process in the same way a database guy can go play with the database software. At best the doctor can sit there with a textbook or medical journal and try to memorize more facts, or take notes, but it's not the same as pulling apart code, running it in different ways, and seeing how it behaves.

Medical school is a continuous process of memorizing shit off of flash cards culled from a textbook. You don't actually build anything, or implement anything, or do anything in a real-world sense that would make you an expert in the same way as someone who was working with a system that they were able to take apart and play with and manipulate. There's no real way to develop the kind of deep knowledge you're talking about in that environment.

A diesel mechanic can pull apart and engine. Hold every part in their hand. Drive a diesel-engine vehicle. Observe all the things that go wrong. Simulate, and innovate. An individual doctor can't really do any of that. Medical schools are even axing dissections, so med students are lucky if they get to see what the hell peritoneum actually looks like.
No, it starts there. If they can fix the problem with a letter, it's better than fixing it with a lawsuit. They'll (presumably) go to lawsuits when they need to.
There are aftermarket solutions for that as well. Deere is for people who want a deluxe brand that is all encompassing vs users who don't mind fiddling with their hardware.
Wait, really? I'm a millennial, not gen-z, but I feel like Nazi/WWII jokes were way more popular in the 90's and early 2000's than they are now.

For example, in Seinfeld, they had a character called the "soup Nazi", a character that was extremely asshole-ey about who he gave soup to. This was not a controversial episode or anything, and became one of the most quoted episodes of the series. Nowadays I'm not sure if that would be considered "ok."

I feel like the rise of domestic terror, white nationalism, and fascism is scary, but seems to a) by mostly composed of millenials my age and older, and b) a lot more complicated than some edgelord humor.

That said, despite the fact that I love edgey subversive humor, I agree that trivializing things as "just jokes" isn't a good thing; if it means fewer memes, I can live with that.
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> If you're not a member of the majority group in society and you feel a fomenting hatred towards you, it's probably a good idea to sell your stuff and run away quickly.

What if you feel a hatred fomenting towards you but you're still the projected majority for at least a few more years?

Lolol jk jk please don't take this seriously.
I had to get upper management involved once when trying to buy an Airport Express, because they wouldn't allow me to make a purchase at the Apple store without leaving my name and contact details.
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I fired up one of my old laptops from 1995 or so. It was a cutting edge machine at the time, very nice. It seemed completely unusable today. The tiny disk drive, for instance.
That's certainly fair, I think the big exception would be if the board feels they are at a local minimum, and that the potential acquirer is being overly opportunistic. Partly that's trivial, because that's when companies frequently make these types of bids.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if a company wants to advocate the case for proceeding as an independent entity, they will make it abundantly clear. This is not that.
Boot 'er up and log into AOL.
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Hey Robert, it would be great to get in touch. I'm part of a group that has built an authorship system inspired by HyperCard/Smalltalk [1] and we are using OhmJS to implement our language and interpreter.

We are inching closer towards a more "public" release, and hope to be there in the next few weeks

[1] https://github.com/dkrasner/Simpletalk
Sorry what I meant is that if you just connect to the ground on one continent you might have a huge potential difference, compared to the ground on the original continent. So if you would want to run your system on e.g. 100 V you need to make sure that the relative difference between your two end-points is 100 V and that voltage is unrelated to the voltage to ground at either endpoint.
Yeah, I'm afraid this is where the lawyer tells you the answer is fact specific and they're gonna need X hours at $Y/hr to answer, where X times Y is more than you're willing to spend to defend a hobby project from legal bullies.
I second this. A lot of people who interfaced with him at Facebook has a lot to say about him being two faced and dishonest.

Dude is the epitome of virtue signalling to any side that will give him money.

YC has gone to shits that they couldn’t identify it.
I use c# and will usually create a class where it makes sense for there to be a “state” managed by a bunch of methods. Where you don’t want anyone outside directly playing with that state.

I very rarely use inheritance. I can’t remember the last time I added inheritance but I sometimes come across it in code bases. Normally when there are something resembling UI widgets that have a common base.

Instead I use c# interfaces for polymorphism (which basically means working with objects you don’t know what they are, e.g. I have something that behaves like a list, so i can call addItem() )

My first advice is don’t worry - if your code works and is understandable all is good.

My second advice is post your code for code review, or get a mentor or coach to help show you if and how your code could be better with OO

Functional programming avoids the need for OO but comes with its own “what is the best way to do this” type questions to which I give the same advice.
My irony detector is not giving me a clear reading...
Fix your strings. :)
What are the criteria for when a private site crosses the line to become a "public" site where it is no longer allowed to moderate its content (or has to moderate its content based on federal rules)?

If it's based on average users over a time period, do we trust the site to report it accurately? If a user gets banned from a "private" site that has not yet hit the size threshold, and the user complains to the government and alleges that the site actually is big enough, does the the government go in and audit the company's logs to make a determination over whether it should be a "public" site?

If it's based on something looser, like "percentage of people who use this site as their only news source," (which does seem more defensible, to me) how do we set up the criteria for making the determination?

Also, how would the federal rules for content moderation look? Would a call for open insurrection still be bannable? What if two roughtly equal portions of the electorate don't agree about whether it was a call for insurrection? Who decides if it was?

I think questions like these need to be thought through and answered before we can seriously talk about making a law that prevents social media companies from banning anyone they choose.
", is clearly doing the exact same thing... how is that not at least "stealing the idea"??"

Vague general ideas like "a car" or "140 character limit" are not property, and so cannot be stolen.

Acting this way is superbly entitled.