You only need a small percentage of your companies to succeed, and even then, you only need them to succeed within the constraints of delivering a great exit, not actually standing alone as a viable, well-managed…
Let's say we all listened to your constant posting, and put down the pitchforks. Now what? What would you have us do differently? Should we be quiet? Is there some other avenue of outrage you'd rather we follow? What?
We willingly participated in building a massive anti-consumer corporate surveillance state, called it "analytics", and then are surprised when the government jumps onboard.
Well, now you know better; unless explicitly told 'you can talk about this', don't talk about it.
I've used it. I agree with the parent. In fact, I like it even less after using it.
You can choose to put your data anywhere you want, as long as it's in the cloud, in plaintext and readable to the vendor.
> what was the excuse for voting for him again in 2012? Romney. Unfortunately. > One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care.…
Yes.
Anyone who tries to talk that actually knows anything worth talking about. I assumed that was an obvious implication of the parent poster's statement, but I guess not.
You seem to need it more. Let me help: "n. an adherent of fascism or similar right-wing authoritarian". Sounds about right. Mussolini said: "Fascism, sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the…
The EU (and Germany in particular) have data protection laws ... so, yeah: I fear the NSA the most.
Or their marching orders are to provide live data collection on specific government-identified suspects, rather than live data collection on all users. In which case, they could claim to be lawfully complying with…
It's scary to see how many closet fascists are here on ycombinator.
Most people never review source code, and they certainly don't disassemble and review all the binaries. 'Many eyes' is a security fallacy in cases like this.
When is the last time you heard of the .com infrastructure failing across the board? Just because you're exposed to some reliability risk doesn't mean that you can't expose yourself to more by using a smaller TLD.
I hope you do. If more of you move out here, the price might deflate to something less completely ridiculous.
> I agree this is also a good way to ask for permission. Does Apple do this in iOS? Yep, just once. > I don't agree that "this user pressed this button at this time" quite fits into the same category of privacy…
Belief that numbers can be interpreted usefully without a rigorous statistical approach is an enormous fallacy; I don't really see why the burden of proof lies on me. Once you do apply rigor, you'll find that what the…
Then ask the user first. I'm sure that if you can elucidate the value of tracking their every interaction, they'll be happy to agree. I'll say no, because don't want my battery wasted, my bandwidth consume, my IP…
When is the last time you read a privacy policy disclosure? A reasonable person would assume that if an application has no functionality that requires sending data over the network, the application won't surreptitiously…
For most people, A/B testing a complex app (non-app websites are a completely different beast) is not economical compared to tackling larger (and hopefully obvious) design problems. If your product is so well designed…
Doesn't make it right. It's also astonishingly user-hostile; wasting the user's resources (bandwidth, battery life, cpu) on things they don't care about, without their permission. On top of that, doing anything…
> To achieve the no extra code part, is the SDK using swizzling? They must be, which is a serious reliability/stability/correctness issue in its own right.
You're keeping the WWAN/WiFi interfaces awake, which burns a significant amount of battery, just because you want to gather data from the user. On top of that, burning 2% overhead on UIEvent handling (which also impacts…
> You learn a ton about social/ ... That ... > viral games .. sounds ... > and monetization .. horrible.
You only need a small percentage of your companies to succeed, and even then, you only need them to succeed within the constraints of delivering a great exit, not actually standing alone as a viable, well-managed…
Let's say we all listened to your constant posting, and put down the pitchforks. Now what? What would you have us do differently? Should we be quiet? Is there some other avenue of outrage you'd rather we follow? What?
We willingly participated in building a massive anti-consumer corporate surveillance state, called it "analytics", and then are surprised when the government jumps onboard.
Well, now you know better; unless explicitly told 'you can talk about this', don't talk about it.
I've used it. I agree with the parent. In fact, I like it even less after using it.
You can choose to put your data anywhere you want, as long as it's in the cloud, in plaintext and readable to the vendor.
> what was the excuse for voting for him again in 2012? Romney. Unfortunately. > One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care.…
Yes.
Anyone who tries to talk that actually knows anything worth talking about. I assumed that was an obvious implication of the parent poster's statement, but I guess not.
You seem to need it more. Let me help: "n. an adherent of fascism or similar right-wing authoritarian". Sounds about right. Mussolini said: "Fascism, sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the…
The EU (and Germany in particular) have data protection laws ... so, yeah: I fear the NSA the most.
Or their marching orders are to provide live data collection on specific government-identified suspects, rather than live data collection on all users. In which case, they could claim to be lawfully complying with…
It's scary to see how many closet fascists are here on ycombinator.
Most people never review source code, and they certainly don't disassemble and review all the binaries. 'Many eyes' is a security fallacy in cases like this.
When is the last time you heard of the .com infrastructure failing across the board? Just because you're exposed to some reliability risk doesn't mean that you can't expose yourself to more by using a smaller TLD.
I hope you do. If more of you move out here, the price might deflate to something less completely ridiculous.
> I agree this is also a good way to ask for permission. Does Apple do this in iOS? Yep, just once. > I don't agree that "this user pressed this button at this time" quite fits into the same category of privacy…
Belief that numbers can be interpreted usefully without a rigorous statistical approach is an enormous fallacy; I don't really see why the burden of proof lies on me. Once you do apply rigor, you'll find that what the…
Then ask the user first. I'm sure that if you can elucidate the value of tracking their every interaction, they'll be happy to agree. I'll say no, because don't want my battery wasted, my bandwidth consume, my IP…
When is the last time you read a privacy policy disclosure? A reasonable person would assume that if an application has no functionality that requires sending data over the network, the application won't surreptitiously…
For most people, A/B testing a complex app (non-app websites are a completely different beast) is not economical compared to tackling larger (and hopefully obvious) design problems. If your product is so well designed…
Doesn't make it right. It's also astonishingly user-hostile; wasting the user's resources (bandwidth, battery life, cpu) on things they don't care about, without their permission. On top of that, doing anything…
> To achieve the no extra code part, is the SDK using swizzling? They must be, which is a serious reliability/stability/correctness issue in its own right.
You're keeping the WWAN/WiFi interfaces awake, which burns a significant amount of battery, just because you want to gather data from the user. On top of that, burning 2% overhead on UIEvent handling (which also impacts…
> You learn a ton about social/ ... That ... > viral games .. sounds ... > and monetization .. horrible.