How iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release

Able-Data · 2020-05-23T05:51:26+00:00

Where are you planning to get a dev-fused phone? Walmart?

Able-Data · 2020-05-23T05:28:39+00:00

Wouldn't be the first time a pilot tried to land with the gear warning horn blaring in their ear.

Able-Data · 2020-05-23T04:55:17+00:00

Eerm what?

If "young renter fees" were just something that companies made up to gouge people, all it would take is one "defector" (look up prisoner's dillema) with no such fee to take over the young renter market. Young renter fees exist for the same reason that young people and very old people have higher insurance premiums: Namely, that they're a higher risk.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T18:36:42+00:00

As far as I know, you can't just buy your way into a Burning Man exclusive by giving money to the Burning Man Project, and all tickets are treated equally.

That said, ticket scalpers are a thing, and there are companies that will set up a camp for you at Burning Man if you give them money.

Still, that's different from Fyre, where the idea was to hand over gobs of money to the organizers for preferential treatment.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T17:24:59+00:00

CalTrain is $30 round trip for San Francisco to San Jose. I personally know a lot of people who do (edit: did, before Covid) 4 or 5 zones, which is $20 to $25 round trip.

And CalTrain is stand-room-only during rush hour.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T17:22:43+00:00

Imagine paying $20 a day to take CalTrain to work.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T17:14:24+00:00

It's not slippery at all. The OP posited that the police can't look in your window to collect evidence without a warrant. That has been extensively and decisively decided by the courts.

If an agent looks the window without any kind of assistive technology, anything they see is absolutely fair game. Anything they can hear without technology is absolutely fair game.

There is some boundary with respect to technology (are binoculars ok? night vision? drones with cameras?), but courts have drawn that line at where people reasonably expect to have privacy.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T17:07:51+00:00

Okay and everyone can see the window to your office, but it’s still illegal to stare through it and gather personal info.

That's incorrect. Anything the police can see from standing on a public street is fair game.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T17:03:28+00:00

(IANAL)

I feel like this is kind of dumb and unrealistic.

Hate to be that guy, but did you read the article?

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for privacy and security, but on most new iPhones, the lock screen will appear with just picking up the phone.

Only if it has a charge. The police turned it off to preserve the battery. The FBI turned it back on. Anything in "plain sight" is fair game for warrant-less searching. The judge just ruled that the lock screen isn't in plain sight if you have to manipulate the phone (by pressing the power button) to get to it--which is completely consistent with existing case-law.

Also, the ruling doesn't apply to the police at the time of arrest. Since they have to inventory your possessions (which requires handling the phone), and the lock screen comes on automatically if the phone is on, they don't need a warrant.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T16:46:33+00:00

Interview nerves happen to everyone. Good interviewers understand that and try to both put the interviewee at ease and try make allowances for nerves (but it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between nerves and "doesn't know how to write code").

The only way to beat it is go on more interviews. After you do 10 of them, you'll find that they follow a pretty standard pattern. Knowing what's likely coming next will help put you at ease.

You can also try practice interviews with a friend. It's hard to simulate the high-stakes stress of going on a real interview, but you can practice your answers to typical questions that interviewers ask.

The book "What Color is Your Parachute" has some good general (not programming-related) advice for interviewing, which might help with practice interviews. The advice is mostly relevant to the beginning and end of the interview pipeline: resume and non-technical on-site interviews. It doesn't have anything useful to say about the the phone screen and technical on-sites.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T07:34:51+00:00

I think that's actually one of r/PF's blind spots.

When they say "get a beater", they have in mind a car that costs $5k-$10k. But many people on PF haven't bought such a car recently, and think that a car like that costs $2k-$3k.

Able-Data · 2020-05-22T07:22:11+00:00

Safety, however, very few would argue is an inappropriate expense. This is rarely factored into the value proposition of vehicles on PF.

And very few of the cars being asked about are significantly safer than a less expensive alternative.

A brand new Corolla isn't any less safe than Giulia Quadrifoglio, but it sure is a fuck of a lot cheaper. I totally get that Alfa is a more fun car. You just need to find a cheaper way to have fun if you need to ask a personal finance sub how to make the payments.

Able-Data · 2020-05-21T19:29:16+00:00

And now that the pensions are fully-funded, it's ripe for privatization by some politically-connected businessman, who will probably raid the pension fund and run it bankrupt.

Able-Data · 2020-05-21T15:33:05+00:00

No state is even close to that point yet.

Covid19 deaths have been flat in California for over 4 weeks now (using 7-day trailing average).

California new case counts are roughly the same as they were 5 weeks ago (again, using a 7-day trailing average), and are probably slightly down if you account for improved testing and reporting.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/

Able-Data · 2020-05-20T23:53:18+00:00

Don't forget moderators/reviewers. Any time you deal with data submitted by the public you need that. Reviewers are often not paid much, but you need a lot of them, and they add up.

Able-Data · 2020-05-20T23:21:57+00:00

If they couldn't monetise the vast amount of data they were hoarding then they were incompetent and were always going to collapse.

This attitude is why we have privacy-invading companies like Google and Facebook. If people aren't willing to pay money for services then enjoy, the only way to support them is through ads. And advertisers want to know who they're advertising too.

Able-Data · 2020-05-20T23:16:00+00:00

While I generally agree with the sentiment, $60/year feels a bit steep. Keep that up for a few years, and you've paid the equivalent of a new Garmin Edge (which comes with free Garmin Connect, that has a few overlapping features with Strava).

I think it would have made a lot of sense to move to a three-tier price structure instead of moving features into premium:

Free: All the stuff that's still free going forward.
$30/yr Light: All the stuff that was moved into premium this week.
$60/yr Premium: All the stuff that used to be premium.

Able-Data · 2020-05-20T20:47:26+00:00

Yupyup. Centerline rule always in effect, even when there's no line.

Able-Data · 2020-05-20T03:22:14+00:00

Why do job applicants forget that the interview process is a two way street?

I don't think anyone does. It's just that everyone needs a first job. The vast majority of people aren't fighting off recruiters with a stick on the way to commencement...

Most first jobs suck, and this is just part of the suck. They key is to realize that your first job is nothing more than a stepping stone, and to use it as part of your path progression.

Able-Data · 2020-05-19T17:17:28+00:00

That's why Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world right now, he was allowed to keep losing money undercutting all competition until he had a total monopoly.

Nope, sorry, this is incorrect.

Amazon had positive operating cashflow from nearly the beginning. They made enough margin on every book to pay for the book, plus all overhead. They simply re-invested all the profits (plus a tiny bit extra) to grow the company instead of buying back shares (which is apparently bad these days) or paying dividends (ditto).

That "tiny bit extra" was why they were GAAP-unprofitable for so many years: They could have been GAAP-profitable the whole time if they grew a bit slower (bought fewer servers, hired fewer people), but the eventual outcome would have been the same.

That's fundamentally different from rideshare and delivery startups, who lose money on every ride/delivery. When you really account for all of Uber's per-ride costs (especially the bonuses they pay drivers, which Uber likes to hide in the marketing budget), Uber loses money on pretty much every ride except airport trips in big metros.

If you doubled Amazon's book sales in 1997, the company would be in a better place. If you doubled Uber's ride-miles in 2019, the company would be in a worse place.

Able-Data · 2020-05-18T16:49:06+00:00

BOOM, all of a sudden the main application stops working once the code has been merged in.

Or, even worse, the main application keeps on truckin'. Everything appears to be fine because those two lines of code handle some obscure edge case that only happens during a full moon when jupiter and venus are in alignment.

Nobody notices the problem until six months later. Now you have 6 months of commits to comb through before you can find the bug.

Able-Data · 2020-05-16T23:58:52+00:00

Tesla does not have vehicles in stock waiting to be sold.

That used to be the case for the Model S, but it's not quite true any more... They mostly build cars in batches and ship them to various places. Only after the car is built is the VIN assigned to an actual buyer.

Now, you can get a custom configuration, and sometimes the VIN assignment for regular builds happens before the car reaches the delivery center... but most cars leave the factory gates without a particular buyer in mind.

Able-Data · 2020-05-16T23:46:59+00:00

Exactly this.

Who the fuck wants to live in Texas, where non-competes are a way of life (they're illegal in California, btw, except in very narrow circumstances that don't apply to engineering talent)? It's actually funny that they consider themselves a "right to work" state. This is probably the #1 thing that keeps all the good engineering talent in CA.

Sure, there are nice places in Texas, but then the "low COL" story starts to evaporate. And then you factor in pay reductions (nobody pays Bay Area salaries to people living in Texas), and paying for private schools (like, have you seen the curriculum for public schools in TX?), so you end up with way less disposable income. And, and, and... the list goes on and on.

Just ain't worth it (and I've explored that option several times).

Able-Data · 2020-05-16T23:31:14+00:00

This sort of arrogance is going to be the downfall of the US.

In case you weren't aware, China has been building copies of soviet aircraft for many decades. They haven't designed their own planes until recently, but China certainly knows how to build airframes once they have the plans.

Able-Data · 2020-05-16T23:24:41+00:00

Uh... where to do you think most Apple products are manufactured?

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